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March 22, 2011
Tuition bump on the horizon
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Students want increase spent on academics by Shaun Griswold shaun24@unm.edu
ASUNM senators held an emergency meeting Monday night about UNM’s $5.4 million budget shortfall and subsequent measures to bump up tuition costs. The Board of Regents is expected to recommend an 8-10 percent increase on top of a 3.2 percent increase mandated by the state Legislature, a tuition increase of roughly $300 per student. “I’m optimistic tuition is going to stay around 8-10 percent,” ASUNM President Laz Cardenas said. “I have to applaud the administration for including ASUNM. However, although I am optimistic, I am skeptical.” The regents will determine next month how much to raise tuition and how that money will be spent. Cardenas said he called the emergency meeting because he’s concerned the administration hasn’t detailed where additional tuition has been allocated within the University.
Junfu Han / Daily Lobo Kentucky coach Matthew Mitchell yells at his players during Monday’s second-round women’s NCAA tournament game against UNC at the Pit. The Tar Heels dominated most of the game, beating the Wildcats 86-74 to move on to the Sweet 16, where they will face Stanford on Saturday. See page 10 for the full story.
see ASUNM page 3 A Libyan rebel prays next to his gun Monday while another one kneels over the grave of his dead brother, killed in the fighting, on the frontline of the outskirts of the city of Ajdabiya, south of Benghazi, eastern Libya.
All aboard the jolly, drunken trolley by Shannon Alexander sralex2@gmail.com
Albuquerque residents will soon have an alternative to calling a cab or designating a driver when drinking. Student Paul Aitken is opening a trolley service that will operate from Thursday-Sunday from 8 p.m.-3 a.m. He said he got the trolley idea after spending time abroad and using public transportation to get around while drinking. “You just text us where you want to get picked up,” Aitken said. “As long as it’s within our region, that’s fine.” Cinco de Mayo marks the trolley’s soft opening, with the hard launch slated for August. The trolley will operate within a two-mile radius of campus and take passengers to University-area locations. It costs $5 to ride. Aitken said he plans to distribute keychain cards in August that have the trolley’s phone number and contact instructions. He said that customers must contact the trolley 30 minutes before their
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preferred pickup time. “We’re here to help the community by deterring drunk driving,” Aitken said, “We’re here to help the students by giving them an alternative way to get around and a fun way.”
“We’re here to help the community by deterring drunk driving.” ~Paul Aitken Student The bus will run on locally produced biodiesel fuel, but Aitken plans to produce his own fuel in the future. He said that biodiesel is cheaper and better for the environment. Student Seth Kaplan said that the trolley will likely decrease drunk driving. “I think that’s a great idea,” he said. “The more options you have for drinkers, the less of an option there is to go get in a car.”
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Journalists detained in Libya Associated Press BENGHAZI, Libya — Two journalists working for a French news agency and a photographer traveling with them have gone missing in Libya while reporting on the fighting between Moammar Gadhafi’s forces and rebels, the agency said Sunday. Agence France-Presse said the journalists went missing Saturday morning while working near the eastern city of Tobruk, not far from the border with Egypt. That
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area mostly remains under rebel control, but government forces have gained back territory in the east in recent days. The AFP journalists are reporter Dave Clark and photographer Roberto Schmidt. They were accompanied by a photographer for Getty Images, Joe Raedle, who is also missing. AFP said the journalists planned to meet opponents of Gadhafi and interview people fleeing the fighting. Several foreign journalists
have been arrested by Libyan authorities during the uprising that began Feb. 15. An Al-Jazeera cameraman and a Libyan journalist have also been killed. Those being held include four journalists for The New York Times who were detained by government forces during fighting last week in the east. The newspaper reported Friday that Libyan forces said they would release them, but there has been no confirmation that they have been freed.
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