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Lottery funds bill focuses on allocations by Ardee Napolitano news@dailylobo.com @ArdeeTheJourno
SANTA FE – The last senate bill to be introduced in this year’s legislative session reached the New Mexico Senate floor by the end of UNM Day. And it came in time to address a statewide higher education issue. Senate Bill 379, which focuses on money allocation for the Legislative Lottery Scholarship, was introduced in the Senate on Wednesday afternoon, which marked the deadline for the introduction of bills in this year’s session. State Sen. William Payne, R-Albuquerque, sponsored the bill. Payne, who rushed that afternoon to get the bill ready, said his concept has never before been considered by other legislators as a solution to the scholarship’s solvency issue. “A lot of the solutions I’ve put in the past didn’t go anywhere,” he said. “I’ve got another bill that no one has looked at before. On a pro-rata basis, we divide the scholarship money available, and we give them directly to the regents. They determine their own criteria for what the students should get. It may or may not get traction, but it’s a different way than what we have done before.” The proposed bill would still establish minimum scholarship requirements that would apply to all universities statewide, Payne said. Total state funds for the scholarship will be divided proportionally among universities based on factors such as student population, he said. He has already discussed the bill with the president of the Eastern New Mexico University prior to its introduction, Payne said. Payne said solving the scholarship’s solvency issue requires a difficult decision, and that S.B. 379 will allocate the scholarship funds the most efficiently.
Ardee Napolitano / Daily Lobo Associated Students of the University of New Mexico Sen. Austin Megli extends a pile of bead necklaces as he distributes them to attendees of UNM Day on Wednesday morning at the state Legislature. About 100 UNM community members travelled to Santa Fe for the event, in which students met with legislators and adorned them with the beads as a University tradition. University organizations also ran a table in the main lobby of the Roundhouse. “The problem we have is keep- money mismanagement among exclude students from having sources,” he said. “We have $3 million ing the scholarship within the con- universities. access to the Lottery Scholarship,” right now from the budget that would fines of the money raised by lottery “I don’t want them to be making he said. “Not everybody can do take care of this (fiscal) year, and we’re sales,” he said. “We have to change the decisions on how much money a 2.75. I think a 2.5, right now, is going to look for additional money to how it’s portioned to the students. should be given to students or to more realistic. Students have to make sure that we have it until 2015. That’s a political decision that ev- have some sort of rule or procedure work. Students have to take care We’ll have some sort of solution that eryone has a political decision on, for those who get it,” he said. “I just of their children. There are a lot comes out of this session in terms of including every student at UNM. don’t think it’s appropriate.” of things that go on outside of a transforming the lottery scholarship.” We’re hustling with that decision, Sanchez, who introduced and school setting.” UNM President Robert Frank, and hopefully we can come up with pushed for the Legislative Lottery To fix the scholarship for the who appeared at the Legislature a decision.” Scholarship in 1996, said he thinks long term, legislators must seek that day, said that although Payne’s But State Senate Majority Floor that increasing the requirements for more revenue sources instead of bill might be innovative, he has to Leader Sen. Michael Sanchez, the lottery, especially the minimum editing the scholarship’s original look into more information about D-Belen, said the proposed required GPA, is discriminative. form, Sanchez said. it. see UNM Day PAGE 3 bill’s concept would result to “I’m against anything that would “We’re looking for revenue
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The New Mexico women’s basketball team lost 7975 at Wyoming on Wednesday night. Two free throws by guard Sarah Halasz cut the Cowgirls’ lead to 65-62 with 3:29 left. Wyoming then went on an 8-2 run to put away the game and extended its Mountain West home winning streak to five games. UNM guard Antiesha Brown scored a game-high 22 points, becoming the first Lobo to
score 20 or more points on the road this season, on 9 of 19 shooting. Forward Deeva Vaughn was the only other Lobo in double-figures with 16 points. Wyoming (14-6, 5-4 MW) had four players in doubledigits with forward Kayla Woodward’s 22 points leading the way. The Lobos (8-13, 3-7 MW) have lost six out of their last seven games. UNM hit just 35.8 percent of its shots compared to 52.2 percent from Wyoming.
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