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Accused athletes return to football team

Thomas Romero-Salas | August 17

New Mexico head coach Bob Davie has reinstated running back Crusoe Gongbay and cornerback SaQwan Edwards to the football team after the District Attorney’s Office determined there was insufficient evidence to prosecute. The two returned to practice last week during training camp in Ruidoso, and are eligible to play in the Aug. 30 season opener. “It was my decision,” Davie said last week at a press conference. “Back in April, I suspended those two from the team because it was a criminal case and they were charged criminally. The reason I’m reinstating them is because I received word from both attorneys that the criminal case has been dismissed and it’s closed.”

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News

Charges against football players dropped

Jonathan Baca | August 17

The District Attorney’s Office formally dropped charges without prejudice against two Lobo football players and one former UNM student. District Attorney Kari Brandenburg said on Wednesday that due to a lack of evidence her office was unable to indict SaQwan Edwards, Crusoe Gongbay and Ryan Ruff on kidnapping and rape charges. UNM is still following up on its own investigation, which could lead to disciplinary action including expulsion from school if it is found that the student-athletes violated the school’s code of conduct.

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Opinion

Letter: Palestinian slaughter unjust, not self-defense

August 17

Editor, The onslaught of Palestine by the state of Israel has no justification. No slaughter can be justified, regardless of who commits it against whom. Those who try to rationalize the bloodshed into a moral-political necessity do so to hide their monstrous face behind a mendacious mindset. Rationalizing the impermissible is deliberate Orwellian miscategorization. The mass murder of the defenseless is never “self-defense.” None of the more than two thousand killed after a month of shelling has been a “threat” to the state of Israel.

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Opinion

Letter: Finding the real, true meaning of happiness

August 17

Recently it was reported that Rush Limbaugh said that Robin Williams killed himself because Leftists are never happy. When I read that, I had the desire to ask Rush Limbaugh to search inside himself for happiness. I suspect if he were to do that, he would find the desire to make other people appear inferior to him, and a great deal of hatred, but no genuine love of other people and no happiness.

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Sports

Sports briefs

Thomas Romero-Salas | August 17

Men’s basketball The men’s basketball team hired Alan Huss to become the new assistant coach, UNM announced Tuesday. Huss spent his last four seasons as the head coach of La Lumiere School, a prep program in La Porte, Indiana. He replaces Craig Snow, who became the new head coach at New Mexico Highlands University in July. Huss will officially join the staff later this summer, pending UNM human resources approval.

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Sports

Volleyball team comes with fresh faces and international experience

Liam Cary-Eaves | August 17

Young teams are often threatened with having to endure a learning curve. However, the University of New Mexico volleyball team is confident that the unit will be good to go as soon as the season starts. “This team has been a long time in the making. We’re excited about it,” head coach Jeff Nelson said. “We’re poised to make a good run for a while … We’re ready to make a run at the conference championship.”

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Sports

Men's soccer team sticks together for strong season start

Isabel Gonzalez | August 17

Although the UNM men’s soccer team had a successful season last year, the question at the beginning of every season is always the same: What will this season be like? Last year the Lobos won the Conference USA regular-season title in its first season in the league, and made it all the way to the Final Four in the NCAA Tournament. It was a season the team could be proud of, but success did not come easy; senior forward James Rogers said the team didn’t know what to expect at first because they had lost many good players.

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Sports

Former Lobos make NBA picks

Staff Report | August 17

Both halves of last year’s strong New Mexico backcourt reached the NBA ranks over the summer. Cameron Bairstow signed a professional contract with the Chicago Bulls, the team announced on July 21. The Bulls drafted Bairstow with the 49th overall pick just one year after taking another former UNM player, Tony Snell. “Appreciate all the support from everyone throughout this process!!” Bairstow wrote on Twitter. “Excited to be a part of the Bulls!!”

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Sports

Lobo women finish Italian tour with loss to Netherlands

Liam Cary-Eaves | August 14

The New Mexico women’s basketball team concluded its tour of Italy with a 54-41 loss to the Netherlands National Team.

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Sports

UNM women take first loss in Italian hoops tour

Liam Cary-Eaves | August 13

The New Mexico women’s basketball team had trouble closing out the Netherlands national team in its first loss of the Italy exhibition tour.

