Just as journalists nationwide are scrambling for jobs in a changing market, UNM journalism students are scrambling for class spots in a transitioning department. Fewer faculty members, an influx of students and accreditation requirements are straining required class availability for journalism students.
Parked at a city parking meter on a Saturday? If you keep your quarters, no one will ticket you. Even though Albuquerque meters instruct drivers to pay 8 a.m.-6 p.m.
Hard economic times have forced people to take a second look at the way they spend their disposable income, especially students.
Sign-in sheets show that fewer than 40 students attended Lobo Development Corporation’s open-housing forums held since March, prompting officials to try a different approach. The University created a housing blog that allows students to track housing updates, ask questions and communicate more effectively, since just 112 people attended the LDC’s 17 forums, according to documents obtained from the Office of the Custodian of Public Records.
“America’s Next Top Model” might have walked the catwalk at the SUB Atrium on Monday evening — if she was tall enough to reach the stage. More than 80 women auditioned for the hit reality series at the casting call hosted by Albuquerque’s local CW affiliate, but dozens of others who showed up were told they didn’t measure up.
People should give up on trying to reinvent themselves. By this point, all of the New Year’s resolutions have gone down the toilet.
Editor, Three bills have been introduced in Congress by representatives of the Western Caucus that seek to amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) so that the Act does not apply to the gray wolf.
Editor, We are 33 days into 2011, and we have already experienced signs of social and climate change on a global scale.
Before she was honorably discharged, Leasa Medina would go out with her girlfriend and tell people about her “cousin” in the military. Her “cousin’s” experiences serving in the Middle East were really her own, since before the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy was repealed, service members were prohibited from being openly gay. “Up until recently, it’s considered a dishonorable discharge if you’re found to be gay in the military, which is the equivalent of a felony, and any money you owe the military, like any tuition assistance, you have to pay back,” she said. Medina is now finishing the last semester of a psychology degree at UNM, and she works at the Women’s Resource Center on campus, where she recently started a Women’s Veterans group with the center’s support. “There’s a lot of abuse that goes on with women when they’re deployed.
SANTA FE — The governor signed an Executive Order last week that some lawmakers say mirrors Arizona’s immigration policies. Gov.
UNM researchers and students are setting up radio telescope stations across the state that will open a window to unexplored parts of the Earth’s atmosphere and outer space. The Long Wavelength Array in the San Agustin Plains, the first of the stations, will be completed at the end of next month, Executive Project Director Lee Rickard said.
This weekend’s natural gas shortage may have impeded gas service in Taos, but Greater World Earthship Community residents had nothing to worry about.
Thirteen was the number for the UNM men’s and women’s tennis teams. It’s the number of hours the Lobos spent on court in four matches Saturday at the Linda Estes Tennis Complex.
Even though he has a sense of humor about it, Rory Fraser doesn’t like to talk about what happened in his first-ever relay. “I came in dead last,” said Fraser, who was 12 years old at the time.
The New Mexico Classic should’ve been renamed the York Classic on Saturday. Richard York, a sophomore on the UNM track and field team, broke the Lobo heptathlon record at the Albuquerque Convention Center.
Editor, The situation in Egypt is getting more and more, what’s the politically correct word, “unstable.” Many people are now saying that it is not a question of if President Hosni Mubarak resigns, but when.
Editor, I write to you with the hope that together we can support members of the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender (GLBT) community in its pursuit for equality. I can no longer sit around and watch my GLBT brothers and sisters’ suffering.
Gov. Susana Martinez declared a State of Emergency in New Mexico because of a lack of gas, but some UNM classes faced a state of emergency of their own: a shortage of students. Sophomore Tristan Burman said at least a quarter of the students in her classes were absent Thursday following the two snow days, and she would have preferred staying home. “It was super cold when I woke up,” she said.
UNM canceled classes for the remainder of Thursday afternoon after a statewide gas shortage left residents throughout the state without heat. The University will remain closed through Sunday. At 2:30 p.m. Thursday, University Communications sent out an alert saying UNM was closed the rest of the day, after Gov. Susana Martinez declared a state of emergency. In an executive order, she called for “executive departments and agencies under the Office of the Governor, statewide, effective immediately, to release nonessential personnel in order to reduce energy demand on their facilities” through the end of the day.
Albuquerque fans are in a huge uproar for the 45th edition of the Super Bowl, arguably the biggest game of the year. Two of the oldest and most successful NFL organizations, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers, will tussle for the right to hold the Vince Lombardi Trophy on Sunday. In Albuquerque and around UNM, Packers and Steelers’ fans are gearing up to cheer for their team and hopefully see it walk away victorious.
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