Students and staff interested in all areas of social justice gathered in the SUB Wednesday for the International Day of Peace. The sixth annual UNM Peace Fair was put on by the Peace Studies Program, an interdisciplinary program in which students can earn a minor or a certificate.
Last week I read an article in the Albuquerque Journal that stated one in four UNM freshmen from 2010 did not return to the University to continue his or her studies in 2011. Last week I read an article in the Albuquerque Journal that stated one in four UNM freshmen from 2010 did not return to the University to continue his or her studies in 2011. I thought to myself, “Hey, this is not good news for UNM. I wonder what Schmidly’s administration has to say about this, and even more importantly, what are they going to do to keep freshmen in school?”
Editor, I would like to respond to an article from last Wednesday, “Regents approve Master Plan, discuss funding,” which said that student engagement in the University’s Master Plan was “comfortable” and that UNM has tried “diligently to engage” with students in this very crucial plan.
Editor, I read with interest the article in Tuesday’s Daily Lobo, “Reckless skaters escape penalties.” One of my student employees was recently hit by someone on a skateboard. Robert Burford in the Dean of Students Office said he had only received a “few” complaints, and then goes on to say that a name is needed to file a complaint.
The busy rustling of an artist at work echoes from the cobwebby walls of the “workshop,” a decrepit garage with a makeshift wooden entrance built into the large automatic door.
“Ash Tree” author Georgina Escobar was born and raised in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. She uses her plays to describe the Mexico in which she grew up. Escobar relates her plays to her personal life, chronicling events such as the death of her mother in “Ash Tree.”
In many ways, the Internet is becoming akin to cable television: There’s plenty of content, but little substance. Faced with more competition, the future of blogs remains a mystery unless it can work out these kinks.
The Far East can be found right here in Albuquerque. Aki Matsuri, the Japanese fall festival sponsored by the New Mexico Japanese American Citizens League is this Sunday at the National Hispanic Cultural Center.
The UNM women’s golf team opens its fall season at the Branch Law Firm/Dick McGuire Invitational Sep.
Deon Long is one of the only bright spots on this season’s UNM football team. Through three games of the 2011 season, wide receiver Long has made an impact on the team by being its most potent offensive player. The freshman has accumulated more than half of the Lobos’ total offense through the first part of the season, with 496 all-purpose yards.
The UNM men’s tennis team hasn’t won the Mountain West Conference since 2009, but the team’s goal each season is to win the conference and go on to conquer even greater feats.
In the last few years, I’ve been to an increasing number of initiatives that use business customer service training as a way to view the duties of a teacher. They always strike me as depressing to attend, because teaching is highly skilled and highly complex, much more so than any of the customer service I’ve done.
Editor, Recently, I’ve heard grumblings about the seemingly growing amount of apathy displayed by members of the “Millennial Generation.” I don’t buy it.
Textbook Rebellion, a national movement to lower textbook prices, visited UNM Tuesday with its mascots, Mr. $200 Textbook and the Textbook Rebel. UNM’s chapter of New Mexico Public Interest Research Group sponsored the event to gather petition signatures and get students interested in ways to lower textbook prices.
The UNM Master Plan outlines a plan to build a new recreation center and update Johnson Gym, even though a proposal to fund a new recreation center using student fees was voted down in the ASUNM elections last fall. “The University and ASUNM ask students for their input on everything and then ignore it, it seems like,” said student James Brown.
Associate Professor of History Mike Ryan will join UNM’s Institute of Medieval Studies after leaving a tenured position at Purdue University in Indiana. His new UNM office is filled to the brim with books on everything from medieval sorcery to the practices of ancient Christianity.
Protesters banded together in the City Council chambers Monday, calling for the Department of Justice to investigate alleged APD misconduct in a series of 20 police shootings in the last 20 months, 14 of which have been fatal. Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry vetoed a City Council resolution last month that asked for a DOJ investigation, and the City Council failed to override the veto at a Sept.
Student Veterans of UNM has decided to take action on a problem members say hasn’t been properly enforced on campus: skateboarding. Joseph Boyd, the group’s president, said out-of-control skateboarders threaten the safety of disabled veterans and students alike. “It’s a safety issue,” he said.
The Muslim Student Association (MSA) will hold its annual Fast-A-Thon on Thursday to raise money and awareness for famine in the eastern horn of Africa. Mostafa Amini, president of the MSA, said the fast will follow traditional Islamic practices. “The practice of fasting, within the Islamic religion, consists of abstaining from eating and drinking, including water, from sunrise to sunset,” he said. Amini said fasting isn’t supposed to be easy. “It allows the UNM community to feel and not only sympathize, but rather empathize with our fellow humans that are experiencing poverty, famine and other sub-human conditions,” he said.
Food democracy is a true ‘grassroots’ movement toward sustainable, responsible, healthy and community-based food production and distribution. The food democracy movement asserts that people have the power and the responsibility to actively participate in decisions concerning their food system. The ultimate goal of the food democracy movement is to guarantee that all people have access to “affordable, healthy and culturally appropriate foods.”
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