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UNM employee sacked for embezzlement UNM
soon to be smokefree
By Elizabeth Sanchez @Beth_A_Sanchez Alma Rosa Silva-Banuelos, the University of New Mexico LGBTQ Resource Center’s program specialist, has been terminated by the Office of Academic Affairs, following a UNM Internal Auditing Department review of the center’s financial transactions and travel. Since Jan. 2016, Silva-Banuelos started “raising red flags” with purchases on her University issued Purchasing Card, former Vice President for Equity and Inclusion Dr. Jozi De Leon said in an email to Silva-Banuelos. P-Cards are issued to UNM employees for the purpose of making purchases on behalf of the University that do not exceed $10,000 for approved transactions for goods, materials and supplies or $5,000 for transactions of approved services, according to the P-Card page on UNM’s website. In De Leon’s email, she called the travel “excessive,” questioning
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By Nichole Harwood @Nolidoli1
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An LGBTQ Resource Center employee climbs the stairs of the facility after a tabling event during UNM’s Welcome Back Days on Wednesday.
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The University of New Mexico is now fast-tracking its way to becoming a completely smoke- and tobacco-free environment. The new policy, No. 2250 under the Administrative Policies and Procedures Manual: Transition to a Smoke-and Tobacco-Free Campus, states “UNM will, with few exceptions, become a smokeand tobacco-free environment by Fall Semester 2017. At that time, the only designated smoking areas on campus will be located near the
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