UCAM's News clips for Thursday, April 10, 2008

Schmidly Talks to Campus Via Web (Albuquerque Journal)
By Martin Salazar
Journal Staff Writer

Ten months into the job, University of New Mexico President David Schmidly took to the camera to engage the university community in a discussion about where UNM is and where it's headed.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/10webcast.htm

Faculty to receive 3 percent raise (Daily Lobo)
Rachel Hill

The Board of Regents approved a 3 percent increase in faculty pay last week, but the Faculty Senate said that's not enough.

The organization asked the regents in February for a 6 percent increase, which would make faculty compensation competitive with peer institutions, said Jacqueline Hood, president of the Faculty Senate
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/10faculty.htm

Avoiding Racist Rants Isn't Rocket Science (Albuquerque Journal editorial)

It's one thing to encourage diversity. That usually entails some combination of understanding, tolerance and appreciation of differences.

It's another to devolve into a name-calling rant that paints one race with a broad, bigoted brush.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/10rants.htm

UNM's Recruiting Tenacity Impresses Texas Standout (Albuquerque Journal)
By Ken Sickenger
Journal Staff Writer

The University of New Mexico women's basketball team is looking to add height for 2008-09.

It could come from Texas.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/10recruiting.htm

Lobo QB Porterie Looks Forward to Challenge (Albuquerque Journal)
By Greg Archuleta
Journal Staff Writer

Now that the keys to the University of New Mexico football team's offense finally are in Donovan Porterie's hands, he doesn't mind the rebuilding job that awaits him.

After all, it's fashionable these days to pimp one's ride.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/10lobo.htm

Gov. Wants More Judge Candidates (Albuquerque Journal)

The District Court Judicial Nominating Commission is recommending one candidate to fill the seat on the Metro Court bench vacated by the ousted J. Wayne Griego, but Gov. Bill Richardson says he wants more names.

Maria Dominguez, an Albuquerque attorney, was interviewed and selected Wednesday from a pool of four applicants, according to a news release from the commission. A fifth, Mark Reitman, previously withdrew his name.

But in a letter Wednesday to Suellyn Scarnecchia, dean of the University of New Mexico School of Law who oversees the nominating commission, Richardson requested additional names be submitted.

"The commission is responsible for nominating, not selecting, judicial candidates," Richardson said in a statement.

Scarnecchia could not be reached for comment.
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'Clothesline' Event Targets Abuse (Albuquerque Journal)

An event to raise public awareness about sexual violence and domestic abuse, called "The Clothesline Project," will take place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today on the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center campus.

The event will feature shirts, decorated by victims, that will hang on a clothesline in the HSC Plaza just west of UNM's College of Nursing building.

Groups will be available to provide information about violence against women.

The state Governor's Office of Victim Advocacy is sponsoring the event. Other groups include Rape Crisis Center of Central New Mexico, Enlace, UNM Women's Resource Center and Safe House.
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Honorees Chosen for Excellence (Albuquerque Journal) (HR awarded Pinon)
By Susan Stiger
Copyright © 2008 Albuquerque Journal; Journal Staff Writer

It was a dorm-room dream of freshman idealism. Now it's an award-winning business that sounds as much like a nonprofit as a moneymaker.

Royalty Life Records, in its third self-sustaining year, finds musicians in underprivileged areas and brings them to Albuquerque to live, record and take a whack at their dream profession.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/10honorees.htm

Event aims to educate about sexual assault (Daily Lobo)
Rachel Hill

Students were given prevention tips, free condoms and information about health care services Wednesday in Smith Plaza for Sexual Assault Awareness Day.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/10event.htm

Flag violations tolerated out of respect, patriotism (Daily Lobo Letter to the Editor)

It greatly saddened me to read the letter by Peter Lynch published in the Daily Lobo on April 9.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/10flag.htm

NMSU memo details apology in e-mail uproar  (Las Cruces Sun News)
By Ashley Meeks Sun-News reporter

LAS CRUCES — Larry Olsen, the New Mexico State University administrator accused of e-mailing pornography to a whistle-blowing professor in the College of Health and Social Services, has apologized for doing so, according to a confidential memorandum.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/10nmsu.htm

NMSU redirects problem Web site  (Las Cruces Sun News)
Sun-News report

LAS CRUCES — New Mexico State University's MyNMSU service has been temporarily redirected to an alternate page due to unreliability, the Information & Communication Technologies Department announced Wednesday.

