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Sanders speaks to Clinton supporters - as well as some opponents - in front of Mesa Vista Hall at UNM on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016. The Vermont senator has been traveling the country campaigning for his former opponent in recent weeks.

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Bernie Sanders visits UNM to campaign for Hillary Clinton

Johnny Vizcaino | October 19

Former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders returned to Albuquerque on Tuesday morning to address over a thousand students and community members — some supports, some opponents — in a Get Out The Vote rally on campus. Five months after sharing his message of political revolution during his own candidacy in front of more than 7,000 at the Albuquerque Convention Center, the senator from Vermont once again drew a crowd, made up mostly of those in support of the campaign’s mission to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office.

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Report: HSC improving in terms of faculty diversity

Jonathan Natvig | October 18

In 2011, UNM Health Sciences Center and Main Campus officials began a program to facilitate a more diverse faculty community at HSC, and it has been paying dividends in the years since its implementation. The program is called the Advancing Institutional Mentoring Excellence Pilot Project (AIME), and according to a 2016 status report, the initial objective was to foster a more diverse workforce, mentor junior faculty members in “understanding of relational structures” and create educational tools for faculty to set and realize goals.

A rally attendee waves an anti-Hillary Clinton sign at the rally in which Bernie Sanders campaigned for the Democratic presidential nominee at UNM on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016. Other anti-Clinton proponents and third-party supporters watched and made outspoken comments of their own outside the SUB.

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Jeers combatting cheers

David Lynch | October 18

While Hillary Clinton supporters cheered at comments made by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders – Clintons’ surrogate at an on-campus rally in front of Mesa Vista Hall on Tuesday – just as many congregated closer to the SUB, countering with political signage and chanting anti-Clinton rhetoric. The vast majority of this group was for Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson, the former governor of New Mexico who has steadily polled around 10 percent nationally in recent weeks, and as high as 24 percent in the state, according to the Albuquerque Journal.

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UNM, DOJ agree to reforms to combat campus sexual assault

Cathy Cook | October 18

UNM and the U.S. Department of Justice signed a formal agreement on Monday outlining changes the University must implement to be in compliance with federal Title IX and Title IV policy. The agreement offers a three-year plan for updating UNM’s policies and practices in the handling of Title IX complaints, acknowledging that the University began addressing some of the issues outlined in an April report which detailed the findings of the DOJ’s investigation into how UNM handles claims of sexual assault or harassment.

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University seeking feedback from students for potential academic modifications

Johnny Vizcaino | October 18

The UNM Office of Assessment is set to host its second annual Institutional Assessment Days, on Tuesday and Wednesday. Director of Assessment Neke Mitchell said the purpose of IAD is to determine whether or not UNM core curriculum is making the desired impact on student learning, and if the University is preparing students to enter the workforce with skills desired by employers. “The whole idea of the core is to provide students with a foundational knowledge that will help them better succeed in their upper-level courses,” she said.

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UNM expands donor campaign

Cathy Cook | October 16

A new campaign, UNM Gives, is encouraging charitable donations and volunteerism within the University community, expanding on its United Way Campaign. Abra Altman, a strategic support manager at UNM, said that every year the president’s office and the University encourage people to donate money. Altman said the goal of the new campaign is to encourage giving to the United Way of Central New Mexico and UNM Foundation, as well as highlighting the ways UNM students and staff already support the Albuquerque community through volunteer work.

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Community councils monitor APD

Sara MacNeil | October 16

The Albuquerque Police Department’s newly-created Community Policing Councils are seeking UNM students to help them better facilitate communication between APD and the community. CPCs were one of the requirements included in the 2014 settlement agreement between the U.S. Department of Justice and APD, as a result of the DOJ’s investigation of APD’s use of excessive force. In light of its findings, the DOJ mandated that the city establish CPCs in each of the six area commands that APD divides the city into: the foothills, the valley, the northwest, northeast, southeast and southwest commands.

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Monday on the Street: The presidential race

Matthew Reisen | October 16

How would you define the 2016 political race and why?

Head Chef Daniel John preps for Sunday night's dinner service at Torinos' @ Home. John has been the head chef at the Italian eatery for eight months, after he and his wife, Jenna John, took over the restaurant.

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Restaurants fundraise through GroupRaise

Nichole Harwood | October 16

An online fundraising platform is reaching out to UNM groups, clubs and sports teams, to host fundraising events at local partner restaurants. GroupRaise, an online organization, has created a way to help with the process of connecting students to those businesses. GroupRaise has created a network of local Albuquerque restaurants who are willing to donate 15 to 25 percent of their sales to UNM student causes and clubs when they book a fundraising event this fall.

Former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders walks to the podium at his May 20, 2016 rally in Albuquerque New Mexico. Sanders will now attend a rally at UNM to support his former democratic running mate Hillary Clinton.

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Bernie Sanders to visit UNM

Daily Lobo Staff | October 16

Former Democratic Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders is returning to campus this week to campaign for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, and this time he'll be even closer to the UNM community than when he hosted a rally at the Albuquerque Convention Center in May. Sanders will speak at Mesa Vista Hall on Tuesday beginning at 11:00 a.m., as part of a final push by the Clinton campaign to widen its lead over Republican candidate Donald Trump as much as possible in the final weeks leading up to Election Day on Nov. 8.

