Editor, After attending a recent freshmen Bobo orientation, I noticed that the only thing served for lunch when my parents came was Mexican food.
Editor, I am graduating soon and while college and educational experiences were often positive, there is significant fault at hand.
Editor, The Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs’ recent recommendation to President David Schmidly and the UNM Board of Regents to ignore the Student Fee Review Board’s requests for the allocation of student fees in the upcoming school year undermines UNM’s stated missions and threatens the long-term viability of the University as a whole. UNM created the SFRB to ensure that students in particular, and program staff and community members generally, would have a say in how student monies are spent and that student fees would be dispensed in an open, transparent, carefully considered and democratic manner. This decision disregards the student and community voice by including a recommendation to cut all student funding for the Research Service Learning Program, Community Learning and Public Service, New Mexico Public Interest Research Group and a suspension of plans to fund the student’s request for a Queer Resource Center. The funding approvals now under consideration by President Schmidly and the Board of Regents are about far more than finances, budgetary restraints or keeping student fees low.
When Marc Smith’s name is mentioned at a poetry slam, the audience is supposed to shout, “Who cares!” So who cares that Smith, said to be the originator of the slam poetry art form, is coming to Albuquerque on Thursday? Albuquerque cares, said Danny Solis, Albuquerque Slam Poet Laureate. “Albuquerque loves poetry and the poetry slam, and Marc Smith is the founder of the poetry slam,” he said.
The Daily Lobo sat in on a conference call with the head of the Democratic National Committee and the head of the College Democrats of America. Tim Kaine, chairman of the DNC, and Katie Naranjo, president of the CDA, held the conference call Tuesday to discuss the new Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act. The SAFRA is attached to the health care bill and will make college more affordable for students, Kaine and Naranjo said. Kaine said the bill will free up $68 billion in federal funds, which will go to help lower the cost of student loans. “It eliminates subsidies that are just not in it to private bankers by switching to a system of direct lending for federal student loans,” he said.
The UNM Regents will determine whether or not the School of Law will secede from GPSA. Of 343 law students, 110 voted from March 24-26 by e-mail ballot on whether they should leave GPSA.
Students, staff and community members continue to remember the life and work of professor Hector Torres and student Stefania Gray. The two were found dead at Torres’ home March 8.
Radio has taken a new wave, literally going mobile. Dylan Stevens-Sheriff, Parker Jennings and Seth Grant put together a broadcast tricycle.
The Noms won the UNM Battle of the Bands along with Zagadka. The five-person band plays acoustic pop.
Zagadka tied for first place in UNM’s Battle of the Bands thanks to their powerful sense of identity, developed over the last seven years.
Albuquerque is sick as a dog … with dance fever! UNM students Paul Spella and Hendrick Onderdonk spin electro house music as DJ team Click Click Bang.
After eight and half hours of pounding drums, wailing guitars, crooning vocals and the occasional f-bomb, The Noms and Zagadka emerged the victors of the UNM Battle of the Bands on Sunday in the SUB.
Editor, This is not an anti-administration letter, nor is it meant as an attack. We have the utmost respect for the administration and what it does, from making hard decisions throughout the economic crisis to the unseen and uncredited good deeds done.
Wolfpack wants to “howl yes” on sustainability, campus security and free student tickets to athletic events. Wolfpack ASUNM presidential candidate David Conway and vice presidential candidate Zoe Riebli said these issues are important to Wolfpack’s goal of moving UNM forward. “The concise message is that we’re trying to bring the University toward a progressive future,” Conway said.
About 50 students held a rally at Smith Plaza on Monday asking the administration to think twice before superseding the fee recommendations of the Student Fee Review Board. Holding signs that read “Student fees are a student right” and “Save our programs,” the group of student government leaders, undergraduates and graduates attempted to justify a $10 increase on students for the 2010-11 academic year to fund several nonprofit organizations and a queer resource center. “We respect the administration.
The only possible explanation for Lobo pitcher Samantha Gatson’s “it’s not that bad” attitude is she’s being tutored by the University’s famous eternal optimist, Mike Locksley. Or she got hit in the head by a line drive. No matter how many times the UNM softball team was reminded how grisly its play was against No.
The UNM baseball team’s pitching staff has given head coach Ray Birmingham fits all season. The Lobos’ pitching was so bad last week, Birmingham is lucky the stress didn’t give him a nervous breakdown. But thanks to right-handed pitcher Bobby Mares’ terrific performance on Sunday, Birmingham can relax. The Lobos won 12-7 on Friday and 8-5 on Saturday against San Diego State.
Axed. The UNM men’s tennis team swiftly dispatched Northern Arizona 7-0 on Sunday at the Linda Estes Tennis Center. The Lobos, 5-7 overall, relinquished a combined five games to the Lumberjacks (8-6) during doubles play.
Editor, Congress apparently needs a refresher course in economic theory, particularly the concept of competitive advantage and the benefits of free trade to an economy.
The Graduate and Professional Student Association held a special meeting Saturday to clarify the constitutional amendments on which graduate students will vote.
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