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University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository 1983 The aiD ly Lobo 1981 - 1985 9-16-1983 New Mexico Daily Lobo, Volume 088, No 20, 9/ 16/1983 University of New Mexico Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/daily_lobo_1983 Recommended Citation University of New Mexico. "New Mexico Daily Lobo, Volume 088, No 20, 9/16/1983." 88, 20 (1983). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/daily_lobo_1983/102 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The aiD ly Lobo 1981 - 1985 at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1983 by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. NEW MEXICO .•. ___D_a_ily LObo Vol. 88 No. 20 Friday, September 16, 1983 Chairman of A~UNM Resigns Adtninistrators Give By Steve Shoup Serrano this summer. dent member on the state Board of The Lobby Committee success Educational Finance. Associated Students of the Uni~ fully lobbied in the state Legislature ''I'm leaving feeling satisfied that Responses to Rally versity of New Mexico Lobby Com~ early this year for a state-funded I've helped the students of ASUNM mittee Chairman Mark Duran ·said work-study progam, no tuition in and New Mexico," Duran said. By Steve Shoup supported the rally. Thursday he will be resigning from crease, and for getting a voting stu- Duran said perhaps the most im ''It's a good idea to speak that position effective today. portant success of the Lobby Com University of New Mexico out," Jaramillo said. ~'It's the Duran said he will be leaving the mittee was overcomimg the ''blue administrators had mostly posi kind of help we need to make our post he has held for more than a year jean, t-shirt image" many legisla tive comments on Tuesday's point that we need more to concentrate on his studies and to tors had of student lobbyists. This "Viva Education" rally, which .. money.'' avoid conflict of interest when he sets a precedent for student lobbyists brought out some 200 faculty Donald McRae, dean of the runs for state president of the Young so they will now be considered equal members in a demonstration of College of Fine Arts, said the ral Democrats of New Mexico this fall. to other lobbyists, he said. support for more funding for ly was "well articulated, to the "It's scrt of a re-arranging of the The Albuquerque City Council education. point and not fanatical - a priorities in my life,'' Duran said. and the Legislature "have a new, UNM President John Perovich reasoned appeal to the people in ASUNM President Dan Serrano fresh attitude about student lob said although he did not agree Santa Fe. emphasized that Duran's departure byists," Duran said. "I think I left with some of the placards carried "I think it was an orderly. had nothing to do with the recent one hell of a good reputation for by the marchers, the rally was organized rally." McRae said. shake-up in the ASUNM staff, student lobbyists." conducted in an orderly manner "It could not help but have abc which included firing of Attorney Duran said he will be available to and faculty activities like the ral* nefical effect." General Devin Warwick. lend a hand when the Legislature ly are constructive, McRae said that while he is Duran said there was no conflict meets in January and to help his suc "I have no criticism of the ral concerned about faculty pay, he between himself and Serrano. cessor settle in. Duran said he res ly,'' Perovich said. is also concerned about staff '• I don't want people to think Dan igned early in the semester to allow Provost McAllister Hull said salaries. Many staff members and l are parting under bad circumst his successor to be prepared for the the rally was a ''very salutary make between $9,000 and ances," Duran said. upcoming Legislative session. operation.'' He said he favored $11,000 a year, much lower than Duran, a senior in business fi It is important for his successor to the administration's position that average faculty salaries. A freeze nance, was appointed Lobby Com be independent and not try to rely too substantial pay increases are on reclassification and no wage mittee chairman in August 1982 by heavily on his methods, Duran said. needed to prevent losing quality increase this year are part of the former ASUNM President Michael Serrano has not appointed a suc personnel. problem for staff, McRae said. Gallegos and was reappointed by Mark Duran c.essor. "We're losing very good peo* Dean of Education David Col ple - both faculty and staff," ton said he was "pleased to see Hull said. "I don't blame them at the faculty speaking out on behalf all for feeling concerned." of improved education." Tract Sales EHect Controversy Henry Jaramillo, president