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October 5, 2010
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Yale structure open for parking by Laurel Brishel Prichard lbrishel@unm.edu
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The parking strain for students, faculty and staff may decrease with Monday’s opening of the Yale parking structure. Robert Nelson, associate director for UNM Parking and Transportation Services, said the garage adds 780 parking spaces to campus, which go for about $425 a year for students and can range up to $698 for faculty and staff depending on their salaries. He said student parking permits will cost $390 this year since the opening comes two months into the semester. “I think the new structure will take up some of the demand for parking, but we need to keep looking for additional opportunities to find more parking,” he said. Student Jose Trujillo parked in the structure Monday and said he might purchase a permit. “I come in late to campus sometimes, so I will be able to just go there,” he said. “It’s so big that you don’t have to worry about not getting a spot.”
Current parking areas reserved for faculty might be opened to students at a later date, according to the PATS website. Student Adrian Avila said the University wasted money making the structure look nice rather than functional. “I think that for the location the $425 is kind of worth it, but the only complaint I have is that they wasted too much money making it look pretty,” Avila said. “I like the fact that it’s green with the solar panels, but aside from that I’m not very impressed with it.” The Yale structure is the third project on campus the Physical Plant Department developed with a sustainable energy source. Structure permits can be purchased by visiting the PATS website. The structure offers $1-an-hour parking for October, but rates will increase to the standard $1.75 rate at the end of the month, the website said. Student Dana Sutherland said the building will serve its purpose. “I think the $425 is outrageous, but UNM needs parking,” she said. “It’s there; it’s ugly, but it’s useful.”
Balloonists disappear off coast of Italy by Alessandra Rizzo Associated Press
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Daily Lobo volume 115
issue 32
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Afghani officers killed See page 5
ROME — The Italian coast guard said Monday that it had called off the search for a pair of American balloonists, including one Albuquerque resident, who disappeared last week in the Adriatic Sea. The search was called off at 3:30 p.m. after a final attempt to locate Richard Abruzzo, of Albuquerque, , and Carol Rymer Davis, of Denver, had failed, said coast guard spokesman Lt. Massimo Maccheroni. Maccheroni said that a robotic vehicle scanned the seabed of the Adriatic for any remains. “We found nothing that could be traced to the balloonists,” he told The Associated Press. The veteran pilots were flying in the 54th Gordon Bennett Gas Balloon Race when contact was lost Wednesday over the Adriatic Sea. Race organizers said the two plunged toward the water at 50 mph (80 kph) and likely didn’t survive. Since then, search and rescue teams with the Italian coast guard, the U.S. Navy and Croatian coastal aircraft crews have been scouring the Adriatic Sea. Over the weekend, divers joined in the search, as hope was beginning to fade. On Monday, in a last attempt, the robotic vehicle plunged to
depths of 200 meters (656 feet) to photograph the seabed off Vieste, in Puglia, where the balloon was believed to have crashed. Maccheroni said the robot scanned an area where an aircraft a day earlier had spotted something. But nothing related to the balloon or the pilots was found, he said. Strong sea currents can drag both relics and bodies very far away from a presumed point of impact, Maccheroni said. News that the search had ended quickly reached the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta in New Mexico. In 1992, Abruzzo co-piloted the first balloon to fly from North America to Africa. Abruzzo, 47, and Davis, 65, won the 2004 edition of the Gordon Bennett race and the 2003 America’s Challenge gas race — one of Abruzzo’s five victories in that race. Abruzzo worked as part of a prominent family business in Albuquerque that is involved in real estate and operations of the Sandia Peak tramway, Sandia Ski Area and Ski Santa Fe. Richard Abruzzo’s involvement focused on ski area management. Davis was a radiologist who specialized in reading breast mammograms. The decision to call off the search was made by Rear Adm. Salvatore Giuffre, who had been coordinating the search efforts in southern Italy.
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