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Cleavage removed from controversial athletics ads

UNM’s most famous couple is leaning toward reconciliation — as long as Lobo Louie vows to sever all commercial ties with Route 66 Casino’s pin-up girl. Many UNM community members were angered by the joint ad campaign, which debuted in early September and includes spots that show Lobo Louie cohabitating with Route 66’s sultry model.


	Middle school student Marcos Alonso gets taquitos Monday in the SUB ballrooms during El Centro de la Raza’s 40th anniversary celebration.  Middle and high school students attended the celebration as part of El Centro’s attempt to increase enrollment of Hispanics at UNM.
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Center serves students for 40 years

UNM’s El Centro de la Raza celebrated its 40th anniversary this week. Director Verónica Méndez-Cruz said the celebration at the SUB Monday and Tuesday involved children who are not old enough to attend college.


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Daily Lobo Spotlight

Daily Lobo: So what’s your concentration? Essence Johnson: Vocal performance. DL: Are you in any choirs at UNM? EJ: I’m in the concert choir and jazz choir. DL: What year are you? EJ: Well, I’m a second-year music student, but I have tons of credit hours.


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Free flu immunizations available

With midterms around the corner, students should head to the UNM Family Practice Center on north campus for their free flu immunizations, said Amy Frederick, Student Health & Counseling nurse manager. Frederick said getting the shot might ensure students stay healthy and can ace their tests.


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Administration plans changes in registration

The Division of Enrollment Management plans to let students register for fall and spring classes at the same time. Multiterm registration would allow students to register for a year of classes instead of only one semester’s worth, said Carmen Brown, vice president of enrollment management. She said multiterm registration should be available by fall 2011.


	A building in a Catholic church complex in American Samoa was torn in half Sept. 29 by tsunami waves that hit the South Pacific islands following an 8.0-magnitude earthquake.
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Tsunami hits UNM grad’s town

Andrew Ah Young, who graduated from UNM in May, said his family felt the earthquake that hit his hometown in American Samoa before the tsunami waves washed everything away last week. Tsunami waves poured over American Samoa on Sept.


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Hokona Hall resident: Fire alarms took 20 minutes to sound

When a dryer in the Hokona Hall laundry room caught fire last week, the smoke alarms either went off immediately or a half hour late, depending on whom you ask. “I could smell the smoke in my room about 20 minutes before the fire alarm went off, and I live on the third floor,” said student Axie Papp. Bobby Childers, Residence Life and Student Housing public affairs representative, said the alarms functioned exactly as they were supposed to. He said it wasn’t possible that it took the alarms a half hour to go off.


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GPSA won't back firing Locksley

The GPSA wants to give head football coach Mike Locksley a second chance. The Graduate and Professional Students Association passed a resolution Saturday urging the University not to terminate the coach, who is under fire after he had an altercation with assistant coach Jonathan “J.B.” Gerald Sept. 20.


	Hector Nava, center, plays wheelchair basketball near the SUB with Ryan Johnson, right, during Disability Awareness Day on Friday. The event, hosted by the Associated Students for Empowerment, featured a blindfold obstacle course and information booths.
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Events give a sense of life with a disability

The Associated Students for Empowerment hosted Disability Awareness Day on Friday to help the UNM community appreciate the day-to-day experience of being disabled. The ASE hosted several activities to show able-bodied individuals what it is like to be disabled, including wheelchair basketball and a blindfold obstacle course. High school student Carter Radzka participated in the wheelchair challenge.


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Question and Answer

Always in cherry and silver, President of Howl Raisers Wes Henderson tries to raise school spirit among students at UNM.


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Question and Answer

Nikolas Weir is an international theater artist and advocate for the blind. He worked in communities across the globe before he moved to Albuquerque.


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Group to visit UNM with anti-abortion presentation

Students who are sensitive to graphic imagery might do well to avoid Smith Plaza next week, said Dean of Students Randy Boeglin. Monday through Wednesday, Justice for All, an anti-abortion organization, will present 18-foot posters that include pictures of aborted fetuses, said Justice for All representative Tammy Cook.


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ASUNM amends code to increase voter turnout

Members of ASUNM amended the student government’s election code Wednesday in an attempt to increase voter turnout in upcoming elections. In a 16-2 vote, the Associated Students of UNM passed an amendment to the election code. The amendment increases candidate campaign budgets by $50, allows students who are unable to make it to the polls to vote by other means, requires polling places to be marked with at least one sign, and makes voting hours on north campus later in the evening.



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Fair prepares students to choose graduate school

If UNM undergraduates plan to attend graduate school, they should start planning as early as freshman year, said Jenna Crabb, UNM’s director of Career Services. Representatives from 86 graduate and professional institutions will be at the Graduate and Professional School Fair in the SUB today to help students research potential schools, Crabb said. “You want to look at faculty-to-staff ratio, locations and research opportunities available for your particular field,” she said.



	Ph.D. student Mel Strong examines some of his water vapor measuring instruments in Northrop Hall on Monday. Strong is researching the origin of monsoon moisture in the Southwest and created his own instruments for the experiment.
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Head in the clouds

Ph.D. student Mel Strong is doing research so unique that he had to make his own instruments and build his own plane to complete it. New Mexico is known for its unpredictable weather patterns, and Strong has made it his mission to analyze the air during monsoon season to discover what causes them. “The question is, ‘When we have cloudy days, rainy days, where does that moisture come from?’” he said.


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Enrollment up at NM universities

New Mexican universities have seen increased enrollment this fall, and they’re chalking it up to online courses, new recruitment practices and, above all, the economy. With roughly 10 percent more students attending, representatives from Eastern and Western New Mexico universities, CNM, New Mexico State and UNM all say the economy has encouraged New Mexicans to return to school. Viola Florez, cabinet secretary of the New Mexico Higher Education Department, said a combination of the stimulus bill and the increasing need for a college degree in the workplace have contributed to the enrollment trend. “They’re figuring out that they really do need to go to college,” she said.



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