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Sunshine powers $25 million solar project

Hannah Eisenberg | April 26

The future of Albuquerque’s renewable energy industry is about to get a lot brighter. This past week, the city of Albuquerque announced a $25 million project to increase its production of solar energy. The project, which will place solar panels on city-owned buildings, is expected to begin construction this summer. “The installation of these photovoltaic panels makes sense on so many levels. It provides clean energy to a growing city, provides much needed job opportunities and utilizes a resource that is very abundant in New Mexico — energy from the sun,” said Professor Donald Davis, of UNM’s Applied Technology Department.

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Culture

UNM art program draws inspiration from nature

Manuel Chavez | April 26

In an effort to bring communities together, the UNM Art Museum is hosting an educational workshop designed for families to explore the flora of the Southwest through art. “Lobo Studio Family Workshop: Exploring and Recording Nature” is in collaboration with a current exhibit at the University museum which showcases the horticultural sketches of Edward Skeats, a scientist and amateur artist who worked in New Mexico during the late 19th century. Traci Quinn, a curator of education and public programs for UNM’s art museum, currently strives to facilitate collaboration among different departments as well as create holistic learning opportunities within the museum space.

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News

ASUNM prohibits the use of campus listservs to solicit votes

Celia Raney and Celia_Raney | April 26

After passing the Steering and Rules committee on April 19, ASUNM senators unanimously passed Bill 20S on Wednesday evening. The bill prohibits candidates running for any ASUNM position from using University-sanctioned listservs for the purpose of campaigning. As candidates campaigned for this year’s presidential elections, President-elect Noah Brooks and Vice President-elect Sally Midani sent two emails to all or almost all UNM students, reminding them to vote in the presidential elections and promoting their platform. Some students took issue with their emails being used without permission, prompting the new legislation. “During all election cycles this year, the use of University listservs has come up as a question from candidates,” said ASUNM Attorney General Sara Collins.

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Culture

Lobo food pantry helps hungry students

Ariel Lutnesky | April 26

If your fridge and pantry are looking a little empty, mark you calendars for this Friday. On April 28, the Lobo Food Pantry will be working with the Roadrunner Food Bank to provide students and community members with groceries that they might not be able to afford. Tina Zuniga, the program coordinator at the LoboRESPECT Advocacy Center, said that these Lobo Food Pantries and happen at the end of every month, excluding May and December because of the busy nature of the end of the semester. “Usually we have a wealth of good food, and especially if you get there early, you can get a little bit of everything,” Zuniga said. “It never hurts to get some free stuff sometimes.” Zuniga said that the program started in 2014.

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Culture

"Selena" screening reminds fans of a historic life

Fin Martinez | April 26

The Southwest Film Center is going out with a bang with their final feature of the semester, “Selena,” screened on Johnson Field on Saturday, April 29. This movie hardly needs an introduction, but for the sake of those who have yet to experience this legendary biopic, here’s the rundown. “Selena” tells the story of Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, a legendary singer who redefined the genre of Latin music. In this biopic, she is portrayed by actress and musician Jennifer Lopez, and the film tells the story from her beginnings as a musically gifted child to her tragic murder at the hands of her spiteful manager.

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Sports

Baseball: Lobos fall in second high-scoring game against Texas Tech

Matthew Narvaiz | April 26

No, it wasn't a football game, but you wouldn’t know it from the score. After UNM snatched a 16-5 win on Tuesday evening, No. 6 Texas Tech countered with a win that reflected an eerily similar football score, 27-15, on Wednesday afternoon, to split the two-game series. UNM head coach Ray Birmingham realized things didn't go the “Lobo way” and offered up something of a philosophical metaphor. “Sometimes you're the windshield and sometimes you're the bug,” Birmingham said in a press release. “That's just the way it goes sometimes.” Bats were swinging – on both sides – and pitching was less than relevant. The Lobos rotated a total of eight pitchers throughout, while allowing the Red Raiders to muster 27 hits – five of those being home runs.

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Sports

Baseball: Lobos' big win over Texas Tech

Matthew Narvaiz | April 26

The University of New Mexico baseball team flipped the script on No. 6 Texas Tech on a cool, breezy Wednesday evening at Santa Ana Star Field. After the game’s original start time of 6:30 p.m. was delayed an hour, New Mexico picked apart its opponent on offense and a near-perfect showing from its bullpen. That type of play helped the Lobos grab ahold of a 16-5 win over Texas Tech for the first time this season. Wednesday’s victory was one for the books, with the win being the Lobos’ first over a top-10 opponent since 2010, when UNM beat then ranked No. 4 TCU 3-2.

