Early struggles, including flat play and lack of energy, were major factors in the New Mexico men's tennis team loss Sunday. The team ended up digging itself into an early hole that proved too great to overcome, despite a valiant comeback effort. The team got off to a rocky start, losing the first two doubles matches to spot Denver a 1-0 lead.
The New Mexico track and field team, although short-handed, put together another impressive performance Saturday at the Brutus Hamilton Challenge in Berkeley, California. Head coach Joe Franklin said the team had an outstanding performance at the previous meet, but couldn't sustain it in California. “It was a little bit down from last week, but there were some very good performances,” he said.
Dr. Nana Osei-Kofi, Director of the Difference, Power, and Discrimination program at Oregon State University, was received last week by members of the Communication & Journalism Department as well as others within the UNM community in the Centennial Building Auditorium. The event, titled “#FightRacism: Educating for Social Justice,” is part of the 2016 Interdisciplinary Insights Lecture Series. The Daily Lobo caught up with Osei-Kofi afterwards for a Q&A.
Political rumors cloud the logic behind the UNM Regents’ decision to reintegrate the Health Sciences Center with main campus. To clarify, the vote essentially returned the HSC Governing Board from a semi-autonomous entity back to a sub-committee of the Regents. This adjustment is a state Constitution requisite, and is identical to how HSC was managed for many years prior to a change in 2010. Like every other major enterprise on campus, HSC now has its own specific sub-committee for all of its academic, clinical and financial affairs.
The sport of top-level mountaineering should be done with the pure spirit of using one’s own physical prowess and endurance to reach the top, not the use of coolies to carry one’s stuff and otherwise attend to one’s every need, besides giving the mountaineer a leg up when needed and showing them the easier, gentler, safer path upward. That is cheating.
There has been a recent brouhaha in the corporate and Zionist-dominated media in regards to the role of Saudi Arabia in the 9-11 attacks. It has been said that President Obama is considering declassifying 28 classified pages of the 9-11 commission report which speaks of Saudi's involvement in the 9-11 attacks.
With the end of the semester approaching, some students are seeking advice, now more than ever, on how to make their way into the professional world. On Friday, photography students had a chance to receive this advice from Joyce Tenneson, a renowned photographer known for her mixed style of portraiture and mythology.
Women’s tennis won again Saturday to finish the regular season with a perfect record at home and in conference play, but the team still has a lot of unfinished business. New Mexico continued asserting itself early in matches. Andrea Leblanc and Rachana Bhat paired up to take the first doubles match over Elisa Nelson and Mary Meyers, 6-1. Teammates Emily Oliver and Dominique Dulski won 6-2 to snag the doubles point and take an early 1-0 lead over Air Force in the team score.
Head coach Ray Birmingham had a bad feeling about Sunday’s game as soon as he showed up that morning. He said he got to the field at 8 a.m.
New Mexico football wrapped up its final spring practice as players and coaches took time to reflect and fantasize about a bright future. Davie said he remembers every player’s situation, specifically.
Junior journalism major David Lynch was selected on Friday last week to be the next editor-in-chief of the Daily Lobo. Lynch, who has served as managing editor and news editor, said applying for editor-in-chief felt like the natural next step for him. In his 18 months at the Lobo, he said he has accumulated a lot of experience in both journalism and in running a paper.
When I saw the Department of Justice’s findings on how UNM has been handling instances of assault on campus, I was sadly not surprised. In case you missed it, UNM’s handlings of reports “fail to comply with federal law”. What is the school planning to do about this? I’m getting really tired of nearly every month receiving some kind of notification that an assault has happened, only to see it described as a “groping” or “unwanted hugging”.
The Department of Communication and Journalism hosted a speaker on Friday who presented on an increasingly utilized tool of social change. Arvind Singhal, a professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, discussed a new approach called positive deviance, which is the belief that, in every community, there are some people who learned how to solve problems against all odds. Those individuals are deviant because they are not the norm, and they are positive because they solved a problem, he said. The idea is to look at other individuals or groups who are using uncommon strategies or behavior, but are resolving problems with better solutions than others with the same resources.
A certain naive attitude persists on campus about its relative safety and the measures in place to protect students. To be blunt, cold and sobering, I have to say that the University’s passive security measures are inadequate to protect students, especially those whose schedule has them out on the fringes of campus after dark. If one has trouble believing this reality, look no further than the most recent Lobo Alert that was sent out to us. A student was attacked just before 9 p.m. on April 21, and the best the University could do for those of us around was to send a text five and a half hours after the incident.
On Friday morning the Department of Justice revealed their findings regarding UNM’s handling of sexual assault causes, saying the University is not up to code because of confusing policies and outdated procedures. But at a press conference later that day, University officials emphasized that there is more to the issue than the DOJ report suggests. Informational posters were set up in the room, illustrating a timeline spanning the past three years and a checklist of key tasks that arose out of a University commissioned report in February of last year.
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Three men who were accused of raping a UNM student in 2014, only to have the charges dropped, are suing the University. In the lawsuit, the men allege that UNM’s investigation, conducted by police as well as the University, was flawed. The men claim they were presumed guilty because they were black, and that investigators failed to interview witnesses or obtain evidence that would have cleared them. Attorney George Anthony Bleus represents Ryan Ruff, a CNM student, as well as Crusoe Gongbay and SaQwan Edwards, who were both UNM football players.
A global art initiative that has gained popularity all over the world has arrived at UNM to shed light on various social issues on campus. Megan Jacobs, a professor in the Honors College, and students from her Social Transformation Through Art class have recently taken part in the Inside Out Project, a worldwide endeavor led by French photo-artist JR, who works to “transform messages of personal identity into works of public art,” according to the project’s website. JR won the TED prize in 2011, a $100,000 grant given to individuals who strive to affect the world in a positive way. With his earnings, JR created the project, which in four years has become a social phenomenon, enlisting people in over one hundred countries in emphasizing citizens and social issues through art.
I constantly collect wisdom every day in order to live it. We have much to learn from other cultures. The native Tiruray people, who lived in the southern Philippines in the 1960s, enjoyed complete equality between men and women. Men were not above women, women were not above men – in any way. A spirit of harmony – no battles of men against women, no battles of women against men. Caring, non-violence, warmth, nurturing, sharing and empathy were not considered feminine qualities; they were human qualities – the right way for both men and women to be. Bravery, confidence, clear thinking, boldness in sex and boldness in conversation were not considered masculine qualities; they were human qualities – the right way for both men and women to be. Toughness, dominating others and taking advantage of others was not right for men or women. Men and women deeply understood and helped each other.
The United States Championship has once again been relegated to second-tier status by the WWE. That’s not the fault Kalisto, the current U.S. Champ, it’s just the way the WWE has always treated the belt.
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