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Monday on the Street: The presidential race
Matthew Reisen | October 16How would you define the 2016 political race and why?
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Restaurants fundraise through GroupRaise
Nichole Harwood | October 16An 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.
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Bernie Sanders to visit UNM
Daily Lobo Staff | October 16Former 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.
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Marching after a mistrial
Sara MacNeil | October 14Early 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.
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HSC considering ways past budgets deficits
Johnny Vizcaino | October 14This 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 13For 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 13Student 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.
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ASUNM to consider diaper-changing station resolution on Wednesday night
David Lynch | October 12On 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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Italian program faces extinction
Megan Nyce | October 11UNM’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 11In 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.”
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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 11It’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.
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Professor reflects on education differences through geography, technology and career goals
Nichole Harwood | October 11Assistant Professor Aaron French has been a professor with UNM for three years and, in this time, said he has learned just as much from his students through their diverse cultural background as they have learned from him. French earned his undergrad and master’s in business from Western Kentucky University, and his doctorate from Mississippi State University. As a professor, French experienced a variety of cultures during his time teaching, from Mississippi to the three-and-a-half years he spent in South Korea.
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New interdisciplinary science facility on campus to broaden research possibilities
Elizabeth Sanchez | October 11UNM has decided to create a new Physics & Astronomy and Interdisciplinary Science center, despite the University facing a projected $1 billion in debt. Construction of the state-of-the-art facility, which will be located west of Popejoy Hall, is expected to begin in fall of 2017. It will be a 137,000 square feet facility and is anticipated to cost $66 million, according to College of Arts and Sciences Dean Mark Peceny, with $27 million allotted to the project through General Obligation Bond C. For Peceny and Ronald Rosa, a junior computer science major, the project is well worth the price tag.
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Tailgating, a teenage wasteland
Sara MacNeil | October 9Tailgating might be the most dangerous activity at a Lobo football game. Students showed up to party before Friday’s football game versus Boise State as early as 4 p.m. A condensed crowd of students, dressed in red, bobbed up and down to house music at sunset, while paramedics stood by to respond to potential alcohol poisoning or dehydration.
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Community holds creative fundraiser to free alleged cop killer
Cathy Cook | October 9The Free Spook Movement hosted a hip hop and poetry show at the Endorphin Power Company on Saturday to raise money in support of an individual who allegedly killed law enforcement officers. Mivhael Armendariz was convicted of first-degree murder in 2003 for the death of sheriff’s deputy Damacio Montano and the attempted murder of Eric Montano, a state police officer. The prosecution said the Montano brothers, who were off-duty at the time, were breaking up a bar fight when Armendariz killed one and injured the other.
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The Dark Horse
Megan Nyce | October 9There are choices for the highest position of power in the country other than Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton — and Libertarian Presidential Candidate Gary Johnson visited UNM to make that clear. Johnson, also a former two-term New Mexico governor, hosted a campaign rally at the SUB Saturday afternoon, where he urged attendees and potential voters to consider his leadership when the polls open Nov. 8.
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Monday on the Street: Tailgating etiquette
Matthew Reisen | October 9Are student tailgate parties conducted responsibly?
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Thriving Africana Studies program seeks department status
Brendon Gray | October 9Since its founding nearly 50 years ago, faculty and staff in the UNM’s Africana Studies program have wished for full department status. A pending expansion will be helpful, but there is still work to be done. Robert Jefferson, director of Africana Studies, said the creation of a new, state-of-the-art facility, which began last month and is chalked to finish early next year, is a sign of growth and prosperity for the program. “The construction of the research hall shows our capacity to grow as a program,” he said.
