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Athletics owes UNM $1.2M Athletics tightens own budget to pay back loan by Ardee Napolitano news@dailylobo.com
It will take the Athletics Department more than eight years to pay back the $1.25 million loan it took from the University last year. Athletics Deputy Director Tim Cass said the department started paying back the loan at the beginning of July of last year. He said the University gave the department 10 years to pay back the loan, and that Athletics pays UNM $12,500 per month. Cass said the University gave Athletics this one-time loan in June of last year because football ticket sales were lower than expected. The department also spent more than expected, and it needed the loan to balance its budget for expenses such as team travel, equipment and scholarships for athletes. “Our projections and our budgets didn’t match our expenses,” he said. Athletics got the loan in addition to a $50 increase in student fees, which the UNM Board of Regents approved last April to assist with the department’s annual operating and studentathlete budget. Cass said funding for the University loan did not come from student fees, and the student fee increase is a separate issue. He said the University did not charge interest on the loan, and
Athletics organized a repayment plan for the loan at the time it was granted. Cass said football ticket sales increased this year and that Athletics received more money for playing road games. He said these increases in revenue are the main sources of money the department uses to pay back the loan. “We had a better year for football ticket sales this year,” he said. “And we receive, for example, a game guarantee for a road football game where we played the University of Texas this year and got $1 million. And we have several game-guarantee games slated.” Cass said that although UNM is the highest-ranked athletic department in the Mountain West Conference, it spends less than other participating universities. “What should be noted is that we have operated on the leanest budget and with the highest national finish,” he said. “We have self-generated about 83 percent of our own budget. Only 17 percent of our income comes from student fees or government or institutional support.” According to a budget document from Athletics, the department expects to spend $29.4 million this fiscal year. The department budgeted $13 million for personnel costs, $3.9 million for grants for athletes and $3.1 million for team travel costs. The rest is for other expenses, including utilities, insurance, dues, taxes and equipment.
The document also shows the department received $3 million in student fees for the current fiscal year. The largest portion of revenue came from ticket sales, which was $6.6 million, followed by corporate sponsorships, which was $5.3 million. Cass said the amount of student fees Athletics receives from UNM is significantly lower than the amount of student fees other universities’ athletics departments receive. However, Cass would not let the Daily Lobo see the document from which he got this information. Cass said Athletics has made efforts to limit its spending to make it easier for the department to pay back the loan. “We primarily fly Southwest Airlines because there are no baggage fees,” he said. “That saves us $50,000 to $100,000. We’ve also done away with a lot of landlines in offices because people are using their mobile devices much more.” Cass said that although the $29.4 million budget is primarily focused on operations of Athletics, aiding the department helps the University as a whole. “Yes it’s affecting the 450 student athletes, but it’s actually affecting the rest of the students,” he said. “I think there’s an element of camaraderie that goes with having competitive academic programs. To simply just divide 450 from $29 million, I think, is a little shallow.”
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Lawmakers of two minds about gun control news@dailylobo.com
This week, the Legislature opened with two opposing bills: one to tighten New Mexico’s gun laws, and one to make federal gun control laws unenforced in the state. Hearings began Monday afternoon in the House Judiciary Committee on House Bill 77, a gun control bill sponsored by Rep. Miguel Garcia (D-Albuquerque). The bill, also known as the Firearms Transfer Act, seeks to outline more precise standards for prohibiting certain individuals, such as drug addicts or convicted felons, from owning firearms. In addition, it would establish procedures for background checks, create a process for governing gun purchases made at gun shows and establish criminal penalties for violating these new regulations. At Monday’s hearings, the Legislative Finance Committee released a fiscal impact report, which outlined concerns the committee had with the act. The report questioned whether the background check provisions
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are under 18 years of age (current New Mexico statutes do not specify a minimum age to possess rifles or shotguns, though they specify that anyone under 19 years of age cannot own a handgun.)
are subject to a restraining order regarding domestic violence, or have been convicted of a domestic violence misdemeanor
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have received a dishonorable discharge from the U.S. armed forces
are a “fugitive from justice” have been convicted of, or are under indictment for, a felony
have been judged mentally incompetent or has been committed to a mental institution are unlawful users of or are addicted to alcohol or a controlled substance
The State Graduate Employment Tax Credit Bill would attempt to revitalize the New Mexico economy and prevent science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) graduate students from taking jobs out of state by offering tax credits to employers who would hire them. The Legislative Finance Committee listed the following concerns with the bill:
The tax credits are geared toward employers who hire students with STEM graduate degrees. According to the report, those students “already experience substantially higher earnings and lower unemployment rates than other graduates.” Therefore, there are no incentives to hire undergraduates or graduate students with non-STEM degrees.
