The large, stone-covered building just east of the Yale bus stop is known for being one of UNM’s four designated smoking areas, but a closer look at a main campus map reveals that it is actually a city water reservoir. Thousands walk by the reservoir every day, but few students know what the building is used for.
UNM’s retiree health benefits may face some cuts. Helen Gonzales, vice president of Human Resources, announced in a UNM Today column the creation of a task force that will work to cut health insurance costs. Gonzales didn’t respond to repeated interview requests, but said in her column that UNM’s unfunded liability for retiree health insurance was $131.9 million in 2009, up from $91.3 million in 2007. “Given this increase in costs, UNM needs to reevaluate the retiree health plan,” Gonzales wrote.
The blueprint to leaving a world impression starts in St. Louis — if the UNM Print Club can get there. To do so, the club is hosting a student print sale to fund a trip to the Southern Graphics Council International conference in March. Shaurya Kumar, assistant professor in the printmaking program, said the craft is about creating long-lasting relationships, which students will make at the conference. “Printmaking is a very community-oriented activity,” he said.
Some things come only once a year: Harry Potter movies, Christmas and the Outpost Ice Arena’s Christmas Show. Student Krista Keay will skate in the show, and she said it attracts about 100 spectators every year.
Editor, For quite some time now, it’s been the case that the best use for the op-ed page of the “Daily Lobo” is in the tray of the parakeet cage, but I must say that this time the editors have dredged new depths.
Editor’s note: This is the last column from former Daily Lobo staff members studying in a different country this semester.
Have you ever wished SNL didn’t suck? Well, have no fear and do not sneer or jeer. For the Box is near, and dear Blackout’s here to make you cheer. Wait.
Paul Panas has the hook up on quality, inexpensive haircuts. Yet, UNM wants the small business owner to dig deeper into his pockets to continue trimming up students.
The Castetter Hall addition, the hulking construction project next to the Yale bus stop, will not be completed by its scheduled April deadline.
Following Bond D’s failure in November, students and faculty are dealing with the aftermath of effects that voters might have overlooked. Student Stav Gold said he didn’t know about the bond, which would have provided $155 million to promote higher education among 31 state colleges and universities. “I didn’t know specifically what Bond D was,” he said.
An unsigned advertisement for Monday’s Lobo Development meeting with the Resident Hall Association proclaimed, “Remember Santa Ana.
Editor, Thousands of people are in prison around the world because of their beliefs, gender, sexual orientation, race or ethnicity.
I am in the process of re-calibrating the nucleus of an atom. Don’t ask me why. I am an English major, but I have reached the point where I have given up on trying to understand the assignments my professors give to me.
Editor, The NMERB has posted its proposal for changes concerning retirement eligibility rules. It incorporates New Mexico educational system employees’ suggestions.
After an exciting — and at times sloppy — overtime win against New Mexico State, the UNM men’s basketball team is back in Albuquerque and looking for its seventh straight victory against its Las Cruces rivals.
It is said that revenge is the best medicine. Unfortunately, for the UNM women’s basketball team, red-hot Arizona turned last year’s 81-61 Lobo triumph in Tucson, Ariz., into an 84-60 home loss Tuesday at The Pit. UNM was outshot 51 percent to 28.6 percent.
This time last holiday season, the Albuquerque Little Theatre produced “White Christmas,” selling out houses throughout its run.
Contrary to its name, local band Frostbite has warmed hearts for the past four years by putting on benefit concerts for the hungry. Band vocalist Isidro Garcia said he grew up in a poor neighborhood in Albuquerque and alongside impoverished people, and it motivated him to give back now that he’s able to. “I always find it kind of interesting that more people that have been around it (and) that have seen it firsthand tend to give back more often than people that could do it in a more significant way,” he said. The band will put on a show at Launchpad with local musicians and invite people to donate nonperishable food items that will go to Roadrunner Food Bank.
What would life be like in the United States if the Congress and Senate acted on behalf of the people rather than letting special interest groups get in the way?
Editor, Just when you think that the FBI’s persecution of American Muslims cannot get any lower, a former undercover FBI agent decides to tell all in a recent Washington Post article.
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