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February 14, 2012
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Fee Board delays final deliberations UNM mourns professor, historian by Luke Holmen holmen@unm.edu
David L. Craven
by Nathan Farmer
news@dailylobo.com Distinguished professor of art history Dr. David L. Craven, 60, died Saturday from an apparent heart attack while playing tennis, his family said. Craven became a professor at UNM in 1993 and was the fine arts department chair for two years. He published 10 books and more than 150 articles in scholarly journals. A memor ial ser vice is planned for Craven on Friday at 2 p.m. at UNM’s Alumni Chapel. Nancy Treviso, an administrator in the art and art history department, said the department has lost a unique professor. “He was a wonderful chair and a wonderful mentor and teacher and he will be missed in this department,” she said. “Someone with that caliber of knowledge, we can’t replace him.” Craven received his distinguished professor title in 2007 while at UNM. He was fluent in four languages and traveled the world giving speeches at more than 100 universities. Kirsten Buick, asso ciate professor and chair at the art and art history department, said Craven was known around the world for his work in the art history field. “David was a man of letters and a champion for social causes, beloved by all who knew him for his keen intel lect, genuine sense of compassion and desire to help others,” Buick told UNM Today. “He was rec og nized by his peers as one of the most informed and inci sive art historians in the world.” Theresa Avila, a graduate
The Student Fee Review Board was unable to allocate student fees after a second round of deliberations by midnight Monday. GPSA President and Chair of the Board Katie Richardson said the board would meet as many times as necessary. “We will stay as long as we need to give due diligence to allocating student fees,” she said. The student fees for the 2013 fiscal year have yet to be decided. The board intends to reconvene for a third meeting Wednesday at 8 a.m. in the ASUNM conference room. The Student Fee Review Board will allocate more than $11 million in student fees to the 27 organizations that requested funding. Board member and ASUNM Student Court Chief Justice Dylan Hoffman asked the board to carefully consider which organizations deserve funding. “The point of the issue isn’t what the group does, or how helpful they are, but what is the point of student fees, what should they fund?” he said. Hoffman said the administration should provide funding to more organizations to cut back on student fees. “All of these organizations
Dylan Smith / Daily Lobo Katie Richardson addresses members of the Student Fee Review Board Monday in the Cherry & Silver Room of the SUB. The board continued last week’s deliberation on recommendations for the allocation of student fees, but was unable to decide how all fees should be allocated by midnight, and adjourned. deserve funding, but we need to decide if they should be funded by student fees,” he said. “I think that it will be a long process but we should start looking for other ways to fund these organizations besides student fees.”
by Elizabeth Cleary
Student fees for fiscal year 2012
$487.50
Student Activity Fee
$114.00
Enterprise Research Project Fee
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(computer system, banner system)
$516.50
Facilites Fee (pays back bond issues that funded building construction and renovation)
$40.00
Graduate Allocation Fund (funds projects such as the ethnic centers and the women’s resource center)
$1,158.00 Total
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of how much an organization requested,” Hundal said. “Just because they requested a (small) amount doesn’t mean we should automatically fund them.”
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Chunk of student fees go to repay debts
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Board member and GPSA Chief of Staff Japji Hundal asked the board to consider every cost, even small ones, and how such hikes would affect students. “We have to be judicious in every dollar we spend, regardless
The Student Fee Review Board held its second round of deliberations Monday night, but the SFRB controls less than half the total fees students pay to attend UNM. Each undergraduate student pays $1,158 for fiscal year 2012 in student fees, said Andrew Cullen associate vice president of Planning, Budget and Analysis. Each student pays a $487.50 student activity fee, and this is the money the SFRB allocates to various organizations around campus. A $114 fee pays for technological services such as the banner system. A $40 graduate allocation fund goes toward organizations such as ethnic centers and the women’s resource center, Cullen said. The largest chunk of student fee money goes toward UNM facilities. The facilities fee was instituted to repay bond issues dating back to 1992 that went toward the construction of new buildings and renovations of old ones. The latest bond issue, in 2007, funded projects such as the renovations of Mitchell Hall, the UNM Alumni building and Hodgin Hall, as well as renovations to the chemistry buildings and the engineering chair’s office. The 2007 bond issue funded $27.4 million worth of projects, and the $91.41
million bond issued in 2005 funded projects such as compact shelving in Zimmerman Library and the renovation of the Communication and Journalism building. The Lottery Scholarship does not pay for student fees, and GPSA President Katie Richardson said the University is becoming increasingly reliant on student fees, which could prevent some students from being able to obtain an education at UNM. “Fees over time have taken a larger and larger burden in supporting the University,” she said. “Academic buildings on campus should be funded through state appropriations, not student fees.” ASUNM President Jaymie Roybal said she isn’t sure student fees should be used to pay off old debts. “I’m not really sure what I think about the facilities fee,” Roybal said. Cullen said his office has not needed to raise student fees to pay for the 2007 bond issue because UNM saw a surge in enrollment and therefore more student fees have been rolling in. However, he said he didn’t have data of past breakdowns of student fees available when this reporter spoke to him around 6 p.m. Monday night. “We’ve been really, really prudent in spending these dollars,” he said. “We’ve really been milking it for all it’s worth.”
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