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tuesday The Independent Voice of UNM since 1895
April 20, 2010
Election fudged yet again
Good-bye, beautiful trees
by Tricia Remark and Pat Lohmann Daily Lobo
GPSA presidential candidate Martin Gutierrez ignored the GPSA council’s recommendation to disclose all of his campaign funding and expenses by Monday at 5 p.m. On Sunday evening, Gutierrez said GPSA should be focusing on issues that matter to students, such as tuition — not where campaign funds are coming from or how much he is spending. “We’ve got to get to the business of students and stop worrying about distractions,” Gutierrez said. However, Irene Parra, Gutierrez’ campaign staffer, said the list of contributions would be provided “no later than Tuesday.” Gutierrez was not available for comment on Monday. The GPSA council passed the recommendation Saturday. Brandi Lawless, a GPSA representative, and GPSA President Lissa Knudsen originally drafted the recommendation. “It encourages candidates to disclose information because it’s the right thing to do,” Knudsen said Thursday. Lawless said she drafted the resolution partly in response to an option on GPSA presidential candidate Martin Gutierrez’ Web site. Gutierrez is accepting PayPal donations through his Web site, but he offers no list of contributors or expenses. “If you’re going to accept donations, I think it’s important to know where it’s coming from so someone like a regents member isn’t donating,” Lawless said. On Saturday, the council changed the resolution to a recommendation, encouraging both presidential and council chair candidates to disclose all GPSA and non-GPSA campaign contributions by Monday at 5 p.m. Knudsen released her campaign funding information Monday in a spreadsheet, which listed both her revenues and expenditures as zero.
Gabbi Campos / Daily Lobo As part of an expansion of the Biology building, these trees will soon be removed. Capitol Projects spokesman Christopher Carian said after the construction is completed, more trees will be replanted and by the end of the project there will be more trees than there are now. He said the building will expand to where the greenhouse currently is and the greenhouse will be moved to the roof of the Biology Building. “It’s really cool because a few years ago they would just tear up greens but now we got a budget to do more landscaping,” Carian said. “We work into our budget money for Landscaping to put stuff in other parts of campus where there isn’t much landscaping.”
In other election woes, a little more than 60 graduate student votes were tossed out early Monday morning due to an election software glitch. Between 8 a.m. and 8:43 a.m., 62 votes were cast in the GPSA presidential election. However, Information Technologies Spokeswoman Vanessa Baca said the election software, Opinio, malfunctioned and allowed students to vote multiple times. “As the election is set up to be anonymous, IT does not have information as to who voted or how many times they may have voted, just the number of votes cast,” Baca said in an e-mail. Specifically, the voter authorization component of Opinio stopped functioning, Baca said. After 8:43 a.m., IT fixed the problem and the polls
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Government seeks college campus spies by Andrew Beale and Kallie Red-Horse Daily Lobo
A new UNM program is hosting a national security event on campus today to discuss “challenges and opportunities” in the field of national security. The National Security Colloquium takes place in the Southwest Film Center in the lower SUB today. Frank
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Gilfeather, director of UNM’s National Securities Studies Program, said students shouldn’t approach the colloquium like they might other career fairs. “This is not a job fair. This is an opportunity to learn about national security careers and our program at UNM,” he said. “They will meet national security specialists both from the state and federal level and also get an opportunity to talk about
potential careers.” The NSSP is a new UNM program designed to recruit students into national security positions.
National Security Colloquium: Opportunities and Challenges Today SUB Theater 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
“I inhaled — that was the point.” ~Barack Obama
Bob Anderson, spokesman for Stop the War Machine, said the National Security Agency and CIA will be at the event to recruit students as spies. “They’re trying to recruit students on campuses for surveillance work abroad and even domestically,” he said. “They’ll be spying on college campuses.” The activities supported by the U.S.’s national security apparatus are
frequently immoral, said Sally-Alice Thompson, a representative of Veterans for Peace. “I think it’s a lowering of the ethics and morality of this country to have people that are spying on each other,” she said. “We condemned the Nazis and the Communists for doing these same things. That’s their business, and it’s very unethical. It’s not what we’re supposed to be doing.”
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