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The Firearms Transfer Act seeks primarily to establish more stringent background checks, stricter regulation of gun sales and create penalties for violating these provisions. The bill would deny firearms to people who:
A report by the Legislative Finance Committee suggested several amendments for the bill. Here are some of the major changes:
- Clarification of the exact types of sources to be used by the New Mexico Department of Public Safety when conducting background checks with regard to private transfers at gun shows. - Elimination of state background check requirement in the case of firearms transfers within families, for collectors of firearms considered “relic” firearms by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, for those voluntarily transferring firearms to a law enforcement agency, for those acquiring firearms through the Civilian Marksmanship Program, and for those renting firearms at a private shooting range. - Elimination or reduction of fees associated with background checks and the requirement of only one fee for firearms transfers between two persons.
Employers would only receive a tax credit for hiring students who received their graduate degree at an in-state university. New Mexico residents who earned their graduate degrees out of state would not count for employers’ tax credit eligibility.
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The bill contains an annual $2 million tax credit cap statewide, which would cover 400 graduates at $5,000 a year. If more than 400 STEM graduates are hired in one year, employers might not receive their tax credit. This uncertainty might make businesses and corporations hesitant to hire graduates under the provisions in the bill, defeating its purpose.
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were too strict, and said the language regarding where the background checks would come from was too vague. This bill stands in direct contrast to HB 114, a bill sponsored by Rep. Nora Espinoza (R-Roswell). Espinoza’s bill would penalize New Mexico firearms dealers and police who attempt to enforce federal firearm regulations within state borders, as well as federal officials who attempt to enforce the same regulations within state borders. Such enforcement would be considered a third degree felony under this bill. The bill includes language to allow the New Mexico attorney general to defend New Mexico in the case of any legal action from the federal government for defying federal firearms regulations, and nullifies any federal firearms regulations within the borders of New Mexico created or effective on or after July 1 of this year. HB 114 is set to be heard today in the House Consumer &
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Public Affairs Committee. No fiscal impact report has been released for it. In the Senate, Senate Bill 11, the State Graduate Employment Tax Credit bill introduced by Sens. Timothy Keller (D-Albuquerque) and James Smith (RSandia Park) passed through the Senate Corporations & Transportation Committee by a margin of one vote. It will be considered next in the Senate Finance Committee, date to be determined. The bill would provide a $5,000 tax credit to New Mexico businesses and corporations per in-state graduate hired. They can claim the credit for two taxable years. However, the tax credits would only apply to master’s and doctoral students with degrees in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields, and the credit would not be available if the newly hired graduate replaces or performs the job of a previous in-state graduate. Furthermore, the credits are capped at $2 million annually, which would cover 400 hires.
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ACLU: Birth control available nationwide at Walgreens by Russell Contreras The Associated Press
Walgreens won’t allow individual pharmacists’ personal religious beliefs to prevent customers from filling birth control prescriptions, two New Mexico advocacy groups have announced. The Deerfield, Ill.-based company told the American Civil Liberties Union and the Southwest Women’s Law Center that the company will take steps nationwide to make sure customers received prescriptions regardless of employees’ beliefs, ACLU of New Mexico said in a statement last week. The announcement comes after an Albuquerque Walgreens pharmacist last year refused to fill the birth control prescriptions for two women due to his religious beliefs. The ACLU said that Walgreens pharmacists in Georgia and Alabama last year also refused to sell Culture Editor Nicole Perez Assistant Culture Editor Antonio Sanchez Sports Editor Thomas Romero-Salas Assistant Sports Editor J. R. Oppenheim Opinion/ Social Media Editor Alexandra Swanberg Multi Media Editor Zachary Zahorik
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The company will provide training to store personnel to ensure they understand of the policy, Walgreens said. Michael Polzin, a spokesman for the Illinois-based company, told The Associated Press that Walgreens is reiterating to employees the company’s current policies and will work to clarify its current policies with pharmacists. The advocacy groups said Jan. 22 that they were satisfied with the company’s assurances. “We applaud Walgreen Co. for their good faith efforts to ensure that women are not refused medication because of an individual employee’s religious beliefs,” said ACLU of New Mexico Executive Director Peter Simonson. “Individual pharmacists certainly have a protected right to exercise their religious beliefs, but those beliefs cannot cause a company to discriminate against its customers.”
