Students strive to reduce hate crime
Sofia Sanchez | October 22The Office of Equity and Inclusion launched a campaign aimed at making victims and witnesses of hate crimes feel comfortable coming forward.
The Office of Equity and Inclusion launched a campaign aimed at making victims and witnesses of hate crimes feel comfortable coming forward.
A proposed recreation center could increase student fees, but while ASUNM mulls over the idea, they’ve committed to cutting costs elsewhere. Johnson Gym is not accessible enough for students, said Vice President for Student Affairs Cheo Torres at ASUNM’s Wednesday meeting. “We teach courses there during the day, and in the evenings we run out of space,” Torres said. Funds for this planned center would likely come from student fees, said Tim Gutierrez, associate vice-president of Student Affairs, and would require about $117 student fees increase per semester. “It’s a lot cheaper than joining the fitness center,” Torres said. ASUNM President Lazaro Cardenas said the recreation center should not be funded through student fees. ”Students don’t have that much money,” Cardenas said. “I don’t want that to be a barrier to them obtaining some type of education. It’s tough to even think, in my mind, of raising student fees. I don’t support a rec center at the current time.” Sen. Terence Brown supported the center.
UNM is an ideal campus for bike-riders, but even more so for bike thieves. From Jan. 1 to Oct. 4, 118 bikes have been reported stolen, said UNMPD spokesman Lt.
Some of the UNM football team’s coaching staff’s wives are starting a canned-food drive Saturday, and it will continue through the Lobos’ Nov.
There is some good news for the UNM football team this Saturday. Embattled head coach Mike Locksley, who is 1-17 at UNM, hopes to capitalize on the fact that the Lobos are 13-2 since 1996 following their bye week.
“That’s a question for Rocky.” Current head football coach Mike Locksley said it deliberately and repeated it at least three times, hoping to evade inquisitions about the past — and more plainly, his predecessor. But the former coach’s name continues to precede him. Yet in the face of his Long-awaited return to University Stadium, San Diego State’s defensive coordinator, after an 11-year UNM marriage that came to an abrupt, and arguably Rocky, conclusion, is just as reticent to answer questions, much to the media’s displeasure. In keeping with a tradition he started last year, Long isn’t granting interviews this week, an SDSU spokesperson said.
Editor, Can marriage stand the test of time? If you choose to get married before the age of 25, it seems less likely.
As a police officer in two major East Coast cities, I had plenty of dealings with marijuana. I always hated those instances because most of them never should have occurred.
While many UNM students are busy studying conventional subjects like math and journalism, Cedra Wood is at the back of the C&J building quietly constructing world-class violins. Wood, a master’s student in painting and drawing, spends her spare time working with Violin Shop Director Peter White.
In the ceramics studio, a group of about 20 freshmen in a combo English 101/ art studio class transformed their written essays into a works of art.
Just because the play’s called “No Exit” and is set in hell doesn’t mean you’ll want to leave. Directed by Joseph Montoya, “No Exit,” the premier French existentialist play, was first performed in 1944.
When Roberto Robledo was only 13 years old, he made his first pair of “sicodelico” style boots in his father’s boot shop in Juárez, Mexico. “In Mexico, if a family owns a boot shop, it means everyone in that family knows how to make shoes and boots, especially my parents are from León Guanajuato,” Robledo said.
Family Studies junior Deanna Tompkins came to UNM from Denver on a Daniels Scholarship, which she said is hard to get. She works in African-American Student Services (the Afro) and mentors girls by building their spirits and teaching them how to set goals and put community events together. She said the Afro feels like a home away from home. “I don’t have any family here. I just have myself and whatever friends I’ve acquired along the way,” she said. Tompkins has been in the foster care system since she was 8 years old, but now she’s movin’ and groovin’ to the song of her own independence. It’s where she gets her passion for social work.
The Lobo Village real estate office is accepting applications from students and faculty interested in leasing a Lobo Village apartment. The complex opens August 2011, and the real estate office is hosting a kick-off event today at 10 a.m.
The on-campus LGBTQ resource center is hosting a forum today to counteract the effects of cyber bullying on gay and lesbian students. David Griffith, a program assistant at LGBTQ, said the forum will examine the community impact of technology as a tool for bullying. “I’ m sure UNM is not as bad as a lot of colleges across the United States, but there are definitely still issues that are present, and there are members of the UNM community that have faced these issues before,” Griffith said. The all-inclusive forum will take place in SUB Ballroom C from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Students on the panel will share their experiences about facing discrimination, and people can talk to counselors and get information about on-campus and community resources. Griffith said the forum will give students an outlet to express concerns so they don’t fall victim to tragedies like that of first-year Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi.
UNMPD will begin restricting its public services starting Nov. 1. The escort service will only be offered during the hours of 4 p.m. to 7 a.m., and will only provide escorts to locations on main campus. In the past, UNMPD offered escorts for people to locations close to the campus area.
NMSU’s Faculty Senate approved a proposed regent selection process Oct. 7, bringing on board another one of the state’s research universities in an attempt to dramatically reform the state’s Boards of Regents.
Considering that any uncoordinated movement set to music can be considered “dancing,” the word itself doesn’t exactly elicit thoughts of hard work.
The first track on the Noms’ new EP, Choices, promises “Good, Good Times.” The Noms deliver on this guarantee, but the album unfortunately doesn’t offer enough choices. The band provides enjoyable country-twinged indie rock in the vein of Ben Harper or Jack Johnson.
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