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tuesday February 4, 2014
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A woman in blue latex gloves placed an orange stress ball in Janet Frank’s right hand in the Student Union Building Ballroom C on Monday morning. As Frank squeezed, the woman inserted a needle attached to a clear tube into her arm. Moments later, the tube turned dark red. Frank, UNM’s first lady, was the first person to donate blood in the week-long “House Divided” blood drive competition between UNM and New Mexico State University. The event kicked off on Monday at 10 a.m. and runs until Friday at 4 p.m. “I didn’t know that I (was) the first one, but it was an event that I was asked to be involved in,” she said. “I’m not trying to be the first, but if I can lead by example, I will happily do it.” Frank said her husband, UNM President Robert Frank, was supposed to donate blood alongside her, but because of fatigue from his recent trip to China, he was unable to do so at the moment. Still, Janet Frank said the event is healthy for students’ University spirit. “It’s very important in general to give blood,” she said. “And
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William Aranda / Daily Lobo UNM First Lady Janet Frank (right) investigates the theory that Lobo blood runs cherry and silver in SUB Ballroom C on Monday morning. UNM and New Mexico State University kicked off a weeklong blood drive competition called “House Divided” that runs daily until Friday at 4 p.m.
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Di Linh Hoang / Daily Lobo Performers rehearse a scene from a production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” opera staged at UNM’s Keller Hall. This English-language version of “The Magic Flute” is being put on by the opera department and runs from Feb. 20-23.
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Emotional arias and rich contraltos will be coming to UNM’s Keller Hall later this month, as the music department prepares to
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debut its production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” The production is comprised of more than 50 performers, several UNM departments and two directors: Leslie Umphrey and Sam Shepperson. Umphrey said she and
Shepperson have been collaborating on various opera projects for more than three years, and that two directors are often necessary with larger operas. “There are so many details to be taken care of,” said Shepperson.
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Frank visits China
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UNM might help to create a new university in Asia in the next few years. University President Robert Frank on Thursday returned from a six-day trip to China, during which he met with national administrators about the possibility of collaborating with a Chinese university to form a new higher education institution in the country. Frank said the discussions turned out to be very positive for UNM. “We met with government, education and business leaders from China and had some very great conversations with them about the possibilities of partnerships,” he said. As part of one of six development projects in western China, officials have requested UNM’s help in developing an 87-acre strip of land into a new university, Frank said. If the deal pulls through, the University will collaborate on creating educational programming for
the new Chinese university, he said. “Eastern China is like where New York is,” he said. “Western China is like where North Dakota is. It’s like the Badlands; they want to move 400,000 people in China there. They’re going to build a new city there.” At the moment, only two American universities, Duke University and New York University, and two British universities, the University of Nottingham and the University of Liverpool, are participating in this type of project in China, Frank said. “It’s just a great opportunity in terms of the Chinese and the American universities that they have chosen,” he said. “We’re moving into the best universities in the world, among the best of the best. It puts UNM in good company.” But Frank said he is still uncertain of which Chinese university UNM will work with because the conversations are in preliminary stages. The project will further globalize UNM’s population,
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