Matt Pankuch's battle station is not out on a field - it's behind a cotton candy machine at the New Mexico State Fair. People call Pankuch the Cotton Candy King. "I can put out cotton candy if I'm just running machine probably in a matter of 30 seconds," he said.
UNM graduates just can't get enough of the University. A graduate survey administered by Career Services found the majority of graduates are employed at UNM. The survey was sent to all 2,414 spring 2003 graduates, and 814 responded. After UNM, the top employers were Albuquerque Public Schools, Sandia National Laboratories and the State of New Mexico.
Students who lost their lottery scholarship may find it's not so easy to get it back. More than $27 million was awarded to Lottery Success Scholarships recipients in 2004, said Jim Perry, director of finance for New Mexico Commission on Higher Education.
Tenure is a good gig if you can get it. If professors are tenured, it takes the president of the University and the Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure to fire them. Instructors are subject to a six-year probationary period and undergo a comprehensive evaluation in a tenure track.
by Margarita Ortega y Gomez Daily Lobo During the 1991 Iraqi uprising, when Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard was brutally suppressing civilians, Surood Ahmed Falih fled Kirkurk after being injured and losing her sister, aunt and stepmother. "There were bodies covered in blood (in the street), each one shot three times," she said.
USC fraternities caught breaking rush regulations (U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES - Fraternity brothers from at least two different houses disregarded Interfraternity Council rush rules on dry houses and events last week, giving underage rushees access to unlimited bar tabs, acess to alcohol and marijuana at the houses, introducing them to sorority girls, and promising at least one rushee cocaine, a Daily Trojan undercover investigation found.
Area businesses are feeling the impact of students coming back for the fall semester. "We definitely have a parking problem," said Dorothy Rainosek, co-owner of Frontier Restaurant. "Business is good and up from the summer considerably, but people park here for class or to go buy a book on campus.
After gaining the dreaded freshman 15, fad diets often promise students a quick and easy way to lose unwanted poundage, but they can also harm a student's physical and mental well-being. Diet pills, the grapefruit, raw-food, meat-only, daily starvation, green tea and fruit juice diets are all methods used to quickly rid the body of excess weight.
The six projects in listed order are: State Support for Research The proposal asks for legislative funding in the amount of 1.5 percent of the previous year's research funding from grants and contracts. "It is simply a mechanism that President Caldera wants to use to get the Legislature to recognize the research mission of institutions," said Curt Porter, UNM budget director.
Laura Chamberlin was the kind of student who would rather hang out with friends than go to class. She was 18 when she started college and had no idea what she wanted to do with her life. She got straight As in some classes and skipped to the extreme in others.
Despite UNM's No. 14 ranking in the Princeton Review for having too many upper-level classes taught by teaching assistants, Teresita Aguilar says it is a rare occurrence. Aguilar is the dean of the Graduate Studies Office and said she hadn't heard of the rankings.
Iraqi extremists may have slain Nepalese hostages BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A gruesome video posted on a Web site purported to show militants beheading a Nepalese worker and shooting 11 others in the first mass slaying of foreign hostages during the Iraqi insurgency.
According to the Federal Communications Commission, an estimated 61 percent of 18-to-24-year olds carry cell phones. The FCC estimates about 5 percent of the country has dropped its telephone landlines in exchange for cell phone use. Dave Herzel, Zimmerman Library circulation manager, said the growing trend of cell phone use on campus is what prompted the libraries at UNM to create a cell phone policy.
The next legislative session may not begin until January, but UNM already has the lobbying ball rolling. UNM President Louis Caldera will solicit proposals from faculty, staff and students to formulate UNM's legislative agenda, said Carlos Romero, director of government affairs.
Willow Cornelius has been canvassing on campus with the New Voters Project since January and says an order issued by a state District Court judge Friday will undermine the vote. "I think it's targeting (young voters) - bottom line," she said. The New Voters Project is working to increase the youth vote, Cornelius said.
Freshmen who live on campus face the uncertainty of living with someone they probably haven't met before on an unfamiliar campus. About 2,400 students choose to live on campus every semester. After acceptance into UNM, students requesting a dorm room fill out an application and put down a deposit to secure a place in a residence hall.
It may not be a good idea to ask instructors what their annual salary is, but the Public Information List of UNM Employees in Zimmerman Library has it if you really want to know. The salary book at the Reserves Desk is a 146-page list with the names, job titles and annual salaries of all 7,549 UNM employees as of July 31.
State Sen. Richard Romero said globalization isn't necessarily a bad term. Romero, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. District I House seat, spoke to a crowd of about 30 at the Center for Peace and Justice on Monday night. "A lot of us like to blame globalization, but really it's the economic policies of the past few years," Romero said.
by Mike Weber Daily Lobo When Capt. Adam Loomis is a young lieutenant in Afghanistan or Iraq, he will need close air support. If that time comes, he said he will be much more comfortable with his military counterparts. Loomis is the first student leader of the Scabbard and Blade National Honor Society.
by Bob Groves The Record (Bergen County, N.J.) HACKENSACK, N.J. - For the price of a pair of sneakers, John Kach probably could have saved his fingers and legs. Kach, a college student in Rhode Island, believes vaccination against meningitis would have kept him from contracting the bacterial illness - which most likely happened in his dormitory - that led to the loss of his limbs four years ago.
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