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Music

Vaporwave: The Genre that Never Was

Audrin Baghaie | April 25

Vaporwave, at its core, is the amalgamation of three feelings: One: Tranquility, as rain envelopes a small Japanese town wherein slumbering anxiety leaves you shielded away from the over-stimulation of city life. Kyoto glistens from out a small balcony; you dissect its radiance and solemnly breathe cigarette smoke between the echoes of passing cars and an occasional “meow” from the neighboring alleyway. Two: Nostalgia, and the fast-paced hyper-consumerism culture of the '90s that violently, perhaps too passionately, celebrated itself. Elevator music, Kmart shopping sounds, crudely drawn Saturday morning cartoons, that blue and purple pattern on paper cups that never happened to die. The birth of the personal computer, modern technology’s baby steps, the shallow, clip-art graphic design: artwork and sounds that would go on to be slaved and sundered by niche teenagers in 2015. Three: Greek busts and statues.

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Sports

Baseball: Lobos face big test as they host No. 7 Texas Tech

Matthew Narvaiz | April 25

The University of New Mexico baseball team lost twice earlier in the season to Texas Tech in Lubbock, but UNM will get a chance to even things up with the Red Raiders as it hosts a two-game series on Tuesday and Wednesday at Santa Ana Star Field. The home team met with the Red Raiders in a pair of single-game competitions, once on Feb. 28 where the Lobos lost 7-2 and another on Apr. 11, losing 12-4. The overall series record between the two schools favors Texas Tech, with TTU holding a 71-45-1 advantage. The Lobos (23-16-1, 14-2-1 MW) are coming off of a weekend series sweep of conference-foe UNLV, winning games one and two by a combined 18 runs – both with an identical 13-4 score. The series finale saw the bullpen shine late in the game, saving the game and preserving an 11-9 win.

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Opinion

Column: What being a college student really means

Nichole Harwood | April 24

“The public sees two characteristics as essential to middle-class status: a secure job and the ability to save money. Other characteristics — including owning a home and having a college degree — are not widely seen as necessary to be considered middle class,” said a Pew Research Center survey conducted Dec. 8 through 13, 2015. Information like this plays a large part in the mentality of a college student who’s preparing to go out into the world as an independent adult. It can be scary. The world of teenagehood is a pale reflection when compared to adulthood. Information found in the Center’s survey and elsewhere can seem completely different from the information incoming college students were given as teenagers.

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News

Campus briefs for April 25, 2017

Matt Reisen | April 24

UNM Students get a sneak peak of Lobo Rainforest on April 26 According to a UNM Newsroom press release, a sneak peek for student housing at the Lobo Rainforest Building will be held Wednesday from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Interested residents will have an opportunity to tour the model room of the new student housing facility called Lobo Rainforest, which is located at 101 Broadway Blvd. NE, according to the press release. Applications are currently being accepted for student housing and are open to Innovation Academy students, current UNM Residents and UNM upperclassmen.

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News

Mine dust sparks health concerns

Cathy Cook | April 24

As early as Thursday, UNM researchers will take a mobile laboratory to the Blue Gap-Tachee Chapter of the Navajo Nation to study uranium mine dust and its health effects on the local residents. After a four-hour drive, researchers will work for three months at Blue Gap-Tachee in a three-room semi-trailer equipped with a particle concentrator that serves as a mobile lab. UNM is collaborating with Michigan State University, who provided the lab, and the Southwest Research and Information Center on the project. Lead project researcher Matthew Campen said research is already being done at UNM about mine waste-related health concerns around topics like seepage into groundwater. However, little work has been done on the effects of inhaling dust from the mine.

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Sports

Baseball: UNM earns a big sweep over UNLV

Matthew Narvaiz | April 24

Lobo baseball used a key sixth inning to propel ahead in a back-and-forth affair on Sunday afternoon in an 11-9 victory. New Mexico (23-16-1, 14-2-1 MW) got great pitching and some timely offense, as the bullpen played brilliantly in the eventual three-game series sweep over UNLV at Santa Ana Star Field. The Lobos’ bullpen, which consisted of a mix of James Harrington, Drew Gillespie, Justin Slaten and Christian Tripp, scattered five hits and surrendered just two run after starting Pitcher Luis Gonzalez exited the mound.

