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November 2, 2012
Bond C may provide much-needed repairs by Megan Underwood news@dailylobo.com
If it passes, General Obligations Bond C would provide the University of New Mexico with about $19 million, which would be used for building renovations. Bond C is a measure in New Mexico that will appear on the Election Day ballot on Tuesday.
GPSA President Marisa Silva said Castetter Hall and Riebsomer Hall will be renovated if the bond passes, adding that while these are the only buildings that will be renovated on the Albuquerque campus, other buildings at UNM satellite campuses will also be improved. Silva said the bond is important to ensure students have access to
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better facilities. “I know from a student who takes classes in Castetter Hall that the women’s bathrooms are converted men’s hat closets,” she said. “That’s not appropriate for a university.” According to the UNM website, some of the proposed renovations for both halls include modernization and expansion
of laboratory areas, addition of more storage and updating the heating and cooling systems. According to the website, Riebsomer Hall doesn’t meet state and federal safety standards for heating, ventilation, air conditioning, air quality, power and environmental concerns. Some lab renovations in Castetter Hall have already begun, but were
stalled due to a lack of funding. UNM President Robert Frank said inadequate facilities hurt student enrollment and the University. “The poor condition of UNM’s biology and chemistry buildings limits our ability to attract
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BENT NOT BROKEN
by Ardee Napolitano news@dailylobo.com
ASUNM Sen. Holly Marquez thought the teacher evaluation process at UNM needed work. The University keeps students in the dark when it comes to teacher evaluation results, Marquez said, so she organized a teacher evaluation committee in order to increase awareness about the teacher evaluation process and increase its efficiency. The University performs teacher evaluations every semester, but Marquez said students are not aware of the specifics of the process. She said that the committee aims to research how teacher evaluation is done and inform students about it. “Teachers get to keep their evaluations, and forms are distributed with students at the end of every semester,” she said. “That’s all we really know.” Marquez said she first thought of creating a teacher evaluation committee in August, and that the committee, which currently has five members from ASUNM and GPSA, first met in October. She said the committee plans to meet again in November. In addition to researching the process, Marquez said the committee aims to add a teacher evaluation survey that will be conducted halfway through the semester. She said the survey will provide professors with feedback earlier in the semester so that they can alter inefficient aspects of their instruction sooner. “One of my goals is to make a mid-semester survey to supplement a second teacher evaluation at the end of the semester,” she said. “It will be helpful for teachers and students to speak halfway and at the end because there’s more result.”
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Adria Malcolm / Daily Lobo Sophomore quarterback Quinton McCown gets sacked during the game against Fresno State on Oct. 27. UNM will face UNLV on Saturday in Las Vegas, Nev. See full story on page 5.
Ex-cartel horses sold in Oklahoma by Sean Murphy
The Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY — More than 300 horses that the U.S. government says were purchased as part of a Mexican drug cartel’s money-laundering operation were put up for auction Thursday in Oklahoma City. Some of the 340 quarter horses auctioned at the Heritage Place Fall Mixed Sale were bred from some of America’s top racehorses, and the government’s most prized horse — A Dash of Sweet Heat — sold for $1 million.
Government officials hoped to earn several million dollars from the three-day sale, and acknowledged that seizing horses through forfeiture is somewhat unusual, said Mike Lemoine, a spokesman for the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation Division. “Generally, on something that lives and breathes, we’re pretty cautious,” Lemoine said. “But the defendants agreed to this sale, which eliminates most of the risk for potential buyers.” Federal prosecutors say 15 people charged in the case funneled millions of dollars in
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drug profits through quarter horse operations. Most of the horses that were seized came from a sprawling ranch in Lexington, Okla., that prosecutors say was run by Jose Trevino Morales, the brother of two alleged leaders of the Zeta drug cartel in Mexico. Morales’ attorney and family maintain he’s innocent and being unfairly linked to his brothers, who were among those named in the federal indictment and are fugitives believed to be in Mexico. The alleged ties between the horses and drug traffickers didn’t bother Bob and Sandy Brown
of Des Moines, Iowa, who paid $50,000 for a 1-year-old filly named Follies and Corona that they plan to race and then breed because of its top-quality blood lines. “The breeding is the No. 1 criteria for us,” Bob Brown said. “We came down here to buy topquality broodmares.” Matt Witman, a ranch manager at Lazy E Ranch in Guthrie, said the government-owned horses provided a huge boost to the horse show and attracted buyers from countries all over the world.
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