UCAM's News clips for Monday, April 28, 2008

1. Fresh & Clean: Smith a Raven (Albuquerque Journal)
By Greg Archuleta, Journal Staff Writer

Marcus Smith was in hot water until the Baltimore Ravens called, giving his football career a clean slate.

The Ravens selected the former University of New Mexico standout wide receiver Sunday in the fourth round of the NFL Draft.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/28smith.htm

2. 'Night' raises awareness about violence (Daily Lobo)
By: Jazmine Royall

About 150 people gathered at Johnson Field on Friday to raise awareness for sexual and domestic violence.

The event, called Take Back the Night, included a candlelight vigil in remembrance of the silence associated with abuse.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/28night.htm

3. Event promotes healthy kids (Daily Lobo)
By: Christina Lovato

More than 5,000 people attended the National Hispanic Cultural Center Foundation's Dia del Nino celebration Saturday.

The center, in partnership with New Mexico Children, Youth and Families, sponsored the event to promote healthy, literate children and families in New Mexico.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/28event.htm

4. Voting session begins for next GPSA president (Daily Lobo)
By: Maggie Ybarra

Graduate students can begin voting for the next GPSA president today.

Council Chairman Christopher Ramirez and Student Research Allocations Committee Chairman Danny Hernandez are vying for the presidency of the Graduate and Professional Student Association.

The seat is held by Joseph Garcia, who has been president for the last two years.

Voting begins at 8 a.m. today, and polls close 5 p.m. Thursday.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/28gpsa.htm

5. Tribes come together in powwow at The Pit (Daily Lobo)
By: Maggie Ybarra

Tribal pride intermingled with tourists, vendors, artists and years of tradition at The Pit over the weekend.

American Indian dancers and singers from all over the U.S. and Canada competed for thousands of dollars in prizes at the Gathering of Nations.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/28powwow.htm

6. NMSU Gets Top-Notch Electronics Lab (Albuquerque Journal)
By Linda Fresques, NMSU News Service

Engineering students at New Mexico State University have the opportunity to work with some of the most advanced electronics measurement equipment available­ the same equipment they will likely use when they enter the work force.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/28nmsu.htm

7. Accreditation team begins NMSU review (Albuquerque Journal)
By Ashley Meeks/Sun-News reporter

Open forums today will allow members of the New Mexico State University community to talk with site team members evaluating the university's bid for accreditation.

Forums will be 3:45 to 4:40 p.m. for faculty, in the Milton Hall CMI Theatre Room 171; for staff, in the Corbett Center Otero Room 126; and for students, in the Corbett Center Student Senate Chambers.
http://www.lcsun-news.com/news/ci_9078384

8. NMSU EYE ON RESEARCH: Institute brings perspective on protests (Las Cruces Sun News)
By NMSU staff/For the Sun-News

The 2008 Olympic Games have thrust China into the public eye and handed the emerging economic giant a torch lit with protests in Tibet, demonstrations against their Darfur policies and demands for improvement of human rights.
http://www.lcsun-news.com/news/ci_9078378

9. News from Inside Higher Education:

* Where Pell Falls Short
Despite recent increase and flurry of aid announcements from elite colleges, lowest income students have significant unmet need, report finds.
http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/04/28/pell

* Maintain State Spending. Or Else.
Policy makers lobby against a Higher Education Act provision that would withhold some federal funds from states that don't sustain college appropriations.
http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/04/28/spending

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

* What Admissions Officials Think
A Chronicle survey reveals their concerns about college costs, changing demographics, and public perceptions of the jobs they do in selecting students.

* New Group Of Scholars Discusses Islamic Extremism At First Meeting
The chairman of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa denounced the academic traits that he believes impede open discussion of Islam in the keynote address.

* President Bush Pushes Congress For Quick Law On Student Lending
Mr. Bush said such legislation is needed to protect student loans from the national credit crunch and to ensure that an economic slowdown does not result in fewer educational opportunities.

News clips for Sunday, April 27

11. Decision to Replace Roberts Makes Sense, but ... (Albuquerque Journal)
By Rick Wright Of the Journal

Mike Roberts, UNM athletics' radio voice for the past four decades, has slipped significantly in recent years.

