New Mexico has San Jose State’s number for when the teams play in California. The only five times the teams have met on the west coast, UNM has been able to return to the Land of Enchantment with a victory. UNM’s 3-0 victory over SJSU on Saturday maintained its perfect record against the Spartans on the team’s home court.
It didn’t look promising for New Mexico at the start of the second half. The Lobos were trailing in-state rival New Mexico State 26-14, and wide receiver Carlos Wiggins fumbled the opening kickoff, giving the Aggies prime field position. However, UNM rallied and dominated the second half against NMSU, outscoring the Aggies 24-3 for a 38-29 victory at University Stadium, the team's fourth-straight win in the Rio Grande Rivalry.
An ugly win Friday night kept the New Mexico women’s soccer team undefeated in Mountain West Conference play through the first three games. Forward Ruth Bruciaga scored the game’s only goal in UNM’s 1-0 victory over Nevada at the UNM Soccer Complex, the Lobos’ first action at home in nearly a month.
The No. 1 New Mexico women’s cross country team lived up to the team’s ranking after finishing in first place in South Bend, Indiana. All five women scorers finished among the top-15 at the Joe Piane Notre Dame Invitational as the team finished with a remarkable score of just 29.
On Oct. 3 and 7 UNM Hospital will be hosting a drive-thru flu shot drive as a part of their free vaccination clinics this semester. “The vaccine is the same everywhere, but if you get vaccinated at UNMH it’s free,” said Marsha Houck, director of occupational health services at UNMH. “The hospital absorbs the cost of the vaccine and we have multiple clinics.” A list of vaccine drive dates can be found on the UNM HSC website
Two UNM facets have been recognized for their continuous efforts to improve campus safety. Safe Campus announced UNM’s University Communication and Marketing, as well as the Dean of Students Office, were rated 10th in the nation on the Safe Campus Top 25 list for 2016. According to its website, Safe Campus and the National Campus Safety Summit, is the “premier national conference on university safety” being held in Las Vegas from Feb. 24 through Feb. 26. Safe Campus chooses their honorees based on “execution, by providing concrete examples and case studies of innovative campus safety initiatives,” and “provid(ing) actionable insight that you can immediately apply to improve safety.”
Following a lack of procedure-mandate communication from the Associated Students of UNM, the undergraduate student governing body will co-sponsor an event hosted by the Student Athlete Advisory Committee next week. “I’m still disappointed that everyone had to spend extra time and energy sorting through the mess, but ultimately I’m happy that ASUNM wants to support the event,” said Aasha Marler, president of the SAAC, which speaks for the interests and concerns of the University’s student athletes. The original appropriation submitted by the SAAC, 13F, requested $2,400 to help fund the hosting of speaker Corey Ciocchetti at WisePies Arena aka The Pit on Tuesday.
The New Mexico cross country team is ready to officially start the 2015-2016 season in Indiana at the Joe Piane Notre Dame Invitational today. Head Coach Joe Franklin said the team is eager to put on the cleats for the first time and compete. He said they haven’t been in that environment for a while and hopes they can start building a national championship résumé. “It’s the start of our new year with the goal always to be in contention for a Mountain West title and in contention to make the national championship,” Franklin said.
After the opening weekend, the Mountain West looks like a balanced women’s soccer conference. Every team – except one-win Fresno State – has between three to five wins in their overall records. That makes New Mexico’s 2-0 start in MW play all the more valuable. UNM (4-5-0 overall) is one of three teams to survive the first conference weekend unbeaten, joining Colorado College (4-6-1) and San Jose State (4-4-2) with unblemished starts. Two of the five-win teams -- San Diego State and Wyoming -- split the first two conference games and the other two – UNLV and Utah State – dropped the first two MW contests.
Winning streaks have been few and far between for New Mexico football. The Lobos (2-2) have won a maximum of just two games in a row twice since head coach Bob Davie took over the program in 2012. UNM will have a chance to add a third two-game winning streak this Saturday when it hosts in-state rival New Mexico State at University Stadium.
Editor, Agenda Item No. 8 at the New Mexico State Game Commission public hearing held on Tuesday in Albuquerque was a request by the Pueblo of Santa Ana to transplant a number of pronghorn antelope on to their pueblo lands to aid in their recovery and for various tribal uses. Although I initially went to this state commission meeting in hopes of hearing the issue titled Agenda Item No. 7, I decided to stay and sat in the back of the hotel ballroom to witness a little of the New Mexico State Game Commission in action.
Leadership, poise, charisma and a positive attitude are all desirable traits when recruiting a student-athlete. Marcus “Goodie” Goodloe brought these traits to the University of New Mexico football field along with a calling to facilitate change in the community. Goodloe, a product of South Central Los Angeles, said he chose to attend UNM in the early 1990s for several of reasons: he would get to see playing time right away for a struggling program, he would get to experience a new culture with plenty of sunshine, and he would get a fresh start to tackle issues dear to him.
Editor, Many women gathered on Tuesday in support of or against the Planned Parenthood Rally, sponsored by Student Alliance for Reproductive Justice and the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance. It seemed like hundreds of pink signs read, “don’t take away our care.”
As the UNMPD works on the case of an alleged rape that reportedly took place on Sept. 18 at Lobo Village, residents of the complex claim they were shocked by the lack of proper communication about the incident from Lobo Village administrators and the University. Students said there was confusion among the residents with regard to the incident. A majority of the students living there were informed via news media or “word of mouth.”
This year two of UNM's published magazines, Scribendi and Conceptions Southwest, have been nominated as finalists to be awarded the Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker award.
Editor, Violent bias crimes of opportunistic predation targeting tiny and hence vulnerable minorities are being defended by pointing to this or that mental illness as having already victimized the perpetrator.
The Lobos hadn’t scored a goal in the first half of any game this season. Wednesday night they scored three. The No.
Here are some performances and events this week for Lobos seeking entertainment to check out. Brandon Powers, Rey Pila Sunshine Theater
After taking the first set in the Rio Grande Rivalry, New Mexico fell the New Mexico State 3-1. In the last nonconference game of the regular season, UNM had trouble capitalizing against the Aggies, dropping three sets in a row. New Mexico (8-7, 1-1 MW) jumped out to a hot start, something head coach Jeff Nelson has preached to his squad all year. However, following the Lobos dominant 25-20 showing, the Lobos couldn’t manage another.
Gov. Susana Martinez recently proclaimed October Disability Employment Awareness Month across the state, and UNM continued this spark of awareness with a job fair hosted by the Center for Development and Disability. The job fair catered to disabled individuals looking for work, and was followed a press conference held by CDD officially introducing Martinez’s latest initiative. "We're just trying to get, you know, more awareness that there are people with disabilities who are looking for jobs, who are capable of performing lots of different tasks, and are great employees," said Dr. Robert DelCampo, associate dean at the Anderson School of Management, and a member of the executive committee at the Partners for Employment group. "So just more opportunity and more exposure for them."
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