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February 28, 2011
Dems: No funds for DUI blood tests
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by Shaun Griswold shaun24@unm.edu
Gov. Susana Martinez witnessed another one of her legislative priorities fail Saturday in committee. House Bill 49, designed to prosecute individuals arrested for driving under the influence of a controlled substance such as cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin, would have allocated more funding for law enforcement officials to draw blood samples from those suspected of being under the influence of drugs. The bill did not cover marijuana. “This bill would have given us more tools to fight this epidemic, but instead it now sits on a committee table,” Rep. Bill Rehm (R-Albuquerque) said. “I urge those who sit on the House Judiciary Committee
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Junfu Han / Daily Lobo Former UNM baseball player Daniel Gonzales and his girlfriend Taylor Kingston watch the game Sunday in the Isotopes Park. It was Gonzales’ first time in the ballpark watching a Lobo baseball game. See baseball coverage on page 12.
Sustainability chair receives ‘highest honor’ by Alexandra Swanberg aswanny@unm.edu
The Board of Regents selected the endowed chair of a program designed to educate students on sustainable food and agriculture. The W.K. Kellogg Foundation gave UNM $1.5 million in November 2010 to fund an endowed chair in sustainable environmental food systems. Sustainability Studies professor Bruce Milne was selected for the position at Wednesday’s regents’ meeting. “The purpose of the endowed chair
is to promote social, environmental and economic well-being through teaching, research, outreach and economic development focused on sustainable agriculture,” the statement from the foundation said. Milne said he created the UNM Sustainability Studies program to educate students about the environmental, economic and social consequences of their actions. Milne has been instrumental in making UNM a greener institution, said Mary Clark, sustainability coordinator at the Office of Sustainability.
She said, during his UNM career, Milne created energy conservation projects, promoted local food systems education and managed carbon emissions management for the University. “I don’t think we can emphasize enough how much he’s done to bring sustainability to UNM,” she said. William Uher, UNM Foundation vice president, said establishing the endowed chair will help the University acquire faculty. “The endowed chair, from the foundation’s perspective and from our dean’s perspective, it is the highest
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honor that the University and the regents can bestow upon a faculty member,” he said. Also at the Board of Regents meeting: At Wednesday’s meeting, the Office for Equity and Inclusion presented the results of an ongoing initiative to diversify UNM’s faculty. Three years ago, the Board of Regents allocated funds to the Office for Equity and Inclusion to hire more faculty members of various racial and ethnic backgrounds. Chalane Lechuga, the Office of
SFRB chips in two cents on student fees
Courtesy of YouTube
by Hunter Riley hriley@unm.edu
Flames and fireworks shoot from an unidentified car on Redondo Drive on Friday night, in this screen shot taken from a YouTube video. Student David Bjorklund said at 9:30 p.m. Friday he saw fire trucks and a flaming car near Redondo Drive. Five minutes later, he said green fireworks flew out of the car’s window, and later the trunk exploded with flames and fireworks. “It was ridiculous. It was like a whole car on fire,” said student Ethan Kellogg. Student George White recorded the incident and uploaded it to YouTube. The video had 308 hits as of 6 p.m. Sunday, and it can be accessed by searching for “UNM car fire” on YouTube.com
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Equity and Inclusion’s institutional researcher, said in more than three years the number of African-American faculty increased by five, American Indian by seven and Hispanics by 27. She said the initiative improved faculty diversity, but more work needs to be done. “We really have a long way to go in terms of looking at faculty across our institution in the various disciplines and figuring out where we might be able to fill in the gaps where we don’t have the kind of representation we’d like to see,” she said.
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The Student Fee Review Board is recommending that students keep their pocket change. The board recommended a 31-cent decrease over last year’s fees of $486.80 and will submit those recommendations to President David Schmidly on March 1. At Thursday’s meeting, the board voted to fund the nine recurring organizations with the same amount they received last year. The board must provide recurring organizations with as much or more funding as the year before, except for a probationary cut not exceeding 5 percent. ASUNM Chief of Staff Michael
Thorning said funding groups the same amount they received last year will guard against increasing student fees. “My recommendation represents keeping fees exactly where they are,” he said. “It represents providing stability and predictability for students coming to this University next year.” The motion passed with the four ASUNM board members voting in favor and the three GPSA members voting against. The nine recurring student groups are Student Health and Counseling, Athletics, the SUB, Recreation Services, Libraries, UNM Children’s Campus, Center for Academic Program Support, Student Government Accounting
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