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Lohmann swings into office
Hunter Riley | May 3The winds of change have blown Pat Lohmann into his new position as the Daily Lobo’s editor-in-chief. Lohmann is a sophomore from Gallup, N.M.
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UNM employee wants skateboard regulations
Kallie Red-Horse | April 29Sure, it’s a quick way to get across campus, but skateboarding could be hazardous to your health or the health of passersby.
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Regents ready to set budget
Tricia Remark | April 29Today the Board of Regents will finalize next year’s budget, which includes a 7.9 percent increase in tuition and fees.
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Increased bus traffic attributable to poor economy
Leah Valencia | April 29The City of Albuquerque Transit Department reported a 15.4 percent increase in ridership compared with last year, reaching a 1 million rider high for the month of March. According to a press release, since January 2.8 million passengers have taken some sort of ABQ Ride public transportation.
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Safety walk set aside for sake of panties
Kallie Red-Horse | April 28Attention UNM: Erase the Take Back the Campus event from your agenda. It has been postponed to make room for the Undie Run. The campus safety walk, organized in response to the Feb.
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Democratic Party: Students can fit in
Leah Valencia | April 27Though politics can make some red-hot with frustration, the Democratic Party of New Mexico wants to show UNM students why it can be cool to go blue. The DPNM will host Campaign Blue today from 11 a.m.
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Conservatives set to thwart third parties
Jeremy Faulkner | April 27The UNM student group Conservative Republicans hosted a forum Thursday for only the most bona fide, through and through Republican primary candidates. Unlike the College Republicans, who generally support any Republican candidates, the Conservative Republicans only support candidates whom they deem unequivocally conservative, said Donald Gluck, president of UNM Conservative Republicans. “We advocate for conservative principles as stated in the Declaration of Independence, as codified in the Constitution and as practiced by Ronald Reagan,” Gluck said in an e-mail.
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Parent Association offers scholarships
Jenny Gignac | April 26Tuition increases paint a bleak picture for many students in the 2010-11 academic year, but UNM’s Parent Association is offering a life vest for students drowning in debt.
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Students amass eons of ions into project
Kallie Red-Horse | April 26UNM undergraduate research on lightning is creating a spark in the scientific community. Students at the Configurable Space Microsystems Innovations & Applications Center (COSMIAC) are designing instruments that will be used to study ionospheric activity.
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SUB dancers catch students off guard
Kallie Red-Horse | April 26Elvis Presley’s voice suddenly blasted from of a boom box in the SUB Friday, as clusters of students began dancing in unison. Student Lauren Clinger said she felt thrown in the midst of a Popejoy production. “It wasn’t expected, which was really neat — kind of like a musical only in real life,” she said. UNM ballroom dance classes planned this “spontaneous” show, performing all over campus including the SUB, Zimmerman courtyard and by the Duck Pond to advertise the showcase on April 28.
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Gathering of Nations requires deep pockets
Shaun Griswold | April 26Booth fee: $500 Round trip gas from Canada to Albuquerque: $850 Hotel: $350 Participating in the nation’s largest powwow: priceless.
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Budget cuts break up Party Patrol
Tricia Remark | April 22Though working with a smaller staff, the APD Party Patrol will still in full force this summer. APD reduced the Party Patrol’s number of officers from about 18 to 12 in October because of budget cuts.
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Powwow offers dancing, music and storytelling
Jenny Gignac | April 22Teaching diversity in a classroom is one thing, having the opportunity to experience it in your own backyard is something else entirely. The Gathering of Nations is the largest powwow in North America, according to the event website, which boasts nearly 50 million visitors.
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Election should 'start anew'
Pat Lohmann | April 22Today the polls close for the GPSA presidential election, but Council Chair Danny Hernandez wants to call the whole thing off. Hernandez cited three errors that occurred throughout the election process as reason to scrap the results and start anew. “There have been too many irregularities in this election,” he said in an e-mail. Early Wednesday morning, the GPSA Elections Committee realized that 180 of 5,500 graduate and professional students were not invited to vote in the election.
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City water holds us over until water clears
Tricia Remark | April 22The UNM Physical Plant Department received results from a state lab on Tuesday, but it didn’t reveal any harmful substances in the discolored UNM well water.
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Discolored water leaves campus high and dry
Tricia Remark | April 21Discolored water prompted the UNM Physical Plant Department to shut off UNM’s well-water source Tuesday and use city water instead.
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Denish draws fresh ideas, donations
Leah Valencia and Jeremy Faulkner | April 21Young professionals and students from UNM flocked to meet and mingle with city and state politicians at the Banque Lofts in downtown Albuquerque on Friday night. More than 100 guests attended the young professionals fundraiser for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Lt.
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Election fudged yet again
Pat Lohmann and Tricia Remark | April 19GPSA presidential candidate Martin Gutierrez ignored the GPSA council’s recommendation to disclose all of his campaign funding and expenses by Monday at 5 p.m. On Sunday evening, Gutierrez said GPSA should be focusing on issues that matter to students, such as tuition — not where campaign funds are coming from or how much he is spending.
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Government seeks college campus spies
Andrew Beale and Kallie Red-Horse | April 19A new UNM program is hosting a national security event on campus today to discuss “challenges and opportunities” in the field of national security. The National Security Colloquium takes place in the Southwest Film Center in the lower SUB today.
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Council representatives claim GPSA fudged election process
Tricia Remark | April 19The GPSA Council Chair was elected on Saturday, but some council representatives called the results into question only an hour later. Graduate student Megan McRobert got 12 votes and current GPSA Council Chair Danny Hernandez received nine.
