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UNM mulls $1.5m offer to keep North Golf Course by Luke Holmen holmen@unm.edu
UNM’s North Golf Course will remain a golf course for another 25 years if the regents accept a $1.5 million offer from the county commissioner. The Bernalillo County Commission unanimously voted on March 13 to offer UNM the money to not develop over the course. In 2007, UNM President David Schmidly suggested building a retirement community on the land as a way to pay off bonds issued by UNM. Negotiations are now in progress between the County Commission and the Board of Regents. Bernalillo County Commissioner Maggie Hart Stebbins proposed the $1.5 million 25-year easement. She said the funding would go to repair the North Course’s aging irrigation system. She said improvements to the irrigation system would save UNM about 30 million gallons of water each year. “The course is a vital part of the community and it’s one of the last large undeveloped areas in central Albuquerque,” she said. “Students use it to relax — (community members) go running there. The project is about protecting a fantastic urban green space in the heart of Albuquerque.” Despite Schmidly’s suggestion, the 80-acre course has remained undeveloped. UNM’s North and South Golf Courses cost a combined $2.4 million to operate and reported a loss of $521,000 in 2011, according to UNM’s budget report. Regent Finance Chair Don Chalmers said UNM is open to the proposal, but said he can’t guarantee the board will accept the offer. “I am very open-minded to what Commissioner Stebbins has proposed,” he said. “But I am only one
Adria Malcolm / Daily Lobo The Bernalillo County Commission unanimously voted to offer UNM $1.5 million to leave the North Campus golf course free of any commercial or residential development for the next 25 years. The golf course is used to host the UNM Cross Country Invitational, and members of the community use it for jogging, walking and golfing. regent and I guess I have to see more details. We certainly do not have any immediate plans to develop the land and if she wants to get commitment from us and help our budget, we will certainly entertain that.” Chalmers said the regents tabled plans to develop over the course following opposition from the community.
“We looked at that five or six years ago as a way to retire bonds the University had sold … (but) we went through the process and the neighborhood did not want that, and we respected that,” he said. Since the early 2000s, members of the North Campus Neighborhood Association have advocated leaving the course undeveloped, submitting
official letters to UNM that were included in the University’s Master Plan in 2009. Vice President of the association, Tim Davis, volunteers as a marshal on the course, and said the area is important to the neighborhood, as well as the environment of Albuquerque as a whole. “When there are 75,000 to 100,000
cars on the road every day we need something to offset that,” he said. “Most of the (Downtown and University) area is hard-scaped, and this green area with trees provides storm drainage and helps with pollution.” An environmental impact study has not been done on the site to determine the effect it has on Albuquerque’s pollution levels.
Regent speaks on proposed tuition and fees hikes
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by Avicra Luckey aluckey@unm.edu
During a March 12 meeting, the Board of Regents proposed an initial budget which called for a 3 percent tuition increase for next year and a $77 increase in fees. The Board of Regents increased tuition 5.5 percent for the 2011-2012 school year, 7.9 percent in 2010-2011 and 5 percent in 20092010, which makes the proposed increase in tuition the lowest in recent years. The Board of Regents has yet
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to finalize either the tuition or fee increases and will discuss the budget further on March 23 before approving the final budget April 27. Fees have been dropping. In the 2009-2010 school year, students paid $514 per semester; the following year fees fell to $486.80 and have stayed consistent since then. With recommendation from the Student Fee Review Board, the fees could go as high as $503.20. If both the SFRB’s recommendations and the regents’ proposal are approved, fees could be at $580 next year. The Daily Lobo sat down with Vice President of the Board of Regents Don Chalmers to discuss the proposed increases. Chalmers said a 3 percent increase in tuition is needed for the University to be able to compete with its peers. Chalmers said the Provost’s Academic Strategic Plan, an initiative that includes hiring 20 tenure-track professors and undergraduate advisers, requires funding to be successful and that these funds will come
