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UNM quarterback Cole Gautsche (8) attempts to rush past the San Diego State Aztecs at University Stadium on Friday, Oct. 10. Gautsche and Lamar Jordan, another Lobo quarterback, have spent the last three games splitting playing time on the field.
Sports

Football games crippled by inconsistency

Don’t count on New Mexico’s quarterback situation changing much after its bye week.Signal-callers Cole Gautsche and Lamar Jordan have split most of the playing time the past three games and that trend will likely continue. Gautsche has started all three contests but has been pulled for Jordan at some point during each game.



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News

Budget planning getting a head start

By Marielle Dent�UNM is getting a jump-start on its budget planning process this year in order to make it more responsive and efficient, according to a recent press release.Normally this work is done in the weeks between the end of the legislative session and the date for budget approval.


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Opinion

Freedom of speech crushed overseas; U.S. stays ignorant

Editor,The U.S. government does itself no favors when it supports tyrants overseas. Rather than droning on about how other nations, groups and individuals are “jealous of our freedoms,” we should learn a lesson from what is unfolding in Saudia Arabia.



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News

Crime briefs

On Sept. 29, UNM Police Department took a report in reference to harassment and battery.


New Mexico defensive specialist Stephanie Chavez bumps the ball during the game against New Mexico State on Monday night. The Lobos swept the Aggies 3-0, snapping a four-match losing streak.
Sports

Lobos break losing skid

Leaving past performances in the rear view mirror is what the New Mexico volleyball team hopes will get it back on track.In a 3-0 sweep against New Mexico State (11-8, 5-2 WAC), the Lobos snapped a four-match losing streak with one of their better offensive performances of the season, hitting above .225 in each of the three sets.


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News

Nobel laureate to speak on campus

A Nobel Laureate is coming to main campus to speak today.John C. Mather, an American astrophysicist and cosmologist known particularly for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite, for which he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006, is doing a free public talk tonight at 7 p.m. in Keller Hall, according to a UNM press release.


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Opinion

Super nutrition, raw food treats alcoholism

Editor,Nutritionist Roger Williams in the 1950s proved that not enough nutrients causes alcoholism.In experiments with rats, only 10 percent of those with full nutrition became alcoholic.



Leyton Cougar and Storm, an arctic wolf, from the Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary interact with visitors of the “Wilderness50 Get Wild Festival” at the Civic Plaza in downtown Albuquerque on Saturday. The festival was put on in conjunction with the National Wilderness Conference and celebrated 50 years of American wilderness.
Culture

Locals mark Wilderness Act anniversary

This year marks the 50th anniversary for the Wilderness Act signed in 1964 by President Lyndon B. Johnson, and some enthusiasts took time to educate people about the Great Outdoors. The Get Wild Festival, celebrated Saturday at the Civic Center, drew attention to the act that helped protect 9.1 million acres of wilderness lands.



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News

Grant gives colleges tools to help workers

Eleven community colleges – including UNM’s four branch campuses – in New Mexico will receive $15 million in federal funding to create innovative training programs in partnership with local businesses to get New Mexican adults into the workforce.This funding allows colleges across New Mexico to provide workers with quality job training to help fill New Mexico’s expanding health care and technology workforce needs, U.S.



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News

Unborn persons lawsuit a possibility with Colorado amendment

Editor,While I have no intention of starting a debate via opinion letters, I do feel that I should speak out against the personal slander from Sade Patterson’s Amendment 67 article response, in which she referred to me as “uneducated.” Regarding the issue, I am in fact quite well versed in the facts and have not only read Amendment 67 in full (that is, not picking out a select few words of it and espousing that single point), but I also explained in the article what the law would actually mean for Colorado voters.


New Mexico men’s basketball head coach Craig Neal has his head shaved during Friday night’s Lobo Howl event at the Pit. Neal, along with his son, sophomore guard Cullen Neal, and senior guard Hugh Greenwood, has been growing out his hair to raise money for breast cancer awareness and show support for Greenwood’s mother, who was diagnosed with breast cancer more than 18 months ago.
Sports

Close shave for Neal at Lobo Howl

Walking around campus this past year and a half, students may have noticed something a little different about senior guard Hugh Greenwood. That something? He has been growing his hair past his shoulders.He said he grew the long locks because his mother was diagnosed with breast cancer more than 18 months ago.Other members of the Lobo men’s basketball team got on board to help, too. Head coach Craig Neal and his son, sophomore guard Cullen Neal, have also been growing out their hair to show support for Greenwood’s family.


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News

Despite Martinez, Hispanics stick with Dems.

Even with a Hispanic Republican governor in the midst of a re-election bid, more of New Mexico’s Latino voters side with Democrats at the ballot box, political experts said. Gov. Susana Martinez in 2010 became the nation’s first Hispanic woman to win a gubernatorial election, but data from the research website Latino Decisions suggests she accumulated 38 percent of the Hispanic votes during that race against Diane Denish, who generated 61 percent. Martinez netted more Hispanic voters in 2010 than Republicans in other races nationally, but she did not draw a majority, said Gabe Sanchez, a UNM political science professor.



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Sports

Sports Briefs for Oct. 20

The New Mexico men’s soccer team lost 1-0 at Kentucky on Saturday night. Wildcat forward Justin Laird scored the only goal of the game in the 31st minute with a volley from 10 yards out over the defense, according to golobos.com.


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Opinion

Colorado's personhood amendment misunderstood

Colorado is on the move to define an unborn human being as a “person” via Amendment 67 “Protection of Pregnant Mothers and Unborn Children,” which will be up for vote on the Nov. 4 ballot.

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