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October 29, 2012
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Student-regent candidates discuss priorities by Ardee Napolitano news@dailylobo.com
Prospective candidates for student regent said graduate-student employment would be a priority if they are selected for the position. At a GPSA meeting Saturday, two of the three graduate-student finalists, Athanasios Manole and Alejandro Mendiaz-Rivera, addressed making paid work experience part of the curriculum for graduate students. Heidi Overton, the third finalist, did not attend the meeting.
GPSA President Marisa Silva said Overton had a medical emergency. ASUNM selected a set of undergraduate students to be considered for the student regent position. Manole, a medical student at UNM, said graduate students who help with research as part of their degree requirements are not compensated for their work. “The school might say that learning is part of your curriculum, but at that point, you’re pretty much working for free,” he said. “I share your financial pain. You need to be
paid for your hard work.” Manole said one of his priorities is to provide more paid positions to graduate students, such as teacher and graduate assistantships. He said the University should increase funding for scholarships and grants for graduate programs, which would help students resolve future financial burdens, such as student loans. “We really don’t get our dues,” he said. “We’re not looked at as much as we should. I think we deserve more funding and I think we
deserve better pay.” During his undergraduate study at UNM, Manole participated in the University’s Diversity Council and ASUNM. He said he has research experience, specifically involving biophysics. Manole said he aims to bridge the information gap between the administration and the student body. “I want to be that liaison between the students and the regents,” he said. “At the same time, I want to be able to accurately report what’s going on in the administration.”
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If appointed as student regent, Manole said he would make communication between the administration and student body more immediate through phone calls instead of emails to ensure that direct responses are more readily available to students. He said he advocates the town hall format for meetings, in which people can raise questions directly. “I’m not worried to give my cell phone number to anyone who has
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Plan B access tough for American Indians by Felicia Fonseca The Associated Press
book of the same name, before being plucked from the Atlantic off Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., by a Coast Guard helicopter. “Don’t be rash,” Leonard said Saturday from his home in Fort Myers, Fla. “Because if this does hit, you’re going to lose all those little things you’ve spent the last 20 years feeling good about.” Sandy weakened briefly to a tropical storm Saturday but was soon back up to Category 1 strength, packing 75 mph winds. It was about 260 miles southsoutheast of Cape Hatteras, N.C., and moving northeast at 13 mph as of 5 a.m. Sunday, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Months after the federal Indian Health Service said it was finalizing a policy that would make emergency contraception more accessible to American Indian women, advocates say they’re still waiting. And in the meantime, Native women face a patchwork of policies at hospitals and clinics that don’t always ensure timely access to the medication. Across the country, any woman 17 or older can buy emergency contraception from behind the counter at retail pharmacies. But the Indian Health Service has no retail pharmacies. Instead, Native women typically must visit a clinic, urgent care facility or emergency room and have a consultation before being prescribed the medicine that is dispensed on-site. Critics say that system is timeconsuming and burdensome, and they’ve been pushing for change. In May, they scored a victory when the Indian Health Service’s chief medical officer, Susan Karol, said the agency was working on a new policy aimed at allowing pharmacies to give Plan B directly to patients. But that policy hasn’t been released yet, and until it is, Native women face an unreliable assortment of rules that can vary from clinic to clinic, said Charon Asetoyer, director of the South Dakota-based Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center. “There’s not consistency and continuity that women should be able to expect through the system in terms of being able to access Plan B or its generic counterpart,” Asetoyer said.
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Natalie Jacquez / Daily Lobo Faculty Senate president Amy Neel, left, and student regent Jake Wellman, center, listen as U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis answers questions from the audience. The secretary came to the SUB Friday campaigning for President Obama, who appointed her to office. Solis touched on issues surrounding transitions of students from high school to universities and community colleges and spoke about the importance of education in producing a skilled workforce. Wellman said this was an important topic because, “We are all going to be part of the workforce.”
‘Behemoth storm’ coming to East Coast by Allen G. Breed and Wayne Parry The Associated Press
SHIP BOTTOM, N.J. — Forget distinctions like tropical storm or hurricane. Don’t get fixated on a particular track. Wherever it hits, the behemoth storm plodding up the East Coast will afflict a third of the country with sheets of rain, high winds and heavy snow, say officials who warned millions in coastal areas to get out of the way. “We’re looking at impact of greater than 50 to 60 million people,” said Louis Uccellini, head of environmental prediction for NASA. Megastorm could wreak havoc across 800 miles of US
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As Hurricane Sandy trekked north from the Caribbean — where it left nearly five dozen dead — to meet two other powerful winter storms, experts said it didn’t matter how strong the storm was when it hit land: The rare hybrid storm that follows will cause havoc over 800 miles from the East Coast to the Great Lakes. Governors from North Carolina, where steady rains were whipped by gusting winds Saturday night, to Connecticut declared states of emergency. Delaware ordered mandatory evacuations for coastal communities by 8 p.m. Sunday. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who was criticized for not interrupting a vacation in Florida
while a snowstorm pummeled the state in 2010, broke off campaigning for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in North Carolina on Friday to return home. “I can be as cynical as anyone,” said Christie, who declared a state of emergency Saturday. “But when the storm comes, if it’s as bad as they’re predicting, you’re going to wish you weren’t as cynical as you otherwise might have been.” Eighty-five-year-old former sailor Ray Leonard agreed. And he knows to heed warnings. Leonard and two crewmates in his 32-foot sailboat, Satori, rode out 1991’s infamous “perfect storm,” made famous by the Sebastian Junger best-selling
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