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Permit a must for protestors by Luke Holmen holmen@unm.edu
Junfu Han / Daily Lobo Protesters camped in the rain at UNM at the corner of University Boulevard and Central Avenue Tuesday night. UNM officials made an announcement Wednesday that protesters need to apply for a permit before noon today if they plan to stay at the location.
Tutor: APS ‘insufficient, apathetic’ by Greer Gessler ggessler@unm.edu
The amount of students attending Albuquerque Public Schools that don’t graduate is 37 percent and, of those, many have trouble earning their GEDs, getting jobs or attending college, GED Preparatory Program officials said. A group of graduate students at UNM hopes to change that. The Community Health Equity Working
Group (CHEWG), Youth Development Inc. and UNM’s College of Education created the GED Preparatory Program to tutor students hoping to earn their GEDs. Graduate student and Co-founder of CHEWG Douglas Daugherty said Albuquerque has had dismal graduation rates for 61 years. “I would argue that the whole entire system is failing our children,” he said. “One-third of all graduating high school seniors enrolling at
“Occupy Albuquerque” protestors braved the wet weather Tuesday night as they continued to protest in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement, but UNM officials said protesters must get a permit before noon today if they plan to stay. “This is my fourth day sleeping out here,” Hani Barghout, former New Mexico Tech student, said. Barghout is camping out with about 20 other protestors on UNM’s campus on the corner of Central Avenue and University Boulevard. He said the wet weather hasn’t deterred him. “It was very wet, we made tents out of the tarps,” he said. “We are still here.” UNM issued a statement Wednesday night asking the protesters to apply for a permit in order to occupy UNM’s grounds. “We are looking for an opportunity to provide a teaching moment to explore their issues,” the statement said. “UNM has specific policies in place to ensure that all groups are treated equally.” GPSA President Katie Richardson said she supports free expression on campus. “In this nation, we have a tradition of having a healthy dialogue about what our community should look like and what our economy should look like, and that has often started on college campuses,” she said. UNM community member Sean Scott said he came to the protesters’ campsite to talk to them about the movement. “I’m not sure I agree with them,” he said. “The gist of all this is they are against corporations, how big they are and how much money they make, but if
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UNM must be placed in 100-level classes due to the lack of preparedness by the Albuquerque Public School System.” He said New Mexico currently ranks 49th in the nation for quality of education, and the United States ranks 43rd worldwide in percentage of Gross Domestic Product spent on education. APS has a graduation rate of roughly 63 percent, and a stu-
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Thefts spike in January, August by Charlie Shipley
charlieshipley84@gmail.com The beginning of a new semester brings a high incidence of larcenies and thefts, UNM Police Department officials said. “It is a big problem,” UNMPD spokesman Lt. Robert Haarhues said. “Every year we have a new batch of freshmen who come in and there’s a learning curve because they’ve been at home where their parents would lock the door for them.” Last week, a laptop and an iPod were stolen from a Lobo Village apartment and a backpack was stolen from a chair where it was left in the SUB, police reports said. Haarhues said most thefts can be
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attributed individuals being careless with their belongings. “There are those putting backpacks in study areas and then walking around,” he said. “Always be aware. Don’t leave stuff unattended.” Police logs show the number of larcenies per month tends to drop off later into the semester. Reported incidents of theft, including bikes, wallets, backpacks, laptops and iPods, decreased from 71 in August to 58 in September of this year. Haarhues said campus parking lots provide easy opportunities for theft because many students leave their belongings unsecured. “Security is not there all the time,” he said. “Don’t leave your backpacks. Don’t leave your Apple
computer on the seat.” Haarhues said Johnson Field is another area with a high incidence of theft. He said students often leave their backpacks unattended while they run or exercise. Though thefts declined campuswide in September, Zimmerman Library has seen an increase in theft during recent weeks, associate dean Nancy Dennis said. Employees started noticing an increase in reported thefts starting around Sept. 20 or 21, and she said Zimmerman added a security officer and put up signs warning students by Sept. 26 or 27. Dennis said library staff members try to watch unattended laptops or backpacks. “But we can’t be everywhere all the time,” she said.
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Isabel Hees / Daily Lobo John Gourley, lead singer and guitarist of “Portugal. The Man” plays with his band at Sunshine Theater Tuesday night. The band is No. 1 on College Music Journal’s top-200 most played on college-hosted radio stations.
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