UCAM's News clips for Thursday, April 17, 2008
1. Safer Campuses Worth Universities' Efforts (Albuquerque Journal)
Can safety drills, cell-phone warning systems and early identification of troubled students make New Mexico's public colleges and universities safe?
Not completely. Thousands of students— and non-students— walk through the University of New Mexico campus every day. It just took one disturbed student to shoot 32 innocent people at Virginia Tech a year ago.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/17safer.htm2. 250 Screened for TB After Scare (Albuquerque Journal)
By Olivier Uyttebrouck, Journal Staff Writer
State health officials are screening 250 people in Clovis and Albuquerque for tuberculosis after they were in contact with a health care worker diagnosed with the disease.
Department of Health officials said the case does not pose a public health threat because tuberculosis is transmitted only by prolonged exposure in a confined space.
Officials said medical privacy laws prevent them from identifying the health care worker or any institutions where the person worked.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/17tb.htm3. Vision takes majority of ASUNM positions (Daily Lobo)
By: Maggie YbarraThe Vision slate dominated the undergraduate elections Wednesday, according to unofficial results provided by the ASUNM Elections Commission.
The official results will be released today at 5 p.m.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/17asunm.htm4. Protesters: Buying guns is too easy (Daily Lobo)
By: Maggie YbarraWhen Robert Forbes was a teenager, doctors diagnosed him with a mental illness.
But when a sporting goods store ran a background check on him when he wanted to buy a gun, a look into his medical records wasn't required, said Peter Forbes, Robert's father.
"He went out and bought a gun," he said. "He then went out to a sporting good store and bought ammunition, and then he killed himself. That's the story with our son."
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/17protesters.htm5. Slow economy hard on graduates (Daily Lobo)
By: Xochitl CamposStudent Ben Mills sits at a table at Satellite Coffee, poring over a book for his French 200 class.
Mills is here at least four times a week, studying the material he needs to know to graduate in May.
Mills, who is majoring in international politics, found out last week that he was accepted to Denver University to study international relations as a graduate student.
But this week's task is more daunting - finding a way to pay for it.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/17economy.htm6. Letters to the Editor (Daily Lobo)
* Students with disabilities face entrenched prejudice
Being a student at UNM is not an easy thing. It is particularly difficult for students with disabilities.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/17letter.htm* Respect your own country by respecting other flags
What makes every so-called loyal American think that other countries do not revere the flag to the same dying degree that we do in the U.S.?
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/17letter2.htm7. Women Have Lofty Goals (Albuquerque Journal)
By Glen Rosales For the Journal
Britney Choy's 2007 fall season was wrecked by a back injury that required surgery during the summer.
Since the sophomore for the University of New Mexico women's golf team returned to the course in January, however, she and the Lobos have taken on a new look.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/17golf.htm8. It's Arnett's Time To Step Up (Albuquerque Journal)
By Greg Archuleta, Journal Staff Writer
Zach Arnett is keeping his head— if not his helmet— about the lack of experience at the linebacker position during the University of New Mexico's spring football practice.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/17football.htm9. Lobos Falter Vs. 'Cats (Albuquerque Journal)
By Ken Sickenger, Journal Staff Writer
There's not much margin for error when you're trying knock off a nationally ranked program.
Errors came back to bite the University of New Mexico baseball team Wednesday in a 4-2 loss to Arizona at wind-blown Isotopes Park.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/17baseball.htm10. News from Inside Higher Education:
* A Press Revolt Against E-Packet Practices
Suit against Georgia State University may be start of tangling over how business models for textbook publishing online will evolve.
http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/04/17/gsu* Admissions By Software
New technology, designed to help colleges attract diverse classes without legal challenges to affirmative action, will get first use in decision making.
http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/04/17/quest11. News from the Chronicle of Higher Education:
http://libproxy.unm.edu/login?url=http://chronicle.com* Solution To Loan 'Crisis' May Create Bigger Problems
The Education Department's hasty drive to draft rules for a lender-of-last-resort system is one example of the ways in which the world of student loans has been turned upside down.* Quietly, Virginia Tech Remembers The Chaos And Grief Of A Year Ago
Virginia Tech held a simple and solemn ceremony to honor the 32 victims of a campus slaying on the first anniversary of that tragedy. (Slide Show)* Electronic Portfolios May Answer Calls For More Accountability
Advocates of computerized records of students' class work say such systems can help college provide the accountability data that lawmakers and accreditors want.12. News from Diverse Issues in Higher Education:
* Hispanic-Serving Institutions Win Grants To Spur Economic Growth
Colleges will receive much-needed funds from a Labor Department program, which works closely with businesses to fill work force gaps. For some Hispanic-serving institutions, the key to winning grants at the federal level is building strong local relationships that foster partnerships and “out-ofthe- box” thinking about new and innovative services.
http://diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_11016.shtml13. National News:
* A Day of Tears at Tech (Washington Post)
A Year After 'All of Our Lives Changed,' Mourners Find Unity. With renewed displays of campus unity and many smaller, private moments of painful tribute, Virginia Tech marked the anniversary of its darkest day Wednesday with events honoring the 32 students and faculty members gunned down in a dormitory and classrooms a year ago.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/16/AR2008041601472.html?referrer=emailarticle* Credit crisis hits student borrowers (Boston Globe)
Anthony Norton, a junior at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, just learned a tough lesson in economics:
http://www.boston.com/business/personalfinance/articles/2008/04/17/credit_crisis_hits_student_borrowers?p1=email_to_a_friend* Nearly 200 demand more aid for colleges (Boston Globe)
Nearly 200 students, faculty, and staff from across Massachusetts' higher education system rallied outside the State House yesterday to press leaders for more support for public colleges and universities.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/04/17/nearly_200_demand_more_aid_for_colleges?p1=email_to_a_friend* Federal loans not an option for many junior college students (Denver Post)
For students who need to borrow for college, federal loans are almost always the best deal. But a new study finds that more than 1 million community college students—a disproportionate number of them minorities—can't get such loans because their schools decline to participate in the federal loan program.
http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_8953866?source=email* Proposed UC, Cal State budget cuts decried (LA Times)
Tens of thousands would be denied an education, critics say, and the state's economy would be devastated. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to slash higher education funding by about 10% would deny education to tens of thousands of qualified students and have a devastating long-term effect on the state's economy, university and college leaders said Wednesday.
http://www.latimes.com/news/education/la-me-cuts17apr17,1,6767564.story14. Albuquerque Media Monitoring
News clips from Wednesday, April 16 include stories about:* UNM Puts in Place Many Measures to Protect Campus
* Arizona Wins Against Lobo Baseball Team
* UNM Physicians Still Seeing Head Injuries From Skateboarders
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/17media.htmSusan McKinsey
Director of University Communication
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