I had the pleasure of attending several of the SexUality Week events put on by the Student Alliance for Reproductive Justice with some of my friends from the law school. The goal of Sex Week was to give students a comprehensive sex education that is inclusive, positive and gives them the tools to have meaningful conversations about sexuality.
“Humbling” is the word men’s soccer head coach Jeremy Fishbein used to describe the two seniors who will receive their college degrees this semester. The two “interesting cats,” as Fishbein described them, are Josh Dye and Adrian Mora Delgado. “Those are two stable guys,” Fishbein said. “More than anything, they epitomize what a student-athlete is. It’s a bit humbling. They’re both engineering majors with 4.0 GPAs and they’re Division I athletes.”
After a long journey fighting numerous physical disabilities, Christmas is coming early for one UNM senior, and it’s in the form of a bachelor’s degree in economics. Ian Christmas will graduate from UNM this month, finishing his undergraduate studies with a 3.51 GPA. The road to graduation has been a challenging one: Christmas said he suffered a life-changing knee injury two weeks before graduating from One Station Unit Training at Fort Benning, Georgia as a U.S. Army infantryman in 1997.
Setting goals is often considered the first step when working toward achieving something in life. For one student, the goal of graduating college was apparent early on, posted on the bulletin board in her bedroom while she was still attending Rio Rancho High School. Even after switching majors, Jocelyn Fafard will graduate with a Bachelor of Applied Science in family studies in just three and a half years on Saturday. Fafard said college was on her mind early, and she was fortunate to have parents that provided strong support along the way.
Maria Andrea Aguilar is graduating from the College of Arts and Sciences this month, and she took a not-so-traditional path to her Spanish degree, completing the requirements in just two and a half years. Aguilar said that she has always known what is she capable of, and she always try to meet her goals. “I knew it would be possible for me to obtain my degree in less than four years, and therefore I had to do my best to do it,” she said.
After having taken a year off from school due to health issues, Audra Lovato will graduate from college. In 2010, Lovato was diagnosed with Ulcerative colitis, and despite the several medications she was taking, had to undergo emergency surgery starting in the fall of 2013. The surgery consisted of three major procedures, all three months apart and done in Arizona.
On Friday night, Hayley Horowitz’s struggling chapter will come to a close. While obtaining a college degree is a valued milestone for the majority of college graduates, Horowitz’s journey to reach the plateau is unlike most. Horowitz has not completed a grade following sixth, when she left her house at the age of 13, and was forced to endure her teenage years as a member of the homeless community.
UNM lobbying to remove local regulation of oil and gas extraction will impact the local environment as well as exacerbate climate change. For example, with the prospect of an exploratory oil well being drilled north of Albuquerque and no regulations in place in Bernalillo or Sandoval counties, residents would be left with no say in the impacts of well placement, monitoring of water and air impacts or other surface impacts.
JD Blatchford-Rodriguez is a Desert Storm veteran, as well as a father of two, and will be graduating with a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts. It has taken Blatchford-Rodriguez 20 years to graduate due to his obligations to his family and his job, but said he feels relieved that the pursuit is over. “My dad, when I was three years old, brought me to the U.S.,” Blatchford-Rodriguez said. “I was actually born in Mexico City ... my dad brought me to the U.S., he was self-taught how to read, write and speak English within a year.”
Man, it seems like it’s taken a long time to get to this point. Like many other students on this campus, I will take part in next week’s commencement celebration. I will walk up the ramp to receive two bachelor’s degrees: for multimedia journalism and history. I’m also 33 years old — not the oldest non-traditional student out there, but older than many of my counterparts. The effort that I put in during this second stint in college makes this graduation much more important to me than my high school or associate’s degree.
After high school, the options that David Anaya had to continue his football career weren’t great. Anaya had offers from a few Division II schools and junior colleges, but he didn’t want to go to a small university. His goal was to go Division I and play among the country’s best athletes. That goal didn’t look promising, until UNM head coach Bob Davie decided to sit down and watch a tape of Anaya. Davie liked what he saw and contacted Anaya about coming to the University of New Mexico. The offer to play at UNM intrigued Anaya, and he decided that his best option was to walk-on to the program in 2012.
Head coach Bob Davie won’t be a fan at the Gildan New Mexico Bowl this year. After weeks of speculation, it was officially announced on Sunday that New Mexico will participate in the New Mexico Bowl for the first time since 2007. UNM will face Arizona from the PAC-12 in University Stadium on Dec. 19.
New Mexico’s two-game slip came to a close after beating the SMU Mustangs 63-58 on Saturday night in Dallas, Texas. The first quarter was the start UNM needed, going up 15-8 after starting slow in the previous two contests. The hot first quarter didn’t correlate with the rest of the first half as New Mexico’s defense appeared to hit a brick wall in the second quarter. The Lobos were outscored 24-15 in that period, finding themselves in a 32-30 hole at the half.
No. 11 Purdue limited New Mexico to less than 60 points for the first time this season in a 70-58 loss Saturday afternoon in West Lafayette, Indiana. Prior to Saturday UNM (5-2) had scored 75 points or more through its first six games, but ran into Boilermaker squad who had yet to lose.
New Mexico’s schedule so far has seen more guard-oriented rosters with not much size. Saturday’s opponent, Purdue, will be much bigger. The No. 11 Boilermakers’s starting lineup includes 6-foot-8 forward Vince Edwards, 6-9 forward Caleb Swanigan and 7-2 center Isaac Hays.
Courtney Frerichs had a tough decision to make. With one year of eligibility left in her cross country career, Frerichs could either stay at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and complete a second undergraduate degree, or she could leave her home state and finish her collegiate career elsewhere.
Universities across the nation are continuously putting more attention into making their campuses and facilities environmentally friendly. Numair Latif, a graduate student studying architecture & planning, conducted a survey this semester in hopes of getting students' opinions on how to make UNM's campus more involved in that movement. Latif is a part of the Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA) and the chair of the Sustainability Committee at UNM. In an effort to recruit new members for the committee, he said he passed out pamphlets to students along with some questions for them to answer.
he looming end of a prominent UNM elementary education program came down to the wire this week, but it will continue for at least another year due to a last minute budget extension. The Natural Sciences Program, originally set for cancellation after the spring semester, was given a one-year extension. The program provides physical science, life science and environmental science courses for future kindergarten through eighth grade educators. Mark Peceny, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said the proposed discontinuation came as a result of the University going through a 1.5 percent budget cut this year.
Each semester the Daily Lobo photo desk take over an issue at the end of the semester to tell a story visually. Here is this semester's edition from Di-Linh Hoang, Hannah Glasgow, Biraj Rawal, Derek Toledo and Nick Fojud.
The Lobos haven’t lost back-to-back games in nearly 11 months. On Wednesday night, that came to a close in a 70-62 loss against UTEP. After falling to Duquesne in a 78-69 4th quarter let down, the Lobos responded with a sluggish first half in El Paso. It was the first time the Lobos dropped consecutive games since opening conference play with losses to Fresno State on December 31, 2014 and to Colorado State on January 3, 2015.
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