One player stole the show in head coach Yvonne Sanchez’s press conference on Monday. That player was senior forward Alexa Chavez. Chavez, who started the season plagued by a foot injury, reinjured the foot, and has been watching her team from the sidelines for the majority of conference play.
Room is a painful film to watch, an experience provided very deliberately by director Lenny Abrahamson. One gets the sense that it should get easier to endure as it progresses, only to realize by the time the credits roll that an all-around happy ending to this kind of story would be the stuff of fantasy.
The Student Fee Review Board has made its final recommendations for the use of student fees for the fiscal year 2016-17. The SFRB gave thumbs down to increasing student fees, which means applicants got cuts in their budgets. “This year was really hard for the board. We were faced with about a half-million dollar deficit that we had to overcome before we looked at any of the department's budgets, and then we had to face declining enrollment,” SFRB Chair and GPSA President Texanna Martin and SFRB Vice-Chair and ASUNM President Jenna Hagengruber said in a joint statement.
The Battle of I-25 between UNM and the New Mexico State Aggies offers the Land of Enchantment a rivalry whose sporting events are often filled with blood, sweat and tears. But throughout the first week of February, Lobos and Aggies alike will shed blood in a different type of rivalry, away from any sports venue. This week ASUNM Community Experience is hosting the annual Battle of I-25 Blood Drive in a competition with NMSU over which school can collect the most units of donated blood. UNM has partnered with United Blood Services, which will be setting up multiple locations around campus for students to donate, including the SUB and multiple “Bloodmobiles”. According to ASUNM Community Experience, members of the UNM community donated 357 units of blood during last year’s blood drive, defeating NMSU who donated 230 units.
An open house will be held tomorrow from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Jackson Student Center (west of the Anderson School of Management on the UNM Campus) for those who are pursuing or are interested in pursuing a Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Accounting or Master of Science in Information Systems and Assurance degree. Anderson School of Management Student Recruitment Specialist Lisa Beauchene coordinated the open house and described it as a business casual networking event. Beauchene said that, during the event, guests will hear “elevator pitches” about the Anderson School of Management’s various departments. During that time, 13 professors from each of the degrees and concentrations in the MBA will answer students’ questions and promote their programs.
New Mexico’s women’s tennis team swept both of its opponents in a couple of strong showings over the weekend. The Lobos started the weekend on Saturday against Southern Illinois, winning two out of the three doubles matches to secure the lone point for doubles play. The team cruised through singles play winning all six individual matches as the schools elected to finish matches even after New Mexico had secured the victory.
Just because the Lobos won three straight games to move into second place in the Mountain West doesn’t mean the learning has stopped for coach Craig Neal’s squad. Saturday’s 88-83 victory over Boise State, which put the Lobos just behind league leader San Diego State in the standings, was such a moment because, as Neal put it, it’s not really a learning experience until you do it.
Just a day before New Mexico’s first practice on Friday afternoon, D1baseball.com announced its Mountain West preseason predictions. The Lobos were atop that list. After grinding out last season with numerous injuries, the Lobos were still just one swing away from making the postseason. The 2015 season snapped a four consecutive season streak of New Mexico taking home the conference trophy.
For the third time this season, New Mexico guard Elijah Brown earned weekly honors from the Mountain West. The conference on Monday announced Brown received the player of the week award after he averaged 23.5 points in wins over Air Force and Boise State.
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The best thing about being a know-nothing reactionary Republican is, since they don’t actually ‘read’ the news or comprehend current events, they never have to weigh their fallacious beliefs and propaganda against the reality based community! UNM Student Justin Davis “reached his limit” by having to read the “fluffy” 1/21/16 Daily Lobo story, ‘UNM program pairs volunteers with refugees to aid in their transition.’ The Lobo’s Elizabeth Sanchez reported on a program that, “Partners with refugees from around the world, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and the Great Lakes Region of Africa. Many have experienced war, displacement, the loss of loved ones and other painful events.” Davis states that “our economy is in the worst state it has been since the great depression, our labor participation rate is the lowest since the 1970’s and our middle class is being crushed by socialistic agendas.”
