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President finalists to be announced next month by Charlie Shipley
charlieshipley84@gmail.com The UNM Presidential Search Committee is ready to name semifinalists in the search for UNM’s next president, and University officials said finalists will do on-campus visits before winter break. Helen Gonzales, vice president for human resources, told the Board of Regents at the board’s meeting Tuesday that the Presidential Search Committee hopes to publicly announce the
finalists by December and fly them to UNM to meet with students groups, faculty and staff. “Because of the large number of presidential searches across the country and in the west, we’re trying to get ahead of the curve and bring finalists to campus before winter break,” Gonzales said. “It’s an aggressive timeline, and we’ll be able to hopefully announce that within the next few days.” Gonzales said the committee values student input and will work
to accommodate students’ final exam schedules so they can meet with finalists. Also at the meeting: Regents discuss (un)Occupy protesters UNM President David Schmidly said UNMPD spent $15,000 paying officers overtime to handle the (un)Occupy Albuquerque protesters’ occupation of UNM Campus. Protesters have been occupying
campus for the past six weeks. UNMPD spokesman Lt. Robert Haarhues said the money came out of UNMPD’s operating budget. “We’re going to have to keep a watch on our operating budget as we grind through the fiscal year and hope we’ll be all right at the end of the year,” he said. Schmidly said protesters currently have a permit, which they must renew weekly, to occupy Yale Park from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. on weekdays and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekends.
Katie Richardson, GPSA president, asked regents on behalf of the GPSA to allow protesters to be on campus 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. “The First Amendment does not have a closing time,” she said. “The First Amendment is 24 hours a day.” Amy Neel, the Faculty Senate’s president-elect, said the Faculty Senate will consider a resolution regarding (un)Occupy Albuquerque at its meeting on Nov. 22.
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charlieshipley84@gmail.com Chester Nez, 90, is the last survivor of the original 29 Navajo code talkers from World War II. He served in World War II and the Korean War. Nez, along with author Judith Schiess Avila wrote Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII. He was at UNM Tuesday night to share his story with students. Daily Lobo: Tell me what being a code talker was like? Chester Nez: (laughs) It was very, very interesting to talk in military words and stuff like that. It was very, very important to us to develop a code in our own language from A-Z. They tried everything to decipher the code and they never did. DL: How long did you serve? CN: I served four straight years. The first was Guadalcanal, and then Bougainville, and then Guam and then Peleliu. DL: What kind of training did you receive? CN: It was regular marine corps training … at Camp Henderson (now Camp Pendleton). It’s the biggest training center where they developed the code. We practiced sending messages back and forth — that’s where we had everything we needed to do before we went overseas. DL: It was the only unbroken code in modern military history. Is that correct? CN: That’s right. I don’t know how many years they kept that a secret after the war was over, and they finally released the code. A lot of guys that I went to the service, they’d talk about it and try to translate the message from one radio
station to another. It was very important. I’m very happy to succeed in something like that, and I’m very glad they never broke the code. DL: How did you become a code talker? CN: I was going through high school when I heard about it. The recruiters were coming to school to select the Navajos (to recruit them to be) code talkers. I just picked up a pencil and signed my name, and I became a code talker. DL: What kind of danger were you in? CN: It was very, very difficult when we hit the beach. You could see some of the guys you came with lying on the beach and all shot up. It’s something that some of our older people in Navajo told us not to come forward and try to walk around the dead. They were very superstitious. But when I hit the beach on Guadalcanal, everybody was floating, dead. It’s just something that you have to go through and I’m very happy that I came out alive. DL: Would you consider the experience worth it? CN: I think out of everything I went through, one of the most important things to me is that I came out alive. This is one thing I always thought about, to come back home and see my family. DL: Would you encourage young people to enlist in the military today? CN: You know, that’s one thing that’s very, very unnecessary. We cannot go and talk to these young guys who are coming out of high school and tell them to join the marine corps.
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Gabriela Ventola / Daily Lobo Chester Nez, 90, the last surviving original Navajo code talker,spoke Tuesday night in the SUB. Nez recently released his memoir Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII.
Mexican president’s sister loses election British court to extradite Assange by Gustavo Ruiz
The Associated Press
MORELIA, Mexico — Mexico’s former ruling party won a major governor’s race on Monday after a campaign marred by drug-cartel threats and violence, defeating President Felipe Calderón’s sister and building momentum for its drive to take back the presidency next year. Fausto Vallejo Figueroa of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, won 35 percent of the vote in the western state of Michoacán. Luisa María Calderón took 33 percent, according to electoral authorities. The president’s sister implied that the PRI had been supported by drug gangs threatening her party’s voters and poll watchers in retaliation for its aggressive stance against cartels. She said her team would carefully review vote tallies in parts of the state where they have received reports of armed men threatening people trying to vote. “Allowing organized crime to manipulate elections will never lead to security,” she said in an interview with the Televisa network. The candidate for the leftist Democratic
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