Albuquerque riot police march down 5th street Wednesday Oct. 12, 2016 in downtown Albuquerque. Riot police along with SWAT units where dispatched to a protest regarding the mistrial decision in the two police officers who shot James Boyd.

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Marching after a mistrial

Sara MacNeil | October 14

Early on Wednesday evening, activists gathered in front of the Bernalillo County Courthouse to protest the announcement of a mistrial in the case against former Albuquerque Police Department officers Dominique Perez and Keith Sandy. The protest, though smaller than past rallies against APD, was eventually met with SWAT teams in riot gear, many armed with assault rifles. Perez and Sandy were on trial for second-degree murder after fatally shooting James Boyd, a mentally ill homeless man, in the Sandia foothills in 2014. This was the first time in at least 50 years that an on-duty APD officer was charged criminally for shooting a suspect. The trial ended in a hung jury on Tuesday, with nine jurors voting to acquit and three voting guilty. Raúl Torrez, the incoming District Attorney, will decide whether or not to retry the case when he takes office in January.

Patrice Martin, executive assistant to Dr. Paul Roth, observes the HSC Committee meeting held at Scholes Hall Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016. The HSC is undergoing budget cuts that will limit hiring.

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HSC considering ways past budgets deficits

Johnny Vizcaino | October 14

This week, members of the Board of Regents Health Sciences Center Committee responded to proposed budgeting strategies — including delayed hiring and a budget cap for 2017 — in the face of impending state budget cuts. As a state-funded institution, UNMH is preparing to deal with a reduced budget by “re-engineering” programs and implementing a hiring strategy that would refrain from filling employment vacancies unless absolutely necessary, according to a presentation by HSC Senior Executive Officer for Finance and Administration Ava Lovell.

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Honors College course explores incarceration

Nichole Harwood | October 13

For the first time during the 2016-2017 year, the UNM Honors College has introduced a class exploring incarceration. Assistant Professor Marygold Walsh-Dilley and Associate Professor Megan Jacobs are teaching the course through integrating two fields — sociology and art — and inviting guests to talk to students about their own personal experiences with incarceration.

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Joint Council reps voice concerns over upcoming big-budget projects

Gabriela Garcia-Huff | October 13

Student group representatives discussed the state of several upcoming capital projects ventures for UNM, and how they could have a negative impact on students. On Tuesday, the Associated Students of UNM’s Joint Council convened for the third time this semester to discuss UNM’s upcoming and ongoing capital projects, including Johnson Gym, Smith Plaza and the new Physics and Astronomy center.

Senators sit around a table at an ASUNM meeting on Jan. 1, 2016 at the UNM SUB. Among the business for the Senate’s next meeting on Wednesday evening is discussing the possibility of diaper-changing stations in all on-campus restrooms.

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ASUNM to consider diaper-changing station resolution on Wednesday night

David Lynch | October 12

On Wednesday evening, Associated Students of UNM senators will deliberate over whether or not the undergraduate student governing body as a whole supports putting baby diaper-changing stations in all restrooms on campus. The business comes in the form of Resolution 2F, introduced and authored by first-time Sen. Sadé Patterson, herself a mother.

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Crime Briefs for Oct. 12, 2016

Elizabeth Sanchez | October 11

Crime Briefs for Oct. 12

Italian lecturer Rachele Duke teaches one of her classes on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016 in Ortega Hall. Duke is the last faculty member in the Italian Department and refuses to retire.

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Italian program faces extinction

Megan Nyce | October 11

UNM’s ongoing budget issues have not only caused cuts and hiring freezes — it has also posed a threat to the Italian language program as its last faculty member, Rachele Duke, refuses to retire in order to keep the program alive. “I was going to retire two years ago, but when this story came up — eliminating Italian because I am the only faculty member in Italian, and have been since 1990 — I decided not to because I love the job that I am doing, and as long as I am here they will not cut the program,” Duke said.

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College Republicans dump Trump

David Lynch | October 11

In a move that breaks away from the organization’s tradition of supporting Republican candidates on principle, the New Mexico Federation of College Republicans officially endorsed Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson for the presidency, denouncing Donald Trump in the process. On Monday, UNM College Republicans followed suit, stating in an official release, “We have never seen two presidential nominees with such high unfavorable ratings” before touting Johnson as “not just the third option, (but) the only option.”

Protesters gather in front of the downtown Albuquerque Police Department office before attendees addressed fellow demonstrators with a loudspeaker.

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Locals celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day with protest

Cathy Cook | October 11

“We can’t drink oil! Leave it in the soil!” The chant rose up from the crowd at the Indigenous People’s Day march on Monday downtown, in celebration of Albuquerque’s second annual day devoted to recognizing the resilience of natives in recent centuries.

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Spam slips through the cracks of Lobomail filters

Brendon Gray | October 11

It’s estimated that, of the 4 million emails that are sent to UNM inboxes daiy, almost 95 percent of them are filtered and discarded as spam. Occasionally, spam slips through the filters that UNM has set up on all inboxes. As spammers become more sophisticated, preventing junk gets harder, said Duane Arruti, interim chief information officer for UNM IT. Filtering emails depends on the sender reputation and the content of the email, Arruti said. Considering these factors, the filtering system determines the likelihood that the message is spam, and either discards it or sends it through.