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2/20_wbball
Sports

Women's Basketball: Lobo women dominate UNLV

Despite late turnovers and poor free throw shooting, the New Mexico women’s basketball team finally got a close game to end in its favor. UNM (9-15, 4-9 Mountain West) ended a three-game losing streak, beating the UNLV Lady Rebels 65-58 Wednesday night at The Pit.


The Setonian
News

County donates to Innovate

The Bernalillo County Board of Commissioners decided to pitch in $1 million to Innovate ABQ last week. Bernalillo County Commissioner Lonnie Talbert said he proposed contributing the money because he wanted to help the people of Albuquerque take advantage of a centralized innovation center.


The Setonian
News

Nation briefs

Tens of thousands of residents have failed to register their guns with state police, according to CBS Local News. The gun owners are in violation of a gun law that requires citizens to have registered their weapons by Dec. 31 of last year.


The Setonian
Opinion

#RelationshipStatus: The 16 rules of Tinder

If you have read my previous columns, then you know that my friends and I are obsessed with the mobile dating app, Tinder. The app links through Facebook and gives you the opportunity to like or dislike singles in your area and potentially match with them.


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Culture

Mission: Mars

There are many students on this campus who are moving up in the world, but Zachary Gallegos is hoping to move out of the world. Gallegos, a 26-year-old graduate student who studies Earth and planetary science, is one of 1,000 men and women who are competing to be part of the 16-astronaut team for the Mars One Mission.



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Culture

Show Me How: to change a bike tire

When it comes to fixing things, one can be put off by the thought of a long manual that comes with a warning about leaving the work to a professional, but some tasks, such as changing a bicycle tube, can be done in a few easy steps.


The Setonian
News

PhD fellowships funded

A national foundation has awarded UNM $800,000 to help some graduate students complete their dissertations. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded the five-year grant to UNM in order to fund 20 dissertation completion fellowships.


The Setonian
News

Minimum hours cut to 120

Undergraduates will now need to take fewer credit hours in order to graduate. The UNM Faculty Senate cut the minimum number of credit hours required to graduate from 128 to 120 at a meeting at the end of last month.


The Setonian
News

Food bank will help students make ends meat

Starting Thursday, some UNM students may be able to ditch the instant ramen diet at least once a month. The University has cooperated with the Roadrunner Food Bank to launch the Lobo Food Pantry, a mobile food warehouse that would provide free healthy food to UNM students monthly.


The Setonian
News

UNM Crime Briefs

On Feb. 15, an officer was dispatched to the UNM Psychiatric Center in response to an agitated and combative man tearing up one of the rooms, according to a police report. The medical staff told the officer that the patient had damaged the door to the holding room and punched a hole in the wall;


The Setonian
Opinion

The life of our colossus will be born of papier-mâché

Editor, Like Moses — like Paul Revere — like an enormous friend waving happily in the distance, I have served the people of UNM — like a prophet, you might say — a messenger, a voice of hope and good cheer in these, our times of trial and confusion.




2/19_wbball
Sports

Women's Basketball: Late-game lapses cause close losses

The defensive side of the ball has caused problems for the New Mexico women’s basketball team, particularly in the late game. Take UNM’s last contest at Nevada this past Saturday. The Lobos held a 73-71 lead with less than a minute remaining, but let the Wolf Pack come back to win with a 4-0 run.


2/18_lottery
News

ASUNM asks students to opine on scholarship

As this year’s state legislative session enters its last week, UNM community members continue to voice grievances about increasing the Legislative Lottery Scholarship’s GPA requirements. About 100 people gathered in the Student Union Building ballrooms for a Scholarship forum Monday afternoon.


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News

Children’s choir brings love from Uganda

Children in brightly colored gomesis sail seamlessly across the stage. The kids leap, sing and chant to a crowd of more than 100 people in a small church. The Watoto Children’s Choir, an evangelist group from Africa, dances and sings to raise awareness of orphaned children in Uganda.


2/18_spotlight
News

Lobo Spotlight: Dorothy Baca

True to the various colorful personas she has assumed in the past, UNM professor Dorothy Baca proves to be a master of disguise. “I got into television; I did a lot of early rock and roll-like music videos. My brother and I were at one point designing for Bette Midler’s world tour, ‘Divine Madness,’” Baca said.


The Setonian
Opinion

Dr. Pegs Prescription

As a medical student I had the great fortune to spend a winter in Beijing, China, at an urban children’s hospital that used traditional Chinese medicine as well as modern Western methods. Eager to learn all I could, I asked one of the doctors to give me an acupuncture treatment.


The Setonian
Opinion

U.S. money shouldn’t support Israeli violence

Editor, I compliment and I thank many Jews of conscience in the United States and in Israel who have spoken out loud and clear, publicly condemning the Israeli government’s brutal oppression and mass murder of Palestinians.

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