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Culture

Fall term debuts with Friday Night Live!

Tomas Lujan | August 10

Live from the University of New Mexico, it’s Friday Night Live! This Friday, the Student Union Building will host the seventh annual Friday Night Live!

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Culture

UNM camp integrates mathematical concepts

Lauren Marvin | August 10

UNM is hosting a camp devoid of sleeping bags, tents or smores. This camp is comprised of calculators, mathematical equations and computer programming. Monika Nitsche, a professor of applied mathematics, said high school and college students from across the Southwest attended a four-week math camp in July. “The idea is to give students the opportunity to deepen their knowledge in math and also exposure in application, showing them how things they may have learned in the classroom and different classes are all required to solve a particular application,” Nitsche said. Transformations and modeling were the themes of four mini courses, she said.

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News

Arts let students 'escape for a day'

Moriah Carty | August 10

The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History is using a “magic” bus to inspire poverty-level children by giving them a chance to escape their environment for a day. Rita Butler, the program manager at the museum, said this is the 20th year of the Magic Bus Program, which is funded by the community and private donations. “The program brings school children to the museum, totally free,” she said.

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News

Flood damage lingers as term looms

Stephen Montoya | August 10

Back-to-back rainstorms resulted in damage to almost 40 buildings on the UNM main campus last week. Some of the departments hit hardest include the School of Engineering, the recently remodeled Honors College, Hodgin Hall and the Centennial Library located underground. Nancy Dennis, associate dean of the Centennial Library, said she has yet to find out the extent of the damage after hearing that there was standing water in the library. “All those things kind of start filtering through your head when you get that phone call at 3 o’clock on Saturday morning, and you know it’s not good news,” Dennis said. The first step to salvaging any damaged books starts with calling a book restoration company that will freeze the saturated material and thaw it out over a slow, tempered process, she said. Ninety boxes of damaged books were sent to the BMS CAT Disaster Restoration plant in Fort Worth, Texas for the restoration process to begin, Dennis said. “If print and books stay wet in a high-humidity and high-temperature environment, then mold can start growing in that material,” she said. The normal response time for saving print materials after they’ve become wet is 48 hours, she said.

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Culture

Records & Reviews: Roses & Revolutions

Stephen Montoya | August 10

Roses & Revolutions takes listeners along a journey of stardom and tenacity with the band’s new EP of the same name. What happens to the majority of “American Idol”3 contestants after the applause quiets down and the only stage they find themselves on is a new stage of life?

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Sports

Lobo men's soccer confident about second C-USA season

Isabel Gonzalez | August 10

The UNM men’s soccer team proved its worth last year during its inaugural season in Conference USA by going 7-1-1 and winning the regular-season title. This year the team is coming back to show that its first-year success in C-USA was not beginner’s luck. On Wednesday, Conference USA announced that the UNM men’s soccer team is the preseason favorite to take the conference championship.

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Sports

Lobo women sing Sirens to sleep on Italian tour

Liam Cary-Eaves | August 10

The New Mexico women’s basketball team has grown during its exhibition tour in Italy. The squad improved to 2-0 with a 70-54 victory over the Adriatic Sea Sirens last Saturday. “We played well,” head coach Yvonne Sanchez told reporters of GoLobos.com.

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Culture

Concert Review: Black Label band inspires disciples

Stephen Montoya | August 10

The Sunshine Theater was transformed last Monday into the Albuquerque chapter of a Black Label Society synagogue, with worshipers paying homage to rock legend Zakk Wylde. The show started at 8 p.m.

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Opinion

Anniversary issue failed to recognize injured Lobo staff

August 10

Editor, As a former review editor and managing editor of the New Mexico Daily Lobo I was pleased to see that the anniversary issue had coverage of the New Mexico National Guard’s invasion of campus in May 1970. I was, however, surprised to see no mention that Lobo staffers were injured in two of the incidents covered in that article.

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News

Lawmakers seek independent input in primary elections

J.R. Oppenheim | August 10

Three Albuquerque lawmakers came forward Thursday to pitch potential legislation to allow independent voters to participate in the New Mexico primary election process. During a press conference held at UNM, state Sen.