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Chavez mimic a hoot in Miami by Christine Armario The Associated Press
MIAMI — It’s an hour before showtime, and Gustavo Rios is transforming himself into Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. A makeup artist paints his skin a dark olive tone. A plastic mole is glued strategically on the upper right corner of his forehead. Large, latex ears and a short, black wig cover his head as he squints and purses his lips in front of a mirror. He mimics Chavez with comical, exaggerated precision, his voice billowing in a triumphant tone and his hands prancing in the air. It’s a mockery that came with a price in Venezuela, where the boisterous, domineering president has carefully cultivated his image as a widely supported savior: Rios was taunted, threatened, robbed, even had his car set ablaze. Rios fled Venezuela, and now his act is featured in a Spanish-language show broadcast on U.S. airwaves. Meanwhile, the real Chavez lies ill in a Cuban hospital recovering or suffering — no one seems to know exactly — from complications following cancer surgery in December. He dresses in the president’s iconic red and pokes fun at being in the hospital. On a recent show, he stood chained to an IV but danced to the 1980 hit “Celebration” as he played Nintendo Wii. What he doesn’t do: mention the word “cancer.” Rios knows what cancer is like. His own father has it. “Cancer is a very grueling illness,” he says, his voice solemn. Rios first did his Chavez impression on a radio show called “Con
Suzette Laboy / AP Photo In this video frame grab taken Thursday, Gustavo Rios has makeup applied at the Mega TV studios in Miami. Rios, a native of Venezuela, parodies Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in a weekly show on Mega TV. It’s a parody he once did in Venezuela, a joke that made Chavez loyalists mad. He fled the country and was granted asylum in the United States. Las Pilas Puestas” — “With the Batteries On” — in Maracaibo, a city along the western coast of Venezuela that is his family’s hometown. He pretended to talk with the presidents of Cuba, Russia and Iran and Osama bin Laden about conquering the world. On one episode, he schemed to kidnap the president of the United States and torture him with hours of Mexican norteno music, a folk genre that features the accordion and has roots in polka. Not everyone thought it was funny. Supporters of Chavez, who for years has condemned U.S. capitalism and pushed a socialist platform, called him names: Weakling. Imperialist. Oligarch. On four occasions, his car was robbed. Then it was set on fire outside the studio in midday. There were threatening messages, notes that promised death. Eventually, he took his wife and 3-year-old son and filed for political asylum in Miami, home to the
largest Venezuelan population outside the South American country — most of them fiercely anti-Chavez. “It was terrible,” he says. “Leaving my family was the worst.” He had no contacts, no real way of making a name for himself in radio again. So the now 40-year-old comedian did what most immigrants do: He washed dishes. Delivered pizzas. Painted buildings. Meanwhile, Rios also put together a demo tape of his impressions — he does more than 80 public personalities — and dropped it off at studios. A Cuban actor who had worked in Venezuela and was on the radio in Miami heard it and called him for an interview. “He was one of the first people I listened to imitating Chavez,” said the actor, Omar Moynelo. “For me, it was a great find.” More and more Venezuelans
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Don’t bring your sword of justice to a gun fight Editor’s note: This is in response to the column “Gun worship has gone too far,” published in the Daily Lobo on Jan. 18. In his column, Jason Darensburg argued that despite recent legislation, people will still have broad access to guns. He also criticized the National Rifle Association’s presence in the legislative process, stating that “the NRA needs to be excluded from any further public debate on gun control.” Editor, Never before have I encountered such blatantly negative left-wing rhetoric before reading this column. Everything inside is not only some of the most ridiculously biased, uneducated wording I have ever read, but also attempts to persuade anyone who feels even slightly threatened by gun control. So it isn’t enough that all of Jason’s liberal ideals are bouncing around in his head — he has to share it with the world. Bravo, editorial staff. I seriously hope you don’t pay this fool for this garbage. I don’t care to go into too many details regarding my gripes with this column, but just the idea that anyone sits at home and worships their guns is flat out idiotic. Most people don’t think about their guns on a daily basis — hell, most people don’t even clean them. Of course, simpletons like you think everyone living on the other side of the political fence is as dumb as a bag of rocks and lives in an actual pig pen. And no, I’m not paranoid that anyone will take my guns anytime soon, especially when the state seems to be almost entirely against gun control. You’re in the minority out here, buddy. You might want to get out before the rampant gun ownership kills you. I can always count on one mouseminded idiot to bring the big issue of gun control to the table and make a fool of himself; this time it was made a public statement. I congratulate you, sir. Surely your vast, unbiased intellect will prevail against us brutal, evil gun owners. If that won’t, then the sword of justice you carry on your side will surely assist you in smiting the demonic, fundamentalist conservatives, if you can get close enough to swing it. Patrick Gallagher Daily Lobo reader
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Our alternatives: conserve or perish Editor’s note: This is in response to an online comment posted on Peter Kindilien’s column “What lack of sense has done,” published in Wednesday’s Daily Lobo. The column rewrote the lyrics of a song, changing them to comment on the woeful state of humanity and how it’s all our fault. Commenter “phillip howel” posed the question, “And your alternative is…?” This is Kindilien’s response.
