Students Paisley Palmer and David Davis said they were excited to vote for their first time. However, just days before election day, they noticed something was wrong when they still didn’t have their voter-registration cards.
Start exploring career options at today’s career fair hosted by the UNM Office of Career Services. Jenna Crabb, Career Services director, said fewer recruiters will attend this year’s fair, because employers must now pay registration fees. During the past four years, the United States Office of Personnel Management covered costs, she said. Crabb couldn’t say how many fewer recruiters will be at this year’s fair, but that shouldn’t discourage students from attending the Public Service Career Showcase. “We have some great companies that are coming,” she said. “There are great opportunities that exist within these sectors for students.” Thirty-one employers will be on hand, including representatives from Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, Drug Enforcement Agency, the National Security Administration, the American Red Cross and many others. To help students prepare for the career fair, the UNM Office of Career Services hosted workshops designed to improve students’ resumes and interviewing skills. Crabb said many of the companies attending today’s fair will conduct interviews Friday at the Career Services offices in the Student Services Center.
A rumor that has plagued Coronado Hall for years is just that — a rumor, according to UNM officials.
In an optimistic atmosphere, New Mexico Republicans watched poll results roll in, and supporters celebrated a national Republican takeover Monday night at the Albuquerque Hilton. Susana Martinez rode national momentum and defeated Diane Denish in New Mexico’s governor’s race. “Tonight we have made history,” Martinez said in her victory speech in Las Cruces.
UNM Hospitals, Information Technologies and the Health Sciences Center will merge GroupWise e-mail systems Friday. The merger will improve communication between UNMH and HSC and faculty and staff on main campus, said Sally Bowler-Hill, program operations director for Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center.
UNM graduate students are organizing to find another way of tackling budget cuts that have left many uncertain about their jobs. Graduate Student Liza Minno-Bloom is forming Graduate Employees Together, a committee that advocates for graduate and teaching assistants. She said half of all UNM classes are taught by graduate students, and most estimates under-represent their impact.
The renovated and less-falling-apart Pit opened Monday for the first time since the $60 million upgrades were completed.
Today will manifest a field of ideas across UNM. Today is for the future. Today marks the campus’ first TEDx event from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. in SUB Ballroom C. TEDx, representing technology, entertainment, design and “x” for the unknown, is an international initiative, and the University’s version will offer eight hours packed with talks about issues of social change, said organizer and graduate student Mark Worthy. All speakers are affiliated with UNM. “It’s important, especially at an academic institution of higher learning, for opportunities to exist so people can engage in the assimilation of information,” he said. Worthy, who is studying organizational learning and instructional technology, coordinated the event to seat 100 people. He said he first learned about TEDx lectures when he got an e-mail while living in the Netherlands. “I began to read it, and I viewed some TED talks,” he said. “I was really inspired by the concept of the spreading of ideas — very simple, uncomplicated.”
New Mexico law protects women’s rights to breast-feed in public, but a UNM student and mother said a security guard and employees at the Frontier Restaurant violated that statute.
Mesa Vista Hall renovations may force ethnic centers to start sharing resources. The building, home to the three ethnic centers, hasn’t been renovated since the 1980s, said Veronica Mendez-Cruz, El Centro de la Raza director. She said as part of the renovations, the building would have one centralized ethnic center instead of each having its own location. “I can tell you that I can look in any direction, standing anywhere on campus and find a capital project that needs to happen,” she said.
New Mexico legislators are threatening to close some college campuses to try to reduce spending on higher education. The Legislative Finance Committee met Oct.
It’s not exactly a picturesque outlook for the UNM photography program. Professor James Stone said in an e-mail that the campus-wide funding shortage is forcing the Department of Art and Art History to make tough economic decisions.
In a world gone mad, Douglas Daugherty said, the University needs a “A Day of Sanity.” Daugherty, the event organizer, said violent outbreaks have produced a need for community dialogue. He said what happened Monday at a debate in Kentucky is an all-too familiar reminder. There, a Rand Paul volunteer stepped on a liberal activist’s head after she was tackled. “Sitting on the sideline is a complicit act in socially reproducing the status quo,” Daugherty said. “We must remember there is no such thing as a ‘real world’ out there. The real world is a social construction, and only through the social deconstruction of that world can we begin the long and arduous task of producing a better world for our children and grandchildren and future generations of humanity.”
The Faculty Senate endorsed a printing resolution that encourages professors to reduce class printing requirements Tuesday. ASUNM president Lazaro Cardenas and ASUNM Attorney General Jaymie Roybal presented the resolution to the Senate two months ago.
The American Cancer Society gave a UNM researcher $360,000 in hopes of bringing fresh blood to the fight against cancer. The society awarded $360,000 in research funds to Michelle Ozbun, UNM cancer biologist and virologist, over the next three years. The funds will go toward budding researchers at the University, with the one stipulation that research be done on cancer.
The Board of Regents’ Finance and Facilities Committee approved $400 million worth of investments, construction and repairs Tuesday.
No more than a week after being reinstated, sophomore running back Demond Dennis was dismissed from the UNM football team. Head coach Mike Locksley said Tuesday that Dennis had recurring academic issues.
The UNM Veterans Resource Center hosted the Stand Down and Project Hand-Up 2010 to assist homeless veterans. The project helped more than 400 homeless veterans with VA claims, counseling, food, health, showers, free haircuts and provided a warm breakfast and dinner, VRC Director Elise Wheeler said. “We can offer a hand to those who have raised their right hand,” she said.
If its latest legal maneuver is any indication, UNM would rather endure potential costly court proceedings than enter into settlement discussions with former wide receivers coach J.B.
UNM is inching closer to receiving an exempt waiver that would allow it to sell alcohol at The Pit, University Stadium and the SUB.
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