The University of New Mexico will be kicking off this semester’s Great Campus Cleanup on Friday, Oct. 10. Physical Plant, Surplus Property, Recycling and other UNM departments will be visiting locations throughout campus to help UNM faculty and staff get rid of excess paper, supplies and equipment that is no longer needed.
A “Campus Clean Up” staff will be available to assist departments with the removal of items, departments need to tag items for removal and place them in an area the staff can reach.
If departments are getting rid of surplus items, or items with UNM property tags, then the UNM Surplus Property Department must approve them for disposal. If the department contains items of historical interest to the university, please contact the University Archivist, Terry Gugliotta at tgug@unm.edu or 277-5707. Keep in mind that by law certain files and records need to be kept for a certain length of time. The Records Management department can advise departments about these rules.
The buildings to be visited this Friday include:
· Scholes Hall
· Anthropology
· Internal Audit
· Research and Economic Development
· Dispute Resolution
· Arts of the Americas Institute and Arts Tech
· Real Estate
· Equal Opportunity Program
· Psychology Clinic
· Dane Smith Hall
For more information, please contact the Physical Plant Department at 277-2421.
On Nov. 4, New Mexicans will go to the polls to vote for a new President, Vice-President, and members of Congress. Another important race they will vote for, one that is not receiving as much coverage as these other rDavid Brookshire, the race for the Public Regulations Commission (PRC). This week, “New Mexico in Focus” looks at the PRC rDavid Brookshire and the function of the commission. “New Mexico in Focus” airs on KNME-TV, channel 5 on Friday, Oct. 10 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 12 at 6:30 a.m.
“New Mexico in Focus” looks at social, political, economic, health, education and arts issues and gives them context beyond the "news of the moment." The one-hour show brings viewers important topics, opinions and insight, in an integrated and cohesive package.
This week, co-hosts David Alire Garcia, managing editor of the New Mexico Independent, and Gene Grant, Albuquerque Journal columnist talk with Rick Lass, District 3 PRC candidate, and Jason Marks, a candidate in District 1 and discuss the function of the commission and whether the voting booth is really the best place to decide who is qualified to serve on the Public Regulation Commission.
Then Grant is joined by regular panelists Margaret Montoya, from the University of New Mexico School of Law and School of Medicine and Weekly Alibi Columnist Jim Scarantino and guest panelists Marco Gonzales, an attorney with the Modrell Sperling Law Firm, and Steve Terrell, a reporter with the Santa Fe New Mexican to discuss the Public Regulations Commission. Plus the panel will look at how the presidential and vice-presidential debates have evolved, the importance of the District 2 Congressional race in southern New Mexico, and whether dress codes should be enforced at the polls.
Producers of ‘New Mexico In Focus’ are Kevin McDonald and Kathy Wimmer. Closed captioning has been made possible by a gift from Mrs. Elspeth G. Bobbs.
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, formerly a visiting faculty member at UNM, is the 2008 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Le Clézio has written more than 30 books since 1963. Le Clézio was visiting faculty of modern and classical languages at UNM, 1977-78 and 1984-85, and visiting faculty in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, 1992-93, when he also held the PNM Endowed Chair.
Photo: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, 2008 Nobel Prize recipient in Literature
“He’s received a number of prestigious awards; this is just the culmination,” said UNM French Professor Walter Putnam, who has known Le Clézio for more than 15 years.
“He’s very attached to New Mexico and Amerindian cultures and Hispanic cultures,” Putnam said. He said Le Clézio still lives and writes in Albuquerque periodically.
Le Clézio has travelled widely, and now divides his time between New Mexico, Nice and Mauritius. He was born in 1940 in Nice, and has family connections with the former French colony, Mauritius. He has also lived in Nigeria, England, Thailand, Mexico and Central America.
From early on, Le Clézio has been an ecologically engaged author. His novels hinge upon thresholds – the transformation from childhood into adulthood, confrontations between cultures, and points where past, present and future collide. His recent work has moved toward an exploration of his own family history. In a telephone interview with Nobelprize.org, Le Clézio said, “Writing for me is like travelling.”
Though he grew up bilingual, Le Clézio writes in French, with some works translated into English. “He has said his real homeland is the French language, which he takes where he is,” Putnam said.
Media Contact: Susan McKinsey, (505) 277-1807; e-mail: mckinsey@unm.edu