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Daily Lobo columnist opinion@dailylobo.com During the energy crises of the 1970s, with the shock of gas rationing and escalating prices at the pump, much ado was made about how we could abate our thirst for Arab oil. The idea was that collectively we would all start driving smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles. Automobile manufacturers commenced to proudly tout the remarkable reduction their new vehicles showed in gas consumption. With the warning that oil and coal reserves would start to run low in the 21st century, interest in alternative fuels and renewable sources of energy emerged. Former President Jimmy Carter even had solar panels installed on the roof of the White House. But things quickly changed for the worse, as they so often do. Business went back to usual. In fact, shortly after jumping on the “smaller is better” bandwagon, car makers realized they could make a much larger profit per unit on larger vehicles than they could on cute, little gas misers. Enter the most fuel-inefficient, gas-guzzling form of transporting a suburbanite the world had ever seen. Six-thousand-pound pickup trucks, Hummers, SUVs, you name it: Road monsters designed for you and me. Consumer tests proved that most of the great mileage claims made for new vehicles had been inflated, and this trend has continued right up to the present day. The figures are sometimes so inflated that one can only assume the auto industry views its customers as laughably gullible and naive. Former President Ronald Reagan tore down the White House’s solar panels and then famously said, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” With the collapse of our archenemy, the Soviet Union, advertising went into full gear, offering up all the accoutrements that, after all, were our just rewards for becoming the new kings of the universe. “Conservation” disappeared from the nation’s vocabulary as quickly as it had appeared. With political influence over
most oil-producing nations, we had access to as much black crude as we could pay for. To flaunt it, we would all receive an image makeover. Macho and cool became the norm, and a nation of bodybuilders and milquetoasts alike all climbed aboard their very own faux construction vehicles. U.S. cars had been notoriously unsafe for decades, long after Europe had started building many of their vehicles with crush-proof passenger compartments in the 1950s. Detroit waited another 15 years until the warning cry of Ralph Nader’s book “Unsafe at Any Speed” shook the complacency of the industry and the nation. The nasty Socialist countries across the pond all had national health systems that bore the heavy expense of increasing highway carnage. Therefore, their governments were highly motivated to encourage their auto companies to provide safer products for their citizens. U.S. companies routinely forestalled this approach by lobbying Congress to defeat stricter regulations on safety, until the tipping point arrived when large numbers of class-action lawsuits finally made it less profitable.
