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Sports

Men's Basketball: Logwood comes up big late in game to hold off San José State

Robert Maler | February 4

The University of New Mexico men's basketball team got all it could handle on the road at San José State, but held on to escape with a victory. San José State (3-19, 0-11 MW) experienced turnover woes early and often, committing nine of them in the first eight minutes of the game. The shaky start was a recipe for digging a double-digit deficit as the Spartan fell behind 21-8 by the midway point of the first half. The Lobos probably didn't cash in as many of the mistakes into points as they would've like, but things seemed to be trending in the right direction for an easy victory.

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Sports

Women’s Basketball: Lobos defeat San José State at the Pit

Matthew Narvaiz | February 4

A stout defensive effort in the second quarter and beyond, and a 30-point double-double performance from junior post Jaisa Nunn helped the University of New Mexico women’s basketball team defeat the visiting San José State Spartans, 92-62, on Saturday afternoon at Dreamstyle Arena in front of an announced 5,403 fans. The win marked the Lobos’ second straight after they defeated Utah State on Wednesday, 80-47, at home in a game that also saw them put on a defensive performance for the ages, when they allowed the Aggies to score just four points. The two recent wins are also a shift for UNM (18-6, 6-5 MW), as they had dropped five of their last six games in the Mountain West prior to Wednesday, including a loss on the road to SJSU (6-16, 3-8 MW), 95-86, on Jan. 6. — the team they just beat. Head coach Mike Bradbury praised his team after Saturday’s win, saying that they never gave up even during the Lobos’ recent skid. “Our kids have been great. They've never got down and never were going to throw in the towel when we went through that little mess,” Bradbury said, according to a UNM press release. “They continued to work and I think some things are starting to pay off.”

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Sports

Men's Basketball: Lobos in search of road win against San Jose State

Robert Maler | February 3

The Lobos will look to notch their second road victory of the season and even its overall record again on Saturday afternoon when they travel to square off against conference for San José State. Despite missing four key players, The University of New Mexico men's basketball team (11-12, 6-4 MW) mounted a late comeback against Utah State Wednesday night, but didn't quite have enough juice to get over the hump. After erasing most of a 15-point deficit to make it a single-possession game late, the Lobos fell 89-80 to the Aggies.

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Music

Music Column — Greta Van Fleet: Reviving Old-School Rock n' Roll

Charissa Inman | February 1

Once again, pop music dominated the 2018 Grammy's with Bruno Mars sweeping up the 6-most prestigious awards. Alessia Cara and Ed Sheeran joined Mars as mainstream icons that seemed to go over-appreciated in modern pop culture. However, one category was absent from the mainstream altogether: rock.  Although rock has its own 4-award categories, making the late Leonard Cohen, Mastodon, The Foo Fighters, and The War on Drugs all Grammy winners in its own category, rock was left out of the biggest nominations like Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist. Aside from an awkward, rendition of Sting’s solo, “Englishman in New York” featuring Shaggy, and a Fats Domino/Chuck Berry tribute by Gary Clarke Jr. and Jon Batiste, rock was absent from the stage performances as well. That being said is rock, and roll, dead?

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News

UNM group publishes collaborative book

Rebecca Brusseau | February 1

The University of New Mexico’s Anderson School of Management helped fund a project long in the works by students and faculty in the International Business Students Global group that addresses the concerns surrounding immigration in a creative way. “Outside the Margins: The Blue Book on the Global Refugee Crises” has been published after over two years of effort by a group of over 100 students in IBSG.

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News

UNM student wins architecture award

Tom Hanlon | February 1

A graduate student from the University of New Mexico’s School of Architecture and Planning won first place in an international design competition. On Jan. 10, Sam Fantaye, a third-year graduate student studying landscape architecture, won the grand prize of $5,000 in the Better Philadelphia Challenge. “I found out I was the winner, and I was very, very excited,” Fantaye said. “The School of Architecture was happy too, because it’s representing the whole school.”

