Some UNM students say websites like ratemyprofessor.com (RMP) are useful for helping them choose which instructors to take classes with, but faculty argue that the system isn’t as useful as it seems.
Despite stores such as Borders and Newsland closing up shop, UNM’s Zimmerman Library still has plenty of chapters left in an increasingly digital world. UNM Libraries associate dean Nancy Dennis said that 1.8 million people visited UNM’s four libraries last year, and Zimmerman topped the list. “We’re already seeing gate counts here in Zimmerman of over 6,000 people a day,” Dennis said. “It’s a little bit more than last year, but it’s a very busy place.”
A Sept. 4 Albuquerque Journal article entitled Interim Provost Chaouki Abdallah’s efforts to reorganize the Provost’s Office a “cost saving plan” that had “backfired,” but Abdallah said his plans have worked as he expected. Abdallah sent out a University-wide e-mail Wednesday in hopes of telling his side of the story.
An Anderson School of Management class turned itself into a real-world marketing firm for students to gain hands-on experience while simultaneously serving the community.
Recreational drug use is, rightly or wrongly, a part of college life. Experimentation with illicit substances can be very enlightening or incredibly destructive, depending on the circumstances and the individual.
Editor’s Note: This letter is in response to Jose Flores’_ column, “Duck Pond service not without sin.” Mr. Flores, Your bitterness betrays you.
Tibetan monks, though driven out of their homes, still find a way to keep their native culture and religion. The Gaden Shartse Cultural Foundation is bringing monks from the Gaden Shartse Monastery in India to Albuquerque this week for a series of cultural events including dances, rituals and purifications.
Although the tree of Buddhism has many branches, each of them is based on the same basic teachings and principles. The religion is based on the Four Noble Truths:.
Zozobra is a time for adults to burn their past, but might they not consider a child seeing it as murder of a precious local hero? Author Andrew Leo Lovato’s most recent book, Elvis Romero & Fiesta de Santa Fe: Featuring Zozobra’s Great Escape, focuses on just that.
The men and women of Lobo cross country started off the 2011 season in good form last Saturday in their first meet of the season. Senior Nicholas Kipruto won the men’s 8,000-meter at the Lobo Invitational, held at UNM’s North Golf Course, for the second year in a row while the women’s team placed six runners in the top 15 in the 5,000-meter race with Ruth Senior placing second. Head coach Joe Franklin said since it’s early in the season half of his runners, including returning All-American Natalie Gray, didn’t compete.
The Lobo football team lost its season opener, which might make it easy to dismiss it as the team with no improvement from last year. Not so fast, though — there were a lot of positives from Saturday’s game. Sophomore Linebacker Dallas Bollema, for example, led the team in tackles with 13.
Yes, there is a hockey team at UNM. The UNM hockey team is a recognized club sport through the University and plays in the Pacific Division of the American Collegiate Hockey Association. The club was relatively unknown until a group of UNM students decided to see if they could make the team bigger. “It’s something that we have started off from basically nothing,” the team president Nick Madrid said.
On Aug. 28 the Aquinas Newman Center was allowed to hold a public mass at the Duck Pond. The University granted permission and held the event in spite of protesters condemning the ceremony. Unknown to those who missed this gloating occasion was the presence of several attendees who gracefully worshiped in the middle of campus, many of whom did know the annoyance and controversies that they were producing. This ultimately raises the question: Can the Catholic Church, or any church, hold spiritual ceremonies in public areas?
Editor, I compliment and I thank many the Jews of conscience in the United States and in Israel who have spoken out loud and clear — publicly damning the Israeli government’s brutal oppression and mass murder of Palestinians.
Editor, Kudos to the University for installing signs around campus to remind bikers, in the most cordial words, to respect pedestrians and to share the roads.
Students who wish to obtain graduate degrees face more competition and more challenges since last year when applying and attending graduate school. Terry Babbitt, UNM vice president for enrollment management, said he estimates graduate applications have increased nearly 2 percent and registration for new graduate students has increased nearly 5.5 percent since fall 2010. But at a time when graduate degrees are becoming more important, students are facing more rigorous admissions tests and a political climate where funding for education is dwindling. In August, the Education Testing Service announced changes to the Graduate Record Examination General Test (GRE), which is a critical component to many graduate applications.
The homeless population in the UNM area has led some students, faculty and staff to feel unsafe, but City and University officials said policies and programs exist to keep the campus secure and take care of those in need. UNM student Joshua Niforatos sent the Daily Lobo a picture on Aug. 29 of a homeless man, whom he said was drunk, urinating on the side of the Communication and Journalism building that faces the bus stop.
ASUNM heard a proposal last Wednesday that encourages reducing the number of Lobo Basketball tickets available to each student. Kim Goodson, business manager for UNM Ticketing Services, said each year students can pick up tickets on scheduled distribution dates. Each student is allowed four tickets, provided he or she has a valid student ID and can verify he or she is enrolled in at least six credit hours. UNM Associate Director Brad Hutchins said the measure, which would reduce the number of sales to two per student, would ensure more students have a chance to get tickets.
The UNM Art Building is slowly sinking. The three-story building, which is home to the art department’s faculty, staff, labs and classrooms, has experienced worsening structural problems for nearly two years, according to art professor Adrienne Salinger. “The Art Building doesn’t appear to be structurally sound,” she said. “Several of the workers who insisted on anonymity were shocked that we are still occupying the building in this condition when I spoke with them over the last couple weeks.” Salinger said the building is dangerous to students and staff.
Las Cruces — Experts in economics, health care, national security, technology and education converged at the fourth annual Domenici Conference where they painted a bleak future for America.They worked with students from UNM and three other state schools to explore critical problems facing the nation and ways to fix them.
Solutions by The State News