America’s love affair with the freedom of the road has ignored one very crucial fact. Big, heavy, steel-constructed trucks do have the benefit of being, in theory, much safer for interior occupants than the tin cans we’d been sold previously. Of course, that perception of advantage is rather reversed for anyone in a more petite vehicle who is unfortunate enough to be in a collision with a road-hogging behemoth. From a pop-psychology perspective, it is amazing how timid, supposedly gentle souls become transformed upon straddling one of these great beasts of excessive horsepower. Heretofore untapped sources of rage and hostility are unleashed as they cut paths of destruction, bullying and sometimes running over anything smaller that gets in the way — including bicyclists and pedestrians — all the while texting the word “like” 10,000 times a day to the legion of people surely destined to be their lifelong friends. Under former President Bill Clinton, an energy policy of which we could all be proud was finally officially established. We would deplete the world’s oil, gas and coal reserves
at an accelerated pace in order to prevent China’s economy from becoming greater than ours. At one point under former President George W. Bush, Congress offered a huge tax break to any business that purchased a vehicle which exceeded some ridiculous weight. You never saw so many pet groomers and party decorators storming the streets in what had been originally designed as all-terrain military transport vehicles. I remember the first time I drove across this country, passing dilapidated shacks one could see all the way through, with shiny new Cadillacs parked in their driveways. On the road, we are able to assume the persona of who we imagine ourselves to be, as long as we convince creditors to cough up sufficient moola. But America’s love affair with the freedom of the road has ignored one very crucial fact. We see the same problem with all of our carbon-fuel burning inventions. There is a hidden cost to the environment that has not been accounted for in our thirst for development and growth, because it has not been figured into the price of the products and services we receive. Cumulatively, that cost is rapidly approaching the point where the ecosystem we exploit in order to maintain our way of life will soon collapse, with catastrophic repercussions. That is what “unsustainable” means: We will not survive in the long term. So we are barreling downhill, with control slipping from our hands, toward a brick wall. We can tax the hell out of carbon, vastly expand public transportation, abandon our dependence on individual vehicles, filter and sequester emissions from modern coal-fired plants, retire the inefficient, old ones and walk away from poorly designed new plants that can’t be converted. Without careful government planning, policies and industry regulation, it’s sayonara. As was clearly demonstrated by the biofuels debacle, subsidizing unproven technology that turns out not to be cost-effective is to pursue a fool’s errand of “doing anything, even if it’s wrong.” So my answer to Phillip is that we should stop electing people who don’t give a rat’s a** about anything but padding their own pockets and providing huge tax breaks to big energy companies. We need to arrest population growth and take advantage of cleaner, renewable energy options. The greatest impediment, which no one wants to acknowledge, is that prevention offers no profit incentive to special interests. Exactly like health care.
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Developing a game in 2 days Groups create video games during international event by Antonio Sanchez culture@dailylobo.com
Empty energy drink bottles littered the halls of UNM’s Interdisciplinary Film and Digital Media building Sunday night as a horde of bodies rushed from one room to another. Fear not, zombie slayers; this ghoulish gang was not the walking dead. They were exhausted game developers. Local developers took part in this weekend’s Global Game Jam, a video-game developing event in which participants across 300 cities create and produced games in 48 hours. The Global Game Jam is not a contest but instead a challenge for game developers everywhere to test their talents. Developers were allowed to create any style of game as long as it fell in line with this year’s theme: a beating heart. During the weekend, UNM’s IFDM building hosted 35 Albuquerque game developers who were separated into production teams that produced a combined six games. At the end of the 48 hours, production teams presented their final product and uploaded their games to the Global Game Jam website, from which anyone can download and play any game. The Albuquerque teams presented their games to the Doña Ana County and Las Cruces teams via webcam on Sunday. Although each team had the same theme, no two games were alike. One game made players virtual assassins, searching for their kill by listening for an irregular heartbeat; another game allowed players to control a person’s blood flow, pushing potentially deadly viruses from a susceptible organ to a virus-killing organ. UNM student Jeremy Bernstein was the lead developer for the IFDM team “Coffee, We Like It,” which produced the first-person suspense game “There Was a Hole.” In the game, players walk through a snowy forest in search
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Rachel Toraño-Mark / Daily Lobo Members of a developer team presented their game “Viral Beatdown” as the Global Game Jam concluded Sunday afternoon. “Viral Beatdown” allows players to control a person’s blood flow, pushing potentially deadly viruses from a susceptible organ to a virus-killing organ. of their heart. The closer players get to their heart, the faster the heart beats. As each beat is heard, the player’s vision flashes between their snowy surroundings and a gloomy red “other world” where the player’s “inner demons” can be seen following them. The primary goal is to reach your heart before your inner demons reach you. Bernstein, who slept only four hours throughout the 48-hour competition, said sleep deprivation played a key role in the competition. “When you start falling asleep, you can’t think anymore. You start to get sloppy; you kind of tend to make mistakes, and you do tend to work slower, so there is a balance you have to make between being well-rested,” Bernstein said. Bernstein wasn’t the only exhausted participant. The co-lead designer for “There Was a Hole,” Eric Geusz, brought a sleeping bag and pillow to the event, only to find himself one of many other cranky designers standing outside Sunday night at 1:30 a.m. after someone pulled a fire alarm in the building. “There Was a Hole” lead art developer Ryan Knudsen, who fell asleep on his keyboard Sunday afternoon, said he has participated in the Global Game Jam since it
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