Mayor Martin Ch†vez said he loves leaders, and that's one of the reasons he enjoyed speaking to ASUNM on Wednesday. "As trite as it might sound, a big percentage of tomorrow's leaders are in there," Ch†vez said. "I do whatever I can to encourage leaders.
Blooming plants on campus mean hay fever - not spring fever - for students. According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, hay fever, the common name for seasonal pollen allergies, is responsible for about 16 million office visits to health care providers each year in the United States, and cost the country about $18 billion annually.
Vicente Vargas said he wants to change the perception that GPSA does not serve students. He said for too long the Graduate and Professional Student Association has been invisible on campus. "I represent most graduate students who don't know a lot about GPSA, who had to work hard to find out about what is going on, and I don't want students to have to do that," he said.
There are a number of things Buckner Creel said GPSA is not addressing. He said sacrifices need to be made to have tuition increases, assistantships and student outreach addressed by the administration. Creel said he is in a good position to be a servant to those who are not involved in the science departments.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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