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Men's Soccer: Lobos edge Portland in PKs to advance in NCAA Tourney

Isabel Gonzalez | November 18

It took 110 minutes and nine rounds of penalty kicks in 40-degree weather, but the New Mexico men’s soccer team is moving on to play in the second round of the NCAA Tournament after beating the Portland Pilots. The Lobos hosted Portland on Thursday night in a first round-matchup, with over 2,300 fans in attendance. Once again, it was Ford Parker’s appearance in the net that led to a win. The redshirt freshman made the last save of the night by diving to the right, sending the ball straight to the right post and making it bounce outside of the net to the left. The dramatic finish allowed his team to walk away with a 6-5 advantage.

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News

Audit finds budget shortfall in low-income healthcare

Sarah Trujillo | November 18

The Office of the State Auditor recently released a report with a special audit addressing healthcare for economically disadvantaged people treated at the University of New Mexico Hospital, UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center, and services rendered by the UNM Medical Group. Indigent care is the collective term used to describe programs intentionally designed to provide healthcare to people who cannot afford it.

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Culture

Review: Stand-up comic impresses in visit to UNM

Nikole Mckibben | November 18

Nate Bargatze’s performance Tuesday night was the refresher UNM students and families were seeking after the recent election.

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Sports

Football: Lobo garners MW Player of the Week honors, the third for the team in 2016

Robert Maler | November 17

New Mexico football collected another conference weekly accolade — the team’s third in the past six weeks. Junior kicker Jason Sanders took home Mountain West Special Teams Player of the Week honors for the second time this season, after having also been recognized after the season opener. Sanders kept the Lobos within striking distance after the team fell behind 14-0 early in last weekend’s game at Utah State, and the eventual go-ahead score came off his leg.

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Sports

Volleyball: Lobos sweep Nevada as a milestone is reached

Bo Yu | November 17

The UNM volleyball team swept Nevada on Wednesday night, and the team hopes to ride the momentum towards closing the season with a winning record. The Lobos (15-15, 5-11 Mountain West) found themselves balanced in all aspects of the game, defeating Nevada (18-10, 9-7 MW) 25-20, 25-23, 25-21 as one of their players hit a major milestone.

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News

UNM groups toast to improving public speaking skills

Brendon Gray | November 17

UNM houses two Toastmasters clubs that meet weekly on both North Campus and Main Campus. Established in 1924, Toastmasters is an international organization designed to help members develop public speaking and leadership skills. The organization has over 300,000 members with 15,000 chapters in 142 countries, according to its website. “On its surface it’s a public speaking club, and it helps people learn how to speak in public,” said Mandy Gardner, a Toastmasters member. “It teaches you so much about being your real self in the world and being a member of the community.”

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News

Cherry Reel Film Festival nearly doubles amount of submissions

Nichole Harwood | November 17

2016 marks the fifth year of the ASUNM Southwest Film Center’s Cherry Reel Film Festival, previously known as the UNM Student Film Festival, and it will be the largest yet after organizers received the most submissions the event has ever seen. William Martin Dole, executive director of the ASUNM Southwest Film Center, said the festival reached a total of 53 submissions this year, compared to 30 submissions last year and 11 from the year before. The record number comes as a result of hard work by the SWFC team to market the event, Dole Said.

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News

Muslim students more fearful now than after 9/11

David Lynch | November 17

This story is the second in a series on post-Election Day reactions from different groups in the UNM community. Serene Akkad was in disbelief. She feared how she, as well as other Muslim Americans, would be viewed after this. It was something unprecedented for her community, and the potential aftershocks could be devastating. There are two events now inked into U.S. history that this description could apply to. The first is September 11.

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News

Speak Now for ASUNM nearly sweeps senate election

Gabriela Garcia-Huff | November 17

On Wednesday, the Associated Students of UNM held its Senatorial Elections for the semester, as more than 1,600 undergraduates cast ballots for undergraduate student government leaders to represent them for a year beginning in the spring. A total of 10 Senate seats were up for grabs, with 36 candidates eagerly hoping to fill them, but it was the slate Speak Now for ASUNM that dominated the results. Eight of the 10 senators-elect were part of the slate. Elena Garcia, who organized it, said their success is the result of two busy weeks of preparation for the team, but she was happy with their overall campaign efforts.

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Sports

Football: Lobos eye bowl game, sixth consecutive win

Robert Maler | November 16

New Mexico and Colorado State will square off for the final time at Sonny Lubick Field at Hughes Stadium on Saturday as the schools play for history, a potential bowl bid and the continued pursuit of a division title. A release said the 262nd game in the history of the stadium, which opened in 1968, will be its last as the Rams expect to open their new facility next season. Head coach Bob Davie said the game will mark another week against a team that has given New Mexico problems in the past, and provide an opportunity to show that they have improved.

