Legislation approved by the state Senate over the weekend looks to keep confidential the names of victims and witnesses of certain crimes including rape, stalking and harassment. But some critics argue that these changes decrease transparency and could hinder journalists and other public investigators from seeing all the facts of a case.
Editor, It’s been a long year of transition and change for many groups of people, specifically students. It seems hard to believe that political differences can cause so much hate and violence against one another. As I read this article ("Column: The importance of kindness in times of political tension") I thought to myself, 'What do the red gloves mean to me?'
Chimpanzees are an endangered species, with their continued survival relying on new knowledge of health and ecological change, according to UNM researchers. Melissa Emery Thompson. That’s where the Hominoid Reproductive Ecology Laboratory at UNM comes in. “Our project has been leading the way in demonstrating that research, which is completely non-invasive, can yield an incredible amount of detail on health and behavior,” said Melissa Emery Thompson, an assistant professor of anthropology and co-director of the HREL. “This is valuable for understanding the chimpanzees, but also for retracing the evolutionary processes that have shaped human biology.”
Four seniors were honored after a season-high crowd of 13,958 witnessed the Lobos take a 64-59 win over San Diego State on Saturday night. Two of the seniors are current players while the other two are not on the roster. Still, each of them brought something special to the program in his own way.
“We are here after dog attacks, we’re here after (being attacked) with chemical agents, military combat tactics, grenades, aerial surveillance, military vehicles, inhumane detention — instruments of war.” These were the words of human rights lawyer Michelle Cook, describing threats posed to her and her clients while camping out at Standing Rock during the anti-Dakota Access Pipeline protests. “We are not terrorists for wanting to live,” Cook said.
Millennials grew up in an interesting era for cartoons. Many of us remember the “What a Cartoon!” show and “Nicktoons,” which produced the most iconic cartoons of the 90’s and early 2000s. With shows like “Rugrats,” “The Ren and Stimpy Show,” “Spongebob Squarepants,” “Dexter’s Laboratory,” “Courage the Cowardly Dog” and “Ed, Edd n Eddy,” it was considered a golden age for TV animation. But like many good things in life, nothing lasts forever. Around 2008 the quality of cartoons began to deteriorate. They weren’t as funny or original as they once were, and whether it was due to executives cancelling a series in favor of a new series or because cartoons were beginning to be created for a kids-only audience, the quality of cartoons took a nosedive.
Editor, There is an old legal maxim: "Hard cases make bad law." The implicit knowledge behind this statement - of how society is affected by the legal institutions of this country - has universal application. More directly, it has application to undocumented immigrants in New Mexico. To invoke an adjacent topic seen often in the local community, the Native American plight that occurred in the U.S. through colonial times, in sum, fits the definition of genocide.
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Medical cannabis use is highly under-researched, according to UNM professors Jacob Vigil and Sara Stith — and their recent findings suggest that it could actually help to battle addiction. The pair, along with pain specialist Dr. Anthony Reeve, presented their research on how enrollment in the New Mexico Medical Cannabis Program has affected prescription opioid use in patients with chronic pain on Friday at UNM. Vigil said the Medical Cannabis Program is unprecedented because patients manage their own care, since doctors can’t prescribe doses of cannabis, only authorize patients to obtain it.
Many patients facing both physical illness and behavioral issues often go untreated. Their physical ailments can disqualify them from being admitted to a behavioral care facility, according to UNM psychiatry associate professor Davin Quinn, while their behavioral complications can disqualify them from physical treatment facility. The all-new Sandia Ridge Mental Health and Recovery Unit works to alleviate these obstacles, through it’s unique-to-New-Mexico, high-intensity medical and behavioral care.
The UNM Athletics Department began last fall with a $1.5 million budget deficit. This fiscal year, administrators have implemented several initiatives to reduce spending, but lower-than-expected revenues from football and basketball ticket sales have been lower than projected have hampered their efforts to get back to the green. Brad Hutchins, deputy athletics director for external operations, said football and men’s basketball are the biggest earners of the department’s 22 different programs.
