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Acting UNM prez holds second town hall, reiterating many messages of the first

Cathy Cook | February 21

UNM acting President Chaouki Abdallah held a second town hall in the Domenici Auditorium on North Campus on Monday, reiterating many of the same messages that he had in his first town hall last week. Abdallah reiterated his three areas of focus as acting president, a position he will hold through the end of the semester: campus climate, student academic success and the financial challenges facing the University. Unlike the previous town hall, people sent in questions for Abdallah online beforehand. It was better attended than the previous forum.

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Sports

Men's Basketball: Lobos, CSU Rams meet for first time since tense January game

Isabel Gonzalez | February 21

When it comes to rivalries and drama, Tuesday night should be as intriguing as any show on TV. The Lobos are back at home this week to host the Colorado State Rams, a team that inarguably has more than one reason to be craving a victory. PREVIOUS MEETING Last month, the Lobos walked away with an 84-71 victory over the Rams at Fort Collins, Colorado. But that wasn’t the big story. With a little over two minutes remaining in the match, a fight nearly broke out after Lobo forward Joe Furstinger set a hard, but legal, screen on CSU guard J.D. Paige.

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Sports

Men’s Tennis: Lobos Sweep in Utah

Matthieu Cartron | February 21

In a whirlwind of a weekend for the UNM men’s tennis team, the Lobos faced three of their most difficult regional opponents on the road in Utah — and came out on top. New Mexico (4-5) surged to the three-match win streak by topping BYU on Friday, Nebraska on Saturday and finally Utah on Sunday. The Lobos were 1-5 coming into the weekend, a record that the team hoped to improve.

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Sports

Baseball: Zoellner named MW Player of the Week after strong opening series

Matthew Narvaiz | February 20

Jack Zoellner, the UNM baseball team’s first baseman, was awarded Mountain West Player of the Week honors after a solid performance in a three-game series against Binghamton over the weekend. Zoellner hit a pedestrian .200 in game one, going 1-for-5 at the plate and striking out once, but had banner numbers by the end of the series. He rebounded to hit a whopping .500 over three games, going 6-for-12 and driving in eight runs. But that’s not all. Half of those hits came by way of the long ball. The slugger blasted three home runs, driving in eight RBI and scoring five runs.

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Opinion

Column: Why the anger in comment sections?

Cathy Cook | February 20

When it comes to online comment sections, I break the rules. Even my browser tells me: never read the comments. Roommates remind me not to feed the trolls. I just want to read, respond and reimagine the people on the other side of my screen. Different comment sections have reputations: Facebook is mundane if somewhat surreal, Imgur sas the same five jokes in the first 10 comments, and YouTube has the comment section the devil would avoid if he had high speed internet (we all know the devil has dial-up, that has to be part of hell). YouTube comments are Bad with a capital B. Some of these tropes are true, but not universally. And even when they are true, I feel compelled to scroll. In my experience, the quality of comments has more to do with what content the commenters are responding to than what platform they’re responding on. Undeniably, though, anonymity does something to people. They get braver; they get meaner.

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News

Report: New Mexico is the 5th-most sexually diseased state

Andres Del Aguila | February 20

Chlamydia infection rates reached an all-time high in New Mexico, earning it the not-so-distinguished spot as the fifth-most sexually diseased state in the country, according to a recent report. Backgroundchecks.org, an online database and resource for public records, compiled data from state and county health agencies, the Center for Disease Control, and social media surveys to assign each state an “STD score” based on the gonorrhea and chlamydia rates per 100,000 residents. New Mexico received a score of 411.14, following Mississippi, North Carolina, Louisiana and Alaska.

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News

Shia LaBeouf brings anti-Trump art piece to Albuquerque

Gabriela Garcia-Huff | February 20

It was early afternoon on Saturday Feb. 18. People had been slowly gathering downtown near Central Ave and Seventh Street all day in the hopes that they would run into the often publicly discussed actor and activist Shia Labeouf.

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News

Q&A: Yale law professor on the Constitution, Trump administration

Gabriella Rivera | February 19

Yale law professor Akhil Reed Amar visited UNM last week to discuss the Constitution and its continuing importance in American society. The Daily Lobo was able to sit down with her to discuss her book, as well as the first month of the Trump administration.

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News

Bill battles to save lottery scholarship

Brendon Gray | February 19

Students receiving the lottery scholarship can plan on an $800 tuition spike, pending the outcome of legislation in Santa Fe, according to Terry Babbitt, the associate vice president of the Enrollment Management Division. For nearly 10 years, the lottery tuition fund has received a third of its funding from the taxation on liquor sales in the state. June 2017 marks the end date for channel of funding, and without renewal, the scholarship will drop from 90 percent tuition coverage to 60 percent.

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News

Yale prof discusses the Constitution at UNM

Celia Raney | February 19

“The Constitution is more than just a text,” said Yale professor Akhil Reed Amar said during his speech at Thursday evening. Amar is a distinguished professor of law and political science at both Yale Law and Yale College, where he teaches constitutional law. “(The Constitution) is an act of ordainment and establishment,” Amar said. “It lets people speak, lets people vote, even before the freedom of speech and freedom of the press are put in the words of the First Amendment.”