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Opinion

Letter: The Inconvenient Truth of Donald Trump

Daily Lobo Readers | November 16

It has become a convenient sport to display one’s democratic colors by hurling the strongest condemnations at America’s most iconic target: Donald Trump. The man himself not only invites, but calls for the criticism. His public posture consists, in a shameless transparency, of an unashamed mindset that digs deep into the muck of America’s bigoted history of racism, slavery, sexist misogyny, chauvinistic nationalism, militarism, burnt-earth capitalism and blood-drenched imperialism. Violence of hatred breeds more hatred of violence. Entrenched in the vicious cycle, Trump is one of few public figures who refuse to mince words. He exhibits his narcissism with an inadvertent honesty that pulls him into the spotlight of utter impertinence.

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News

Hundreds march against hate crimes on campus

Johnny Vizcaino | November 16

Hate crimes are on the rise all across the country since the end to a turbulent presidential campaign last week, and now the nation’s students are taking action, including at UNM. In a stand of solidarity against hate, University students and faculty — along with other local citizens — took part in the national #OurCampus movement against hate by staging a national walkout on Wednesday. The event’s organizers called students to action by way of a nationally-distributed Walkout Toolkit, which lists organization methods, de-escalation tactics for demonstrators, and a list of goals and demands.

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Culture

Five and Why: A writing instructor's favorite books

Skylar Griego | November 16

English teachers are known for their love of all things book-related, particularly those who teach one kind of literature or another. While writing teachers are less associated with the bookworm label than literature teachers are, anyone who is passionate about writing will say reading is the key to becoming a better writer. Erin Lebacqz, a composition instructor in the English department, said reading is important for her as a writer because she likes to see examples of people capturing reality through words.

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Sports

Men's Basketball: Lobos take on hot-handed NMSU

Isabel Gonzalez | November 16

Although every game is important, rivalry games always seem to bring out a little extra fire. New Mexico State is coming to Albuquerque on Friday for the first Rio Grande Rivalry game of the season. The match will be at WisePies Arena, and tips off at 7 p.m. The teams won’t meet again until Dec. 10 in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The Lobos swept the series with their in-state rivals during the 2015-2016 season. The first win came on Nov. 15 at the Pan American Center, much to the chagrin of Aggie mascot Pistol Pete. UNM won 83-74, with Elijah Brown recording 31 points on 8-for-17 shooting.

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News

UNM seal to remain unchanged for now

Elizabeth Sanchez | November 16

UNM will continue to see the controversial Spanish conquistador and frontiersman displayed on diplomas, official documents, offices, event backdrops and campus merchandise after Tuesday morning, when the Board of Regents announced that the University seal will not be changing any time soon. During the meeting, after listening to a presentation by Vice President for Equity and Inclusion Jozi De Leon, a unanimous vote approved two of six recommendations to eliminate the seal. The approvals: appointing an inclusive committee to determine how a redesign will be executed, and creating a cost analysis plan for seal abolition and replacement.

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Sports

MMA: McGregor takes home second title, makes UFC history

Robert Salas | November 16

Last weekend the Ultimate Fighter Championship made history in more ways than one. After 20 years of being banned in the state of New York, mixed martial arts was legalized in March, paving the way for the inaugural event of UFC 205, which took place on Saturday. Joining the ranks of legends like Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson, UFC 205 participants battled in the iconic arena of Madison Square Garden.

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Sports

Men's Soccer: Lobos to face Portland in first match of NCAA tournament

Isabel Gonzalez | November 16

After a two-year absence, the Lobos are ready to compete in the NCAA Tournament once again. “Hopefully I gave the impression that I believed in this team, and that I expected to be playing,” head coach Jeremy Fishbein said. The team made it into the tournament after winning the program’s first ever Conference USA Championship on Sunday. The Lobos took down last year’s victors, the FIU Panthers, by a score of 3-0.

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News

Crime Briefs for Nov. 17

Elizabeth Sanchez | November 16

Crime Briefs for Nov. 17

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Opinion

Column: The Electoral College doesn't represent a true democracy

Jon Lofquist | November 16

After 18 grueling months of election campaigning, America shocked the world and elected Donald J. Trump as its 45th president. For the fourth time in American history, and the second time in 16 years, Trump won the presidency despite receiving less votes overall than Hillary Clinton. To recap, Trump got 290 electoral votes and Clinton got 228. Throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump repeatedly stated that the electoral system was “rigged.” In fact, I think I heard that word more often than any other throughout the campaign. It became a theme in Trump’s temper tantrums. I don’t agree or stand for anything he’s said in the campaign, but I think he has a point here.

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Sports

Cross Country: Team eager to defend national title

Bo Yu | November 16

“It just made us hungrier. Having experienced it last year, I would love to be able to keep that.” Lobo runner Alice Wright had that to say about the women’s cross country team’s opportunity to defend its national championship crown. The team will compete in its ninth straight NCAA Championship on Saturday in Terre Haute, Indiana. While the team’s overarching goal — go into the season and earn a Top 10 ranking — has not changed, the program’s first national title last year has probably raised expectations.