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March 25,2010
Fair: Food can be used as a peace weapon by Andrew Beale Daily Lobo
Vanessa Sanchez / Daily Lobo UNM students and local renegades show off their flavor savers. Mustachio Bashio happens Friday at the DoubleTree. If you don’t have a mustache, they will give you one at the door.
I know where you keep your ‘stache by Hunter Riley Daily Lobo
Like body hair, Mustachio Bashio has grown over the years. Dominic Abbott is one of the organizers for Friday’s party and said that each year the bash is bigger and better. “It’s about putting your inhibitions aside, both men and women and letting the mustache shine,” he said. “If you don’t have a mustache, you’ll get one at the door.” This year the party is at the Doubletree Hotel and they’ll have bands, DJs and beer. “This year we’re bringing in two bands, Lost Lingo and the Squash Blossom Boys, as well as bringing in DJ Dizzan and DJ Click Click Bang,” he said. “This year there will be a mustache competition, and if they want to be in the
competition they have to get there a little early to sign up.” The mustache competition has different categories people of both genders are encouraged to sign up for, he said. “The categories are Best in Show, the Bearded Lady, the Dirty Sanchez and more — I can’t give them all away,” Abbott said. Andrew Hannington, an avid mustache grower, said he has had his mustache since he was 15. “I trim it, you know, whenever you get boogers stuck in it or bits of clam chowder,” Hannington said. He said he has had mustache mishaps in his past, but he still likes the look. “It blew my face up in a tar kettle,” he said. “Definitely when I set fire to it was the most traumatizing. A tar kettle is used for roofing, and it has two huge propane burners inside of it. When I asked if I could light it no one warned
Mustachio Bashio Doubletree Hotel 201 Marquette Ave. N.W. Friday 8 p.m. – 1:30 a.m. $5 me that 10 minutes before they had been trying to light it (too), so the entire thing was full of gas. It was, in fact, a bomb. I put my head in it, lit the match and lost all the hair on my face.” The pros of a mustache outweigh the task of maintaining one, he said. “It’s extraordinarily sexy,” he said. “It’s a very sexy mustache.”
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A new assessment will determine how UNM students measure up to their peers at other institutions. A group of randomly selected graduating seniors will receive emails through April 15 that invite then to participate in the Collegiate Learning Assessment. After this academic year, at least 250 randomly selected first-semester freshmen and 250 graduating seniors can also choose to participate. “The CLA is a measure of student learning in critical thinking, problem solving, analytical and English writing,” said Tom Root, outcomes assessment planning manager at the Office
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of the Provost. UNM is participating in the Voluntary System of Accountability, where universities are required to measure education outcomes, Root said. About 400 other universities nationwide, including other public New Mexico universities, are also participating. This is the first time UNM has tried to measure the learning progress of undergraduate students, Root said. Students will have 90 minutes to complete two to nine short essays online in a proctored setting, said Amy Korzekwa, graduate research assistant for the CLA project. The program determines the amount of short essays students will complete from a variety of questions. “All of the prompts are supposed
to be real-world kind of topics that involve some kind of critical thinking and problem solving,” Korzekwa said. Participants will be compensated for their time. Freshmen participants will be entered into a raffle, receive a UNM shirt, UNM food service discount coupons, UNM Bookstore coupons and priority registration. Seniors will receive the same benefits with a week of free parking in any zone instead of priority registration, Korzekwa said. During September and October, 256 entering freshmen answered the essays. As of yet, 70 seniors participated in the questions. Kara Hermanns, freshman, said the rewards she received for filling out
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GPSA Election GPSA candidate application deadlines are extended to Wednesday, March 31 at 5 p.m. Candidates interested in applying to be GPSA president or council chair need to drop their applications off at the GPSA office in the bottom floor of the SUB.
Pageant favors brains over beauty
Intercollegiate test compares students by Nicole Raz
Students danced and practiced yoga for peace in the SUB Wednesday. The fifth annual UNM Peace Fair, held in the SUB, featured performances and about 25 Albuquerque organizations presented ideas about peace. “As part of the Peace Studies program, students do an internship,” said Les Field, director of the Peace Studies program. “This was their internship project this semester. We got the ball rolling, and then the students organized it.” Simon Ejdemyr, a Peace Studies student, said the fair was organized around two principles. “The first step was brainstorming what theme we wanted,” he said. “We focused on two: religion and peace and food and peace.” There were two panel
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Night of Glamour for Charity Shonnetta Henry was crowned as Miss Silver Rose on Tuesday evening at Omega Delta Phi’s fifth annual pageant. Twelve contestants competed in categories including interview, cocktail and formal attire, spirit and talent. Omega Delta Phi donated $600 to Henry’s charity of choice, the Albuquerque Boys and Girls Clubs. “They provide lots of different
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services for youth for only $2 a year,” Henry said. “They provide a meal five days a week, supervision, mentoring, camp opportunities, Christmas gifts, clothes. Especially in the economy now it would make sense for them to raise their prices to be able to still support the children, but they haven’t, so I thought it was important to help them out.” Issac Casas, Omega Delta Phi alumnus, said the event allows accomplished UNM women to be recognized for their achievements.
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