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The Honorable William Webster, left, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske discuss southwest border drug policy in the SUB on Friday.
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Drug czar visits N.M.

For the first time in history, a Department of Homeland Security meeting was streamed to Web information centers for government officials across the southwest. The meeting, which took place at UNM on Friday, revealed the Obama administration's National Southwest Border Counternarcotics Strategy.


Katie Coronado and 10 of her teammates will head to Fayetteville, Ark., on Wednesday to compete in the NCAA Outdoor Championships. The Lobos are sending 11 representatives this year, which is a school record.
Sports

UNM sends 11 athletes

Seven fresh faces and four wily veterans for the UNM track and field team will compete in the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Fayetteville, Ark. "Sending a record 11 athletes to the NCAA championship is always a great thing," head coach Joe Franklin said. Senior javelin thrower Katie Coronado will try to top her second-place finish in the 2008 NCAA Championships, while Lee Emanuel will look to add another bullet to his résumé, which already boasts a first-place finish in the one-mile race of this year's NCAA Indoor Championships.




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Culture

Twitter users meet up for charity

Twitter is bringing people together in unexpected ways and building the Albuquerque community in the process. Chroma Studios and Best Buddies New Mexico have come together to present Albuquerque's first charity Tweet Up on Thursday June 11 from 6 p.m. - 9 p.


Head coach Ty Singleton, seen here tending to one of his players, had a daunting task this season. Singleton had to work with an inexperienced roster, but the Lobos will be better for it, Singleton said.
Sports

Signs of growth after slash-and-burn year

Ty Singleton employed a not-so-common agricultural technique to softball this season. The UNM head coach slashed and burned much of the Lobos' roster at the beginning of the year. He knew it had to be done - even if it risked the immediate future of Lobo softball.


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News

Teen killer's release divides UNM

When is it justified for a juvenile's crimes to receive adult punishment? This is the question lawmakers and the UNM community are asking after the release of Mister Saunders. In 2002, when Saunders was 13, he raped and killed a UNM student. Saunders has been free since May 31 when he was released from custody at the Youth Diagnostic and Development Center.


Jerry Cena, also known as 'Solar One,' will have a CD release party on Wednesday at Burt's Tiki Lounge at 8 p.m.
Culture

Local MC brings his indie sound to Burt's

Jerry Cena, a.k.a. 'Solar One,' said he didn't find success the first time he released a demo CD while he was in high school. "I kind of got more accepted in town when I got more accepted out of town," Cena said. "I got introduced to Grieves and Type and those guys are from Seattle so when they came into town they put me on their shows and I ended up doing some big shows that way.


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Opinion

No need for more gun laws; just enforce the ones we have

Editor, I recently found out about the Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record Sale Act of 2009 (H.R. 45), which was referred to the House subcommittee on Feb. 2. This bill will amend section 922 of title 18 of the United States Code, which currently prohibits the sale of ammunition or firearms by those who are not licensed to a licensing program for everyone who owns a firearm.


Dante John Terminello of Food Not Bombs serves Jackie Shane on Wednesday in front of the UNM Bookstore. Food Not Bombs is facing a court injunction for continuing to prepare and offer food to the public without a permit.
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Food Not Bombs gets served

The Albuquerque chapter of Food Not Bombs refuses to stop serving free food in front of the UNM Bookstore, despite numerous violation notices and, now, a court injunction. Judge Clay Campbell, district two, granted the New Mexico Environment Department's request for a preliminary injunction against Food Not Bombs on June 1, prohibiting the not-for-profit organization from serving food until they obtain a permit.


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Culture

Rock out at arts and crafts fair at Mama's Minerals

Looking for trilobites, authentic arrowheads and geodes? You can find them at Mama's Minerals, which will host its fifth annual arts and crafts fair on Saturday beginning at 10 a.m. Owner Laura Randolph said Mama's Minerals had humble beginnings in Albuquerque 23 years ago.


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News

Holistic healing classes improve students' lives

Rural university students have turned to classes that focus on alternative and holistic health as a means to self-growth and healing, according to a UNM-Taos professor. Jean Ellis-Sankari, department head at the UNM-Taos Academy of Holistic Health and Human Services, published an article on the topic, titled "Higher Education as an Alternative Point of Access to Holistic Health," in the May 2009 issue of the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.



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Daily Lobo Spotlight

Daily Lobo: Why are you going for your Master's in Business Administration? Casey Stephens: I actually had a job when I graduated in finance, which is what my degree is in. I had a job as a broker, and that was in December, which was not a good time for the financial industry, so I signed my contract to go to Phoenix, and they had to rescind the offer, because they just couldn't afford to hire people.


Sergio Renteria greets Luz María Muñez during the Special Olympics at the UNM Track Complex on Saturday. This was the largest state summer games event in the history of Special Olympics New Mexico.
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Special Olympics hearten N.M.

Special Olympics New Mexico held its largest-ever summer games last weekend. Some 1,035 athletes, up from 800 last year, participated in track and field, bocce, volleyball, cycling and gymnastics, said SONM spokesman Oscar Solis. There are more than 2,500 athletes involved in Special Olympics in New Mexico and three million worldwide, he said.


"Painted Jetty Jacks," by Zach Meisner, is part of the Land/Art Exhibit at the Open Space Visitor Center in the Bosque. The show opens Monday.
Culture

Bosque offers artists material, inspiration

The Albuquerque Bosque's trash is an artist's treasure. Joshua Willis, the Open Space Visitor Center coordinator, helped find artists for Land/Art New Mexico, a collaboration with 516 Arts to showcase local artists who create land-based art. Willis said most of the exhibits will be finished by June 1, but some are still being constructed.



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Sports

Kobe Bryant the last bastion of interesting

There will be no LeBron James in the NBA Finals. No puppets, no chalk, no oddly protruding right mandible. In his place is the Orlando Magic, a team that has a star in Dwight Howard, but whose success relies mostly on unsexy things like defense and Hedo Turkoglu.



Mike Brownstein was named Louisville Slugger All-American Team on Thursday, May 28. The Lobos lost consecutive games in the Mountain West Conference Tournament and failed to make the NCAA Tournament.
Sports

Slugger has high hopes for team

Mike Brownstein didn't resort to pulling out a bag of excuses. The UNM baseball team's second baseman did his best to make sense of the way the Lobos asphyxiated themselves down the stretch, causing the Lobos to lose out on a trip to an NCAA Regional. UNM's postseason aspirations were wiped out by consecutive losses in the Mountain West Conference Tournament, coupled with Utah becoming the first No.

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