How unprofessional, Daily Lobo. Because of your article, many of us can figure out who the professor is. There are only two male English professors that teach Chicano Studies and we can very well figure out who it is. It took me but a second. So much for the victim’s privacy before the victim’s family is notified. Gossip spreads so unbelieveably fast and shame on you if his family finds out through local gossip rather than the correct resources. I certainly wouldn’t want to find out because someone was able to figure it out by reading it in the school newspaper. You should have saved the details of his professorship until his identity was released and his family was PROPERLY notified.

My thoughts and prayers go out to the professor’s family, friends, colleagues, and students. I’ve had him for a class several years ago and he was not only a wonderful professor and a wonderful man. He was expert at his field and he will be so unbelieveably missed at UNM and the English department.

So sad.

The victims parents are notified as soon as their identified within hours. Students say the professor didn’t show up the next morning at ten a.m., and students wondered why. So quit trying to make Daily Lobo News look like their evil. Daily Lobo News are only doing what their suppose to do. Good Job Daily Lobo!

it’s “they are evil” not “their” ok? You’re in college, eh?

True, the man’s family probably already knew way before the Daily Lobo printed this story.

Then wouldn’t they have printed his name??

Stop blaming and arguing. Instead,light a candle for him, and all of us who knew him.

Who cares at all about spelling, or whether or not the Lobo should have posted this. You bloody bunch of harpies should be giving condolences to this poor mans family and that of his girlfriends as well. A decidedly sick man did this and he will be punished to the full extent of the American legal system. Pray for them, and if you’re not religious just feel sad! Sick bastards you all are when you focus more on pathetic typos than the horror that occurred. You should all feel ashamed.

I hope that the families know that those who truly care hold them in their hearts and wish for their wellbeing. Best wishes to you all and my condolences as well.

I understand why the Lobo was compelled to publish in such detail information about the professor, as it is a reflection of what “sells” journalism these days. While I do hope the sentiments I’ve seen here and heard on campus spur a conversation about journalistic ethics at the Lobo, I think another conversation needs to be happening now. I didn’t know either victim personally, but I feel for their loved ones and hope that these senseless deaths might stir awareness of the crucial need for services and protection for victims of domestic violence. If you’d like to do something to honor these two, give some time or money to an organization like Enlace Comunitario or another that helps bring awareness to the all too prevalent realities of domestic violence.

1. My most heart felt condolences go out to the family, friends, loved ones, and UNM community of the deceased.

2. This is a horrible and inexcusable crime related to domestic violence. Domestic violence, and murder are some of the 26 enumerated crimes listed in the New Mexico Victims’ Rights Constitution, thus making these two people enumerated victims. For the Daily Lobo to publish any information regarding the identity of 2 New Mexican Constitutionally protected victims after the article states, “Police are not reporting the names of the victims until they contact each of the victim’s families” is inexcusable. It is bad journalism. It is bad ethics. I’m shocked the editor didn’t pull the article to be rewritten. Shame on you Daily Lobo!

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I agree with the above sentiments. Many students in the English Department were shocked to see pictures of our professor’s house and a article announcing his death in the Daily Lobo. How unprofessional. How cruel. How unethical. We are all mourning for Hector and I hope that future articles of a sensitive nature that run in the Lobo will consider their community readership before sensationalising someone’s life.

See, that’s what ya get for messing around with the wrong person.
Yer in NM, not back East where messing around on each other is acceptable. Whether guilty or not, the results are usually the same.
Go figure..

Thanks for publishing this article, daily lobo. Now I know that a teacher was murdered. I do not know who that was, nor can I tell or find out, or, honestly, care. I, however, am not part of the english department (I’m sure you can tell already), so this isn’t wholly unbelieveably.

I think most of the rage about this article is unfounded because the people who are mad about who can figure out who he was with the info given is relatively low, and most who can will be informed through other means before reading this article, anyway.

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What a tragedy indeed. Poor couple probably had an idea that this guys was a loose cannon. Anyway this is an example of why you should always be strapped and ready for loonies and people who are unable to control their rage. Keep an eye out, gun loaded, gun close by if you’re out and about; if your at home keep 3 or 4 hidden in different places around the house so that it doesn’t matter what room you’re in if a home invasion happens. Then- don’t hesitate to shoot first and often if someone breaks in.

I knew a guy once who had spent a considerable of time in prison for murder. I would talk to him on the bus. He was telling me that he wasn’t a murderer by trade, but a thief. But one thing he would tell me is that when he broke into a house, the first thing he would look for is the guns that people keep around their house. You know what else he told me? That when he used to find guns, he knew that there were more. He ended up shooting his victim with the victim’s own pistol…