The New Mexico football team reinstated Jamal Price after the senior guard agreed to enter into the Bernalillo County District Attorney’s Pre-Prosecution Probation Program. Albuquerque police arrested Price last month after an altercation with his girlfriend Khadijah Shumpert, a UNM women’s basketball player, according to police reports.
After 18 months of planning, the grand vision of Innovate ABQ is coming into focus. The design firm Perkins and Will publicly presented its initial master plan for Innovate ABQ to the Board of Regents on Aug 8, explaining the different possibilities for the future of the venture.
The New Mexico women’s soccer team may have partaken in a hazing incident over the weekend, according to a UNM Athletics Department press release issued early Monday evening. The Athletics Department is using an outside investigator to determine the details of the incident and interview team members.
A Santa Fe woman is being tested at UNM Hospital for possible infection of the Ebola virus, according to a press release from the New Mexico Department of Health. Although she is not considered a probable case, UNMH has isolated the patient out of caution and is following the appropriate protocols to ensure other patients and health care workers are safe, according to the press release. The woman returned from Sierra Leone, Africa, earlier this month and developed a sore throat, headache, muscle aches and fever — all symptoms of Ebola, according to NMDOH.
Becoming homesick gains a new meaning in director Susan Abod’s film about the harmful effects of household products. Abod said her 15-years-in-the-making documentary “Homesick” takes on the subject of Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, or MCS. “The tour was filmed in ’97 and I did this all pretty much part-time with volunteers,” said Abod.
Three brothers set out many years ago to save an ailing family business by combining family traditions with popular music. The tradition is conjunto, the popular music is rock ‘n’ roll, and the business is Los Lonely Boys. For the Garza brothers, becoming successful working musicians was just a part of growing up in their native hometown of San Angelo, Texas. In 2004 Henry, Jojo and Ringo Garza wrote “Heaven,” a song that stayed at the number one spot of the adult contemporary charts for 16 weeks and catapulted them into a life of fame.
Always in need of donations, Popejoy Hall will offer a new incentive to large contributors. The Popejoy Hall Donors’ Lounge will get a much-needed extension this fall.
Free food. Most college students will go for that. That makes for a great opportunity this week, as more than 220 departments and organizations will participate in UNM Welcome Back Days. Ryan Lindquist, associate director of the Student Activities Center, said the Welcome Back Days provide an opportunity to spotlight the diverse departments and communities on campus, as well as a free meal for students.
Although details on how much damage was done by last week’s flooding are still being gathered, UNM’s Physical Plant Department is doing its best to find and fix campus-wide problems. The next step for PPD according to Department Director Mary Vosevich is looking over the damages and determining the cost for insurance purposes to get the companies on campus to start making repairs. “We have equipment that determines moisture in a wall, so they know exactly how high they need to go to cut out any drywall to do those repairs,” Vosevich said.
New Mexico head coach Bob Davie has reinstated running back Crusoe Gongbay and cornerback SaQwan Edwards to the football team after the District Attorney’s Office determined there was insufficient evidence to prosecute. The two returned to practice last week during training camp in Ruidoso, and are eligible to play in the Aug. 30 season opener. “It was my decision,” Davie said last week at a press conference. “Back in April, I suspended those two from the team because it was a criminal case and they were charged criminally. The reason I’m reinstating them is because I received word from both attorneys that the criminal case has been dismissed and it’s closed.”
The District Attorney’s Office formally dropped charges without prejudice against two Lobo football players and one former UNM student. District Attorney Kari Brandenburg said on Wednesday that due to a lack of evidence her office was unable to indict SaQwan Edwards, Crusoe Gongbay and Ryan Ruff on kidnapping and rape charges. UNM is still following up on its own investigation, which could lead to disciplinary action including expulsion from school if it is found that the student-athletes violated the school’s code of conduct.
The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History is using a “magic” bus to inspire poverty-level children by giving them a chance to escape their environment for a day. Rita Butler, the program manager at the museum, said this is the 20th year of the Magic Bus Program, which is funded by the community and private donations. “The program brings school children to the museum, totally free,” she said.
Back-to-back rainstorms resulted in damage to almost 40 buildings on the UNM main campus last week. Some of the departments hit hardest include the School of Engineering, the recently remodeled Honors College, Hodgin Hall and the Centennial Library located underground. Nancy Dennis, associate dean of the Centennial Library, said she has yet to find out the extent of the damage after hearing that there was standing water in the library. “All those things kind of start filtering through your head when you get that phone call at 3 o’clock on Saturday morning, and you know it’s not good news,” Dennis said. The first step to salvaging any damaged books starts with calling a book restoration company that will freeze the saturated material and thaw it out over a slow, tempered process, she said. Ninety boxes of damaged books were sent to the BMS CAT Disaster Restoration plant in Fort Worth, Texas for the restoration process to begin, Dennis said. “If print and books stay wet in a high-humidity and high-temperature environment, then mold can start growing in that material,” she said. The normal response time for saving print materials after they’ve become wet is 48 hours, she said.
The UNM men’s soccer team proved its worth last year during its inaugural season in Conference USA by going 7-1-1 and winning the regular-season title. This year the team is coming back to show that its first-year success in C-USA was not beginner’s luck. On Wednesday, Conference USA announced that the UNM men’s soccer team is the preseason favorite to take the conference championship.
Three Albuquerque lawmakers came forward Thursday to pitch potential legislation to allow independent voters to participate in the New Mexico primary election process. During a press conference held at UNM, state Sen.
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The message was clear: it’s time for the New Mexico football team to move on. After two years of rebuilding, UNM head football coach Bob Davie said its time the program starts looking toward the future and stop dwelling on the past.
Instead of first talking about the New Mexico football team’s upcoming fall camp, head coach Bob Davie announced to the media that right guard Jamal Price was arrested on Monday. Price was charged with breaking and entering and conspiracy to commit a fourth degree felony.
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Director Sebastian Junger is breaking Hollywood’s romantic portrayal of war by showcasing the battlefield’s real face in his follow-up to “Restrepo,” entitled “Korengal.” Junger said he spent a year at America’s deadliest military outpost, Restrepo, in Afghanistan’s Korengal valley to gather footage from the battlefields for his first true-to-life war film.
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