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November 16, 2012
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Frank to be officially inaugurated Sunday by Ardee Napolitano news@dailylobo.com
Robert Frank will be inaugurated on Sunday as the 21st president of UNM. Frank’s inauguration ceremony will take place along with the unveiling of a giant U in front of Hodgin Hall.
Michelle McRuiz, managing editor of the UNM Alumni Association’s magazine “Mirage,” said the statue was a gift from the association in an effort to strengthen campus pride. McRuiz said the last U-shaped statue stood atop Hodgin Hall and was erected in 1922 by thenPresident David Hall. She said the
previous statue was 10 feet tall and illuminated every time UNM won a football game. But McRuiz said the University took the statue down in the mid1930s and that the lighting of the statue on Sunday will mark the return of a University tradition that has long been absent.
Schedule of Events
Presidential inauguration
Inauguration reception
Sunday
3:30 p.m. Hodgin Hall
Installation ceremony
Unveiling of the alumni U
2 p.m. Popejoy Hall
4:30 p.m. Plaza in front of Hodgin Hall
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ASUNM backs diversity requirement
All events are open to the public.
HARD LOSS
by Svetlana Ozden and Victoria Woods news@dailylobo.com
Freshmen who begin attending the University in fall 2014 may be required to take a U.S. and global diversity course. At an Associated Students of the University of New Mexico (ASUNM) Senate meeting on Wednesday, the Senate unanimously passed a resolution calling for the University to require a three-credit U.S. and global diversity course be added to the requirements for an undergraduate degree. The resolution states that the course could be completed as part of the core curriculum or in courses offered by the student’s degree-granting school. The requirement will not increase the credit-hour requirement for graduation. According to the resolution, the Provost’s Diversity Council Curriculum Committee proposed that the course be “designed with a substantive focus on understanding race, class, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion and disability in the U.S. and/or global context” and that “University graduation rates improve when students are exposed to different diversity experiences.”
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The UNM men’s soccer team walks off the field after a 5-4 shootout loss to Air Force in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation tournament championship game on Sunday. Since 2000, the Lobos have made the College Cup 10 times, and this is the fourth straight season UNM has made the NCAA tournament. The Lobos face Virginia in the second round of the tournament on Sunday at the UNM Soccer Complex. See full story on Page 5.
Graduate lit magazine loses funding, goes online by Antonio Sanchez news@dailylobo.com
Editor-in-Chief of the Blue Mesa Review Nora Hickey said that in the publication’s 29 years, its annual issue never went without a print edition, until now. Blue Mesa Review is an annual graduate-student publication that showcases student creative writing work in association with UNM’s English department. Writers and faculty members Patricia Clark Smith, Jane Frumkin and author of “Bless Me, Ultima,” Rudolfo Anaya began the Visit the Blue Mesa Review’s blog at bluemesalit.wordpress.com.
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magazine in 1983. Due to budget cuts to this year’s magazine, it may go unpublished. “I’m not sure at what point it happened, but we received funding from 2010 to 2011, at $6,000 … but by the next year, we did not receive any funding,” Hickey said. Blue Mesa Review wasn’t the first publication to encounter budget setbacks — earlier this year, the Honors College publication “Scribendi” had $1,000 cut from its budget. Hickey said what makes Blue Mesa Review’s case different is that the organization was never notified as to why its budget was cut. She said she reached out to the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences last semester, but never received a response.
English Department Chair Gail Houston said the publication’s budget decrease was due to the department’s own $86,000 budget cut in 2009. Houston said the department was able to keep funding for the publication until July 2011, when the new dean of Arts and Sciences, Mark Peceny, decided to focus more on increasing the number of faculty members and ensuring that faculty members are paid appropriately. Houston said future funding of the publication is currently pending on whether the department ever makes up for the money lost in 2009. “I hope the Legislature brings in more money and sees how important it is to support our students and faculty, and resources do matter, they do make
a difference,” she said. “I just hope we can get back to a time where there will be more resources so we can be more supportive.” Regardless of whether the University provides the publication with funding, Hickey said she will continue to make sure Blue Mesa Review gets published — even if it is online. “After talking to our own head of the department, we sort of decided that it seemed like we could keep trying or we could focus our energies on reading submissions and vamping our presence, both on our blog and through Facebook, trying to get into contact with authors for interviews,” Hickey said. “As graduate students, it didn’t seem clear to us that we’d get funding, but I suppose the squeaky wheel gets
CORRECTION In the article titled “Undergrad senate election ends,” published in Thursday’s Daily Lobo, the graphic lists senate candidate Joe Stevens as an independent candidate and senate candidate Spenser Owens as a member of a slate. The graphic should have listed Stevens as a slate member and Owens as an independent candidate. The error was made in editing.
the oil, right? Just keep trying.” Hickey said this year’s magazine will be published exclusively online through the group’s blog. She said that while the publication was pushed online, the magazine has yet to establish a dedicated subscription fan base, so an online publication could be easier to advertise and access through the blog and Facebook page. “The goal of Blue Mesa Review is to showcase writing that we find really interesting, that grabs our attention, makes us think about the human experience in a different way, that is aesthetically trying to do something,” she said. “And I think that our online issue will be more
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