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Sports

Men's Tennis: UNM loses first home game in tight contest

Matthieu Cartron | February 1

In the first home game and third match of the season, the University of New Mexico fell to Northern Arizona University 4-3 at the McKinnon Family Tennis Center. In the early stages of the match, it was UNM that struck first. The doubles pair, sophomore Ricky Hernandez-Tong and sophomore Dominic West, beat senior Felix Schumann and senior Sebastian Eguez 6-1 on court 2, and soon after, UNM seniors Bart Van Leijsen and Jorge Escutia gifted UNM the doubles point with a narrow 7-6 (7-2) victory on court 1 over juniors Tim Handel and Ruben Montano.

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Sports

Men's Basketball: Lobos challenge late, but fall to Utah State on the road

Robert Maler | January 31

A late charge wasn't quite enough for the University of New Mexico men's basketball team as it came up short on the road Wednesday night against Utah State. The Lobos fell back under .500 for the season and snapped their three-game winning streak. The 89-80 loss dropped UNM to 11-12 overall and 6-4 in Mountain West play. While Utah State improved to 6-5 in conference and are now 13-11 on the season. New Mexico was without the services of four players who collectively had accounted for nearly 39 percent of the team's offensive output. Despite missing some major contributors, UNM was able to battle back from double-digit deficits on multiple occasions to makes things interesting.

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Sports

Women's Basketball: UNM returns to .500 in conference play

Matthew Narvaiz | January 31

The University of New Mexico women’s basketball team won in decisive fashion over Utah State Wednesday evening, marking the team’s third win this January, after they dropped five of their last six games. UNM’s 80-47 win was well-rounded, too, as the team saw a plethora of scoring from recently stagnant players, like senior guards Tesha Buck and Alex Lapeyrolerie, as well as bench players, such as senior guard Laneah Bryan and freshman guard Madi Washington.

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News

Students use UNM day to show off their research

Danielle Prokop | January 31

SANTA FE — Deviating from the tradition of gifting lawmakers with salsa, pins or pens, select students from the University of New Mexico instead presented student research at the State Legislature appreciation dinner hosted by the UNM Alumni Association on Monday. Six undergraduate and four graduate students attended the event in Downtown Santa Fe at the La Fonda Hotel.

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News

Burqueños come together to view eclipse

Megan Holmen | January 31

A once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event occurred Wednesday, with the onslaught of a super blue blood moon eclipse. The last time this occurred was in 1866, according to Jim Greenhouse, an astronomer at the Albuquerque Natural History Museum. Lunar eclipses occur when the moon, earth and sun are all aligned, which can happen several times per year. However, this lunar eclipse is unusual, because it happened on both a blue moon and a super moon, Greenhouse said.

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Opinion

Column: Prove me wrong

Nichole Harwood | January 31

Childhood holds a peculiar time in our lives. At the tender age of five to 10, we are impressionable, curious and open to learn new and innovative information. As teenagers we are often stubborn and passionate, as we slowly form the identities that will define our adulthood. It is only when we take that final step into adulthood that some of our firmest beliefs from our teenage years are finally shaken.

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Opinion

Letter — Protectionism: Trump's tariff-ic attack on your wallet

Daily Lobo Readers | January 31

Editor, On Jan. 22, U.S. Trade Rep. Robert Lighthizer fired the first shots of the Trump administration's 2018 trade agenda: tariffs of 30 percent on imported solar panels and tariffs starting at 20 percent on imported residential washing machines. In the name of "protecting" jobs — "America First!" — the administration is dead-set on making you poorer. Yes, the tariffs may benefit a few people (stockholders and employees of American solar panel and washing machine makers), if foreign governments don't retaliate in kind and then some with their own tariff schemes. That's a big if.

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Opinion

Letter: Society needs to recognize the trauma of incest survivors

Daily Lobo Readers | January 31

Editor, As someone who was sexually harassed in the past, I know first-hand about the inner pain that victims/survivors experience. But as someone who spent five years as a counselor/therapist working in the fields of alcoholism, drug addiction and mental health, I want to share my observations and research findings about various forms of "abuse."

