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Giant puppets to descend on Robinson Park

Andrew Beale | September 10

If you’ve ever wanted to join in a giant puppet parade or put your mark on a piece of a 1,000-foot canvas, the We Art the People Festival this Sunday is your chance. The festival, organized by OFFCenter Community Arts, will feature the parade and collaborative canvas, as well as about 100 local art vendors and performances by local groups like Le Chat Lunatique and Joe Daddy and Hoodoo Jeff’s Swamp Fried Duo.

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Athlete's dorm burglary under investigation

Isaac Avilucea and Shaun Griswold | September 10

UNM football player Brandon Lewis’ room was broken into Aug. 25. Lewis informed police that a teammate told him that freshman defensive back Ravonne Carter said he intended to steal from Lewis’ room the same night, according to a UNMPD report. Police collected a silver knife with fingerprints believed to have been used in the break-in, and they are sending the knife to a lab for testing. The investigation is ongoing.

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Provost: Mexico unsafe

Barron Jones | September 9

The Provost’s Office issued a Sept. 1 travel advisory in the wake of Mexico’s escalating violence. Provost Suzanne Ortega encouraged students planning to visit Mexico to educate themselves about possible dangers in the areas and to have emergency contacts.

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Accident causes building flood

Chelsea Erven | September 9

The Anthropology Annex basement flooded with gray water Sept. 1, leaving several archaeology labs ruined, graduate student and faculty labs unusable, and a basement ceramics class without a classroom.

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School gets female dean

Sofia Sanchez | September 7

For the first time in its history, UNM’s School of Architecture and Planning has a woman as its new dean. Geraldine Forbes Isais, the architecture program director since 2005, was promoted to dean at the end of spring 2010 semester and assumed her role this summer. She succeeds Roger Schluntz, who served as dean for UNM’s School of Architecture and Planning for more than a decade.

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Career fair geared for Anderson students

Chelsea Erven | September 7

Career Week at the Anderson School of Management, an event to meant to help students jump into the work force, began Tuesday and will run through Sept.

A memorial in honor of cyclist John Anczarski is mounted beside State highway 124 near the Laguna Pueblo. The 19-year-old cyclist was killed while riding his bike across the country to promote breast cancer awareness.

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Statue honors fallen cyclist

Shaun Griswold | September 7

He had a high spirit and was inclined to help others. Now, John Robert Anczarski will be remembered with a memorial “ghost” bike, just a few feet away from the pavement where a motorist struck and killed the young man June 22. The 19-year-old died after a motorist struck his bicycle in Laguna, N.M., along State Highway 124. “The driver and the bikes were headed west.

Sports

Are we forever doomed?

Ryan Tomari | September 7

It was supposed to be different. It was a fresh start, a new season and a second chance for a bewildered leader. But 29 minutes and 45 seconds into the 2010 UNM football season, the Lobos found themselves down 59-0 to No.

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AFD investigating suspected arson in Quarter's shed explosion

Chelsea Erven | September 3

Behind Quarter’s restaurant on the corner of Avenida Cesar Chavez and Yale Blvd. a storage shed exploded, sparking a fire that damaged nearby buildings Thursday evening, according to Albuquerque Fire Department Commander Kerry Horton.

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Faculty copes after Logan flood

Chelsea Erven | September 2

Faculty members in the Psychology Department housed in Logan Hall have started the semester with a shortage of offices, labs, computers and furniture, in the aftermath of the Aug. 8 flood that left 35 rooms unusable. Trish Aragon-Mascarenas, a Psychology Department administrator, said other faculty members have offered space to those who lost offices while construction is ongoing.

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ASUNM sets sights on housing early

Ruben Hamming-Green | September 2

ASUNM’s first meeting of the school year commenced Wednesday evening, with senators tackling subjects including printing costs and new student housing. Kim Murphy, director of Real Estate, discussed new student housing projects on main campus.

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Admins. discuss budget cuts, tuition hikes

Laurel Brishel Prichard | September 2

The Board of Regents Finance and Facilities Committee faced the looming possibility of University-wide budget cuts, new construction and increased tuition during its Wednesday morning meeting.

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Survey: Faculty losing faith in system

Shaun Griswold | September 2

UNM central administration and faculty routinely quarrel, and a survey released Wednesday proves there is discontent over budget and communication issues between the two parties.

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Class studies modern native works

Ruben Hamming-Green | September 1

The room was packed, as a large contingent of architecture and planning students, along with others not attending UNM, listened intently to Duane Blue Spruce speak Monday evening in the Pearl Hall Auditorium. People sat on the descending stair walkways, notebooks in hand, hoping to learn about a relatively unexplored subject: modern Native American architecture.

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Students appeal grant denials

Laurel Brishel Prichard | September 1

GPSA held an appeal review meeting Tuesday to determine several applicants’ futures for summer 2010 grant applications that were denied. Three graduate students who applied for the Student Research Allocation Committee grants and Specialized Training grants presented their cases in front of a four-member graduate panel.

Culture

Makeshift studio makes big splash

Andrew Beale | August 31

A new production company is in town, and they’ve got the basement all ready for you. Firehydrant Records was founded last year by local music fan Sean Smock with help from The Big Spank singer/guitarist Mike Garcia.

Board Chair Jamie Koch talks with Vice Chair Don Chalmers during a break in a Lobo Development Corporation Meeting on Monday. The board met to discuss funding options for various construction projects throughout campus.

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Krebs: Another million needed for construction

Ruben Hamming-Green | August 31

At a Lobo Development Corporation meeting Monday, board members unveiled plans that detailed future dormitories and Athletics facilities construction at UNM. Paul Krebs, vice president of Athletics, said Athletics needs new tennis courts, a renovation of UNM’s baseball field and improvements to the existing parking lots. Krebs said the baseball field renovation carries a price tag of $4 million.

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History professor's life honored

Sean P. Wynne | August 30

At a somber service Aug. 27, former UNM professor Ferenc “Frank” Szasz’s life and achievements were honored. The ceremony featured a bagpiper and a recitation of “Auld Lang Syne.” Szasz, 70, died June 20.

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Campus sees spike in student numbers

Chelsea Erven | August 30

UNM is always bustling with students during the first week of classes, but this year the campus may seem more crowded than usual. UNM’s enrollment grew nearly 6 percent, from 26,187 students to 27,700 students, since last fall, said Carmen Alvarez Brown, vice president of Enrollment Management.

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Convention draws more than 'geeky' crowd

Alexandra Swanberg | August 27

Fourty-two is a special number for those in the know of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” The number is the answer to life, the universe, and everything calculated by the fictional earth-sized supercomputer.