UCAM's News clips for Wednesday, April 2, 2008

1. UNM Must Belly Up To Responsibility Bar (Albuquerque Journal Editorial)

Here’s a free-association history test for officials at the University of New Mexico: Gordon House. Lloyd Larson. Dana Papst. One hundred seventy-six. Around 7,000.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/02editorial.htm

2. Schmidly: Student success focus of new staff position
By: Rachel Hill

UNM will soon have a permanent vice president for enrollment management.

President David Schmidly created the position in July, and Terry Babbitt has been serving as interim since then.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/02schmidly.htm

3. Ex-Dean to Head School for Year (Albuquerque Journal Around the Metro Area)

Leo Romero, a former dean of the University of New Mexico law school, will assume the job on an interim basis, starting May 18.
   
He will head the law school for the 2008-09 school year while a national search is done.

   
Suellyn Scarnecchia announced in February that she was leaving UNM to become vice president and general counsel at the University of Michigan.

   
Romero was associate dean
for academic affairs before spending six years as dean of the law school, ending in 1997. He currently teaches criminal law and procedure classes.

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4. Director of creative writing resigns (Daily Lobo)
Warner says she is angry the department has not punished a colleague for appearing in sexually explicit photos with 3 students.
By: Brandon Call

UNM's director of creative writing said she will resign because her colleague has not been punished for posing in sexually explicit photos with students.

Sharon Warner submitted a letter of resignation March 23 to University administrators. She will step down April 15.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/02warner.htm

5. Arguments Heard In Flag Case (Albuquerque Journal)
Student May Face Fine, Jail Time
BY MARTIN SALAZAR, Journal Staff Writer

The prosecution and defense squared off in Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court on Tuesday in the case of a University of New Mexico student who ripped down a Mexican flag in September.
   
Student Peter Lynch has said he did so because it was flying at the administration building unaccompanied by the U.S. flag, a breach of flag protocol.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/02flag.htm

6. Krebs’ Checklist (Albuquerque Journal)
AD Has Measuring Stick for Lobo Men’s Basketball
BY MARK SMITH, Journal Staff Writer
   
A little more than a year ago, University of New Mexico athletics director Paul Krebs fired men’s basketball coach Ritchie McKay.

   
During his coaching search, he made his expectations public. Krebs said he wanted a coach to, among other things: go undefeated at home, at least .500 on the road and have his bunch mentally tough; to return fans back to the Pit; to be community minded; to win Mountain West Con
ference titles and contend for the NCAA Tournament; to be media savvy and quotable; to restore discipline; to have a team that played hard-nosed defense and was exciting to watch; to graduate players and to make the program strong academically.
   
In March 2007, Krebs hired Steve
Alford away from Iowa to fill those expectations.
   
And how did the first-year coach do according to Krebs’ checklist?
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/02krebs.htm

7. Fiction No Match For NCAA Rules (Albuquerque Journal)
JIM BELSHAW Of the Journal

Deep in the DNA of everyone in the newspaper trade, there lies a novel. We’re always working on it, crafting it, polishing it — and some of us even sit down long enough to write it.
   
But I try to stay away from fiction here. Too many complications arise when you start writing fiction in newspapers.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/02belshaw.htm

8. Topes Foil UNM in Exhibition (Albuquerque Journal)
The Score? It’s Open to Debate

BY RANDY HARRISON, Journal Staff Writer

So was it 3-0? 6-0? Just what?

   
Depends on your perspective of the Albuquerque Isotopes’ exhibition baseball victory Tuesday night over the University of New Mexico at Isotopes Park.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/02baseball.htm

9. News from Inside Higher Education:

* Getting Them In, Getting Them Back
As state lawmakers look for ways to increase college access for rural students, some want to safeguard against graduates jumping to the nearest big city.
http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/04/02/rural

10. News from the Chronicle of Higher Education:
http://libproxy.unm.edu/login?url=http://chronicle.com

* Achieving Carbon Neutrality Involves Tough Choices
University administrators who signed a pledge to make their campuses "climate neutral" learned at a conference in Maryland about just how difficult that can be -- especially if many of their students commute.

* Experimental Use Of Blog-Based Peer Review Gives Mixed Results
Blog-based review shows promise, but the approach is time-consuming, and it will not replace traditional blind peer review anytime soon, participants in the experiment say.

* Virginia's Ban On Alcohol Ads Violates Free Speech, Federal Judge Rules
The state had not proven that preventing student newspapers from running most alcohol advertising had achieved Virginia's goal of curbing underage drinking, said a magistrate judge in the U.S. District Court in Richmond.

11. News from Diverse Issues in Higher Education:

* Cultivating Student Leaders of Color on Majority Campuses
To foster an inclusive leadership environment for women and students of color, student affairs representatives must develop both formal and informal relationships with prospective student leaders to create a welcoming and inclusive environment, said Stephanie Ray, associate dean of students at Georgia Institute of Technology, during a presentation at the American College Personnel Association's annual conference in Atlanta.
http://diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_10921.shtml

* ‘Antipreference’ Campaigns Heat Up
There are no massive crowds at his rallies and no news media entourages documenting his every word and move. Still, Ward Connerly, champion of the nation’s “antipreference” movement, is busy revving up his “Super Tuesday Equal Rights Campaign,” hoping for another knockout punch to the nation’s affirmative action programs for minorities and women.
http://diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_10922.shtml

12. National News:

* Elite Colleges Reporting Record Lows in Admission (NY Times)
The already crazed competition for admission to the nation’s most prestigious universities and colleges became even more intense this year, with many logging record low acceptance rates.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/education/01admission.html?ex=1207800000&en=6e4f4eae26ba8141&ei=5070&emc=eta1

* Just roommates (Boston Globe)
Colleges' final frontier: mixed-gender housing. In the Woodstock era, the advent of coed dorms caused a stir, with Life magazine proclaiming the development "an intimate revolution on campus." Coed floors came along over the next two decades, giving college students immediate proximity to each other. The next step, coed suites and bathrooms, brought the sexes even closer together. http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2008/04/02/just_roommates/?p1=email_to_a_friend

* A quest to create life out of synthetics (Boston Globe)
New science spurs high hopes, worry. It is science so new that even Harvard does not yet offer a formal course in it, although some of the field's pioneering research has been done at the university as well as down the avenue at MIT.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/04/02/a_quest_to_create_life_out_of_synthetics/?p1=email_to_a_friend

13. Albuquerque Media Monitoring
News clips from Tuesday, April 1 include stories about:

* UNM Students on Trial for Damaging Mexican Flag
* Lobos Release 2008 Football Schedule
* Alford Signs Three Year Extension
* UNM Releases RFP to Upgrade Security in Utility Tunnels
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/02media.htm


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