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GPSA candidates debate ahead of elections

David Lynch | March 30

Online voting for Graduate and Professional Student Association leadership starts next week, and on March 28 the two presidential candidates discussed rising student fees, increased outreach and cooperation with student and University groups in their platform speeches. Current GPSA President Texanna Martin and challenger Diego Urbina spoke about their accomplishments so far and their visions for the graduate student population in the coming year. Urbina is a second-year graduate student at the UNM School of Law and a first-generation college student. He said he is driven by the desire to give other UNM students that same success.

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Sports

Spring football: Wide receivers must step up their game

Thomas Romero-Salas | March 30

It might be time for the New Mexico wide receivers to finally play a more active role in the passing game. For the past three years in Bob Davie’s triple option offense, UNM wideouts have done more blocking than catching. In this spring practice, there has been an emphasis on improving the air game, but that has been the case for the past couple of seasons. No wide receiver under Davie at UNM has caught 20 or more passes. The most catches a wide receiver has had in one season are 19, which happened twice in 2013 when receivers Jeric Magnant and Marquis Bundy both hit that mark.

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Sports

Baseball: Cole is stand-out in Lobos' Sunday victory

Thomas Romero-Salas | March 30

Jake Cole had it going on at Lobo Field on Sunday. The junior reliever pitched 3 1/3 innings, giving up zero hits and striking out three batters in a 5-1 New Mexico victory over Fresno State. Cole also earned his first victory of the season. “I don’t really think about it when I’m throwing,” he said. “I just try to get the job done and keep us in place to win.”

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Opinion

Letter: Obama and Saudi Arabia are both in the wrong

March 30

I have heard more than one person say the United States has the best government money can buy. In what would seem to be an unfortunate confirmation of that statement, the Obama administration has recently given its blessing to Saudi Arabia’s recent invasion of Yemen. A popular uprising in Yemen recently sent former president Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi into exile, and Saudi Arabia seems hell-bent on shooting and bombing the new Yemeni government into submission.

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Opinion

Letter: U.S. nuclear bombs threaten greatest massacres in history

March 30

The U.S. nuclear bombs designed for decades at Sandia and Los Alamos laboratories terrorize many whole nations. U.S. nuclear bombs threaten to incinerate many times more moms, dads and children than Hitler and the Nazis killed in gas ovens, concentration camps and Word War II. U.S. nuclear bombs are prepared to slaughter far more people than all the wars in human history combined. U.S. nuclear bombs are targeted to commit mass murder worldwide — thousands of times larger than the atrocities of Sept. 11, 2001. U.S. nuclear bombs are aimed to massacre far more human beings than all the street gangs, drug dealers, drunk drivers, rapists, deranged spouses, serial killers, Ku Klux Klan and Mafia combined. Even if the U.S. never again drops nuclear bombs on cities, the radioactive and chemical contamination from the making and testing of these weapons can sicken and kill millions of people for thousands of years. Many children will be ravaged by cancers or ruined immunity.

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Opinion

Column: Gen-Y scores low on skills

Jason Darensburg | March 27

American Millennials are some of the most unskilled people in the world. That’s according to a recent study published by the Educational Testing Service titled “America’s Skills Challenge: Millennials and the Future.” The Princeton-based researchers administered a test called the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies to measure the aptitude of adults in 23 different countries. Generation Y Americans — those born after 1980 — were shown to be lagging far behind their foreign counterparts in literacy, numeracy and basic problem-solving skills. Madeline Goodman is one of the report’s co-authors. She told Fortune magazine, “We really thought [U.S.] Millennials would do better than the general adult population, either compared to older coworkers in the U.S. or to the same age group in other countries, but they didn’t. In fact, their scores were abysmal.”

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Sports

Spring football: Davie unveils new strategies for defensive troubles

Liam Cary-Eaves | March 27

The New Mexico football team is hopeful that a new scheme and additional personnel will help solve some defensive woes. After allowing the most yards in the Mountain West last season, the Lobos needed a change and they are hoping that a nickel base defense and new defensive backs coach Al Simmons will clear up some of UNM’s issues. “To get someone who’s been in this conference for three years, been a defensive coordinator and all of that. So the resume is really impressive,” head coach Bob Davie said of Simmons. “What more impressive is his demeanor. He’s not going to flinch.

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Sports

Spring football: Other running backs take center as Pressley takes a spring break

Thomas Romero-Salas | March 27

Unlike the quarterback position, there isn’t much question about who will be one of New Mexico’s top running backs come the fall. Jhurell Pressley is likely to get his fair share of the carries in 2015, but the senior tailback isn’t taking repetitions during spring practice because he’s not enrolled at UNM this semester. Head coach Bob Davie said Pressley will be back this summer and has not commented on why Pressley isn’t in school this spring. With Pressley not being at spring practice that only means other running backs will take his reps and get more accustomed to the offense.