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News

Medical workers show their creative side

Ariel Lutnesky | January 31

There was a little bit more bustling than usual at the Barbara and Bill Richardson Pavilion Cafe in the University of New Mexico Hospital Wednesday afternoon, as the band, Goddess of Arno, prepared to play for an hour as a part of a concert series put together by the Arts-in-Medicine program. Program Director Dr. Patricia Ann Repar started the series “as a way for people in the University community to have an outlet,” said Melissa Sandoval, program coordinator for Arts-in-Medicine. “She ran into a lot of physicians and professors who (would) say, ‘Oh, I used to play guitar,’ or ‘On the side, I dabbled in this band.’ She really wanted an outlet for them to be able to show the other side of themselves, not necessarily the academic side.”

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News

UNM begins class on "Three Peoples" mural

Megan Holmen | January 31

This semester the University of New Mexico is offering a new class that focuses on the “Three Peoples Murals,” which were painted by Kenneth Adams in 1939 and originally funded through a grant from the Carnegie Corp. Located in the west wing of Zimmerman Library, the four murals depict the intercultural relationship between Native, Hispanic and Anglo Americans as the artist viewed those relationships at the time, which caused criticism for decades.

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Sports

Men's Basketball: Short-handed Lobo squad puts win streak on the line at Utah State

Robert Maler | January 31

A short-handed University of New Mexico men's basketball will hit the road to take on Utah State, hoping to extend its current three-game winning steak. But it could be a big challenge for New Mexico (11-11, 6-3 MW), which will be without the services of Sam Logwood, Antino Jackson, Vladimir Pinchuk and Jachai Simmons. Jackson's absence came as a surprise to many, as a tweet from the senior transfer made the announcement that he would not play in Wednesday night's matchup against Utah State.

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Sports

Men’s Soccer: Midfielder Ben Shepherd commits to UNM

Cameron Goeldner | January 30

The University of New Mexico men’s soccer team added another midfielder to its 2018 class Monday night, as Ben Shepherd announced his commitment on Twitter. Shepherd is a student at Mountain Vista High School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado and plays club soccer for Real Colorado. He was team captain for Real Colorado’s U14 Far West champion and national runner-up team in 2014. Prior to beginning high school, he moved to Germantown, Tennessee and played for Houston High School where he was named to the All-State teams his freshman and sophomore seasons and helped the Mustangs win a state title his freshman year.

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Sports

Men's soccer: Alex Vedamanikam signs pro contract

Cameron Goeldner | January 29

University of New Mexico men’s soccer player Alex Vedamanikam has signed a pro contract with Eintracht Braunschweig of the Second Bundesliga in Germany, UNM announced Monday. Vedamanikam, a native of Albuquerque, had just completed his freshman season with the Lobos and will depart the team immediately. Vedamanikam appeared in 16 games, making a total of seven starts for the Lobos last fall, scoring once and assisting on two goals. Prior to joining the Lobos, he played three years with the Real Salt Lake Academy, scoring 45 goals adding 17 assists. He also had the opportunity to compete in a U.S. Men’s National Team U18 camp in January 2016. A freshman at the time, Vedamanikam was expected to have an impact on the Lobos in the future.

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Sports

Swim and Dive: UNM beats State on Senior Night

Cameron Goeldner | January 29

The University of New Mexico swimming and diving team ended a successful Senior Day with a 192-108 dual-meet victory over New Mexico State University on Saturday. On the way, the Lobos won 13 of the 16 events as they secured their sixth straight victory over NMSU. "It was an awesome day to celebrate our seniors — Madi Burns, Deidra Dorough, Celine Bertrand — and that was our main priority today,” head swim coach Dorsey Tierney-Walker said in a release. “It's just an honor to really celebrate our seniors and what they've done for this program, which is a tremendous amount. They are fantastic teammates, individuals and athletes, obviously. All-around, they just had such a positive impact on our program and on the people around them. It was great to be able to send them off with a win against our rival."