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May 7-11, 2012
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by Hannah Stangebye hstang@unm.edu
Although efforts to collect $675 million in donations for UNM began in 2006, the UNM Foundation has collected only about 60 percent of that money and has only two more years to reach the goal. The “Changing Worlds” fundraising campaign is an eight-year project that ends in 2014. The money raised is held in the Consolidated Investment Fund (CIF). The foundation collected $83.1 million in FY 2011, $75.1 million in FY 2010 and $90.1 million in FY 2009. According to the 2010-2011 Annual Report on Giving, the fund spends between 4 and 6 percent of the total amount in the CIF each year, to ensure a steady amount of income for UNM to depend on in years to come. The foundation contributed $14.9 million to UNM’s budget in FY 2011, $15.4 million in FY 2010 and $15.2 million in FY 2009.
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More than 70 students gathered on Johnson Field to celebrate spring by throwing colored powder at each other. Japji Hundal, World Student Alliance president and GPSA member, said the Holi festival is a Hindu celebration of the legend of King Hiranyakashipu who considered himself a god and sentenced his son Prahlad to death for
not worshiping him. Hundal said Prahlad escaped death because real deities were protecting him. Hundal said the festival commemorates Prahlad’s survival, spreads awareness of the Indian culture and celebrates spring as a symbol of the triumph of good over evil. He said the focus is eliminating social and racial differences, and that being covered in colored powder
disguises those differences. “You get to know people and accept them for what they are,” he said. Hundal said the festival was sponsored by the Indian Student Association, the World Student Alliance, GPSA and ASUNM. ~Clemence Malmejean
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