Student Activities Center

Upcoming Events:


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Upcoming Events:

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Friday Night Live

August 16, 2013 - 8:00 PM
Main Campus - Student Union Building

Join over 2,500 fellow students in the SUB for the 7th annual Friday Night Live! The entire building will be full of great events. This year there will be a Photo Booth, Casino Games, Henna Tattoos, Karaoke, Student Organizations, Video Games on Projection Screens, Lobo Sports Teams, a Dance, and Free Food every 30 minutes (Pizza, Desserts, Finger Foods, Candy Popcorn, Pepsi Products & More)!

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Class Crawl

August 18, 2013 - 4:30 PM
Main Campus - Student Union Building

Look for the tents on the north side of the SUB Mall that is along the east side of the Student Union Building.

Freshmen!  Come print out your class schedule and we'll help you find where your classes are on a campus tour.  Look for us outside on the Mall just north of the Student Union Building (north of Popejoy Hall) after the Freshman Convocation for a personalized campus tour! Sponsored by the Student Activities Center, Dean of Students Office and Residence Life.

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Movie on the Field

August 18, 2013 - 8:00 PM
Main Campus - Johnson Field

Never seen a Drive-In Movie?  Here's your chance!  Join us on Johnson Field starting at 8pm to watch the summer hit STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS!  Bring a blanket and a friend and we will provide the popcorn!

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Welcome Back Day - Departmental Day and President's Ice Cream Social

August 19, 2013 - 10:00 AM
Main Campus - Duck Pond

Start the week off right with FREE Ice Cream served to you by University VIPs at the Duck Pond bus stop south of University House! There will be information booths from the UNM Schools and Departments plus live music and ice cream by the Duck Pond from Noon - 1pm.

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Welcome Back Day - Safety, Health and Wellness

August 20, 2013 - 10:00 AM
Main Campus - Duck Pond

Enjoy free massages, a climbing wall, pinatas and FREE Watermelon! Booths from the Safety, Health, Wellness and Recreation departments will be at the Duck Pond. ROTC booths will be located on the SUB Mall. Great Live Music and healthy food from Noon - 1 p.m. FREE MOVIE - STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS - SUB Theater at 8:00 pm.

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Welcome Back Day - Women's, Cultural and LGTBQ Day

August 21, 2013 - 10:00 AM
Main Campus - Duck Pond

Information about all of the Cultural, LGBTQ and Women's programs and departments. Cultural entertainment will run throughout the day by the Duck Pond.   Look for UNM museums and student art displays as well.  Enjoy a long standing tradition of Welcome Back Days - free green chile stew! FREE MOVIE - STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS - SUB Theater at 4:00 pm and 7:00 pm.

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Welcome Back Day - North Campus

August 21, 2013 - 11:30 AM
North Campus -

WBD North Campus will be in the plaza between the Basic Medical Sciences Building and the Nursing and Pharmacy Building.

North campus will celebrate its Welcome Back Day in the Basic Medical Sciences Building plaza area in the Health Sciences Complex from 11:30 - 1:30 with great information booths, free hotdogs, free Pepsi and great music.

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Welcome Back Day - Student Organization Day

August 22, 2013 - 10:00 AM
Main Campus - Duck Pond

Meet student leaders from around campus and learn how to get involved with the over 400 student organizations on campus.  Listen to great live music at the Duck Pond from 12 - 1 p.m. while ASUNM leaders serve free pizza and Pepsi. FREE MOVIE - STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS - SUB Theater at 3:30 pm.

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Welcome Back Day - Campus Employment and Community Service

August 23, 2013 - 10:00 AM
Main Campus - Duck Pond

Looking for a campus student job? Interested in helping out in the community? Stop by! University departments looking to hire students will be set up at an On-Campus Jobs Fair north of Ortega hall from 10 am - 2 pm. They will have information about their workstudy and student employment positions. Community organizations will be recruiting volunteers for their worth while events and causes. Alumni will serve free hotdogs & Pepsi. Enjoy more live music from great local bands from Noon - 1 pm.

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Homecoming Week Student Events

September 23, 2013
Main Campus -

Various student Homecoming Events will take place during the week.  Call ASUNM Lobo Spirit, 277-0372, to get involved with the planning!

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Red Rally Pep Rally and Bonfire

October 3, 2013 - 8:00 PM
Main Campus - Johnson Field

Red Rally was rated #55 in Sports Illustrated's "102 Things You Have To Do Before You Graduate" article.  Join over 3,000 students burning a 25' tall Aggie at the stake to get pumped up for the game vs NMSU!  The football team, spirit squads and Spirit Marching Band will be on hand for the pep rally!  Help ASUNM Lobo Spirit build the Aggie by calling 277-0372.

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UFO Speaker Stanton Friedman

October 23, 2013 - 7:00 PM
Main Campus - Student Union Building

Nuclear Physicist/Lecturer Stanton T. Friedman is a professional Ufologist, co-author of “Crash at Corona: The U.S. Military Retrieval and Cover-Up of a UFO - The Definitive Study of the Roswell Incident,” and is the original civilian investigator of the Roswell, New Mexico UFO incident.

Since 1967, he has lectured about UFOs at more than 600 colleges and 100 professional groups in 50 U.S. states. He has published more than 90 UFO papers and has appeared on hundreds of radio and TV programs including on Larry King in 2007 and twice in 2008, and many documentaries. He is the original civilian investigator of the Roswell Incident and co-authored Crash at Corona: The Definitive Study of the Roswell Incident. TOP SECRET/MAJIC, his controversial book about the Majestic 12 group, established in 1947 to deal with alien technology, was published in 1996 and went through 6 printings. An expanded new edition was published in 2005. Stan was presented with a Lifetime UFO Achievement Award in Leeds, England, in 2002, by UFO Magazine of the UK. He is co-author with Kathleen Marden (Betty Hill’s niece) of a book in 2007: Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience. The City of Fredericton, New Brunswick, declared August 27, 2007, Stanton Friedman Day. His book Flying Saucers and Science was published in June 2008 and is in its 3rd printing. His newest book, also co-authored with Kathleen Marden, is Science Was Wrong released in June 2010.

He has provided written testimony to Congressional Hearings, appeared twice at the UN, and been a pioneer in many aspects of ufology including Roswell, Majestic 12, The Betty Hill-Marjorie Fish star map work, analysis of the Delphos, Kansas, physical trace case, crashed saucers, flying saucer technology, and challenges to the S.E.T.I. (Silly Effort To Investigate) cultists. He has spoken at more MUFON Symposia than anyone else.

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Lobo's Got Talent

November 15, 2013 - 7:00 PM
Main Campus - Student Union Building

UNM’s annual student tal­ent show, “Lobos Got Tal­ent,” will be held Fri­day, November 15 at 7 p.m. in the Stu­dent Union Build­ing ball­rooms. Students inter­ested in audi­tion­ing must fill out an appli­ca­tion form by 5:00 pm, November 8th. Spon­sored by the Student Activities Center, the event pro­vides a unique oppor­tu­nity to show­case a vari­ety of tal­ent to the UNM community.

Audi­tions will be held Monday-Tuesday, Nov. 11 & 12, but only the first 32 acts to sign up are guar­an­teed a spot. All performance types are avail­able for par­tic­i­pants includ­ing music — solo, music –band, music — group, com­edy, read­ing / poetry, act­ing / skit, dance and other. Acts can be up to seven min­utes long. Cash prizes of $500 for 1st place, $350 for second place and $150 for third place are given.  An audience choice award of $100 is given to the act that gets the loudest applause from the audience.