MyNMSU connects the university community to e-mail, class registration, financial aid, faculty grade and class rosters, staff time sheets and other applications.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/10nmsu2.htm

NMSU Engineers Help Develop Solar Power (Albuquerque Journal)
By Kris Fury
NMSU News Service

New Mexico State University's Institute for Energy and the Environment in the College of Engineering has joined with industry, universities, and state and local governments around the country in a strategic partnership with the Department of Energy in The Solar America Initiative.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/10nmsu3.htm

Scoring a scholarship (Santa Fe New Mexican)

MODESTO, Calif. ­ A few nights ago, scholarship applications blanketed my desk, but I hoped to put them to bed soon. I wasn't able to sleep, though. Once my desk was clear of paper, there were more applications to do online.

By the beginning of second semester, most high school seniors like myself have pretty much finished their college applications. Time to kick back and relax, right?
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/10scholarship.htm

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

* New Virginia Laws Respond To Campus-Safety Fears
The two dozen bills signed into law on Wednesday seek to improve campus security and mental-health practices in the hope of averting tragedies like the shootings at Virginia Tech last year.

* Bill Would Set A Deadline For Campus Alerts
The measure, introduced in Congress on Wednesday, would mandate that a warning be given within 30 minutes of an emergency. Colleges oppose any such time limit.

* House Bill Seeks To Prevent -- And Prepare For -- A Crisis In Student Lending
The bill would, among other things, allow the U.S. Education Department to purchase loans in the secondary market, providing lenders with fresh capital to make new loans.

* Campus Legends Of The Fall, And Spring
Tales about college life pass from campus to campus. Some even have a grain of truth.

* For Students Expelled In 1942, A Ceremony To Help Them Heal
The University of Oregon awarded honorary degrees on Sunday to 20 Japanese-Americans who were expelled during World War II. The university's president called the ceremony a step in redressing a "tragic legacy."

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News from Diverse Issues in Higher Education:

* Virginia Tech to Hold “Lie-In” on Anniversary of Tragedy
Family members of the victims of the shooting last April at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University will commemorate the one-year anniversary of the tragedy with other gun violence victims, college students and community members by hosting a “lie-in” on the school’s campus. At the event participants plan urge Congress to toughen the gun laws by closing a loophole that allows the purchase of firearms at gun shows without a background check.
http://diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_10979.shtml

* Federal Lawsuit Filed Over UT Race-based Admissions Policies
A legal group that fights racial preferences in schools filed a federal lawsuit Monday against the University of Texas at Austin, claiming its undergraduate admissions policies violate the Constitution and federal law.
http://diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_10978.shtml

National News:

Exit of College Lenders Sets Off Scramble To Fill Breach (Washington Post)
Nearly 50 student lenders, including some of the industry's biggest names, have stopped issuing federally guaranteed loans in recent weeks because of paralysis in the credit markets, confronting students with higher borrowing costs just as they are starting to apply for financial assistance for the coming school year.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/09/AR2008040904278.html?referrer=emailarticle

ULV Law Review is First Primary Law Journal in California to Adopt Open Access Principles (Denver Post)
ONTARIO, Calif., April 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The University of La Verne College of Law is leading the way in providing open access to legal scholarship. The provisionally American Bar Association-approved* law school's flagship journal, the University of La Verne Law Review, is the first primary law review in California to join Science Commons' Open Access Law Program.
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_8874808?source=email

Albuquerque Media Monitoring
News clips from Wednesday, April 9 include stories about:
* Man convicted of raping UNM student faces murder charges
* Former Lobo Dionne Marsh
* Lobo football
* Diversity workshop raises controversy
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/10media.htm

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