Employees being laid off from the UNM Office of Capital Projects said the budget shortfalls are caused by a combination of mismanagement and hard economic times. Alec Mottershead, an OCP architectural draftsman, said jobs could have been saved if it weren’t for bad management decisions.
Transparency, better representation and budget cuts were just a few of the topics discussed at the GPSA presidential candidate forum on Thursday.
As the sun set on tax day, the Albuquerque Tea Party movement began its rally against government growth and spending. Hundreds of protesters lined Menaul Boulevard from San Pedro Drive to Wyoming Boulevard on Thursday to support the conservative political movement. ATP Organizer Robert Young said followers of the movement wanted to urge government to return to the U.S.
A knee shaking, toe tapping Lazaro “Laz” Cardenas sat visibly nervous in the ASUNM senate hall waiting for 8 p.m., when the ASUNM election results would be tallied — not knowing he would be elected the next ASUNM president by more than 400 votes.
Mark Pappler is fed up with being disturbed every time someone cooks in his on-campus apartment building. The reason for his exasperation is the new fire alarm system installed in UNM’s student family housing units, Pappler said. “They just put it in and set it at a very sensitive level, and when it goes off, every unit in the building where the alarm emanated from goes off simultaneously,” he said.
Such cavalier attire for such a momentous decision. Darington Hobson, dressed in a long-sleeved, cherry mesh shirt, black basketball shorts and retro Jordans, with shin-high Nike socks, announced Tuesday that he will forego his senior season with the UNM men’s basketball team and enter the 2010 NBA Draft. “I feel like this is what I was put on Earth to do,” Hobson said. Hobson will not hire an agent, leaving open the possibility he could return to the Lobos.
As purse strings are drawn tighter at UNM, Steve Beffort’s position of vice president of Institution Support Services, which he has held for 2 1/2 years, will be eliminated. Beffort started his career at the Anderson School of Management and after eight years of moving up, he will be retiring from the empire he has helped build.
A La Posada Dining Hall manager is no longer employed with UNM after being accused of assaulting a fellow employee.
The Truman Scholarship is allowing one UNM student’s dreams to come true. Cara Valente-Compton, who got the $30,000 award, said she’s wanted to attend the UNM School of Law her entire life, and her award is allowing her to do so. “My plan has always been to attend the UNM School of Law.
Representatives from the Student Bar Association and GPSA met Friday in a last-ditch effort to reconcile the organizations’ differences.
On Friday, one month after the death of their colleagues Hector Torres and Stefania Gray, UNM community members gave public condolences during a memorial at the National Hispanic Cultural Center.
There is a specter haunting student government elections — the specter of low voter turnout. A president, vice president and 10 senators will be voted into the ASUNM government on April 14.
The victim of the Feb. 15 stabbing on campus has a pretty good idea what she was thinking right after a stranger plunged a knife into her neck. “How do you live through something like this?
If you’ve ever considered making a short jaunt to Iran for summer break, Diego Mathieu has a story that’ll change your mind. Mathieu, a Belgian, was hitchhiking through Iran’s Great Salt Desert in September 2009 when Iranian officials arrested him and charged him with espionage. He said he then spent the next three months in an Iranian prison awaiting trial — enduring solitary confinement and psychological torture.
After Arnold Woods, a homeless man, was found sleeping in Popejoy Hall, his mother, Mary, asked the Albuquerque community for help finding her son.
Five UNM students are chasing their dreams — all the way to Hamburg, Germany. The group earned one of five spots at the International Supercomputer Conference 2010 in Germany with a business plan they made for a local company, said graduate student Adel Saad.
UNM Office of Capital Projects is eliminating six full-time positions and cutting six unfilled positions to deal with a lack of funding for fiscal year 2011. “We’ve reduced the size of the organization by almost 50 percent,” said Vice President of Institutional Support Services Steve Beffort.
Mayor Richard Berry wants the Anderson School of Management’s help in rejuvenating Albuquerque’s economy. In his three-prong plan, Berry announced a partnership with the school to educate the next generation of Albuquerque business people. Dean of the Anderson School of Management, Doug Brown, said Berry’s business background gives him the skills to restructure the economy. “Economic development is clearly a high priority for Berry.
Students are helping refugees make the transition to life in America. The Refugee Well-being Project, a class offered through the psychology and anthropology departments, gives students the opportunity to work with refugees who are resettling in New Mexico.
The Board of Regents voted to increase tuition and fees by $405, and $64 of that increase is not covered by the NM Lottery Scholarship. The regents have until April 30 to tweak the increase, but if it stands, tuition and fees will be about $5,505 per undergraduate student per semester.
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