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Opinion

Letter: In reality, pot is completely harmless

Daily Lobo Readers | February 19

Editor, Brad King wrote, "NM liberal lawmakers seem to be clamoring to climb on the pot legalization bandwagon, just like our ill fated neighbor to the north."  Here in the reality-based community, "Colorado’s GDP increased by 3.6 percent in 2015, the fourth most of any state in the country.

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News

New group aims to connect students to political process

Kelly Urvanejo | February 19

A new student group is coming to campus, centered around enabling students to build leadership skills while bridging the gap between political parties to create a safe environment to discuss political issues. The Young American Leaders Initiative practically formed itself, when wave after wave of distraught students approached 21-year-old UNM student Christopher Haquani with concerns about the results from November’s election, resulting in one of the most surprising outcomes in election history. Many students didn’t feel safe and were worried about what was going to happen to them, their families and their friends, Haquani said.

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News

HSC battles aging and cancer

Hannah Eisenberg | February 19

The path to a cure for cancer and aging may be littered with beauty products and vitamins, but the true advances in this realm can’t be seen with the naked eye. Eric Prossnitz, a professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Health Sciences Center, has spent his career studying the invisible and complex business of cell signaling. Taking place in his lab at UNM’s Comprehensive Cancer Center is a foray into the study of how one gene, GPER, plays an important role in the body. A recent discovery by Prossnitz and his team has found that this gene holds some of the secrets into the processes of aging and cancer.

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News

Local show places spotlight on women's issues

Celia Raney | February 19

“Our Glass Figures,” a show produced by the Mud&Wine theater collective, explores intersectionality, rape culture, empowerment, and the struggles and nuances of womanhood in contemporary America. The show ran for one week each at the Tricklock Performance Laboratory and The Cell Theater. “The show is a combination of dance, song, sketch comedy, poetry and personal narrative,” writer Caroline Graham said. “Its structure is cyclical and fragmented, and the content ranges from the darkly humorous to the deeply personal and tragic.”

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News

Monday on the Street: What do you want to see in Smith Plaza?

Matthew Reisen | February 19

What could improve Smith Plaza?

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Opinion

Column: The history of "fake news"

Nichole Harwood | February 19

In a world where the legitimacy of news is constantly called into question by politicians and readers alike, whose responsibility is it to determine what is "fake news" and what is not? It is both the reporter's job to write factually accurate news, and the reader's responsibility to check the legitimacy of their choice in news outlets, whether this outlet is online or through a news network. But all news has one measurement in common that is ultimately connected to its value and newsworthiness: the ability of news in any form to catch the eye of a reader, a viewer or a listener.

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News

UNM student remembered by friends, teachers

Matthew Reisen | February 19

For friends and colleagues of UNM student Juan Romero, who passed away last week, the reality hasn’t sunk in. “I’m still partly in the shock phase. I haven’t fully accepted it,” said Armando Martinez. “I feel compelled to text him still.” When Martinez met Romero seven or eight years ago at a birthday party, he said the two became fast friends with a lot in common, including their musical tastes and a similar, “goofy” sense of humor. “He was a very loyal friend, and the type of person you only meet once in a lifetime,” Martinez said. “Definitely a character for sure.”

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Culture

Theatre troupe goes as authentic as it can with Shakespearean performance

Troy Amato | February 19

On Saturday at the Robertson and Sons Violin Shop, theatre troupe Severall Friends will be performing “Songs and Sonnets,” a dedication and rendition of classic Shakespearean and other Elizabethan works. Severall Friends, according to group manager Ken Perlow, is “a non-profit arts organization based in the Santa Fe area, and committed to passionate period-instrument performances — that is, on the very instruments played at the time — of Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music.” Severall Friends holds true to its goal of affordable theatre for students.

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Culture

Joshua Pedersen, lightsaber smith

Troy Amato | February 19

Every Wednesday and Saturday night at the Duck Pond, ABQ Jedi meets to clash in the mystical art of lightsaber dueling. While these battles are fierce and climactic, the true hero hides among their ranks — Joshua Pedersen, a “Sabersmith.” Pedersen runs a local business known as Battle Sabers. Originally created as a passion project, as Pederson hoped to explore saber smithing and sparring. Lacking the funds to construct sabers and inspired by his own experience with saber sparring, Pedersen visited the Internet to learn how to create his own. After researching forums and multiple websites, he stumbled upon a guide to make a personal saber out of PVC pipe.

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Sports

Baseball: Lobos sweep Binghamton at home in first series

Matthew Narvaiz | February 19

Great pitching and strong hitting in the third of a three-game series helped the Lobo baseball team sweep the Binghamton Bulldogs at Santa Ana Star Field, as the Lobos (3-0) took home the victory 11-4 on Sunday afternoon. Luis Gonzalez – who also plays outfield – got the start on the mound for the Lobos. He struck out four, and only allowed four hits and one run in five innings of pitching. But the hitters provided for the Lobos too. As a team, the Lobos notched 15 hits, while holding Binghamton (0-3) to 12, though the Lobos were able to score more often.