need to come from somewhere. The tuition increase would also go toward a 1.25 percent increase in pay for instructors and more funding for Athletics and UNM Libraries. Daily Lobo: What do you hope to accomplish with this proposed tuition-and-fee increase? Don Chalmers: Hopefully we will make the University a better place by fully funding, hopefully, the Provost Academic Strategic Plan. I think that’s extremely important and will advance the University academically. DL: Why did this happen over spring break? DC: We have meetings scheduled at all times. We did not take action (on the tuition-and-fee increase on March 12). As far as I’m concerned there was certainly nothing wrong with having a meeting on (March 12). We try to be as transparent as we can and any action that we take will not have taken place during any spring break. DL: Why does the funding for the Provost’s Academic Plan have to
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come from student fees and tuition? DC: It doesn’t come from fees. The Provost Strategic Plan’s funding all comes from general funding, I&G funding from the state, or funds that we get per tuition dollar. We’re spending about $4.2 million on the Provost’s plan. Most of the money that has to be spent is normal inflation in a budget, those dollars have to come from someplace. They come from operating budget funds which come from state funding and tuition. DL: Is it true the increase would help pay for a $1.5 million loan to Athletics in an effort to eliminate departmental debt? DC: There is a proposal to loan money to help the Athletics Department get out of the red and we certainly would never do that unless there was a plan to pay that money back. There’s been a lot of speculation about a new conference that would be formed and hopefully part of that new conference alignment would include new
monies coming into the University as members of the conference. DL: In reference to the proposed 1.25 percent increase in pay for instructors that would be paid for with the tuition hike, who does that benefit specifically? DC: I cannot answer that question directly we (regents) do not deal in the details of that. That’s the administration’s job to do that. It’s our job to say, after three years of no increases, we’d like to see some increases as best we can for the people who work at UNM. There is money in there for teaching assistants. DL: Some students say they cannot afford more than a $100 increase in tuition. What would you say to those students? DC: We’re trying to hold down as best we can tuition. If you would benchmark the University of New Mexico’s tuition versus all the other peer group universities in the country and around
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PageTwo Show me how to: Avoid allergies Tuesday, M arch 20, 2012
by Jeffrey Hertz
hertzjeffrey@yahoo.com Spring has arrived, and while that means greenery on campus and warmer weather, it also means runny noses and itchy eyes that come with springtime allergies. The Daily Lobo sat down with UNM physician Peggy Spencer, who has worked at the Student Health and Counseling clinic for 21 years. We asked her how students should try to prevent and treat their seasonal allergies.
Avoid allergens With strong winds this spring season and the weather being particularly dry, avoiding allergies is a difficult task, but there are measures students can take to limit the chances of coming into contact with them. “A few small things you can do to prevent
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pollen from accumulating include wiping down your pets, taking your shoes off at your front door, and changing your pillowcase frequently,” Spencer said. She said closing your windows at night can also limit pollen exposure as trees drop more pollen at night. Spencer said students who really want to stay on top of their allergies can visit cabq.gov/cmaqpublic to get the day’s pollen counts and sign up for email notifications of daily pollen counts.
Clean off allergens “The best strategy to counteract this is to try to get all of the pollen off of you,” Spencer said. Neti pots or sinus rinse systems that use a saline solution to rinse pollen out of the nostrils are effective for counteracting allergies internally. Spencer said if students get itchy eyes she suggests getting over-the-counter eye drops like Naphcon A. Editor-in-Chief Chris Quintana Managing Editor Elizabeth Cleary News Editor Luke Holmen Assistant News Editor Avicra Luckey Staff Reporter Miriam Belin Photo Editor Dylan Smith
Take medicines or get a shot
If neither avoiding allergies nor cleaning them off you works, then the last resort is either taking pills or receiving shots. Spencer said the clinic on UNM campus does not provide shots for students, but the pharmacy does provide decongestants and antihistamines to students. “There is a one-time steroid shot that you can get to fight allergies, but some say that is kind of dangerous,” she said. “There is also allergy immunotherapy which involves going to a particular allergist to get allergy shots once a week. This is a sort of desensitization process that is only effective if nothing else works.”
Go to the campus clinic Students who face difficulties treating their allergies on their own can always visit the clinic on campus if they need special treatment or advice.
