This April, New Mexico is celebrating the second-annual Donate Life Month to encourage the public to become organ donors and dispel myths about organ and tissue donations. "This is a way to save someone's life after you pass on," said Maria Sanders, communication director of New Mexico Donor Services.
Two candidates proved Wednesday night that you don't have to be a member of a slate to win a student election. Rico Jeantete and Mike Mooney won positions in the ASUNM Senate - they were the only two candidates not on the Ignition slate. "I think this gives hope to people that aren't on a slate that you can win and you don't have to be on a slate," Jeantete said.
As the deadline to file federal and state tax returns approaches, tax preparers and last-minute filers across the country scramble to process thousands of returns before midnight. Christine Morton, a district spokesperson for H&R Block, a national financial institution, said the company's more than 25 Albuquerque locations have been inundated with a flood of last-minute filing requests.
In Monday's coverage of the ASUNM spring elections, the photos of Deanna Armijo and Valerie Garcia were incorrectly matched with their profiles.
Kevin Stevenson said he is running for ASUNM president with an open mind. He said as president he will listen to students to make their goals a reality. One of the main problems the Associated Students of UNM has, he said, is that all ASUNM events don't get the attention they deserve.
The College Greens led other students on campus to the UNM Board of Regents' meeting Tuesday chanting, "We don't pay tuition for no Lockheed ammunition." The rally was organized in opposition to the war in Iraq, but more specifically to oppose weapons research on campus, said Trey Smith, co-chairman of the College Greens, the UNM student group that organized the event.
Sen. Justin Crosby said his organizational skills and passion for the job make him an ideal candidate for ASUNM vice president. Crosby, who has been on the Associated Students of UNM Senate for the past three semesters, is running on the Ignition slate unopposed.
When the ASUNM and GPSA leaders spoke at the budget summit on April 1, UNM President Louis Caldera and the Board of Regents must have been listening closely. Caldera proposed a 12.8 percent tuition increase for resident tuition - similar to the 12.3 percent increase ASUNM proposed at the budget summit.
Members of Students for a Sensible Drug Policy inspired more than 80 students to make phone calls to state legislative offices Tuesday as part of a national "phone slam" to repeal the Higher Education Act's drug provision. "We wanted to raise awareness and have as many phone calls go in to the offices as possible," said Gabrielle Guzzardo, president of SSDP.
UNM President Louis Caldera revised the four scenarios presented at the budget summit regarding tuition and made a different recommendation to the Board of Regents - a 12.8 percent tuition increase. In the past, the Finance and Facilities Committee, a subcommittee of the regents, has approved the president's recommendation before they met to set the budget for the fiscal year.
UNM's German Department is celebrating its last 40 years with an interdisciplinary conference that features music, art and lectures throughout the week. Professor Peter Pabisch, who has been an integral part of the program for 32 years, will receive special recognition for his dedicated service and innovative ideas in the department.
A UNM employee took Monday off, sitting in front of the SUB for nine-and-a-half hours, hoping to bring attention to his cause. Russell Morris, a UNM admissions officer, had about 170 signatures on a petition to decertify United Staff-UNM, a union for educational support staff at the University.
A recent poll showed 76 percent of New Mexicans would support increasing the tax on tobacco products to provide funds for health research. "Now we're going to use that data to help bolster some arguments for increasing funding for health programs in the state and to encourage aligning health priorities in the state with what New Mexicans want," said Linda Penaloza, a research assistant professor at UNM's Prevention Research Center, which co-sponsored the survey.
Within 10 years, more than 3,000 students with at least 98 credit hours left UNM without graduating. On Friday, students celebrated the graduation of more than 1,000 of those students through the Graduation Project - the only one of its kind in the nation.
by Krista Pino Daily Lobo UNM students are looking to pitch their ideas to judges in a national advertising competition. The American Advertising Federation's national student advertising competition is the only nation-wide college competition.
Jimmesha Winston Senior Journalism & Mass Communications "Not on campus because I think people are more open-minded and educated, but in Albuquerque, yeah." "It's all about education. I think the more mixture and the more variety they get on campus, people will take that role on themselves and not feel the need to demonstrate such hatred.
by Amy Henderson Daily Lobo The fizzy volcanoes and wobbly planet models of middle school, science-fair glory are distant memories to students in the UNM Biology Department. Biology students study a wide variety of subjects from the tiny bacteria in Antarctic lakes to the grand old cottonwoods along the Rio Grande Bosque.
ASUNM unanimously approved its Spring budget last week and left a bitter taste in the mouths of some campus organizations. The Associated Students of UNM Finance Committee divided about $500,000 among 124 student organizations, groups and ASUNM executive agencies.
American-Indian students said they are appalled at the display of racial insensitivity that occurred on campus Thursday. Maria Williams, assistant professor of Native American Studies, and Steven Loza, director of the Arts of the Americas Institute, stated in a police report that a student coming out of Mitchell Hall began to yell at members of Tribe2, an American-Indian rap group.
In an article citing two UNM professors, Harvard scholar Samuel Huntington warns that Hispanic immigration poses a major threat to America. The statement was published in the March/April issue of Foreign Policy, a magazine Huntington co-founded. In his article, "The Hispanic Challenge," he cites UNM professors Charles Truxillo and Chris Garcia.
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