DAILY LOBO new mexico
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November 29, 2012
The Independent Student Voice of UNM since 1895
Groups oppose fee board schedule
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Lobos beat Mercer 76-58 by J.R. Oppenheim
assistantsports@dailylobo.com @JROppenheim Junior forward Cameron Bairstow and sophomore center Alex Kirk combined for 32 points Wednesday night at The Pit, leading the UNM men’s basketball team to its seventh straight win. The two big men each had 16 points as the Lobos captured a 76-58 victory over Mercer. Ranked No. 25 nationally in media poll and No. 23 in the coaches poll, UNM improves to 7-0 on the season. Bairstow was 5 of 6 from the field, hit 6 of 6 from the foul line and pulled down five rebounds. He missed his only shot with less than three minutes to play in the game. Kirk hit six of his eight shots from the field and 4 of 5 from the free-throw line. He finished with a double-double, grabbing 13 rebounds. “There are not a lot of bigs to rotate,” Bairstow said. “I feel like we work well together in terms of knowing the basketball plays and in terms of rebounding and guarding big fours (power forwards).”
Student Fee Review Board to hold meetings during break by Megan Underwood news@dailylobo.com
Aaron Sweet / Daily Lobo Junior guard Kendall Williams loses the ball during the first half of the game against Mercer on Wednesday night at The Pit. UNM defeated Mercer 76-58 to make its record 7-0 for the season. UNM junior guard Tony Snell scored 13 points, including three 3-pointers, and made five assists. Junior guard Kendall Williams provided a team-high six assists. As a team, the Lobos shot 27 of 60 from the field (45.0 percent), 5 of 19 from 3-point range (26.3 percent) and 17 of 26 from
the foul line (65.4 percent). UNM held a 45-36 halftime lead. The Lobo defense held Mercer (3-4) to 37.9 percent from the field with 22 of 58 shooting. Guard Travis Smith led the Bears with 16 points, and forward Jakob Gollon netted 10. “I think we took them
completely out of what they wanted to do,” UNM head coach Steve Alford said. “Their percentages got a lot better in the last minute when they were pressing and trapping down 30 (points). We really held them to about 30 percent shooting.”
ABQ RIDE solicits opinions, ideas by Svetlana Ozden news@dailylobo.com
ABQ RIDE is requesting public input for a proposed concept to implement a rapid transit service along Central Avenue. According to the city of Albuquerque website, ABQ RIDE is hosting a series of public input sessions through Dec. 13 to gather opinions and ideas about a possible Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Service along Central Avenue. The BRT service is an integrated travel system that aims to optimize travel. According to the Central Avenue Corridor BRT Feasibility Assessment, the city is considering a BRT plan on Central Avenue from 98th Street to Tramway Boulevard. City of Albuquerque Transit Department public information officer Rick De Reyes said that at the public input sessions, ABQ RIDE Director Bruce Rizzieri will give a presentation on the BRT concept. He said Rizzieri will provide information about some of the attributes of BRT, why the concept would be beneficial to Albuquerque if it is implemented and statistical data to show what population growth in Albuquerque will look like. De Reyes said the concept is still in its early stages and that concrete plans have not yet been made for its implementation. He said meetings will also include time for questions and answers to allow for public input. “We don’t know what it would look like,” he said. “It’s not really a project; it’s merely a concept right now. The public meetings are to gather people’s ideas and opinions.”
“The unfortunate thing for SFRB is the new timetable with this new policy.” ~Matthew Rush SFRB member
Juan Labreche/@labrechemode/ Daily Lobo UNM employee Krista Foutz participates in an ABQ RIDE survey following a town hall Thursday night. ABQ RIDE hosted the town hall to gather feedback about a concept for a Bus Rapid Transit System. Foutz said the bus system should not only be focused on the east-west Central Avenue but that a main north-south corridor needs to be developed.
ABQ RIDE public input meetings
Today
Tuesday
Dec. 11
Dec. 13
Alamosa Community Center 6900 Gonzales Road S.W.
Loma Linda Community Center 1700 Yale Blvd. S.E.
Old Main Library/Special Collections, Botts Hall 423 Central Ave. N.E. (at Edith)
Albuquerque Museum of Art and History auditorium 2000 Mountain Road N.W.
6-7:30 p.m.
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Student groups expressed concerns to the Student Fee Review Board (SFRB) about the dates for the board’s funding hearings after the board decided to hold those meetings during winter break. The board recommends how student fees should be distributed to organizations on campus each year. Some organizations, such as American Indian Student Services, are concerned that students may still be out of town and will not have the opportunity to attend the public hearings. American Indian Student Services Director Pamela Agoyo said the board should reconsider the meeting dates to allow equal opportunity for everyone to engage in the discussion about how student fees will be spent. “You want to have these kinds of interactions and these kinds of proceedings at a time when the campus community is in full operation,” she said.
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Agoyo said student participation is vital to the hearings because it demonstrates why a program is important and deserving of funds. She also said it affords students an opportunity to educate members of the SFRB. “Many of the folks that sit on the SFRB, in my experience, are not intimately interactive with every single department that comes to ask for funding,” she said. “So the students play a critical role in educating them.” SFRB member Matthew Rush said the hearing dates were set earlier than in previous years due to time restrictions implemented after the creation of the Strategic Budget Leadership Team (SBLT) by former UNM President Schmidly in early 2012. The SBLT is composed of staff and faculty members who look at the entire UNM budget for the upcoming fiscal year, including student fees. Rush said that before the SBLT was implemented, recommendations were sent directly to the University
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