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500 guests sign up for NM space trip by Susan Montoya Bryan
The company plans to begin commercial operations next year. Branson said he and his children plan to be on the first commercial flight. Christine Anderson, executive director of the New Mexico Spaceport Authority, congratulated Virgin Galactic on Monday for selling its 500th ticket. She said she’s looking forward to “the beginning of the commercial passenger space line industry.” Virgin Galactic customers will ride in a six-seat spacecraft that looks like a small plane, with wings near the rear that sweep upward. Once the craft and its mother ship reach a certain altitude, the smaller craft is released and its rockets are fired, pushing passengers back into their seats for the trip to suborbital space. The spaceship features two large windows for each passenger, one on the side and one overhead, and small thrusters that allow the two pilots to maneuver the ship once in space. Customers will get a two and a half hour flight with about five minutes of weightlessness and views of Earth that until now only astronauts have been able to experience. “I still sometimes have to pinch myself that it’s for real,” Branson said of the venture. “Ashton is joining a fast expanding group of true pioneers who are on their way to a lifechanging experience and a place in the history books.”
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British billionaire Richard Branson said Monday his venture to launch paying tourists into space has netted its 500th customer, and it’s none other than Ashton Kutcher. Branson made the announcement on his blog, saying he gave the actor a quick call to congratulate him. “He is as thrilled as we are at the prospect of being among the first to cross the final frontier (and back!) with us and to experience the magic of space for himself,” Branson wrote. A representative for Kutcher did not immediately return a message seeking comment. Kutcher is among dozens of Hollywood types, international entrepreneurs, scientists, space buffs and others who have made deposits to be among the first to reach the edge of the Earth on Branson’s Virgin Galactic space line. Branson has said the aim is to one day make traveling to space safe and affordable for the masses, not just those who can afford the current $200,000 ticket price. Virgin Galactic is in the final stages of its test flight program. The company will launch its spacecraft from Spaceport America, a specially designed terminal and runway built in a remote stretch of desert in southern New Mexico.
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our area especially, you would see that UNM is lower than everybody else. There’s been proposal, and I’m in favor of this, coming from the Student Fee Review Board and tuition committee, saying that
maybe we ought to take 20 percent of any increase (and) set (it) aside to come back to students as needbased scholarship or need-based help. We’re not going to sacrifice quality at the same time.
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In the March 19 article “Regents raise tuition, fees during spring break,” the headline incorrectly suggested that a fee and tuition increase had already been voted on and passed. The Board of Regents has not yet finalized either measure and will discuss the budget further on March 23, before approving the budget April 27.
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Letter Fee hikes must serve, not exploit, students Editor, During spring break, while students were looking to relax without breaking the bank, when not a single student was in the room, regents met and suggested raising student fees $80 to fund Athletics and libraries. Students pay about $500 in fees for student services and facilities on campus; this is on top of the tuition that covers professors and classroom costs. With a 3 percent increase in tuition threatening to raise student costs $300, we have to ask: What new services will libraries and Athletics provide students for any fee increase? Students already pay $81.75 for the cost of providing free student tickets to athletic games. That Athletics deserves an additional $40 per student is outrageous. The high cost of coaching has turned revenue-generating sports into debt-generating sports. The athletics program is more than $1 million in the red. Students cannot afford to waste student fees on backfilling bad hiring decisions. I have not heard any arguments from Athletics that an increase in fees will provide students a single additional service. Nor should additional student fees support the libraries. The Student Fee Review Board already recommended a fee increase to support a 24-hour library. However, the libraries also asked students to foot the bill for journal subscriptions. Electronic journals are essential to student education and university research. Academic costs should be covered by research dollars or Instruction & General funding (tuition or state appropriations), not a $40 increase in student fees. Libraries are central to UNM’s mission, but students deserve to know that libraries need to be funded through means other than student fees. I am proud of the way that UNM has come to include students