UNM does all kinds of recruiting to reel in new students, but one of the strangest ways might be talking to high school students about the plague. Nicholas Schwartz is the program’s facilitator of the Medieval Outreach Program, and he said UNM students and alumni to go to local high schools to talk about medieval culture and society and mentor students.
The Muslim Student Association (MSA) will hold its annual Fast-A-Thon on Thursday to raise money and awareness for famine in the eastern horn of Africa. Mostafa Amini, president of the MSA, said the fast will follow traditional Islamic practices. “The practice of fasting, within the Islamic religion, consists of abstaining from eating and drinking, including water, from sunrise to sunset,” he said. Amini said fasting isn’t supposed to be easy. “It allows the UNM community to feel and not only sympathize, but rather empathize with our fellow humans that are experiencing poverty, famine and other sub-human conditions,” he said.
An Anderson School of Management class turned itself into a real-world marketing firm for students to gain hands-on experience while simultaneously serving the community.
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