of "The faculty's voice needs to the Board of Regents, said he be heard," Colton said. WASHINGTON (UPI) - An tracts were originally considered, were in the Fort Union Region of Interior Department official sai~ and that number was reduced to western North Dakota and eastern Thursday the department did not eight. Weworked very hard to not Montana. ignore Congress in offering eight violate anyone's concerns. How Environmentalists said strip min coal lease tracts for sale this week, anyone could complain about it is a ing would destroy the land and other Anaya Makes Prediction and in fact was acting in the absence mystery to me." critics said it was silly to sell coal of a legislative mandate. He also said the House committee tracts at a time when coal prices were WASHINGTON (UPI) - Gov. will not pick Ronald Reagan. Assistant Secretary Garrey Car resolution objected to the leasing as depressed - unless the govern Toney Allaya, the nation's top ''These are the hands that will ruthers deniedtbe department shrug an "emergency," but Carruthers ment intentionally wanted to give elected Hispanic official, said form the basis, in the words of the ged off a vote last month .by the said the department had been work producers a windfall when coal Thursday a ''coalition of conscien speakers at the recent Martin Luther Democratic-dominated House In ing on the sale more than four years prices begin rising again. ce" of H•spanics, blacks, women, King 20th anniversary march, for a terior Committee that said no coal and·tkat Congress could have moved Interior Department spokesman labor and environmentalists will de new 'coalition of conscience.'" leases should be offered this year. at any point to question it. Bob Walker denied· the allegation, feat President Reagan in 1984. Reagan has been actively courting Much of the controversy has Only five tracts, all adjacent to saying, "Obviously, we wanted as ''Ronald Reagan has spent the the force of Hispanics that includes proven. to be moot, because only five existing mining eperations, received much money as we could get." last three years trying to implement some 5.9 million of voting age, bidS' were received on the eighf any bids. Four of those bids WCfC for Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., his nostalgic vision of a past with along with blacks and women. tracts - and no t;ids were received only $10 above the minimum bid of said, however, that was exactly quiet 111inorities, servile women, . But Anaya and several other His at alf on new develQpment tracts. $100 per acre and the fifth bid was what was haJ!'PCniag. weak unions and no environm~mtal panic Democrats attending an after . Carrothers said Congress could for an even $100. The bids totaled • ''fhe Fort UniOn sale clearly ists," he said. noon press conference ..:.... held in have passed legislation prohibiting $91l,800 on an estimated 114.7 shows that federal coal leasing poli "I predict that all these groups conjunction with National Hispanic the sale but did not. million tons of coal. cy is in a shambles," he said. "Sell will bring him back to reality next Heritage Week- predicted a ·· "I think we've accommodated The Bureau of Land Managemenr ing coat in the current depressed year- by pulling the voting lever, Democratic victory in 1984. Congress," Carruthers said ...One estimated there was 540 million tons market can only mean a loss of m~l- on the Democratic side,'' said committee made a last ditch effort to of coal offered in the sale. The leases contlnued on page 5· Anaya. •'These are the hands that "The hands that have always stop the sale, but we found even their picked our lettuce, and the hands resolution was wanting. that were forced to pick our cotton, "We didn't go contrary to Con plus the hands that pick up 59 cents gress. The Congress was unwilling on the dollar every payday - these to pass a moratorium in 1983. Had are the hands that can pick the next they done that, I would say we president of the United States," he would have complied.'' said. "And I predict they will not Since the Supreme Court over pick Ronald Reagan in I 984." turned Congress's capacity to veto Anaya said the Hispanic Force the work of the administrative '84 he chairs will register I million branch of government - under Hispanics by Election Day 1984, which the Interior Department most of them in California; Texas, falls ~ officials said it would have New York and Florida~ which had to legislate a stop to the depart~ contain over 49 percent of the elec ment's coal leasing. toral votes. The House Interior Committee, Anaya said there arc also more splitting along party lines, passed a than I million voting age blacks in · resolution directing the department California,.