Daily Lobo new mexico
thursday April 30, 2015 | Volume 119 | Issue 151
The Independent Student Voice of UNM since 1895
Dean’s resignation a result of disparity By Marielle Dent David Herring, UNM’s School of Law dean, is resigning due to disagreements with faculty members over two goals he had articulated when assuming the position in May, 2013.
The resignation was announced Tuesday by Provost Chaouki Abdallah, who said it will be effective July 1. Herring will remain at the law school as a tenured faculty member. “It’s just a poor fit between me and the law school
faculty at this point,” Herring said. “I have certain goals that I articulated from the beginning when I joined this law school about two years ago. The faculty was excited about those goals but now they’ve changed their minds so it’s time to part ways.”
The goals he had highlighted were a “rigorous assessment of student learning outcomes” and to “create incentives for faculty to pursue interdisciplinary, empirical scholarship.” Assessments of student learning outcomes are now required by the American
Bar Association for accreditation, Herring said. The search for a new dean has already begun and the hope is to have an appointee by July 1, according to a UNM press release. Only senior law school faculty will be considered in the search
for a permanent dean. Input from leaders within the law school community will be taken into consideration, according to the press release. This is because of the dean’s multiple roles, which include participation on judicial selec-
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What it really means to protest
Kanan Mammadli / Daily Lobo / @Kenan_Mammadly
A group of protesters gather at UNM near Central Avenue and Cornell Drive early Wednesday evening in solidarity with protests in Baltimore, Maryland. That city has been gripped with protests devolving into riots after the death of Freddie Gray, who died while in police custody.
Annual memorial honors medical donors Evicted By Matthew Reisen
The donated cadavers of friends and family were memorialized this weekend by UNM medical students. The cadavers are donated to the anatomy lab and are used to further student’s education. The annual memorial was held at the Newman Center,
across from Dane Smith Hall on Saturday and lasted from 10 a.m. until around noon. Leah Lucero, a first year medical student, was elected along with Michelle Sandoval to head up the press committee for the memorial, she said. “It was really impressive, to me, how it all came together and how much so many people were willing to contribute
to this,” Lucero said. “I was really happy to be involved with it. I was honored to be part of the ceremony.” Sandoval, another first year medical student, said the memorial involved student speakers, a non-denominational speaker along with various music played and performed throughout the ceremony. Sandoval said she and Lu-
cero performed “Wind Beneath My Wings,” by Bette Midler, with Lucero playing piano and Sandoval on vocals. Lucero said student speakers gave speeches on different subjects relating to the donors including; poems, personal shared experiences and letters addressed to donors. “The theme of all the speeches was saying, just
‘thank you.’ Not only for teaching us but them donating their bodies is going to benefit humanity eventually because all of us are training to be healthcare professionals. There’s no way we could obtain this knowledge without working on the bodies,” Lucero said. “We could really never learn this from any other means, not
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Database helps track artwork restoration By Thomas Romero-Salas, Liam Cary-Eaves and Aaron Anglin
It’s hard not to notice the many pieces of public art around Albuquerque. In fact, Albuquerque has
more than 820 pieces of public art and about a third of those are outdoors, which are subject to the unpredictable weather conditions. To combat this, Albuquerque has a Public Art Program which is dedicated to maintaining and restoring public art.
Dan Fuller, the Public Art Collection coordinator for Albuquerque, said the way the city goes about deciding which public arts need restoration and or maintenance is decided by several different factors. “We have a regular, ongoing maintenance program.
Some are regularly scheduled, some are maintained/ conserved as the need arises,” he said. “Most works are checked (site visit) on a monthly basis and reports are sent to me here at the Public Art offices. The work load is distributed based on
availability of the contractors who work with us. Sometimes regular staff will take care of the smaller problems, and all maintenance issues are balanced against available funding for the work.”
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eateries petition to stay By David Lynch For six years, Sahara Middle Eastern Eatery and Times Square Deli Mart have been serving students in the SUB, making everything from lamb shawarmas to roast beef sandwiches. They had no complaints, and no issues with the SUB or University administration. Which is why Sahara’s owner, Helen Nesheiwat, and the restaurant’s employees were caught completely off guard when they received a notice early last week say-
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