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Football: Hospitalized football player identified in incident with teammate

Matthew Narvaiz and Cameron Goeldner | November 1

David Brown was identified as the teammate hospitalized after a fight broke out with Evah Tohi on Saturday night, according to a police report from APD. Brown, who is from Albuquerque and graduated from Eldorado High School, is in his third year on the team but has not seen the field. He also plays linebacker like Tohi. According to a report from KOB, no charges were filed after the altercation occurred. Brown’s mother, Marissa Brown, reported the incident on Sunday morning.

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Sports

Fantasy Football: Defensive strategy

Mark Jacobson | November 1

Last week was a dive into the value of wide receivers based on the potency of their offense and whether they are the first or third option. This week will compare rostering an elite offense or looking for a defense with a good matchup every week, also known as streaming. The current top five defenses and most commonly drafted defenses were included. For the streaming options, the bottom five offenses identified from last week were the targets. Those were Arizona, Buffalo, Tennessee, Dallas and Jacksonville.

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Sports

Football: Lobos to host San Diego State

Matthew Narvaiz | November 1

The University of New Mexico football team will have a fresh face at quarterback and will be missing its leading tackler when it hosts the San Diego State Aztecs on Saturday evening at Dreamstyle Stadium. Colton Gerhart, who has dealt with the injury for most of the season, is expected to get the start over Sheriron Jones at quarterback.

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News

The dark role of money in politics

Anthony Jackson | November 1

During an election year, the public — including University of New Mexico students — is bombarded with political advertising, online, television radio, in the mail, or over the phone. The messages are easy to understand: stay away from — or vote for — this person. Less easy is tracking contributions for advertising, because in the current system donors are able to obscure their identities through so-called “dark money.”

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News

ASUNM: Finance Committee approves over $2,000 for Christian student group

Justin Garcia | November 1

A piece of legislation and two appropriations were sent through committee Wednesday night during the Associated Students of the University of New Mexico committee meetings. A resolution asserting that solutions to combat sexual violence should be pursued was passed through the Steering and Rules Committee. The resolution's author, Senator Rose Cary, highlighted fixing the broken blue light phones across campus, installing more lights in parking lots around UNM and extending shuttle hours as solutions students would benefit from.

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News

Africana Studies tries for departmental status

Alyssa Bitsie | November 1

The University of New Mexico’s Africana Studies Program and their unofficial student-organization, Uhuru Sasa: Freedom Now, are pushing for departamental status. While Africana Studies, founded in 1969, was the first ethnic studies program at the University, it is the only one not currently a department. The Program must submit a proposal to be approved by first the UNM Board of Regents Academic/Student Affairs & Research Committee. It then will have to face a full BOR meeting and finally go before the Higher Education Department for approval.

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Sports

Women's basketball: Lobos open up the season with a win

Cameron Goeldner | October 31

The New Mexico Women’s Basketball team opened the new season the way that every team hopes to — with a win. The Lobos defeated Division II Lubbock Christian University on Tuesday night at Dreamstyle Arena, 62-55. UNM fought through a bad shooting night that saw the team go 5-33 from three as well as 21 turnovers to beat the Lady Chaps. “I think we played hard enough,” Head Coach Mike Bradbury said. “Defensively we did a really good job of, I’m not going to say following the plan, because we didn’t really prepare. We played our base defense, but we did that well. The only thing defensively we probably didn’t do well was rebound so that was a little disappointing.”

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Sports

Football: Evah Tohi suspended for violating team rules

Cameron Goeldner | October 31

Lobos linebacker Evah Tohi has been suspended for a violation of team rules after an altercation with a teammate over the weekend, according to a report from KOB 4 that was confirmed by the team. According to KOB’s sources, the altercation was a violent fight that left the unnamed teammate in the hospital.

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News

A guide to New Mexico State Elections in 2018

Megan Holmen | October 30

New Mexico State Races State races include governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, auditor, treasurer, public lands commissioner, public education commissioner and public regulation commissioner.

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Sports

Men's soccer: Lobos play last home game of final season

Cameron Goeldner | October 28

Senior night occurs every season for the University of New Mexico Men’s Soccer team, but this one was unlike any other. The night began with a show of solidarity between rival teams before a crowd of 1,556, the second largest crowd of the season for the Lobos. But in the end, the result was a familiar one for the 2018, and likely final, iteration of UNM Men’s Soccer. “Their coach Chris Grasse is a class act,” head coach Jeremy Fishbein said about the moment. “Chris asked if just as a sign of solidarity they could join us. I asked our guys if they were good with it and they were. That’s kind of just been the outpouring all over the country, every college program. It’s nice.”