in decision making. Students make initial fee recommendations through the SFRB, and then participate as equals in the administrative Strategic Budget Leadership Team, which makes fee recommendations to the president. However, with regard to the $80 fee increase suggested by the regents, students have had no input and have not had the opportunity to ask how they will see any benefit from such an increase. The regents should be aware that students have been crystal clear each time they sat at the table: An increase in student fees to Athletics is unacceptable. If Athletics needs more funding, regents should find those dollars somewhere other than student pockets. Ultimately, the SFRB knows how cashstrapped students are; therefore, the board recommended a responsible and modest $16.71 increase in fees for student initiatives. An additional $80 increase is an unjustified, arbitrary and irresponsible expenditure of student money. Katie Richardson GPSA President
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Temper passion with empathy to keep friends Dear Wooley, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about character flaws of my own. We’ve all got them — and we’ve all got to deal with them. Unfortunately, sometimes other people have to deal with a couple of mine. I’m usually a pretty mellow person, but when I get passionate about something, I can turn into a real asshole. I just can’t seem to figure out how to avoid it. I rarely notice it’s happening until it’s too late. How do I deal with this issue and find a way to keep it under control? I’m tired of pissing off people that I care about. -Literally caught in the moment Dear Caught up, There’s nothing wrong with passion in itself. Passion is actually a good thing. It’s the spice that makes us all different and unique. Everyone should be passionate about something. It’s important to have drive or a dream of some kind you’re working toward. That way you are intentional with where your life is headed and can enjoy life. Intentionally investing time and energy into passions is how we grow and better ourselves. We often form friendships around our passions. Musicians find others who play music, football junkies start a fantasy league, faithful believers meet at church, temple or mosque and foodies — they eat. Often people find that their values, experiences and the most meaningful people in their lives center around their passion. In that sense, having passion is beautiful and meaningful. Where the frustration often lies is in the fact that everyone has different passions. It is good you’re aware of your enthusiasm, and that things you say or do may be offensive or annoying to others. You should ask yourself if what you are saying or doing is in itself offensive or whether it could be interpreted as offensive. Try to put yourself
in your friends’ shoes and see it from their perspective, not for the sake of changing, but so you can understand and connect with others’ points of view. Our diversity of interests is what makes our shared community so wonderful. Second, I’d have a conversation with a friend or two about this. You clearly want to better yourself, and you alone can make the decision as to how to do that, but you also shouldn’t sacrifice something you love if it doesn’t hurt people. Ask your friends whether, why and how you’re making them angry. They can offer more specific advice and deliver it more relevantly than I. Just as if you were to give advice to a friend, ask for it humbly and gently, and it will be more likely to be returned that way.
Set goals for the future to stay motivated today Dear Wooley, I am graduating in May, and even though I got to relax over spring break, I have absolutely no desire to finish the rest of the semester. I have no motivation at all. I know I will complete the semester with a passing grade, but how do I get the inspiration to finish the semester strong and get good grades? -Out of steam
move back home. You don’t just become a go-getter, and motivation isn’t something you can buy at ghetto Smith’s. You’ve got to want it. This is what college prepares us for, and why this little piece of paper that says, “I mean something in life” has any relevance. You’ve spent the last X years researching and studying, managing your time, writing and producing work so that you can go and apply those and other skills in the real world. College, in some ways, prepares us for that real world, and in other ways, it isolates us from it. My senioritis is offset by all those things I need to do to prepare myself for post-college life. There’s a lot. Hopefully that doesn’t scare you too much. My advice to you is to enjoy this last little bit we have in college, but also give yourself a goal for where you’d like to be a year from now — or five years from now. What steps do you need to take to get there? Ask yourself daily: What can I do today to get there? As far as your grades — that’s up to you. Some people really value those, others don’t. Do what you feel is best. On a positive note, we are going to graduate. Whatever happens next for both of us, I think it’s important to remember that our lives are an open road, and wherever we go, we should enjoy the ride. If we aren’t doing that, there’s a real problem.