More and more often, listeners complain they can't follow his words­ can't visualize the game as he describes it. The 74-year-old broadcaster's calls simply aren't as sharp as they once were.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/28roberts.htm

12. UNM Takes Annual Spring Football Game to Santa Fe (Albuquerque Journal)
By Vince Kong, Journal Staff Writer

An hour before the start of the University of New Mexico Cherry-Silver spring football game at Santa Fe High on Saturday, John Montaño was getting his family settled in at Ivan Head Stadium.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/28football.htm

13. N.M. Press Women Gives Out Two Scholarships (Albuquerque Journal)
By Liz Otero/Of the Journal

AROUND TOWN: University of New Mexico senior Christina Isabel Lovato and New Mexico State University junior Louie E. Calderon were named New Mexico Press Women scholarship recipients for 2008 at their annual state meeting in Albuquerque. Each received $850 to use for their educational pursuits in journalism.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/28scholarships.htm

14. City No. 7 in Survey Of Arts Destinations (Albuquerque Journal)

Albuquerque is the No. 7 arts destination in the country, according to a readers' poll in American Style magazine.

The Duke City trails large cities with established reputations, such as New York, Boston and San Francisco.

"We're in the big leagues now," Mayor Martin Chávez said Thursday in a news conference. "I hope Albuquerqueans are proud."

He and other arts supporters gathered in the sculpture garden outside the Albuquerque Museum to celebrate. They pointed out that a recent University of New Mexico study­ conducted by the Bureau of Business and Economic Research­ said the local arts and cultural industries create more jobs than Intel.

"I would match our galleries against any in the United States," said Mary Ann Weems, a gallery owner.

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15. Racism Has No Place at My Alma Mater (Albuquerque Journal)
By David Roybal For the Journal

Las Cruces has become one of my favorite communities in our great state, New Mexico State University, one of my favorite schools. That's why it pains me to see some of what has unfolded at both places recently.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/28nmsu2.htm

16. Show Support: Educate Troops (Albuquerque Journal Column)
By Jim Belshaw Of the Journal

I hadn't considered sunglasses. They were never on my economic stimulus radar. Then out of the blue, there they were in all their glorious newspaper serendipity.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/28support.htm

17. Making the cut: Extra activities can help in college search (Santa Fe New Mexican)
High-school seniors find good grades, volunteer work and dozens of essays help earn spots in prestigious colleges
John Sena | The New Mexican

So you've earned good grades throughout school, played three sports a year and volunteered around town. It seems like enough to get you into your first-choice college, right?
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/28cut.htm

News clips for Saturday, April 16

18. UNM Unplugs Voice of Lobos (Albuquerque Journal)
By Greg Archuleta, Journal Staff Writer

So long, everybody; Mike Roberts no longer is the voice of the Lobos.

After four decades of broadcasting University of New Mexico football and basketball games on the radio, Roberts learned Friday that he has been fired as UNM's play-by-announcer.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/28roberts2.htm

19. Is Alford's Crew Flying Coop? (Albuquerque Journal)
By Mark Smith, Journal Sports Writer

University of New Mexico men's basketball coach Steve Alford has pretty much finished his recruiting for the 2008-09 season.

At least, as far as getting players.

Recruiting a new coaching staff, however, may be a different story.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/28alford.htm

20. Governor Puts Education Right in the Drivers Seat (Albuquerque Journal Editorial)

There are few things more exciting to teens and pre-teens than the prospect of driving. There are few things more troubling to adults than the prospect of a bunch of kids who can't read or write, add or subtract.

Gov. Bill Richardson has decided to attack the latter by tying it to the former. Student proficiency will be the point where the rubber meets the road for first-time drivers in New Mexico.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/28governor.htm

21. NMSU: Noxious miasma at state university (Las Cruces Sun News Op-Ed)
By Michael Hays/For the Sun-News

The continuing bro-ha-ha over a tenure decision and racist and sexist e-mails damages NMSU and discredits its leadership.
http://www.lcsun-news.com/opinion/ci_9058461

22. Charges against fraternity dropped for community service (Las Cruces Sun News)
By Jose L. Medina Sun-News reporter

Federal charges against members of a former New Mexico State University fraternity were dropped this week in exchange for community service by its members, who last year "trashed" a Gila National Forest campground.
http://www.lcsun-news.com/news/ci_9060541

23. Face of Business (New Mexico Business Weekly)
Doctor without borders. Dr. Arthur Kaufman has never been satisfied with being just a physician. They cure individuals, and hewants to heal communities.
by Thomas Munro NMBW Staff

Arthur Kaufman was headed toward a profitable career as a New York City psychiatrist when he decided to enroll in the Indian Health Service before doing his residency. The experience would change his mind and change his life, giving it the purpose and direction it has had ever since, as he has built an international reputation for work with rural and disadvantaged communities.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/28doctors.htm

24. College with a purpose (New Mexico Business Weekly)
Reed Dasenbrock, New Mexico's cabinet secretary for higher education, aims to increase graduation rates without reducing access. His ultimate goal is a population ready to take on higher-wage jobs.
by Thomas Munro NMBW Staff

The United States is beginning to fall behind in rates of higher education, and New Mexico is trailing the rest of the country by a wide margin.

