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Police: shooter on the loose
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wednesday April 24, 2013
UNM SUSTAINABILITY EXPO 2013
by Ardee Napolitano news@dailylobo.com
Rastice Lee Burdex Authorities continue to hunt down a man who police say shot the mother of a UNM student last week. Police are tracking down Rastice Lee Burdex, 20, after he allegedly fired two gunshots at Stacy Coronel at her home on April 16. Burdex then fled from the scene and, as of press time, is still at large, according to police. Coronel’s son and UNM student Patrick Coronel said his mother had filed charges of domestic violence and child abuse against Burdex. He said that the morning of the incident, his mother was supposed to testify against Burdex in court about those charges, but Patrick said his mother didn’t show up because she was afraid of Burdex. Patrick said that at about 12:30 p.m. on April 16, Burdex allegedly showed up at Stacy’s house and fired two gunshots at her. Patrick said his two brothers, one sister and four cousins, all younger than him, were in the line of fire. Patrick said his mother is in stable condition and recovering, but he declined to identify which hospital she is in. “My mother is very lucky to be alive,” he said. “Our main priority right now is to take (Burdex) off the streets so he wouldn’t cause any more harm to my family, or to anybody else for that matter.” Patrick said he is worried that Burdex, whom he described as “very controlling and threatening,” will resurface to hurt his family or others. “(Burdex) is very dangerous,” he said. “He always has a gun with him, and he’s always threatening my family. He has threatened me personally. I’ve seen what he does.” According to NMCourts.gov, this is not the first time Burdex harmed his family. In July, Burdex was arraigned on charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. “One of my uncles was trying to protect my mom from (Burdex) because he was starting to hit her,” Patrick said. “So Rastice pulled out a knife and stabbed my uncle in the
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Juan Labreche/ @LabrecheMode / Daily Lobo UNM security employees, Sara Vigil, left, and Jorge Del Valle stand over a pile of pre-owned bicycles to be auctioned Tuesday morning. The bikes were abandoned at bike lock-ups around campus at the end of the fall semester and sold for anywhere between $5 and $85. The auction was a part of the 2013 UNM Sustainability Expo & Lobo Growers Market on the Cornell Mall.
Students take action on idling UNM plan NMPIRG wants to restart old sustainability initiative
by Ross Kelbley
news@dailylobo.com The New Mexico Public Interest Research Group is jumpstarting a UNM initiative to reduce carbon emissions, a plan that has languished for three years. NMPIRG’s plan entails exactly what was outlined in the steps and procedures outlined in the University’s Climate Action Plan, signed in 2009 by then-UNM President David Schmidly. The organization is working with the University to turn the plan into action. “It just seemed like there wasn’t anything going on with the plan,” said Andrea Valenzuela, a student intern at the UNM section of NMPIRG and head of the project. “They had it signed, but we talked to the vice president of ASUNM and he told us that now it’s just sort of sitting there, so we thought this would be a really great project to get up off the ground.” According to the Climate Action Plan’s executive summary, its
purpose is to create a system for reducing the Albuquerque campus’ carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2030, using baseline numbers from the year 2006. Dan Young, director of UNM’s Research Service Learning Program who is working with NMPIRG on the plan, said the recession probably threw a wrench in the original plan. “The project had fairly substantial start-up costs. Overall, it was something like $34 million to get us to the initial capital outlay funding followed by several years of recouping that. It could take anywhere from two years to almost 14 years recoup the initial cost,” Young said. Young said that based on his research, there is no evidence, except the Climate Action Plan, that demonstrates UNM’s commitment to sustainability. “For example, November last year, an economic development plan came out and essentially nothing is mentioned there about sustainability,” Young said. “There was no sense in that document
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that we have to do economic development in a sustainable way. There seems to be no consistency between what the previous president put into our policies and procedure manual and the documents that are coming out now.” But Mary Clark, UNM’s sustainability manager, said this perception is not accurate. “That’s not true, some of the really big (projects) have been completed,” she said. “The faculty are doing some tremendously interesting research on energy efficiency and biofuels. We’ve managed to convert a number of buildings onto controlled systems so that the buildings reduce their energy consumptions when they’re not in use. Quite a bit’s getting done.” Clark provided the Daily Lobo with a list of projects, directly from the Climate Action Plan, that are complete or in progress. Among the completed items are more efficient lighting systems, new efficient HVAC systems for Mitchell Hall and the Bookstore, a new steam turbine
generator in the Ford Utilities Center, a physical plant department building which generates oncampus electricity, steam heating, chilled water and compressed air, and more free transit passes. “Originally the bus passes were just for students and we’ve been able to add faculty and staff to those bus passes now,” Clark said. There has also been an effort to use solar power on campus. “We just added new solar panels on the Science and Math Learning Center and we’re about to commission a solar grid on the top of Electrical and Computer Engineering,” she said. But Clark said the effort to use solar energy has not been as successful as she would have liked, and the University is still short of the Climate Action Plan’s goal of 2,000 kilowatts of electricity used at the University coming from solar energy. “We’re currently at 273 kilowatts and we expect to add in the next two or three years an additional
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