ASUNM senators held an emergency meeting Monday night about UNM’s $5.4 million budget shortfall and subsequent measures to bump up tuition costs. The Board of Regents is expected to recommend an 8-10 percent increase on top of a 3.2 percent increase mandated by the state Legislature, a tuition increase of roughly $300 per student.
The North Carolina women’s basketball team was just plain bigger than Fresno State. And the basket, at least for the Bulldogs, seemed as small as a golf hole. The 12th-seeded Fresno State Bulldogs took 50 3-pointers, missing 36, and their best player Jaleesa Ross made just four of the 20 3-pointers she launched.
The Kentucky women’s basketball team heard about Hampton through the college basketball grapevine.
Two words for the UNM men’s basketball team: Roll tide. The fourth-seeded Lobos will face top-seeded Alabama at its home tonight in the second round of the National Invitational Tournament.
Five students who needed transportation, or were tired of emitting pollution, got free bikes March 5 to use for the semester. Student Matthew Wilder developed LoboBike, an upstart program where he and his partner Richard Rivas fix bikes that would otherwise take up space at the landfill.
Conservation isn’t just for endangered species. It’s also for the diminishing funds of the Natural Heritage New Mexico Division, a program in the Museum of Southwestern Biology that works to identify and rehabilitate native endangered species, said Esteban Muldavin, the division’s curator. “They (other divisions of the museum) have fishes in bottles and stuffed birds,” he said.
Early session partisan fireworks over House leadership sizzled to one of the least productive legislative sessions in memory. “ Those fireworks led Rep.
Editor, My husband and I returned from the MWC basketball tournament. We’re BYU alumni, and when we got tournament tickets from New Mexico, we figured we would be the only BYU fans in that section and New Mexico fans would be rude and obnoxious. We couldn’t have been more wrong on both counts.
A group of students spent part of its spring break demanding that the Board of Regents cut administrative pay and put the UNM salary book online. GPSA council chair Megan McRobert said at the March 16 meeting that administration doesn’t allow students to be part of budget-related decision making in a meaningful way. She said that decision-making groups should include students, and meetings should be advertised to the public.
The 60-day legislative session ended Saturday, and New Mexico legislators narrowly passed a $5.4 billion budget just before time ran out. Lawmakers allocated $730 million for higher education. Nearly $43 million, or 6 percent, was cut from higher education funds compared with last year.
LAS VEGAS — There’s a reason Utah’s Michelle Plouffe was the Mountain West Conference women’s Freshman of the Year. After hitting a similar, end-of-times buzzer-beater against BYU in the semifinals, Plouffe hit a two-point jumper with 24 seconds left in overtime to lift the fifth-seeded Utah women’s basketball team over second-seeded TCU 52-47 in the MWC tournament championship.
LAS VEGAS — San Diego State reminded basketball fans that the game is a team sport — not a one-man show, no matter how bedazzling. Like he has all season, BYU’s Jimmer Fredette put up another scintillating individual performance — 30 points — in Saturday’s Mountain West Conference tournament championship, but the second-seeded Aztecs exuded collective confidence, with three players in double figures.
LAS VEGAS — It was a Jiimmer jamboree. For four straight contests, the UNM men’s basketball team walked away with wins against BYU.
LAS VEGAS – It was the best show Vegas had to offer, unfortunately for the UNM men’s basketball team, its star performer missed the second act.
LAS VEGAS — It was a widely held opinion that the UNM women’s basketball team had no shot at the Mountain West Conference tournament. And on Friday, the shooting-in-the-dark Lobos literally didn’t.
Spring break is one of the best things about being a student. I say this with experience. As a fifth-year senior about to graduate in May, I have had my fair share of spring breaks.
LAS VEGAS — Luck be the UNM women’s basketball team tonight. Already boasting two wins, the Lobos look to extend their unlikely Mountain West Conference tournament run in today’s semifinals where they’ll face second-seeded TCU at the Thomas & Mack Center.
LAS VEGAS — Sure it was hyperbole when guard Kendall Williams said he couldn’t understate the importance of Thursday’s first-round tournament game against fourth-seeded Colorado State. A bit of an overstatement, the freshman guard compared the Mountain West Conference tournament game to “war.” What couldn’t be embellished, though, was his importance to the UNM men’s basketball team in its 67-61 win over the Rams at the Thomas & Mack Center on Thursday.
LAS VEGAS — Once again, the UNM men’s basketball team will knock on BYU’s door. The fifth-seeded Lobos, behind forward Drew Gordon’s 13th double-double, knocked fourth-seeded Colorado State Rams out of the Mountain West Conference tournament 67-61 in a seesaw affair at the Thomas & Mack Center that saw five second-half ties and lead changes.
Nine graduate and professional students announced their candidacy for GPSA leadership positions, stepping up to the plate for a tenure rife with budget concerns and cutbacks. The GPSA Elections Committee met Thursday to begin coordinating for the debates, the first of which will take place March 23. “I get the feeling it is going to be a high turnout year,” GPSA member Michael Verrilli said.
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