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Silver City, NM- Nearing the end of spring semester, with finals looming and graduation right around the corner, the university celebrates a local tradition known as the Great Race. The annual tradition celebrated it’s fiftieth year this past Saturday, with festivities including a bowling night, a powderpuff football game, field activities, a talent show, a
Silver City, N.M. – The Misfits took down the other four competitors in this year’s Great Race Talent Show last Thursday night. The event allowed all teams to perform one music video and one movie skit, which were judged by four judges. Leading off first was C’s Get Degrees and they performed “Hollaback Girl” by
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Silver City, N.M.- The sun was out in full swing as field day for Great Race 50 took place at Old James Stadium. The six teams competed in several featured activities such as a gender role play relay race, tug of war, and dodgeball. The first activity was A Mile in Her Shoes, sponsored by
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Silver City, N.M. – C’s Get Degrees took home the crown in this year’s Who’s Got the Speed? Great Race Event as they were able to outscore four other teams. The teams had to push their cart about 50 yards on College Avenue. Instead of having to go uphill as in Tuesday’s King of the
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Silver City, N.M.- Five of the six Great Race teams competed in a heated and tense tournament of Powderpuff football last night at Old James Stadium. While fans of each team were braving the freezing wind and cloudy skies, there was no shortage of excitement for each game. There were a set of girls from
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FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK April 26, 2017 Dear Students, Over the past several weeks you may have heard about the State of New Mexico not funding higher education. This is a result of the governor line item vetoing the part of the budget that included funding for all public universities and community colleges in New
Silver City, N.M. – The Little Rascals beat out the other five teams in this year’s King of the Mountain during this week’s annual Great Race. The six teams had to push their cart up Cardiac Hill about 50 yards to the finish line. The only rules were that the teams had to have four
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Silver City, NM- Following yesterday’s rather intense announcements a good amount of readers are concerned about the state of things going on in New Mexico Higher Education. We’ve already seen what can happen. While it is very unlikely that New Mexico colleges won’t be funded by the state this coming fiscal year and this was
Continue reading ➞ Editorial: What Can You Do For Higher Education?
UPDATE: According to President Shepard, the three extended campuses in question will be moved to inactive status. According to Shepard, should situations improve, the extended campuses could eventually reopen. Silver City, NM- On Monday, April 24, the WNMU Board of Regents passed a vote to raise tuition at WNMU by 5%, adding an additional seven
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Silver City, N.M.- ASWNMU elections were in full swing on Wednesday with an open forum in Miller Library giving students the first view of who their future senators and executives will be when election results hit next week. There were plenty of various views on certain issues that came from a variety of students running