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Crows are forced to leave UNM

Students who may have noticed the bird droppings outside Popejoy Hall and the loud crack of small explosions every night near dusk might not think they are related -- but they are. The UNM Physical Plant Department is in the middle of a crow abatement program to rid campus of the pesky migratory birds that have been bombing campus with droppings -- most heavily outside of Popejoy, University House and the University Chapel.

Police continue search for murder victim

ALBUQUERQUE (AP) -- Classes will no longer be taught in a bloodstained portable building where police say an elementary school occupational therapist fought with her killer. "The portable will be removed" from Montezuma Elementary School, Rigo Chavez, an Albuquerque Public Schools spokesman, said Tuesday.

Pharmacy professors receive AACP grants

Staff Report Two UNM College of Pharmacy assistant professors have received separate grants from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. James Nawarskas, Pharm.D., will be using the funds to complete a study titled "Characterization of an Interaction Between Aspirin and Ibuprofen.

CIRT is making hacking hard

Facing increasing security challenges, UNM's Computer Information Resources and Technology Department is taking extra steps to ensure the privacy and security of UNM computer system users. Beginning Jan. 31, the department, which is in charge of central computing services at UNM, will implement encrypted Secure Shell and Secure Sockets Layer programs, replacing all plain-text logins for CIRT-based UNIX accounts.

University students big players in Iraq protest

Daily Lobo In the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Albuquerque residents protesting the use of military force in Iraq offered diplomacy and American regime change as peaceful alternatives to tensions surrounding recent events in the Middle East.

Radio show host hits N.M. for peace rally

In conjunction with anti-war protests in more than 60 cities worldwide, Albuquerque staged a series of activities Saturday, which ended with a speech from award-winning radio journalist and political activist Amy Goodman. As host of Democracy Now!, a show heard weekdays by millions on National Public Radio, Goodman is at home with an audience.

Goodman discusses anti-war movement

For her work on the radio documentaries "Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship" and "MASSACRE: The Story of East Timor," Amy Goodman has received a laundry list of awards. The accolades include: the George Polk Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting and the Armstrong Award, to name just a few.

Engineering Department scores a Top Tier listing

Representatives from the Xilinx corporation presented UNM's Electrical and Computer Engineering Department with a plaque during a ceremony acknowledging UNM as a Top Tier Xilinx university. The plaque was awarded in recognition of outstanding work. Six other Universities were also recognized as being in the Top Tier.

Archuleta still heads presidential search

Despite his term ending as a UNM regent, David Archuleta will remain chairman of the Presidential Search Committee. Archuleta, whose term expired early this month, has been the chairman of three different search committees since 1997. He said that the search is progressing very well, with 55 applications already in.

Planning program honored

The Community and Regional Planning Program within the School of Architecture and Planning, which offers the only graduate planning program in the state, has been granted a full five-year re-accreditation. It is the largest such award given by the Planning Accreditation Board.

Campus museum robbed of valued San Ildefonso art

Staff Report UNMPD detectives are investigating a daytime burglary at the Maxwell Museum that netted three items estimated to be worth $1,500. The burglary occurred Dec. 4, between 12:30 p.m. and 3:45, when a male entered the museum, walked around the gift shop and then pried and broke the glass of a display case to get to the items inside.

Football players' fake IDs found

by Jeff Proctor Daily Lobo The Albuquerque Police Department has recovered nine altered Oklahoma driver's licenses, eight of which carry the names and photographs of underage UNM football players, and is investigating possible criminal offenses related to the incident.

Radio talk show gets award for voicing drug issue opinions

Staff Report A debate taped at UNM for National Public Radio between Drug Enforcement chief Asa Hutchinson and former Gov. Gary Johnson won first place in the Nancy Dickerson Whitehead awards for excellence in reporting this year. The debate, which took place in September and was taped before 600 people, was titled Directing America's Drug War: Which way to a Safer Society? as part of the NPR show Justice Talking.

Redondo Drive still closed off

UNM students will have to endure the closure of Redondo Drive at the crosswalk north of the UNM Bookstore for a few more weeks after a broken water pipe caused a slight delay in construction. The utility trench work was delayed during the semester break when a 10-inch water pipe was broken Jan.

The Daily Lobo is on recess until January 13, 2003.

Giving spirit dooms Lobos in Vegas Bowl

LAS VEGAS - The UNM football team came into the 2002 Las Vegas Bowl wanting to make history by winning its first bowl game in 41 years. The Lobos had to settle for breaking the Division-I gender barrier and giving the University of California at Los Angeles a game before falling to the Bruins 27-13.

International honor society aims to be chartered again

The UNM Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, Rho Delta will continue an initiative toward becoming a chartered organization by organizing a Holiday Gala at University House today. Kappa Delta Pi is the international honor society in education and the gala will be the first formal event that the Rho Delta chapter has had in five years, said Sue Ann Lieber, chapter president.

Construction to begin over winter break

During winter break, several construction projects will begin around campus that will cause road closures and changes in pedestrian routes. According to the UNM Web site, Way To Go at www.unm.edu/waytogo/bigi.html, one of the most visible of these projects will be the construction of a utility tunnel trench extension in front of Popejoy Hall that will impact drivers and pedestrians using Redondo Drive.

roll over

Members of the Albuquerque Fire Department clean up gasoline spilled after a car was rolled over on campus Friday night by a UNM art student in what was apparently some type of display art project. The incident happened in front of Carlisle Gym. Lt. Michael Young of the UNM Police Departmnent, who was the department's watch commander the night of the incident, said he could not release the name of the student because police administrators were still processing the incident's report.

Lady of Guadalupe to be honored on campus

UNM will celebrate the Virgin of Guadalupe Feast Day in its own special way Dec. 12, with music, refreshments and guest speakers lecturing on the apparition that is a mainstay in New Mexican culture. "This is an occasion where all the cultures that reside in New Mexico can come together," said Andrew Burgess, director of the UNM Religious Studies Program.