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Men's Soccer: Lobos to face Portland in first match of NCAA tournament

Isabel Gonzalez | November 16

After a two-year absence, the Lobos are ready to compete in the NCAA Tournament once again. “Hopefully I gave the impression that I believed in this team, and that I expected to be playing,” head coach Jeremy Fishbein said. The team made it into the tournament after winning the program’s first ever Conference USA Championship on Sunday. The Lobos took down last year’s victors, the FIU Panthers, by a score of 3-0.

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News

Crime Briefs for Nov. 17

Elizabeth Sanchez | November 16

Crime Briefs for Nov. 17

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Opinion

Column: The Electoral College doesn't represent a true democracy

Jon Lofquist | November 16

After 18 grueling months of election campaigning, America shocked the world and elected Donald J. Trump as its 45th president. For the fourth time in American history, and the second time in 16 years, Trump won the presidency despite receiving less votes overall than Hillary Clinton. To recap, Trump got 290 electoral votes and Clinton got 228. Throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump repeatedly stated that the electoral system was “rigged.” In fact, I think I heard that word more often than any other throughout the campaign. It became a theme in Trump’s temper tantrums. I don’t agree or stand for anything he’s said in the campaign, but I think he has a point here.

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Sports

Cross Country: Team eager to defend national title

Bo Yu | November 16

“It just made us hungrier. Having experienced it last year, I would love to be able to keep that.” Lobo runner Alice Wright had that to say about the women’s cross country team’s opportunity to defend its national championship crown. The team will compete in its ninth straight NCAA Championship on Saturday in Terre Haute, Indiana. While the team’s overarching goal — go into the season and earn a Top 10 ranking — has not changed, the program’s first national title last year has probably raised expectations.

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Sports

Women's Basketball: Lobos move past tight first quarter to blow out NMSU

Matthew Narvaiz | November 16

The New Mexico women's basketball team won in blowout fashion over New Mexico State Tuesday night, where the Lobos exploded offensively for an 84-55 victory at WisePies Arena. Junior guard Alex Lapeyrolerie proved once again to be a formidable threat off the bench for the Lobos. In 30 minutes of action, Lapeyrolerie scored a game-high 22 points on 7-for-15 shooting, five makes of which came from beyond the arc. She didn’t do a lot of distributing, added just one assist to her offensive performance. Lapeyrolerie said the three-point shot is a big part of her offensive repertoire, but believes she can contribute in a lot of ways.

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News

UPDATED: Man who came to campus with gun also had car full of ammunition

Elizabeth Sanchez | November 16

In an email sent out to all UNM students on Monday night, the University advised to keep on the lookout for a man who came to campus with a gun last week and was subsequently released from the Metropolitan Detention Center on Monday, according to the email. The man, Daniel Arushanov, is not a student, and is now banned from campus. He was also violating a protection order, according to the email.

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News

UNM sees slight increase in early voting turnout over 2012

Nichole Harwood | November 16

The Bernalillo County Clerk’s Office held early voting at UNM through Nov. 8 — the Saturday before Election Day — and this year’s results yielded more votes than the previous presidential election cycle. Joey Keefe, a public information officer at the Bernalillo County Clerk’s Office, said a total of 8,511 voters cast an early ballot at UNM, a slight increase from 2012 when just under 8,300 voted at UNM. The office’s voter outreach team held numerous events at UNM throughout the year to promote voting among the University’s students, he said.

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News

Wolf Tracks 3: Anti-Trump Protest

Daily Lobo Staff | November 15

On this week's episode of the podcast, we'll be talking about the recent anti-Trump protest in Albuquerque, where hundreds of people stopped traffic all over town for over six hours, ending in a showdown with dozens of riot police. We sit down with some of our reporters and photographers who were on the ground with the protesters.

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Sports

Men's Basketball: Strong first half propels Lobos to second win of season

Robert Maler | November 15

New Mexico men’s basketball put up one of the most efficient halves fans could ask for, and then maintained a double-digit lead most of the night in a 95-79 home win over Houston Baptist. The Lobos shot a blistering 72 percent in the first half, making 18 of their 25 shots. They didn’t shoot particularly well from three-point range, but were a perfect 12-12 from the free throw line. Head coach Craig Neal was not pleased with his team’s overall performance, however. He said the team played good defense in the first half, but lacked the same mentality and intensity when playing with a lead.

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News

ASUNM Election Guide

Cathy Cook | November 14

Wednesday is Election Day for the Associated Students of UNM.

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Sports

Volleyball: Lobos can't halt Utah State comeback, lose in five sets

Bo Yu | November 14

The New Mexico volleyball team was unable to close out its match against Utah State early after building a two game lead, falling 2-3 in its penultimate home match on Saturday. The Lobos (14-15, 4-11 Mountain West) won the first two games 28-26, 25-22, then lost momentum and dropped the last three sets 25-21, 25-19, 15-13 to the Aggies (12-15, 7-9). “I’m not happy with our performance... because our blocking was really poor again,” head coach Jeff Nelson said. “We talked about it, but we were not making any changes — we got beat because of blocking today.”

