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friday August 22, 2014 | Volume 119 | Issue 6

Campus employee faces grand jury for murder By Jonathan Baca A UNM employee will face a grand jury on charges of seconddegree murder after two previous failed indictment attempts. A date for a grand jury trial

against Amy Herrera has not yet been set. She is currently out on a $100,000 bond. In July 2012, police were called to the home of Amy Herrera, a Health Sciences Center employee, where she and her husband Marc

Herrera were holding a party for a UNM exchange student they were hosting, according to police reports. In the police report, witnesses said Marc Herrera was intoxicated, and became angry when male and

female partygoers were mingling in the same room. After he retrieved a firearm and tried to separate them, Amy pulled him into a closet. When police arrived, they discovered Marc Herrera in the closet, dead of a gunshot wound.

According to the police report, Amy Herrera originally claimed that her husband forced her to hold a gun to his head and pull the trigger, but at a hearing on Tuesday her attorney

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Berry challenges President Frank to feel the chill

Sergio Jiménez / Daily Lobo / @SXfoto

Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry gets doused with water as part of the Ice Bucket Challenge Thursday at Civic Plaza. Berry became the latest to participate in the viral video event that has drawn awareness to ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

By Daniel Montaño Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry participated in the Ice Bucket Challenge to raise awareness for ALS Thursday in Civic Plaza. After getting doused with four buckets of ice water, the mayor called out five individuals to take the challenge — Ian Anderson, publisher of Albuquerque Business First; Kent Waltz, editor-in-chief of the Albuquerque Journal; Bill Anderson,

general manager of KRQE News 13; Mike Burgess, general manager of KOB Eyewitness News 4 and UNM’s own President Bob Frank. Four out of five have accepted the challenge, including Frank, who will be releasing a statement Monday in the President’s Weekly Perspective. Although Frank did not release details, University Marketing Representative Ethan Rule said Frank’s plan will include an even greater contribution by involving

more of the UNM community. What some of those challenged had to say: · Kent Waltz: “It’s only been a few hours. I need some time to figure it out, but I plan on doing it.” · Ian Anderson: “I was happy to respond to Mayor Berry’s challenge and to participate in such a great campaign for such a great cause that raises awareness.” Anderson completed the challenge soon after Berry issued it.

· Mike Burgess: “Well I’m on the tail end of a cold so I figured I’d go for full blown pneumonia. I have no idea how we can’t take it, since we called out the mayor.” KOB news anchor Tom Joles was one of the people to challenge Berry. The Ice Bucket Challenge is a viral marketing campaign intended to raise awareness and funding for ALS research, better known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. When one is challenged, they

have 24 hours to respond by either contributing to research funds, recording a video of a bucket of ice water being poured over their head or both. After completing the challenge they can then challenge others to do the same. Daniel Montaño is a news editor for the Daily Lobo. He can be reached at news@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @DailyLobo.

CAPS goes digital with new online tutoring By Matt Reisen

This semester a new program will help students bring tutors into the comfort of their own home — electronically. Anne Compton, associate director of the Center for Academic Program Support, said CAPS will debut its new Online Learning

Center on Monday, which allows students to receive tutoring from their own computer. The Online Learning Center, a combined effort of CAPS, Extended University and New Media and Extended Learning, will give tutoring to students who may be too busy, or too far removed, to physically go to the CAPS office,

but still need assistance, she said. Matthew Maez, a program specialist with CAPS, was heavily involved with planning and implementing the new program and said he is looking forward to Monday’s premiere. “We’re feeling really great about the new launch of the online learning center, we think that were

going to be able to serve many more students than we have in the past and we’re going to be able to do a lot better job in helping students learn at UNM because of it,” he said. The program was built with ease of use for students in mind and has the ability for several different types of tutoring, he said.

One of the biggest issues Maez and his team focused on while constructing the Online Learning Center was to establish the appropriate tools necessary to foster effective learning, he said. The new platform provides a powerful digital whiteboard that

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