International Students Incorporated will be donating furniture to incoming international student starting in the spring. Non-profit ISI already provides airport pick up and home-stay for up to three days to the international students.
The Pit has been a legendary name of UNM's basketball venue since it opened in 1966. Fans will have to break their habit of calling it that starting now. WisePies Pizza and Salad agreed to give $5 million over 10 years to support the UNM Athletics Department through the newly established WisePies Fund. Through this donation, The Pit will now be called WisePies Arena aka The Pit for the duration of those 10 years.
The new-look New Mexico men's basketball team had a hard time finding its rhythm in Sunday's game against the USC Trojans. UNM played nine men, five of whom are new to the program this year. The Lobos lost 66-54 in front of a season-high 14,404 fans. "That was a tough one; that was probably the worst one since I've been here in eight years," said second-year head coach Craig Neal."But give (USC) credit, they made plays and we didn't make plays. We did everything that we thought we could do."
In May 2013, former National Security Agency subcontractor Edward Snowden leaked information about government surveillance activities, sparking an international debate about the role of government in protecting the privacy of its citizens. For the first time, many people both in the UnitedStatesand abroad became aware of how precarious their internet privacy was. But for Jedidiah Crandall, a professor at UNM's Computer Science Department, these revelations came with little surprise. He had been studying internet surveillance and censorship since he was working on a doctoral degree in computer science from the University of California, Davis. Crandall said while he didn't become specifically interested in surveillance until graduate school, he was working with computers from a very early age.
Two hundred dollars can go a long way for a college student, but most have been spending that amount on a single textbook. The average college student in the United States spends around $1,200 per year on books and supplies, according to The College Board. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that textbook prices have doubled in the past decade, and it is putting a damper on students both financially and academically. In 2013 the Student Public Interest Research Groups conducted a survey, titled “Fixing the Broken Textbook Market,†of 2,039 students from more than 150 college campuses, they found that 65 percent of students surveyed decided against buying a textbook because of a high price.
Starting in the spring, the Associated Students of UNM will begin filming and sharing their meetings in an effort to increase transparency and further connect with the undergraduate students whom the student government body represents. ASUNM Communications Director David Ishmael said the organization will experiment with uploading videos to an archive on YouTube which students will be able to access. The broadcasting of ASUNM meetings will be another step toward its goal of reaching out to students, Ishmael said. "(ASUNM) President (Rachel) Williams, at the start of her term, challenged the communications team with realizing her goal of being an open student government," Ishmael said. "We bounced around ideas as to how to boost gallery attendance at senate meetings, and then we thought, 'Why not bring the meetings to students?'"
The Student Fee Review Board has made its initial recommendations for the use of student fees for 2016, and will be making their final recommendations on Dec. 4. The SFRB has recommended an overall increase to student fees of less than 2 percent for the financial year 2016.
Kyla Joas, left, and Megan Seckler of Pi Beta Phi sorority raise a sky lantern outside Zimmerman Library on Tuesday evening. The launch came after the memorial service to celebrate the lives of UNM students Briana Hillard, a Pi Beta Phi sister, and Matthew Grant, a former Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity member. Hillard and Grant were killed and two more remain hospitalized after a hit-and-run car accident in front of Hotel Albuquerque on Friday night.
Nearly 200 protesters took to the streets Tuesday night, in response to the failure of a Ferguson, Missouri, jury to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting of Michael Brown. The protesters, led by (un)Occupy ABQ, marched up and down the middle of Central Avenue between San Mateo Boulevard and Yale Avenue, blocking traffic, waving signs and chanting.
New Mexico is currently listed 46th in the nation when it comes to homeless children, but one Albuquerque organization is doing what it can to combat the issue of homeless families. Cuindando Los Ninos, or CLNkids, is a homeless childcare and family resource center that has been working with homeless families in Albuquerque for 25 years, said executive director Angela Merkert.
The Associated Students of UNM voiced their support of the current state of NM’s lottery scholarship that many students depend on, in the wake of lottery CEO David Barden proposing a lower amount going towards education. Resolution 9F, which passed unanimously at ASUNM’s final meeting of the semester last Wednesday, opposed the possible dip in the percentage of lottery profits that benefit students all across the state.
The stage was set for New Mexico to upset the No. 5 Stanford. The Lobos were down 66-65 as guard Antiesha Brown stepped to the line with two free throw attempts and only 20 seconds left in the contest. Brown sent both off of the iron and UNM lost 70-65 to Stanford on Monday night at The Pit.
In a rare public lecture, former Enron Chief Financial Officer Andy Fastow held up his “CFO of the Year” award in one hand, and his federal prison ID card in the other. “I got both of these for doing the exact same thing,” he said before a crowd of eager UNM business students.
Nearly a month after the Con-Jikan anime festival, which was held at the SUB, the UNM Police Department is still investigating a theft of $2,000 worth of merchandise. Twice in two years Con-Jikan has dealt with theft. At last year’s event about $7,000 in cash and merchandise was stolen. Representatives of the SUB said they are not responsible for either crime.
The New Mexico women’s cross country team earned third place at the NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships on Saturday, recording the program’s highest finish ever. Redshirt freshman Alice Wright finished 20th with a time of 20 minutes, 29.1 seconds, and senior Charlotte Arter placed 22nd, clocking in at 20:29.9. Both runners earned All-American honors. Arter became the second back-to-back All-American since Carole Roybal from 1984-86.
Two UNM students were killed and two more are in critical condition after a hit-and-run car accident late Friday night. A UNM spokesperson confirmed that Briana Hillard, a senior in business administration and a sister in the Pi Beta Phi sorority, and Matthew Grant, a junior in criminology and a former member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, died after the car they were driving in was T-boned near the intersection of Rio Grande Boulevard and Bellemah Avenue.
The Associated Students of UNM have stated their support of the LGBTQ Resource Center in their preferred name initiative, which would make it easier for transgender students to use whatever name they choose for University records. At its final Senate meeting of the fall semester on Wednesday, ASUNM unanimously passed Resolution 8F, which states that the student government organization is in support of the campaign geared toward helping the transgender community on campus.
New Mexico will take on a national party to search for a new women’s soccer head coach after the Lobos announced Kit Vela’s contract won’t be renewed. Vice President for Athletics Paul Krebs released a statement Thursday afternoon thanking Vela and her staff for their efforts, but said it was time to take the team in a new direction. "At this time, we have decided to not renew the contract for Kit Vela,” Krebs said in the release.
A combination of overuse and incorrect use of antibiotics is leading to a global epidemic of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that a recent report by the World Health Organization claims “threatens the achievements of modern medicine.” But a research team at UNM is creating an alternative for fighting a common, highly resistant infection.
UNM researchers are looking into the science of getting high in their latest study analyzing the long-term effects of marijuana on the brain. While initial results cannot say whether the enduring effects of cannabis are positive or negative, one thing is certain — habitual use changes the structure of the brain.
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