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ASUNM sets sights on housing early by Ruben Hamming-Green rhamminggreen@gmail.com
ASUNM’s first meeting of the school year commenced Wednesday evening, with senators tackling subjects including printing costs and new student housing. Kim Murphy, director of Real Estate, discussed new student housing projects on main campus. Murphy said graduate students are working on designing the new residence halls, and it’s possible an older residence hall will be torn down, though he didn’t specify which one. ASUNM President Lazaro “Laz” Cardenas said student input is needed to help come to a decision on the building plans, the construction location and additional parking lots. “These residence halls are going to be here when we’re old,” Cardenas said. “This is something that’s going to have huge impact for decades to come.” Besides new housing, UNM students might begin seeing New York Times paper stands pop up, with free daily newspapers for students. Tod Halvorsen, an education manager for the New York Times, pitched the idea to the undergraduate student government. He said his plan would cost the University 50 cents per paper, and he offered a pilot program that would provide the newspaper on campus free of charge for four weeks. “The New York Times really energizes the room,” Halvorsen said. “It provides a living textbook.” If picked up by ASUNM, the program would also provide recycling bins next to every newsstand, Halvorsen said, and a student intern would be hired to distribute the papers on campus. Joseph Colbert, vice president of ASUNM, said that if ASUNM runs with it, the cost would probably come to about $5,000 a year and would be funded with student fees. “I think it’s a really good program,” he said. “I want to have the pilot program ran because it’s free.” The printing limit installed last spring was another issue discussed at Wednesday’s meeting. Jaymie Roybal, ASUNM attorney general, said ASUNM passed an emergency resolution Saturday calling for an increase in the amount of free printing students are given to all transfer unused printing credit from semester to semester, and for faculty to reduce the amount students have to print. The resolution was tabled in the Faculty Senate. “We are advocating for some professors to not require as much printing of their students and make documents like your syllabus available in more electronic forms,” Roybal said. “We’ve had a lot of student input and a lot of students expressing their concern about the printing.”
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Junfu Han / Daily Lobo Joseph Alderete, firefighter, emerges from a smoked-out Quarters BBQ. According to fire commander, Kerry Horton, the fire’s cause is unknown but started in the garage attached to the restaurant. All the patrons were evacuated safely, and the fire was extinguished without injury, he said.
Faculty copes after Logan flood by Chelsea Erven cerven@unm.edu
Faculty members in the Psychology Department housed in Logan Hall have started the semester with a shortage of offices, labs, computers and furniture, in the aftermath of the Aug. 8 flood that left 35 rooms unusable. Trish Aragon-Mascarenas, a Psychology Department administrator, said other faculty members have offered space to those who lost offices while construction is ongoing. “It’s definitely been really difficult starting the semester while trying to accommodate all the faculty whose offices were affected,” she said. “Most of the faculty without an office are using their lab space as an office, but some who lost both their office space and their lab space are sharing an office space with other faculty members.” The good news is that the faculty offices are scheduled to be completed by the end of this week, AragonMascarenas said, and the basement and second floor are expected to be finished by end of this month. Tom Ruiz, office manager for Nova Construction Inc., said major repairs have already been completed and workers are finishing cosmetic upkeep. “The asbestos was taken care of, and we’ve already done the drywall, ceiling tiles and lights,” he said. “All we have left to do is some painting and work on the flooring. We should
“We really don’t know how much be 95 percent done by the end of total inconvenience,” she said. “Figthe week, and the last bit of paint- uring all this out has been more information we lost,” she said. “The ing should be done in about two work added to the duties that we al- clean-up crew took everything away ready have.” so quickly. We didn’t really have a weeks.” Aragon-Mascarenas said fac- chance to figure things out. We just Aragon-Mascarenas said faculty members don’t know when offices ulty members are more concerned hope the problem is fixed and we about the loss of computers and re- don’t have to deal with something will be fully refurnished. like this again.” “The insurance claim is going search that is on those computers. to take anywhere from four to six WTF? weeks to go through, so at this point we’re being told that the Department is going to have to purchase everything ourselves, out of our operating money, and then be reimbursed,” she said. Mike Tuttle, UNM’s Safety and Risk Services manager, said the insurance claim process could take as long as two months. “It’s a very long, complicated process,” he said. “UNM is insured by the state up to $500,000, and anything beyond that goes to various private carriers. Right now, we have an insurance adjuster working with the Psychology Department and the contractors doing the repairs to account for the damage, and nothing is really going to happen until we get the total amount agreed upon with the adjuster.” Tuttle said damage costs are confidential and the state will not release the numbers. “All I can say is that it was a very expensive clean-up process, and it is going to cost a substantial amount of money,” he said. But Aragon-Mascarenas said the Psychology Department is not worKerr Adams / Daily Lobo ried about the cost. A Wake advertisement hangs outside the north side of the SUB on Thursday. The First Family FOR RELEASE SEPTEMBER 3, 2010 “It’s not really the money so sponsors Wake, which is for college-aged Christians. Los Angeles Daily Crossword Puzzle much for us, but that it’s been aTimesChurch Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis
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