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April 15, 2010
False alarms frustrate residents by Kallie Red-Horse Daily Lobo
Mark Pappler is fed up with being disturbed every time someone cooks in his on-campus apartment building. The reason for his exasperation is the new fire alarm system installed in UNM’s student family housing units, Pappler said. “They just put it in and set it at a very sensitive level, and when it goes off, every unit in the building where the alarm emanated from goes off simultaneously,” he said. “We have children here. One night the alarm went off and woke my daughter. She was terrified, crying and hysterical.” Residents of the entire complex have had to evacuate the building at least 17 times since the alarms’ February installation, with seven of the evacuations in his building alone, Pappler said. Bobby Childers, UNM housing
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Terrance Siemon / Daily Lobo ASUNM President-elect Lazaro “Laz” Cardenas hugs a supporter just after the results were announced Wednesday night in the SUB Atrium. Cardenas won by more than 400 votes.
Cardenas, Colbert take ASUNM election by Mario Trujillo Daily Lobo
A knee shaking, toe tapping Lazaro “Laz” Cardenas sat visibly nervous in the ASUNM senate hall waiting for 8 p.m., when the ASUNM election results would be tallied — not knowing he would be elected the next ASUNM president by more than 400 votes. “I was feeling nervous anticipation to know who won,” Cardenas said. “To be honest I am just grateful for everyone’s support and help. We couldn’t have done it without them.” Cardenas brought in 1,223 votes compared to his opponent on the Wolf Pack slate David Conway’s 795. Cardenas’ running mate, Joseph Colbert, also won as vice president. Colbert was absent from the announcement because he was celebrating his birthday, Cardenas said. “I couldn’t have done it without each and everyone that was out there,” Cardenas said. “That includes members of senate that were running, the volunteers that we had, all the student organizations that endorsed me and basically everyone that went out and voted. It feels good but at the same time there is a lot of work to be done.” Cardenas attributed the win to both the progressive style of campaigning and the caliber of ideas that he ran on. “Just these new ideas that the slate has
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done,” Cardenas said. “We created a video and an ad campaign that was really cool … I just feel our volunteers did a great job.” A total of 2,115 students voted in this year’s election. Election Commissioner Brian Moore said the numbers were the highest he had seen the last five years. And Conway even mentioned how big the turnout was. The election represented about 11 percent of the undergraduate student body. Earlier this week, Cardenas received endorsements from 10 student organizations compared to five for Conway. But Cardenas’ slate didn’t win the battle of Facebook friends. The Wolfpack slate had nearly 300 more friends than did Full Circle, which may have contributed to the Wolfpack slate getting seven of the 10 senators voted in. Conway said it’s not bittersweet that his slate was mostly voted in despite his loss. “It’s all sweet,” he said. “I believe in each and every one of them. That is why I didn’t leave when the presidential numbers were heard. I stayed throughout the whole thing because it means a lot to me seeing (my slate) get on. It was about the message. It was about what we were doing. It was not about me.” Student and volunteer Xavier Winslow said that he voted for senators on both slates even though he helped campaign for
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ASUNM Student Government Unofficial Election Results President
Lazaro Cardenas David Conway
Vice President Joseph Colbert Zoe Riebli
Senate
Votes 1,223 795
1,043 911
1,005 933 887 880 841 837 827 821 804 793 Total number of voters: 2,115 Greg Golden Alonzo Castillo Rosa Rosas Jorge Jimenez Sunny Liu Heidi Overton Meena Lee Jaimee Perea Nick Ramos Terence Brown, Jr.
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French up your Friday with films by Evan Bobrick Daily Lobo
While you might be planning a trip to Century 24 this weekend to check out the hyper-violent “Kick-Ass,” or Neil LaBute’s ridiculous-looking take on ”Death at a Funeral,” you might consider attending ”The Class.” Don’t worry, it’s not an actual class, even though it is presented in Mitchell Hall room 122. It’s one of the movies running in the Tournées French Film Festival, which has graced UNM’s campus for the past few Friday nights with free, contemporary foreign cinema. Tournées, hosted by the department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and the International Studies Institute at UNM, is a series of five important, award-winning films by French, Belgian and Franco-Tunisian directors — such as Laurent Cantet, Michel Ocelot, Yves Jeuland, Abdellatif Kechiche and Agnès Varda. These aren’t familiar figures outside of the art-house circuit in the U.S. Despite this, Rajeshwari Vallury, assistant professor of French and organizer of Tournées, said that the festival has been a success. “The audience varies according to
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