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Culture

Popejoy cancels student discounts for Broadway performances

Shayla Cunico | October 28

The University of New Mexico’s performance hall, Popejoy Hall, has announced they are pulling back student discounts for Broadway productions due to issues with funding provided by the Student Fee Review Board (SFRB). By mid-September most of the student fee revenue that was dispersed to Popejoy was used up due to student subscriptions and the high demand for Wicked tickets, according to Terry Davis, the marketing manager for PopeJoy Hall. That, paired with UNM’s decrease in student enrollment, hit Popejoy in their pockets. UNM’s enrollment for the 2018-2019 school year is down by 7.17 percent from last year according to the Fall 2018 official enrollment report.

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Sports

Football: New Mexico gets crushed 61-19 by Utah State

Robert Maler | October 28

The New Mexico football team scored first on Saturday, but the heavy underdog took it on the chin for the second time in as many weeks as they were decimated by Utah State 61-19 on the road. Things started off well for New Mexico (3-5, 1-3 MW) as it got a defensive stop and took its opening drive into Utah State territory and came away with a field goal to open up the scoring and take a 3-0 lead just a couple of minutes in the game. The score came off the foot of freshman kicker Andrew Shelley, who drilled the 53-yard field goal — the second-longest in school history, according to a release.

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News

ASUNM elections to begin soon

Justin Garcia | October 28

Monday, Oct. 29 is the deadline to submit applications to run for Senate of the Associated Students of the University of New Mexico. Undergraduate students who want to fill one of the 10 available seats must be enrolled in at least six credit hours, not be under any kind of University probation and have at least a 2.5 GPA. “This is a big election for Senate, ASUNM and UNM as a whole,” said ASUNM Vice President Emily Wilks. “There are so many diverse challenges facing our community right now.”

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Sports

Football: Lobos struggle to draw fans to games

Cameron Goeldner | October 28

The University of New Mexico Football team is halfway through its home schedule, and at the current pace, it will be the lowest number of fans per game in the Bob Davie era. Through three games, the Lobos are averaging 17,908 fans to see the team play at the 39,224 seat Dreamstyle Stadium. The home opener against University of the Incarnate Word, which drew 18,213 fans, was the smallest crowd for a home opener since at least the 2003 season, the last year which the information is available online for every game.

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News

"Pink Wave" swells in New Mexico state elections

Makayla Grijalva and Shayla Cunico | October 28

The effects of the “Year of the Woman” are being seen in New Mexico. In particular, the number of women running for the New Mexico House of Representatives is up eight percent from the 2016 election cycle. “We have a whole group of sort of younger women who are more inclined to see politics as a gender neutral place as opposed to a man’s world,” said Lonna Atkeson, a political science professor specializing in gender politics at the University of New Mexico. “Maybe they see it as a man’s world, but think it should be a woman’s world too.”

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News

Gubernatorial candidates highlight values in debate

Gabriella Rivera | October 28

Gubernatorial candidates Michelle Lujan Grisham and Steve Pearce squared off on Wednesday night for a debate hosted by KOAT that highlighted the major differences in their platforms. Through the entirety of the debate, the candidates distanced themselves from each other not only politically, but also morally and ethically. Pearce’s opening statement ended with “this race is about the insider, my opponent, versus the outsider, myself,” and he often used the term “corrupt” to describe Grisham. Grisham compared Pearce to President Donald Trump, and accused Pearce of profiting unethically through his connection to the oil and gas industry.

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News

Student orgs come together for debate watch party

Justin Garcia | October 28

Three University of New Mexico student organizations hosted a watch party on Friday night for the three New Mexican candidates running for U.S. Senate. College Republicans, College Democrats and Students for Gary booked the Student Union Building ballroom to watch Republican Mick Rich, Democratic-incumbent Martin Heinrich and former Governor of New Mexico Gary Johnson, who is the candidate for the Libertarian Party. Going into the debate, which was hosted by KRQE, Heinrich was polling at 45 percent, according to a KRQE/Pacific Market Research poll. Rich was trialling at 32 percent, with Johnson in third at 22 percent.

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News

UNM makes change in common course numbers

Alyssa Bitsie | October 28

Students at the University of New Mexico will begin to see new common course numbers beginning in the Fall 2019 semester. The new mandated Common Course Numbering system (CCNs) is being implemented by the State of New Mexico’s Higher Education Department to standardize common courses among higher education institutions. According to the Common Course Numbering Project on UNM’s Office of the Registrar page, New Mexico House Bill 282 requires that 100 and 200-level courses share the same CCNs to ease transfers between higher education schools and for higher degree completions.

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Music

Album Review: Joji discusses vulnerability on latest record

Macey Rose | October 28

What R&B singer Joji revealed in his first track, “Attention,” is incredibly telling of who he is as an artist — he pours out vulnerability through these lyrics acknowledging his more subtle emotions. “I thought I'd vocalize my troubles, but nobody will listen — I know I'm cryptic and I'm weird, that s*** comes off as indifferent.”

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News

ASUNM creates packages for homeless students

Sol Traverso | October 28

The Associated Students of the University of New Mexico put together hygiene packages for students and individuals struggling with housing and food insecurity. The effort was spearheaded by the ASUNM community service agency, Community Experience. With help from volunteers, they assembled the packets together on Oct. 23.