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wednesday April 10, 2013
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Regents: higher tuition for all
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All students will pay more under new tuition system by Antonio Sanchez news@dailylobo.com
In what GPSA President Marisa Silva called a “rogue” move, the Board of Regents Tuesday went against the Student Fee Review Board and approved an increase in student fees for Athletics. The measure provides Athletics with a $900,000 increase in fee money for FY 2014, which begins in July. The increase per student is $33.45 more than what SFRB recommended for Athletics fees, and increased the total per-student fee for Athletics to $165.20. Athletics received $131.75 per student for FY 2013 and the SFRB recommended that it receive the same amount for FY 2014. This is the second year in a row the board has gone against the SFRB’s recommendations and approved a fee increase for Athletics. Last year, regents approved a $50 per-student fee increase to fund the Athletics Department. The proposed increase was a surprise to Silva and ASUNM President Caroline Muraida. “Students, all 23,471 that Marisa and I represent between the two of us, do not support this increase in Athletics at this time,” Muraida said. After the regents approved the increase, Silva told the Daily Lobo that neither she nor Muraida was aware of the proposed Athletics increase. Silva and Muraida sit on the SFRB and the Strategic
Budget Leadership Team. “President Muraida and I were surprised to see that the two bodies that we’ve sat on, both with considerable legitimacy who have put in a great deal of work, had the recommendations changed,” Silva said. Silva said the decision goes against work that both the SFRB and the SBLT have made to communicate to Director of Athletics Tim Cass how much student fee money should be allotted to the department.
“Students, all 23,471 that Marisa and I represent between the two of us, do not support this increase in Athletics at this time.” ~Caroline Muraida ASUNM president “This was a very rogue move and it flies in the face of our processes and how responsible we have been in the good faith in the way we’ve been acting the entire year. Students were betrayed by that vote today,” Silva said. The board passed the rest
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Juan Labreche/ @LabrecheMode / Daily Lobo The shoe and sock of a student motorcyclist, injured in an accident on Redondo at the southwest corner of campus, lay on the ground after wet conditions caused the student’s run in with another vehicle. The driver of the motorcycle suffered minor injuries and the driver of the car was unharmed.
Gary Johnson: US spends too much by Ardee Napolitano news@dailylobo.com
Former New Mexico governor and 2012 presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party Gary Johnson believes that the U.S. should cut a whopping 30 percent of its federal spending. Johnson, a UNM alumnus, said in a speech in Woodward Hall on Monday that the government should cut
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or eliminate funding for dysfunctional sectors for a more efficient system. He said the country should be more mindful of its budget. “Money for me has always represented one thing, which is freedom,” Johnson said. “The government doesn’t have the answers. The government ends up being more of a problem than of a solution.” The event, which was part of Johnson’s Our America Initiative, was sponsored by The Federalist Society of UNM and the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Johnson said that instead of imposing income and corporate taxes, the government should implement a fixed 28 percent consumption tax on the entire nation. He said this will give people more control of their money, and it will be harder for people to avoid paying their taxes. He said he also would abolish the IRS, which he said gets unnecessary federal funding. Johnson proposed that the federal government should have an annual audit of expenses to make sure that every dollar it spends goes to the right place. Johnson said he wants to dissolve the departments of homeland security and of education because they are inefficient. He also said he wants to slash military funding.
“We need to stop with our military interventions,” he said. “That seems to be our answer for everything. We don’t have a department of defense; we have a department of offense. We’re killing innocent civilians in other countries and we’re wondering why the world doesn’t like us.” Jim Gray, who ran for vice president alongside Johnson last year, also spoke at the event. Gray said the U.S. has about 1,000 military bases around the world, and that the federal government could eliminate 80 percent of them to operate more efficiently. “I believed that if we put ground troops in Iraq, it will be the biggest mistake of our lifetime, and that is still my belief,” he said. “We have seen what has happened, and it has cost us about a trillion dollars to accomplish.” Gray the government should also stop financing the War on Drugs. “The War on Drugs is the biggest failed policy in the history of the United States of America, second only to slavery,” he said. “We are churning low-level drug vendors through the system for no good reason. We’re taking their money and we’re ruining people’s lives.”
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