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Dear Out of steam, How glad I am you had a restful break. While I did get some rest, I spent most of my break revising my résumé for various jobs I was applying for, writing cover letters and even going to interviews. I too am graduating soon and have senioritis. That said, I also don’t have a job lined up for when I graduate. I’ve gone to the career fairs, spoken with friends and applied online. I really would like to have a job for when I graduate. I think that’s my biggest shield from indulging in senioritis. I know when I graduate, I want to hit the ground running, and I don’t want to
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and smell the trees, and I’ll touch the tree and say, ‘thank you.’ In a way, if someone does that, people look at him like a Loony Tune or something, but in my perspective, I look at it as respect for these plants that are part of the earth. I see things differently.” D’V Flores, Nelson’s manager, said Native Americans are often reluctant to openly discuss these
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Student Shawn Nelson doesn’t paint with acrylics, oil or water paint, but with sand. Nelson is a sand painter: someone who paints not on sand, but with sand. Nelson said he learned about the art in 1965 when he moved from east Los Angeles to live with his grandparents on the Arizona Navajo Reservation. An installation of Nelson’s work is on display at the UNM Faculty/Staff Club. He will do a sand painting demonstration at the club on Friday. Sand painting is traditionally used in healing ceremonies conducted by medicine men, he said. The sand acts as a portal between the earth and the spirit world. The medicine men can ask the spirits to help heal the person, he said. Once the ceremony is over, the sand is collected and cast off to erase sickness, he said. “They would visualize the person’s sickness. The patient sits on the sand painting and they’re explaining to them the purpose of their sickness, the understanding of why, and they also give them herbal medicine to bring them back to health,” he said. “So basically, just rebalance their life again; that was the purpose of it.” Symbols called yeis (yay-eez) are depicted for the ceremony, but Nelson said he includes realistic figures in his work. His work is also different in that he often glues the sand in place so the pieces can be displayed. He said his paintings are to encourage
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Traveling is expensive, but if you’re thirsty enough for cultural immersion, you can volunteer your knowledge and skills to folks around the world. The Peace Corps flies volunteers to different areas of the world to help in whatever way is needed. Representatives from the Peace Corps will provide more information about the program from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Latin American and Iberian Institute at 801 Yale Blvd. N.E.
According to kunm.org, the film “Princess of Africa� is “a beautiful depiction of love between people and ideas and an intoxicating vision of the way music and dance are woven into a cultural aesthetic.� Sounds rich, but of course the two girls in the film who are going after their dreams come to realize the reality that accompanies it. You’ll never find out what this could possibly mean if you don’t put the pieces together yourself. The screening is at the National Hispanic Cultural Center at 1701 Fourth Street S.W. at 7 p.m. in the Bank of America Theatre.
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UNM student group Wise and Wonderful Women will host “What’s in an Age: Aging and Ageism in the 21st Century,� all day on Thursday. The panel discussions and talks run from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Acoma rooms A and B in the SUB. Everyone ages, and many will one day be affected by ageism. Keynote speaker Thomas Cole from the University of Texas will screen “Living With Stroke� at 12:30 p.m. in Ballroom A and deliver his keynote address, “No Country For Old Men: The Search for Masculinity in Later Life,� at 1 p.m. in the same room. According to the University of Texas’ website, Cole does work in cultural history, humanistic gerontology and medical humanities.
Discussion about genetically engineered crops Thursday
I like my salad dusted with poison — it’s much lighter than dressing. Sometimes I crossbreed the veggies with fish to sneak a little protein in. Think this sounds crazy? Speakers at “Understanding Genetically Engineered Crops� will talk about how vegetables are often treated this way before they reach your plate. The lineup includes Brett Bakker of the New Mexico Department of Agriculture Organic Program and Loretta Sandoval, owner of Zulu’s Petals Certified Organic Produce and Nursery. Anyone interested can attend from 6 to 8 p.m. in SUB Ballroom A.
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You can ask local author Jan Zimmerman how it feels to meet the dummies for whom she wrote her book. She’ll sign your copy of “Web Marketing for Dummies� and share a few web marketing strategies and a consultation. For the consultation, you’ll have to schedule an appointment by calling 344-4230. It’s all happening at Barnes and Noble at 6600 Menaul Blvd. N.E. from 1 to 3 p.m.
Poetry slam SATURDAY
Now that you’re paying for a few things every month, maybe you’ve gotten to thinking it might be nice to be reliving your high school days. Reminisce in all the angst and glory of being a teenager was all about at the New Mexico high school poetry slam. According to kunm.org, this is “the biggest youth poetry event in New Mexico� with individuals and teams of poets slamming from 10 a.m. to after 5 p.m. The slam is at Warehouse 508 at 508 First Street N.W. ~Alexandra Swanberg
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lived to be 105 years old and attributes his longevity to his lifestyle. Like a person’s body, the earth can be damaged and unhealthy, but by caring for it the way we should ourselves, Nelson said we can ensure a bright future. “I can’t say what’s going to happen to this world; all I can say is my grandparents told me these stories, and the more I listened to them, the more it’s kind of like, ‘It really is going in that direction,’� he said.
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