DAILY LOBO new mexico
Monetary mayhem see page 4
October 7, 2011
Housing plans may alter UNM’s focus by Hunter Riley hriley@unm.edu
Lobo Development officials told ASUNM they hope to drastically increase UNM’s on-campus housing. Lobo Development Board members Eliseo “Cheo” Torres and Walter Miller spoke to the senators about why they think on-campus housing benefits UNM students during a Sept. 28 ASUNM meeting. “We have to increase on-campus student housing because studies indicate that students do better if they work and live on campus,” Torres said. He said his goal is to double the percentage of UNM students living on-campus, which is currently at 10 percent. But increasing the number of on-campus dorms could change UNM’s demographic, Director of Institutional Research and Support Mark Chisholm said. He said UNM is traditionally a commuter campus, which means the majority of students commute to school and live off campus. “You can’t just change UNM and make it a residential campus,” Chisholm said. “You can have more residential students, but there is still a need for working people to have a place to go and get a degree.” Torres said Lobo Development is not only looking to increase the number of students living on campus, but also the services offered to them. “We will continue appealing to and recruiting the older students and non-traditional students,” Torres said. “So what we want to do will enhance what they are doing. We want to keep the students here, we want to recruit and retain, and hopefully get them to want to stay here for grad school.” Chisholm said his work includes
identifying UNM’s peer institutions, college campuses with a similar demographic to UNM. He said he has never heard of a university that changed from a commuter campus to a residential campus. “Because there isn’t another university in Albuquerque, UNM has to fit both roles, and so us having more residential students isn’t a bad thing, but we can’t stop serving the commuter students,” he said. UNM is in the middle of a threephase construction plan with American Campus Communities, a private development company based out of Texas. The first phase, Lobo Village, located on south campus, was completed this summer. The ongoing second phase includes tearing down old dorms and constructing new dorms on the northeast side of main campus, which will add approximately 1,000 beds to UNM’s on-campus housing. The third phase is still in planning but could include a new dorm or renovations to Cornell Plaza. Sunny Liu, ASUNM finance committee chair, said he supports the new construction because it will give students more opportunities to get involved in University programs. He said some senators don’t support ACC’s integration on campus because ACC hires its own community advisers, which means UNM’s Residence Life would employ fewer students to be Resident Advisers. “A lot of senators were previous employees at Residence Life and there has been a concern since ACC came to UNM about the integration,” Liu said. “The buildings most people would agree are in need of reparation and amenities are needed. Private management is something that worries a lot of senators, not that they don’t believe it is possible, but they are standing up for a seamless transition.”
friday
The Independent Voice of UNM since 1895
THE THROWS OF BATTLE
Zach Gould / Daily Lobo UNM students Robert Malakhov (above) and Allen Pittman practice break falls during Sociology Professor Andrew Yiannakis’s Classical Jujutsu class yesterday. “Jujutsu is not to be confused with Jujitsu,” said Yuannakis. “Jujutsu is for battle and Jujistu is for sport.”
UNMH donates flu shots Protesters move Free clinics dedicated to deceased student, Raymond Plotkin
by Stephanie Hoover
stephchoover@gmail.com UNM’s Student Health & Counseling services have begun a campaign encouraging students to get the flu shot before flu season hits. SHAC started its influenza campaign by offering two free flu shot clinics last week where more than 950 students and staff members were vaccinated. SHAC Director Beverly Kloeppel said they provide the shots to try and prevent large flu outbreaks on campus. “It’s prevention of illness in the University community,” she said, “That’s why we try to get faculty, staff and students in the community immunized, so there’s fewer hospitalized with influenza, which can be very expensive.” Kloeppel said the flu season can start as early as October and continue through late May, peaking in January or February, and the severity varies from year to year. She said she recommends students get vaccinated as early as possible. This year’s clinics are dedicated to Raymond Plotkin, a UNM student who passed away from the H1N1 virus as a freshman in 2009. The free shots are donated by UNM’s Health Scienc-
Inside the
Daily Lobo volume 116
issue 35
es Center, and the clinicians who administer them are UNM and CNM nursing students who need to learn how to administer injections. “The clinic allows them to perform over and over again to get really good at giving injections as well as get the injections in they need for their program,” Kloeppel said. Kloeppel said the immunization is not just for those with a high risk contracting the flu. “I think the philosophy has changed over time because they used to just immunize people who were at risk,” she said. “But now it’s apparent that if you immunize the whole population, you get less exposure to those groups.”
The next free flu clinics will be held Oct. 25 and 26 in the SUB Atrium from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Death of a salesman
Bouncing back
See page 2
See page 6
without protest by Chelsea Erven
news@dailylobo.com UNM administrators released a statement to the media Wednesday telling Occupy Albuquerque protesters to apply for a permit to occupy main campus, but protesters said the administration didn’t inform them. Protester Kate Michalske said UNM representatives have not been to the Occupy Albuquerque campsite to talk to protesters. “UNM didn’t tell us about the permit,” she said. “But we did finally apply for the permit today.” Occupy Albuquerque’s Facebook page said the group will move their camp from its current location on the corner of Central Avenue and University
Boulevard at the request of the administration. “We have been asked to move our protest to Yale Park by Monday in order to protect those beautiful historic trees,” it said. “Small concession for an overwhelming acknowledgement of our right to assemble peacefully.” Michalske said representatives from UNM’s peace studies program are acting as mediators between the protesters and University administration. Peace studies advisor Desi Brown and other faculty wrote a letter to UNM administration and police department asking for support for the movement. Brown met with administration
see Occupy PAGE 3
TODAY
60 | 42