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Sports

Beach Volleyball: Lobos cap season with two home wins

Bo Yu | April 24

The Lobo beach volleyball team ended its 2017 season with a pair of home wins against Air Force on Saturday. With the three-match win streak to end the season, the Lobos (17-10) had a successful finish to their third season of beach volleyball by posting an impressive record. UNM earned victories in 10 of its last 11 matchups, which made it possible to tie the program record for most wins in a single season.

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Sports

Men's soccer: Lobos drop another match, will end spring with losing record

Isabel Gonzalez | April 24

A mistake in the second half led to a 1-0 loss for the UNM men’s soccer team on Saturday afternoon. The Lobos hosted the Colorado School of Mines in their second-to-last game before they wrap up the spring season. New Mexico has posted a 1-3 record so far, and although the team will finish with a losing record, the Lobos are trying to stay positive. “I think it depends on how you view the game. We’ve looked at the spring as a progression,” UNM head coach Jeremy Fishbein said. “A lot of the things we set out to do, we did an extremely good job. I thought the run of play, our ball movement and in terms of creating opportunities, we were fantastic.”

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News

A glimpse into the life of an APD Sergeant

Andres Del Aguila | April 23

“We are not going to go home until we figure or find out who killed that little girl,” Albuquerque Police Sergeant Hollie Anderson said, recalling a case where she worked for 36 hours to solve the murder of girl who died in a drive-by shooting. “It takes a lot of dedication and the cops here are willing to do it.” Anderson solved murders as a homicide detective from 2011 to 2015. Now, as a Sergeant, she leads her own team out in the field. With 20 cases under her belt, Anderson has a 90 percent solve rate and a 100 percent conviction rate. “I really enjoy this job,” she said. “It’s way more than I had ever expected. And I have been happy my entire career.” When she was in the homicide unit, Anderson said her team had the “highest solve rate in the nation to go along with the high homicide rate.”

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Culture

Beekeeping Club creates buzz on campus

Ariel Lutnesky | April 23

If you saw two guys standing in the middle of the SUB with a bunch of bees, what would you do? That's how Elizabeth Lake found the UNM Beekeeping Club, and she immediately wanted to join them. “I thought that was pretty quirky and weird and there was no booth, there was no table — it was just a couple of guys and bees,” said Lake, the current president of the club. “I thought, well, whatever that is, I want to be a part of that. So I joined their club.” The UNM Beekeeping Club is an organization where students can come to learn about bees and beekeeping. Lately, the club has focused on making good habitats for pollinators and honeybees, Lake said. "We’ve gone and looked at what you can plant for the bees and what you can provide for the bees in particular,” Lake said. “If you live in the dorms, if you're a student, you might not be necessarily prepared to build your own garden. You might not be able to keep bees anywhere yet, but you can put out just a few little blooming flowers that will attract the pollinators and provide food for them.”

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Opinion

Letter: America needs to stop arming terrorist groups

Daily Lobo Readers | April 23

Editor, A diplomatic fallout is currently taking place between the nations of Turkey and Iraq, but it is only a small symptom of a much larger problem. The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has long been accused by regional leaders and political analysts of being one of ISIS' biggest supporters; his recent comments seem to cement these accusations. Speaking about the volunteer militias in Iraq, 

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News

UNM Professor Researches Levels of Inequality in Municipal Policing

April 23

Amid Department of Justice investigations into police departments across the nation for aggressive force, an assistant professor in UNM’s School of Public Administration sought out to discover the levels of inequality in municipal policing. Agustin Leon-Moreta presented his findings last Friday as the last installment of a speaker series hosted by UNM’s School of Public Administration. “Inequality in policing is a defining public policy challenge of our time,” Leon-Moreta said. “Recent events in Ferguson and other cities have raised the sense of urgency about policing programs of municipalities.”

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News

Statistics students compete at UNM DataFest

Brendon Gray | April 23

Over the weekend students spent a grueling 48 hours analyzing, compiling and making sense of a vast data set in the American Statistical Association DataFest. Four teams competed to analyze, compile and present an amount of data in an effective manner. A graduate team — self-titled “The Visards” — won the award for Best in Show for their work over the weekend. A member of the winning team, Eswar Damraju, spoke highly of the event. “It was good experience to see how the industry uses large data sets,” he said.