The University has recently decided to try developing a brand. Their stated goal in doing so wasn’t to change the face of the University, but to boil down the culture of our beautiful campus and community to the essentials of what makes UNM such a unique and special place. So they hired a branding company called 160over90. A branding company “headquartered in Philadelphia.” Cue scratched record sound. UNM was said in the University’s announcement to be “the heartbeat of New Mexico,” So why are we hiring out to a company that isn’t local? That’s the first big mistake made in the mission to “brand” UNM. They forgot that we are local. That we pride ourselves on being local and having local vendors. Or maybe they just don’t care, because in the announcement it talks about how intricately connected UNM is to our local community, yet they go straight for an east coast branding company.
The Associated Students of the University of New Mexico held its first meeting of the spring semester last Wednesday night in the Letterman Meeting Room at WisePies Arena. Although there was minimal legislative business, which is common for the first meetings of the semester, here are the main takeaways of last week’s meeting.
In its only home competition of the spring semester, the UNM swimming and diving team captured its ninth straight dual victory over in-state rival New Mexico State on Saturday. The Lobos won two of three dual meets during the 2014-15 season, the other victory coming last Halloween against Northern Colorado. UNM will have a divers-only meet next week at the Air Force Academy with the Mountain West Championships on the horizon. “Our kids did everything they could to help us win today,” head coach Kunio Kono in the release. “I saw a lot of personal bests and season bests today. A lot of girls are very happy today, and I’m excited for them. I think in my four years here this is one of our best performances.”
During September 2015, Brandi Fink, assistant professor at the UNM Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, began a research study exploring a pattern between alcohol and domestic violence. “We hope to learn why intimate partner violence (IPV) is more likely to occur when people are drinking alcohol,” Fink said. “IPV is a serious public health problem, and we are hoping to identify new ways to intervene with this problem.” Fink said her collaborators included Eric Claus of the Mind Research Network, as well as James Cavanagh and Derek Hamilton of the UNM Department of Psychology.
Helping others never tasted so sweet. Albuquerque’s first local cooking tournament came to a conclusion Thursday night when judges announced the season one tournament winner during the championship round at Pueblo Harvest Cafe. 505 Food Fight is an after-hours tournament in which local chefs create dishes out of mystery ingredients presented to them the night of the competition. Those dishes are then judged for presentation, creativity and flavor.
Several New Mexico athletes posted personal bests over the weekend at the New Mexico Invitational. The Lobos did not post the top team score in either the men’s or women’s division at the meet, but did notch some high scores throughout the day. Head coach Joe Franklin said he was impressed by many of the performances, some of which were pleasant surprises. “I really liked the fact that we had some kids that came out and competed really hard and when they least expect it, great things happen,” he said.
Perhaps the only thing Justin Davis got right in his opinion piece is that the Daily Lobo seems to be rather preoccupied with vapid stories while ignoring discussion of meaningful sociopolitical, scientific and technological matters. I will not devote space to excoriating Justin Davis’ opinion piece, as the errors there can be reasonably identified by anyone with a knack for sorting empirical evidence out of the jungle of opinion, belief and myth. It is unfortunate that the Daily Lobo has become a forum for tirelessly pandering to the sports and entertainment culture while carefully avoiding coverage of controversial subjects that may make some readers uncomfortable (challenges to one’s worldview, after all, have a tendency to create a level of discomfort.)
A new semester is underway and with it ASUNM is determined to finish our academic year strong. Within just the first two weeks, we have been up to Santa Fe many times regarding our Capital Outlay Project and the Lottery Scholarship, held our first rounds of budget workshops, and begun working on our new outreach efforts for this semester. We have a lot on the docket for this semester, but we can’t do any of it without YOUR help. Here are the major ways you can help us get started:
In New York two brothers, both of them police officers, had 10 years of spotless records as cops. They got into an awful argument. One brother shot and killed his drunk brother. If anyone, weeks before, could have told these two brothers when they were arresting other people that one would shoot and kill the other, how would they have believed it? If anyone, weeks earlier, could have told Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius that he would shoot and kill his girlfriend, how would he have believed it?
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