New Mexico Cabinet Secretary of Higher Education Reed Dasenbrock's response to that challenge begins with one of the state's brighter spots: It ranks 12th nationally in the percentage of its high school graduates who start college.
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/28dasenbrock.htm

25. News from Diverse Issues from Higher Education:

* In Changing Economy, Graduate School Becoming a Necessity
Access to graduate education is an invaluable resource for this generation of Americans. For the “public good” of the nation, the U.S. government must allocate more in the way of financial support and public policy to ensure that students have access to and experience success in some form of graduate studies, a new study reports.
http://diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_11062.shtml

26. National News:

* Higher ed, not high school (Boston Globe)
THOUSANDS of high school graduates in Massachusetts are wasting time in college, taking remedial courses to learn material that they should already know. Despite years of education reform, the state's public schools still have to do more to prepare students for college.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2008/04/26/higher_ed_not_high_school_ii?p1=email_to_a_friend

* Huge debt incurred for college tuition just doesn't make the grade (Boston Globe)
There's been a lot of news lately about how, as the credit crisis continues, it may be more difficult for some families to get student loans.
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2008/04/26/huge_debt_incurred_for_college_tuition_just_doesnt_make_the_grade?p1=email_to_a_friend

* Departments of State and Education to Host Higher Education Summit for Global Development (Denver Post)
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator and Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance Henrietta H. Fore will host a Higher Education Summit for Global Development in Washington, D.C., on April 29 and 30. His Excellency Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda, and, USAID Administrator Fore will speak at the opening dinner on Tuesday. The Summit aims to strengthen the role of U.S. and foreign higher education institutions in social and economic development worldwide.
http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_9054559?source=email

* Elite Korean Schools, Forging Ivy League Skills (NY Times)
It is 10:30 p.m. and students at the elite Daewon prep school here are cramming in a study hall that ends a 15-hour school day. A window is propped open so the evening chill can keep them awake. One teenager studies standing upright at his desk to keep from dozing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/world/asia/27seoul.html?ex=1209960000&en=f9ba883576c35596&ei=5070&emc=eta1

* Graduating Soon? Don't Panic (Washington Post)
Preparing to enter the workforce can be a stressful and confusing time for soon-to-be graduates. With final exams, thesis papers and even house hunting to worry about, searching for a job is oftentimes an afterthought.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/24/AR2008042402482.html?referrer=emailarticle

* The new campus crib (Boston Globe)
On the hilltop campus, where a sleek music center recently opened and a state-of-the-art science building is planned, a group of freshmen fear that Tufts University is in danger of being "outclassed." The problem, as documented in a 12-page student critique delivered to administration officials last month, is that dormitory common rooms are dreary spaces with carpets that "clash with furniture," couches that are "haphazardly arranged," and lighting that does not "work with the mood of the room.
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2008/04/27/the_new_campus_crib?p1=email_to_a_friend

* Provost Quits Over Degree to Governor’s Child (NY Times)
The provost of West Virginia University said Sunday that he would resign after being criticized for his handling of a master’s degree that was improperly awarded to the governor’s daughter.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/us/28westvirginia.html?ex=1210046400&en=d48fbdb9092c478b&ei=5070&emc=eta1

* A life of unexpected twists takes her from farm to math department (Boston Globe)
'My life should have gone any other way than the way it did.' Improbable. That's one way to describe it. Or you could say very lucky. Then again, you might believe in destiny. Gigliola Staffilani's life is the story of one unlikely event after another that have collided in just the right way to land her where she is now, which is sitting in a sunny, spacious office at MIT, where she is, at age 42, the only female professor of pure mathematics.
http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2008/04/28/a_life_of_unexpected_twists_takes_her_from_farm_to_math_department/?p1=email_to_a_friend

* Controversy surrounds choice of Jerry Springer as commencement speaker at Northwestern University Law School (Chicago Tribune)
Students petition to stop him but are overruled. When Alex Aixala looked ahead to his graduation from Northwestern Law School on May 16, he envisioned a commencement speaker who would shower the crowd with uplifting words of wisdom.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-northwestern-jerry-springer-.ar0apr28,0,3297850.story

27. Albuquerque Media Monitoring
News clips from Friday, April 25 through Sunday, April 27 include stories about:

* Lobos Cherry - Silver Scrimmage in Santa Fe
* Mike Roberts No Longer Voice of the Lobos
* UNM Police Search Employee's home and find stolen goods
* UNM Baseball
http://www.unm.edu/news/08AprilNewsClips/28media.htm

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