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Eating chile to fight cancer
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Cook-off to raise money, awareness for Relay for Life by Svetlana Ozden news@dailylobo.com
UNM student Meghan Maes said the American Cancer Society helped her and her family cope with her liver cancer. Maes, who is the event chair for Relay for Life of UNM and president of the UNM chapter of Colleges Against Cancer (CAC), had emergency surgery and four rounds of chemotherapy to treat liver cancer when she was an infant. She said she was 5 months old when she was diagnosed and less than 1 year old when she completed treatment. “I’m a cancer survivor myself and I know how much the American Cancer Society has helped me,” she said. “Now that I’m involved in Relay (for Life), I can really see how it affects people and their whole family.” The American Cancer Society is an organization that promotes cancer awareness, offers services for cancer patients and their families, such as financial assistance and informational support, and assists with cancer research. Relay for Life is a community walk to raise money for the ACS. “The American Cancer Society not only gives scholarships, but they also have a lot of research money, and since UNM is a really big cancer research center, a lot of money comes back to UNM for cancer research,” she said. “It really goes back into the community.” Maes said she has a genetic growth syndrome, which is the reason she had cancer. She said she has had kidney problems since she became ill, but that the cancer was more difficult to deal with psychologically than physically. She said participating in Camp Enchantment, a camp hosted by ACS to help cancer patients and family members, taught her to cope with her cancer and encouraged her to become a counselor at the camp. “A lot of it is a psychological challenge — worrying about cancer coming back,” she said. “Once I went to Camp Enchantment, I met a whole bunch of other kids who had cancer. It really helped me open up and accept some of the things I have to struggle with on a daily basis.” Colleges Against Cancer Publicity Chair Josh Dolin said CAC is hosting a donation-based chile cook-off today to raise awareness about the Relay for Life event at UNM. He said the suggested
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Adria Malcolm / Daily Lobo “Inhabitants of Burque” photographer Leo York, right, shares a laugh with Albuquerque poet laureate Hakim Bellamy during an interview Monday. “Inhabitants of Burque” is a Facebook page with more than 1700 likes, and Bellamy plans to put out a weekly video segment on the page starting this week. See full story on Page 7.
South campus development plan progresses by Svetlana Ozden news@dailylobo.com
Agreements to develop commercial locations near Lobo Village are underway. At a Board of Regent’s Finance and Facilities Committee meeting on Monday, board members unanimously approved the South Campus Master Development Agreement without recommendation. The agreement will go before the full Board of Regents at its next meeting. UNM Director of Real Estate Kim Murphy said the agreement explains that the University, the Board of Regents, the Lobo Development Corporation and the developer, Fairmount Properties, will develop proposals for specific sites near Lobo Village. He said the sites include a 4.3acre lot west of Lobo Village, a 1.8-acre lot east of Lobo Village on Avenida Cesar Chavez, and a 45-acre space south of the UNM baseball field. Murphy said the individual proposals will have to be approved. Murphy said the agreement does not yet include ground leases, which are agreements that allow for the development of a piece of property during the lease period, after which the property owner takes over the property. He said the 1.8-acre lot
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higher than the original estimate because it included other costs, such as parking lot construction costs. “Those costs are considerably higher than ours and we have not reconciled that yet, but intend to do that,” he said. Murphy said the agreement will allow Fairmount Properties to seek tenants and property
users and provide them with information about the plans. But Regent Jamie Koch said the full board’s next step before approving the agreement is to understand the potential costs of the project as that may affect whether the regents decide to fund the cost of infrastructure.
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Natalia Jácquez / Daily Lobo Regent Jamie Koch center, speaks to Regent Don Chalmers at the Board of Regents’ Finance and Facilities Committee meeting Monday. The committee voted unanimously to approve the South Campus Master Development Agreement without recommendation.
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will probably become a restaurant location. “The agreement itself is really a process document,” he said. He said specifications for development costs have not yet been determined but that an original estimate totaled about $6 million. Murphy said an estimate from Fairmount Properties was much
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