The Lobos completed a late-inning comeback on Sunday afternoon, riding another offensive explosion to a 16-7 win and a sweep of Air Force on the road to open Mountain West play. New Mexico’s (7-3, 3-0 Mountain West) bats were once again unstoppable, as the team managed 21 hits, led by sophomore 1B Jack Zoellner and junior OF Luis Gonzalez. The two combined for nine hits, six runs and five RBI. Zoellner had a perfect 5-for-5 day at the plate, and Gonzalez went 4-for-5.
The New Mexico beach volleyball team split its results on Saturday as it defeated Colorado Mesa 4-1 and lost to TCU 3-2. The Lobos (2-3) bounced back after falling to two nationally-ranked teams in a previous matchup, and fought off the Mavericks (1-4) in the first match at GCU Beach Volleyball Stadium. In the second game, the Lobos battled hard against the Horned Frogs (3-1), but could not clinch the deciding match.
Water is life, according to Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Water Protectors and the astronomers who found seven potentially habitable planets in another galaxy (why are they potentially habitable? The distance between them and their star means water could exist on their surfaces). My week had a theme: I covered a NoDAPL crash course, a talk on water quality protection in an era of uncertain environmental regulation and I paid a visit to the Edward Skeats exhibit at the UNM Art Museum.
After a 64-59 win over San Diego State on Saturday night, the Lobos earned themselves a ticket straight to the Thursday quarterfinals for next week’s Mountain West Tournament. “Really proud of their effort, really proud of how hard they played tonight,” said head coach Craig Neal. “This might have been the best performance they had at home. We had great fans tonight (13,958). They brought a lot of energy for us.” By taking down the Aztecs, the Lobos finished as one of the top five teams in the conference, and will therefore not have to play on Wednesday. Their overall record stands at 17-13 while they are 10-8 in the conference. They are playing Fresno State next Thursday at 2:30pm MT.
In the second of this weekend’s 3-game series, New Mexico once again put on a show with their bats, beating Air Force in a game that lasted over four hours and saw 15 extra-base hits and five pitchers give up at least five runs. In the end, the Lobos would outslug the Falcons to win 24-16. Both the Lobos (6-3, 2-0 MW) and Air Force (4-5, 0-2 MW) combined for a whopping 52 hits and 40 runs, though the Lobos got the better end of the stick. Eight Lobos had three hits or more in the game, but none were more impressive than juniors Luis Gonzalez and Carl Stajduhar, who both had four hits apiece.
Real quick, right off the bat: This album is messed up, man. You are guaranteed to have never heard anything like it. On that fact alone, it’s worth your time. British experimental funk-pop producer Clarence Clarity released his debut album “No Now” two years ago in March 2015. This debut release was preceded by two extended plays: “Who Am Eye” in 2014 and “Save Thyself” in 2013, both of which showcased Clarity’s skewed, genre-bending production aesthetic. Clarence is a relatively new addition to the record label Bella Union, the same house that promotes artists like folk aesthetes Fleet Foxes, post-rock titans Explosions in the Sky and the electro-washed pop act Beach House.
During a special meeting Thursday, UNM regents unanimously approved prices for University bonds estimated to generate $46 million to fund the construction of the new Physics and Astronomy building, Smith Plaza renovations and other projects. “This is good for the University,” said Regent President Rob Doughty after the vote. The price-setting effort had been in the works for over a year, members of the board noted.
UNM women’s tennis has not put together the win-loss record it probably wanted at this point in the season, but seems to be eager to change that this weekend in California. New Mexico (1-7) has been close in several of the matches so far and first-year Lobo head coach Stephanie Wooten-Quijada said the team is on the right track in terms of competing. “Today has been a great practice for us,” she said. “Our won-loss record isn’t what he had hoped for, but we are in good spirits...hopefully we’ll get it turned around shortly.”
The spring season has finally arrived for the Lobos, and they will play their first game away from home to Southern Methodist. It will be UNM’s first competitive encounter since the 4-1 away loss to the University of Washington in the second round of the NCAA tournament. The Lobos finished the fall with a record of 12-7-3, and won their first Conference USA Championship in program history back in November, beating Florida International University 3-0 in Huntington, West Virginia.
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