by Felicia Fonseca Daily Lobo The stage was set Thursday to "cook" methamphetamines in two abandoned apartment buildings in Albuquerque; only it was police and researchers making the drug, not criminals. The event was part of an effort to fight meth production and abuse in Albuquerque.
The University Athletics Department, with the help of Gov. Bill Richardson, will begin construction on a new practice facility for the men's and women's basketball teams sometime in the next year. Richardson has slated $2.5 million for the project, which athletic officials say will greatly increase the equity in practice times for the women's team and help with recruiting.
UNM students are losing out on untold amounts of money through the University Bookstore's textbook buy-back program because faculty members are failing to participate in the program, officials say. The program, which allows students to sell textbooks back to the bookstore at the end of every semester, is a source of income many UNM students rely on.
Students opening their own businesses have been a recent trend at UNM, and Nicole Montes is no exception. The 22-year-old UNM junior is the owner of the Silver Board Shop near campus. The shop, which caters to skateboard and snowboard enthusiasts, opened the first week of December.
Two UNM professors who said they were beaten by Albuquerque police officers during the March 20 anti-war protest near campus have appealed the decision of the department's chief who dismissed their claims. Lane Leckman and Durwood Ball said they attended the protest out of curiosity and decided to stay and serve as witnesses should the situation escalate to violence.
After a lengthy, sometimes difficult search, UNM's Latin American and Iberian Institute has a new director, but the appointment has drawn mixed reactions from the community. Cynthia Radding, a history professor at the University of Illinois, was named to the position after a 10-month, nationwide search that drew criticism from local activists who felt the position should be filled by a Hispanic person.
UNM President and former United States Army Secretary Louis Caldera recently weighed in on the controversial issue of the military draft, speaking out against it in Time magazine. "I was asked by Time to write about the draft because of my prior job and about many of the things I have said and written about military service and about the draft specifically," Caldera said.
Much to the dismay of several hundred local military veterans who showed up to see him, democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark did not attend an event held in his honor in Albuquerque Sunday. The veterans did not let that deter their spirit though, as they chanted and waved signs for Gert, Clark's wife, who took his place to rally the troops in what she called "New Mexico's grassroots effort to change the future of the country.
After a lengthy, sometimes difficult search, UNM's Latin American and Iberian Institute has a new director, but the appointment has drawn mixed reactions from the community. Cynthia Radding, a history professor at the University of Illinois, was named to the position after a 10-month, nationwide search that drew criticism from local activists who felt the position should be filled by a Hispanic person.
More than 300 high school students from across the country converged on UNM's campus over the weekend for the 9th annual Lobo Speech and Debate Tournament. This year's event, the largest in the state, was expanded to include students from five other states, including Georgia, Florida and California, to provide New Mexico students the best experience, said Mario Herrera, the tournament's director.
Freshman enrollment rose nearly 30 percent over the last five years, yet despite the increase in numbers, University officials say freshman retention is at an all-time high. According to numbers from the Office of Institutional Research, a record 76 percent of freshmen enrolled in the fall 2002 semester have continued their studies at UNM.
UNM police and security officers are banking on a $30,000 investment they hope will help them to better patrol and secure the campus. The cars, Chrysler Gems, are powered entirely by 72-volt electric motors that can travel as far as 40 miles on a single charge and can go as fast as 25 miles per hour.
Maybe it's just because it's that time of the year, but UNM is in a giving mood. The UNM Giving Tree in the SUB Atrium has been such a hit that organizers have added an additional 74 foster children to their original list of about 120 in need of gifts and basic items this holiday season.
With the semester ending in less than a week, local liquor establishments face the inevitable challenge of combating underage drinkers who use false identification. "Fake I.D.s are a dime a dozen," said Mikey Numbers, a manager at Maloney's Tavern, 325 Central Ave.
Staff Report UNM's School of Architecture and Planning has been ranked among the top 40 architectural programs in the country for its value. DesignIntelligence, which ranked the UNM program as 28 in the United States, also ranked the University's architecture faculty ninth in the country for national teaching awards.
by Phil Parker Daily Lobo LAS VEGAS - The Lobos waited until the last game of the year to play their worst football. UNM (8-5) was completely dominated in a 55-14 loss to Oregon State (8-5) in this year's Las Vegas Bowl on Christmas Eve. "We played as bad as you can play," said head coach Rocky Long after the game.
Staff Report UNM President Louis Caldera announced recently that Dec. 22 and 23 will be included in the upcoming days off for the University's winter holiday. The winter holidays at UNM officially begin Monday, Dec. 22 and extend through Friday, Jan.
Miles Nelson realizes the odds of being elected to Congress are against him. He said, though, that the United States is in such disarray that he has to try. "We are living in a very dangerous time," said the Albuquerque resident at a Democratic rally on campus Wednesday.
Staff Report James Ellis is quickly becoming one of the most recognized and decorated lawyers in the nation. Ellis, a UNM law professor, is best known for his groundbreaking work to ban executions of the mentally retarded. The New Mexico Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Association of Retarded Citizens of New Mexico, also known as ARC, and his alma mater, Occidental College, honored him last month for his efforts.
UNM police cite student for smoking marijuana University police cited a UNM student after he admitted to smoking marijuana while driving around campus in his car, according to police reports. UNM police stopped Matthew Munoz, 21, on Dec. 2 after an officer on bike patrol noticed he was not wearing his seat belt.
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