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February 5, 2010
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Know your rights as a renter in New Mexico Staff Report Daily Lobo
If you want to know what your rights when you’re renting a place, check out the New Mexico Uniform Owner-Resident Relations Act. Here are some main points from the Act: The key to getting your landlord to fix something is by writing a letter. A phone call works, but the law won’t require the landlord to do anything unless you’ve given him notice in writing. Tenants have a right to basic living standards. Landlords are required to: (1) make repairs and do whatever is necessary to keep the premises in a safe condition; (2) maintain in working order any electrical, plumbing, sanitary, heating, ventilating, air conditioning and other appliances that come with the place; (3) supply running water and a reasonable amount of hot water at all times and reasonable heat; and (4) provide trash cans for garbage disposal. Once a landlord has been put on written notice of the problem, the tenant can pay 1/3 less per day in rent until the problem is fixed. If the property is uninhabitable and you’re not staying in it, then you can stop payments altogether. Alternatively, if the probJunfu Han / Daily Lobo lem is reasonably serious, you can put Don Schrader puts on his jacket inside his sparse Silver Avenue apartment on Wednesday. Schrader, who has lived in this apartment for 22 years, has to move out by the end of the month the landlord on notice that you’re terminating the lease in seven days if the since the owners will be renovating and selling the apartments. problem is not fixed. Another key to getting your landlord to do something is to get a lease for six months or a year. Yes, it will tie you
Beloved nudist forced to move by Kallie Red-Horse Daily Lobo
Don Schrader’s apartment is every bit as unique as he is. The 12-by-14-foot apartment, which he will vacate at the end of February, displays Schrader’s history in wall-to-ceiling decoration of pictures from his life, notes on his methodologies, cards from friends and published letters to the Weekly Alibi. The apartment complex where Schrader lives, on Silver Avenue, is being remodeled and sold by the owners. Schrader has lived in the apartment for 22 years. “It’s like a museum of my life, of my memories,” he said. “I have deep roots here. ... If these walls could talk they would tell of the times I had sex with José here — as well with other men — of the many friends who
have visited, so many different people here over the years, interviewing me or who have opened their hearts to me about their lives.” The biggest challenge Schrader is facing is finding another apartment with similar dimensions, he said. “I love to live simply, so I don’t want a bigger apartment,” he said. “I don’t want to pay the money. I don’t need it, and I don’t want it. I eat only raw foods. I don’t need a refrigerator. I don’t need a stove. I don’t need a kitchen. I don’t want any of that crap, so why should I pay for it?” Large residences influence irresponsible living, Schrader said. “The bigger the apartment or home you live in, the more materials it took to build it, the more energy it takes to heat or cool it, more stuff they buy to fill it usually,” he said. “The more unfair (it is) to our 6.8 billion sisters and brothers in
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the world.” Schrader said his dedication to healthy living started when his mother passed away because of her unhealthy living style. “Much of the reason I am so devoted to health today is having seen my mother suffer so much,” he said. “I am passionately devoted to health. I eat no meat, dairy, junk food. I smoke no cigarettes, I drink no booze, I smoke no marijuana, I use no prescription drugs, I eat no cooked food. I eat no meals in restaurants. I do eat a lot of fruit, drink my smoothies and I drink urine every day, and I highly recommend it.” Schrader also said he will miss the premium sunbathing spot his resJunfu Han / Daily Lobo idence offers him. Don Schrader eats mostly fresh vegetables because he said cooked food is unhealthy for “Behind the garage on this the body. In the jars to the left, he mixed vegetables and other food together to create his morning smoothie. In an entire year he said he spent little more than $1,000 on food. see Moving page 3
ASUNM resolution cites Athletics’ accomplishments by Mario Trujillo Daily Lobo
On the heels of a GPSA special election addressing UNM Athletics, members of the undergraduate governing body weighed in, supporting a different view. The ASUNM Steering and Rules Committee passed a resolution 3-1 giving support to almost everyone in the Athletics Department – leaving out, but not condemning, Athletics
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Director Paul Krebs and UNM coaches. The resolution will go before the full Senate next Wednesday. According to the resolution, the ASUNM gives its “full support to the more than 500 undergraduate student-athletes, the approximately 100 student employees, and 20 graduate assistants and interns staffed by the Athletics Department.” The resolution cites a number of factors that go into the support — a flourishing basketball and ski team,
a combined 3.14 grade point average of student-athletes and a 49 percent graduation rate — 11 points higher than the general student body. The resolution cites much of the same evidence Krebs gave to the Albuquerque Journal praising his program. Sen. Sean Mallory, who drafted the resolution, said it was written in response to a comment GPSA council chair Danny Hernandez made to the Daily Lobo on Monday, urging ASUNM to “chime in.”
ASUNM Senate Meeting Wednesday 6 p.m. Lobo Room A&B in the SUB Last week, the graduate population voted to urge the administration to divert student fees from Athletics, launch an investigation into the head football coach Mike Locksley/assistant coach J.B Gerald incident, and voted no confidence in Krebs.
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“I feel that this special election focuses on a few specific instances that happened a while ago that, for the most part, have been resolved and moved on,” Mallory said. “It is putting a drag on the Athletics Department that does a lot for the campus.” The resolution that made it out of committee is an indirect response to the GPSA special election. Yet a key paragraph, which was stricken in a 3-2 vote (committee chair Leon
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