Albuquerque is taking steps to make the city more bike-friendly. Construction workers broke ground Monday on a four-week project to widen El Pueblo Road between Second Street and Edith Boulevard, near the Los Ranchos/Journal Center Rail Runner station.
Students have a chance to elect UNM’s future undergraduate and graduate student leaders during the ASUNM and GPSA elections, but few actually vote. Since 2008, no more than 11 percent of main campus undergraduate students voted in ASUNM spring elections, according to data from ASUNM Elections Adviser Debbie Morris.
UNM Provost Suzanne Ortega will not return to her post in the fall. Ortega’s contract is up for renewal this summer, but she accepted a job offer back east instead of renewing her contract, University President David Schmidly said in his Monday morning e-mail. “We’ll be able to share more about it as the details are finalized, but know that it is a wonderful opportunity, and no one is more deserving of it,” Schmidly wrote.
Editor, The Western nations currently trying to bomb Libya into submission must not be familiar with Libyan history.
Editor, When the economy went belly up and millions of people lost their houses and their jobs, you can bet the teachers, their unions and their outrageous pensions were at fault. All the wealth in this country has been ripped off by greedy teachers who are sickly obsessed with their fantasy that people in this great land of ours need to be educated and that these ne’er-do-well educators actually need to be paid to teach their bullshit. What a joke. We have a bunch of these useless-eater teachers right here at Walmart U.
Editor, I was 3 minutes late to my public speaking class this week because I forgot keys to my bike lock.
I have to pass a math class in order to graduate. While I respect math and its precision, you could literally sink Albuquerque in the void that is my desire to work on math.
Editor, In running for GPSA president, I have not once referenced the current GPSA president, and the idea that I am running against her is confusing and inaccurate. I decided to run for GPSA president because I believe that GPSA needs more input from the student body.
You are in a bad mood all the time. You have no energy, and nothing is fun. You don’t want to spend time with anybody because all they do is make you mad.
Don Flanagan, after 16 seasons as UNM women’s basketball head coach, resigned Monday after initially deciding to return to the sidelines next season. The reason for Flanagan’s sudden change of heart: Five freshmen players (Tina Doughty, Erin Boettcher, Morgan Toben, Brianna Taylor and Jasmine Patterson) intended to quit the program, the Albuquerque Journal reported.
Michael Thorning announced Monday that he is dropping out of the ASUNM presidential race, three weeks after resigning from his high-ranking position in the president’s cabinet. The former chief-of-staff declared March 8 he’d run against Attorney General Jaymie Roybal, and he said ASUNM president Laz Cardenas cut his chief-of-staff duties in half three days later. “I think I got the sense that it was either going to become a hostile work environment or I wasn’t going to be working there,” Thorning said.
When UNM head men’s basketball coach Steve Alford says “no,” he means “no.” At least for now.
Jaymie Roybal, Now Slate Daily Lobo: Tell me about the slate that you helped create and its platforms. Jaymie Roybal: We wanted the platforms we’ve developed to be straight, have really broad issues — and then we tried to generalize them.
Three words jump out at you when looking at Aux Dog’s newest production, “Offices.” Those three words: “By Ethan Coen.” Yeah, that Coen.
Arroyo Deathmatch plucked, drummed, and ukulele-ed its way to a first-place finish at UNM’s Battle of the Bands.
Editor, The saying, “Things are not always what they seem” is most appropriate when speaking about the U.S.
If there isn’t a God, then Saturday was full of coincidences that boiled down to one succinct message: Life should be lived striving hard to make a difference for others’ betterment.
UNM head coach Steve Alford, who in the past hinted that his UNM stay was contingent on continued administrative support, denied reports that he may leave UNM to fill Missouri’s head coaching vacancy.
More than 300 people celebrated labor activist Cesar Chavez’s efforts Saturday. Supporters marched through the downtown Barelas neighborhood to the National Hispanic Cultural Center.
Michael Thorning, New Day Slate Daily Lobo: What is your campaign focused on? Michael Thorning: We want to start a new era where we ask, “How are we reinvesting in students?” We want to make people more competitive in the job market.
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