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	Cid Fairbanks / Prospective Student / Media arts
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Daily Lobo: Do you know what you want to major in? Cid Fairbanks: Media arts. I’m transferring from the Art Center Design College. DL: Why are you transferring over? CF: Well, it’s cheaper and I always wanted to go to UNM since I was little.


The Setonian
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Popejoy's doorless stalls less than discreet

No stall doors in restroom potential health and safety standard violation Male students and employees are paying for “illicit sexual activity” that occurred a dozen years ago in the men’s bathroom near the north entrance of Popejoy Hall. The Physical Plant Department administration removed stall doors from the bathroom in the late ‘90s after reports of criminal sexual activity, said Gary Smith, associate director of Environmental Services at PPD. “The reason the doors were taken down was because of the illicit sexual activity that took place in there,” he said “The new art building is the same way because apparently (the) same things happened there.”


	Peru1: Almost any type of meat or produce can be found at this market in Urubamba. Unfortunately, most of it looks distinctly unappetizing up close.
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Peruvian parables

I went to Peru over Thanksgiving break from Nov. 21-29. The country is beautiful, with mountains that make the Sandias look like speed bumps.




The Setonian
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Youth must support a strong international climate treaty

Editor, I’m writing in response to Donald Gluck’s letter to the editor titled “PIRG has leftist agenda, should not be allocated fees.” Improving health, protecting our environment, high-quality education, safety, etc., are not left or right issues.



The Setonian
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Question and Answer

Steve Elardo is a UNM graduate student doing research at the Institute of Meteoritics. He came to the institute after completing undergraduate research related to rocks on Mars at Stony Brook University on Long Island, N.Y.


The Setonian
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Group helps children wear their best smiles

UNM students are aligning with a national organization to correct a minor deformity that plagues children worldwide. Students organized the UNM chapter of Operation Smile, a national non-profit organization that helps kids with cleft palates and lips get corrective surgery.



The Setonian
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Threatened for speaking out against prejudice

Two armed security guards greeted UNM students as they walked into their Peace Studies class on Tuesday. Although the scene was unfamiliar to students, it has been all too familiar for the guest lecturer, Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. “We had two death threats before coming in,” Weinstein said.





	Amy Beggin lofts up a floater in UNM’s 77-55 win over North Carolina A&T on Friday at The Pit. The Lobos defeated North Carolina A&T to get to the finals of the Midtown Thanksgiving Tournament, where UNM lost to Toledo on Saturday, 62-56
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Solid zone defense locks in win for Toledo

Unfortunately, at the conclusion of Saturday’s Thanksgiving Midtown Tournament, the UNM women’s basketball team (4-2) wasn’t able to say “Winner, winner — turkey dinner!” University of Toledo’s (5-2) menacing zone was the brainteaser the Lobos could never decipher, especially at the tail end of the game, resulting in a 62-56 loss for UNM.


The Setonian
Sports

Last game ends in crushing defeat

Opposites might attract, but it was fatal attraction for the UNM football team and head coach Mike Locksley when the Lobos faced TCU on Saturday. The Horned Frogs (12-0 overall, 8-0 in the MWC), at the other end of the spectrum record-wise, trounced the Lobos (1-11 overall, 1-7 in the MWC), 51-10, in Fort Worth, Texas, capturing the Mountain West Conference championship outright and getting a bid for a Bowl Championship Series game.


The Setonian
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Hardwork earns first bid in 15 years

It’s tournament time for the UNM volleyball team. After finishing the regular season 20-9 and clinching third place in the Mountain West Conference, the Lobos received one of 33 at-large bids into the NCAA Tournament, marking the sixth postseason appearance in program history and the UNM’s first tournament trip since 1994. Head coach Jeff Nelson said his team earned the distinction. “We’re so thankful to the NCAA Selection Committee for putting us back into the tournament after a little bit of a drought,” he said.


The Setonian
Sports

Runners race past expectations

Lobo runner Jacob Kirwa started off lost in a sea of 209 runners at the NCAA Cross Country Championship in Terre Haute, Ind., last Monday. By the end of the race, he outperformed 198 of them, climbing to the 11th spot and finishing with a career best in the 10,000-meter run (29:46.1). “When we started I just hoped I could go fast at the beginning, but I ended up in like the 100th position, so I had to fight back,” he said.


The Setonian
Sports

NBA age rule waste of time and talent

You may have heard of Brandon Jennings. He was a standout high school point guard from Compton, Calif., averaging more than 30 points and seven assists his senior year and winning a truckload of awards along the way. Then came the time for a new rite of passage for prodigious young ballplayers: Picking a college at which to waste a year before entering the NBA.


The Setonian
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Distributing scarce H1N1 vaccine

If you weren’t one of the 350 people who heard about the free H1N1 vaccines, take it up with the Student Health and Counseling Center. SHAC did not advertise — except on Cornell Mall — that the vaccines would be available on Friday and Monday for anyone under the age of 24, said SHAC Director Beverly Kloeppel.

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