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Senior Devin Most signs a thank you letter to UNM President David Schmidly in the SUB on Thursday. PIRG was circulating the letter after the administration rescinded its recommendation to cut the group and several others instead of raising student fees.
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Regents weigh hike in student fees

Pat Lohmann and Mario Trujillo | April 1

Student fees look, once again, like they’re going to increase by $10.10 to a total of $456.91 next year in order to fund three organizations and a Queer Resource Center. The groups and center were set to losing funding after Cheo Torres, vice president of Student Affairs, asked the Board of Regents not to increase student fees, a suggestion that conflicted with the Student Fee Review Board’s recommendation of a $10.10 increase in February. Torres rescinded the recommendation in a memo addressed to Provost Suzanne Ortega on Thursday.

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UNM will approve budget at summit

Leah Valencia | April 1

The UNM Board of Regents may give a new meaning to cutting classes at today’s budget summit. Administrators will meet with several UNM departments in SUB Ballroom C to discuss and approve a final budget for the 2011 fiscal year. Raymond Sanchez, president of the Board of Regents, said that though UNM is facing a 7.7 percent reduction in state funding, he is confident the University is braced to handle it. “It has been a rough year financially and otherwise,” he said.

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Culture

Balloonists throw in the towel and go back to bed

Hunter Riley | April 1

The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta rode its last high at its 2009 event. The fiesta started in 1971, but the Albuquerque Balloon Committee decided the festival was too much of a hassle. In a statement released Monday, the Board of Directors cited “not wanting to wake up so early 10 days in a row and realizing that it’s just not worth all the sleep-loss,” as the driving force behind the decision. The board conducted a survey of about 15,000 attendees, all of which said they were probably too busy this year to go to the balloon fiesta.

Culture

Scholes Hall bathroom, where all your dreams come true

Abigail Ramirez | April 1

In a $1.4 million study released by GPSA, the toilet paper in the administrative building is found to be the best throughout the entire University. According to the study, the bathroom tissue is described to “hug your bottom.” The study stemmed from University-wide departments’ complaints about instances when they’ve had to go without t.p.

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Sports

Locksely gets an E for effort and a fat bonus

Harry Greenleaf | April 1

The University of New Mexico Athletics Department prefers “winners at heart,” rather than actual proven winners. In a bizarre turn of events, Athletics Director Paul Krebs has allowed the unthinkable to happen. UNM head men’s basketball coach Steve Alford was fired on Wednesday because of a lack of success in his three years in Albuquerque.

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Campus Briefs

Staff Report | April 1

Campus Briefs UNM Student still doing that thing with his tongue In what area observers are calling “unsettling,” “awkward,” and “just perverse,” the guy in the SUB is still doing that thing with his tongue.

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Moneysuckers don't care about poor students

Abigail Ramirez | April 1

After 121 years, the UNM officially changed its name to the University of Notable Moneysuckers. More than 75 percent of University students petitioned the legislature to change the University’s name to a more appropriate slogan that reflects its mission. Student James Joons, organizer of the event, said he gathered more than 500 pages of signatures in a petition, presented to the legislature, from supporting students, staff and faculty.

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Tea Party protest

Nathan Levick | April 1

I’m a little teapot, Short and stout, Here is my handle.  Here is my spout.  When I get all steamed up, The bubbles of hate and heat rise violently within me. The pain is overwhelming. I squeal a glottal banshee bleat, A piercing massacre of my state of matter … of my soul. We are all familiar with this teenage emo, diary poetry version of the nursery song “I’m a little tea pot,” but until last Wednesday never has the boiling point it describes been so real.

Student Ryan Garcia takes a study break four days into the implementation of UNM’s wet campus policy. “Leave me alone, mom!” he screamed at our photographer.
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UNM drowning in wet campus

Richie Yelkin | April 1

It’s been four days since UNM repealed its “dry campus” rules, and the Daily Bobo still can’t find a single sober person to interview. “Issshh ‘cuz we’re all- all are celebratin!” said Petey “Taz” Radisson, a drunk student.

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Opinion

What's on your mind? Nothing, clearly.

April 1

Editor, You should include more coverage on the themes of isolation and preserving desperation in “Bartleby, the Scrivener” and if you could do it sometime before the end of the week that would be even better. Not an English Student, Mateo Pizo Editor, I demand to know why you have yet to review the instant classic, “Mega Shark v.

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Opinion

Cracka can't take the heat

April 1

Editor, As a non-native New Mexican coming from Ohio, I am offended by the spiciness of your “chili.” How is anyone expected to put something that spicy in their mouth and enjoy it?

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