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News

Student living community has a new name, but some problems persist

Elizabeth Sanchez | November 14

Between Aug. 1 and Oct. 23, the Albuquerque Police Department said it received 47 calls concerning possible criminal activity at Valley View Villas, formerly known as The Cottages of New Mexico.

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Sports

Men's Basketball: Lobos look to gauge early-season makeup Monday night

Isabel Gonzalez | November 14

The Lobos began the season with a win, and they are now on the hunt for another home victory Monday night at WisePies Arena. New Mexico (1-0) is hosting the Houston Baptist Huskies on a night when they will wear custom turquoise jerseys in honor of Native American Heritage Month. The Huskies (0-1) dropped their season opener to Texas Tech, with senior Atif Russell and his 16 points leading the way. The Red Raiders held a 45-36 first half lead in the game, and the Huskies were not able to come from behind and lost 93-67.

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Sports

Men's Soccer: Lobos Conference USA Champions after blanking FIU

Isabel Gonzalez | November 14

They did it — the Lobos became the 2016 Conference USA Champions after blanking last year’s victors, the Florida International Panthers, 3-0 on Sunday afternoon. It marks the program’s first title since joining the conference in 2013. That year, the Lobos finished the regular season on top of the standings, but fell 3-0 to Tulsa in the semifinal round. This year, the Lobos finally get to hold the trophy for the first time, and head coach Jeremy Fishbein said he couldn’t be happier.

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News

UNM student targeted for wearing hijab

Gabriela Garcia-Huff | November 13

“Someone is behind you,” she heard her sister say, in Arabic. It was Tuesday afternoon, around 2 p.m., on the main floor of Zimmerman Library. It was Election Day, the culmination of one of the more divisive presidential campaigns in recent history, and America was waiting to find out who would lead the country for the next four years. Students filled the library as they usually do, studying and chatting quietly in small groups. This was the scene when, while working on homework with her sister and friends, one UNM student was targeted for her headscarf, referred to as the common hijab customarily worn by Muslim women.

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Opinion

Letter: ASUNM should be willing to discuss finances publicly, not behind closed doors

Daily Lobo Readers | November 13

Editor, On Nov. 11, the ASUNM president sent me a personal email regarding my recent and open critiques of ASUNM and its performance. Specifically, he invited me to schedule a private meeting with him and his staff to address my communications to the Daily Lobo. The ASUNM president's invitation to a private dialogue without an audience should come as a shock to all undergraduates, as this proposed cloak-and-dagger affair runs in the face of the transparency, openness and full disclosure that ASUNM alleges it values. This is indicative of a desire to handle ASUNM business in a manner so that is hidden from the public eye.

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News

Forum highlights need for diversity in next UNM president

Cathy Cook | November 13

UNM administration unofficially kicked off the search for Bob Frank’s successor as president of the University on Friday, with a public forum to solicit input on what qualities should be sought after for his replacement. The forum was hosted by UNM Regent Jack Fortner, who alluded that the next president is one that locals want to represent the qualities of diversity that the University prides itself on. “What we’ve learned is we need a president that can walk on water, that can speak three or four languages, that is very passionate, yet strong and emotional when he needs to be or she needs to be, and has skin that is hard to figure out what color it is,” Fortner said.

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Opinion

Editorial: What President Trump has said he wants to accomplish

Daily Lobo Editorial Board | November 13

Here are some of the things President-elect Donald Trump has said and promised to do once elected: Trump praised the use of waterboarding, an interrogation technique now defined as torture by the U.S., adding “if it doesn’t work, they deserve it anyway for what they do to us.” - Campaign rally in Columbus, Ohio. In the fight against Islamic terror groups, Trump said on Fox and Friends that when it comes to suspected terrorists, “you have to take out their families.” The purposeful killing of civilians is a war crime under the Geneva Convention, and is considered terrorism.

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News

Death row exonoree campaigns against capital punishment

Cathy Cook | November 13

“My question to the American public is: How many people need to be exonerated before we realize we do not need a death row in this country?” This was the focus of Anthony Ray Hinton’s presentation at the UNM Law School on Thursday, where he was invited by UNM’s Innocence and Justice Project. Hinton was on death row in Alabama for 30 years until he was exonerated in 2015. “I was, when I was released, the 152nd person that had been exonerated from death row. Just in a year and a half, four more were exonerated,” he said. “That brings the total to 156.”

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Sports

Women's Basketball: Lobos win first game of season as Lapeyrolerie comes up huge off the bench

Matthew Narvaiz | November 13

The UNM women's basketball team (1-0) cruised to an 83-56 victory over the Fairleigh Dickinson Knights (0-1) in its first game of the season, with the help of redshirt junior guard Alex Lapeyrolerie. Lapeyrolerie — who came off of the bench — seemed to find the basket all night, especially from behind the arc where she went 6-for-8 on her way to a 21-point performance. She went 7-for-9 from the field overall in a career-high 27 minutes, and sank her one free throw shot on the night. Her six treys tied Lapeyrolerie for third-most in a game in program history.