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News

UNM Microwave research intensifies

Sayyed Shah | March 27

A team of UNM researchers is developing next-generation microwave sources for high-power applications. With their new approach, the researchers are trying to create devices with smaller size that are reconfigurable and highly efficient. “This could be a breakthrough in the high-power microwave world,” said Sabahattin Yurt, a graduate research assistant in the applied electromagnetics research group.

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News

Survivor's support program awarded

Matthew Reisen | March 27

Dalila Romero, peer navigator and co-founder of Comadre a Comadre, was awarded the Spirit of Hope Award on March 21. The award is given annually by The Nancy Floyd Haworth Foundation to “exceptional individuals who have made significant contributions in the fight against breast cancer.” Comadre a Comadre, founded 10 years ago, is an organization on UNM campus that “helps empower the lives of Hispanic/Latina women and their loved ones through advocacy, education, information, resources and support about breast health and breast cancer.” Born and raised in a small Texas town, Romero moved to New Mexico when she was 16 and has done various community work in Albuquerque. She received her certification as a navigator through the Harold P. Freeman Patient Navigation Institute, which teaches methods for more effective cancer screening and treatment.

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News

Senators forget homework on failed resolution

David Lynch | March 27

The Associated Students of UNM failed a resolution at Wednesday’s meeting that would have asked University administration to remove the need for a social security number in University applications, thereby allowing undocumented citizens to attend. Resolution 8S sought to ease admission and accessibility to UNM and its resources for the undocumented student population who do not have social security numbers. However, confusion and debate over the structure and preparation for the resolution ultimately led to a general uneasiness about passing it. Sen. Kyle Stepp said the Senate passing the resolution without doing its due diligence is the wrong thing to do.

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Sports

Men's basketball: Lobos hope to bounce back after first losing season in 8 years

Liam Cary-Eaves | March 27

Following New Mexico’s first losing season since 2007, the Lobos are preparing to get back on track in the 2015-2016 season. In Craig Neal’s season ending press conference, the head coach addressed the need to get better in anticipation of conference play. Next season’s competition will feature a more difficult non-conference schedule than this past season’s play. Although Neal said the dates have not yet been set, the Lobos will play host to Northern Iowa, a team which finished No. 11 before losing in the 32nd round of the NCAA tournament. UNM will also welcome Rice to Wise Pies Arena, according the Neal.

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Culture

Dance night to benefit children's hospital

Lauren Marvin | March 26

Bruce Wayne may not be the only superhero into philanthropy. For a second consecutive year, LoboTHON is raising money for the UNM Children’s Hospital, only this time with masked crusaders. The theme of this year’s marathon is superheroes, and the goal is $62,000.

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News

Development plans progress

Lena Guidi | March 26

Innovate ABQ is moving ahead with its plans to develop a seven-acre site to create an “innovation district” that ties UNM to downtown Albuquerque’s business community. Lisa Kuuttila, CEO of UNM’s Science and Technology Corporation, said that rather than acting as a final plan, the development framework approved on March 9 provides ideas to developers whose building proposals will be accepted in April. “This is meant to be a living document,” she said. “We can give it to developers in April, and they are going to work within this framework. They are not held to specific ideas on what a building has to look like.”

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Culture

Column: Eight things to know before going to college

Sophie Earle | March 26

After high school, students usually feel fully prepared for college life. Countless people talk about the importance of engaging in school activities to make friends, how there might be a change in career paths more than once and how to learn to love and regret the classic “red cup beer pong” parties. College is a chapter in life where students become adults. To an extent, these comments became true. However, there are a few things I wish I had been told when I was a freshman.

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Opinion

Letter: Iran letter reveals who has interest in failure of peace

March 26

The recent letter sent to the Iranian leadership by 47 Republican senators threatening to repeal any peace agreement between the Iranian government and President Obama was quite shocking for an obvious reason. Treason is defined as “betraying one’s country.” Congress has acted at the behest of a foreign government, Israel, in order to betray its president in exchange for generous campaign contributions from Israeli allied special interest groups like AIPAC. If this action is not the very definition of treason, then I would argue that it comes uncomfortably close to crossing that line.

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Opinion

Letter: Fear-mongering on oil prices ignores benefits to consumers

March 26

How come our media are mourning on and on and everywhere about how the drop of oil price per barrel is such a serious blow to our economy, and not a drop of relief mentioned on behalf of poor consumers who see lower prices at the pump? It is not just the corporatist media wringing their hands about the loss to profits to “big oil.” They could be expected to whine about how disappointed they are that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries has refused to cut down on production so that oil prices can remain high.

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News

UNMPD on high alert after eight vehicles targeted on same day

Lauren Marvin | March 26

Some days are better than others, but for eight unlucky car owners, March 18 was one of the worst. Seven vehicles were reported burglarized and one was reported stolen to the UNM Police Department. Most of the incidents happened at the Lands West Parking Lot, which is located at 1209 University Blvd. NE. According to the daily crime log report, only one other auto burglary has been reported since March 18.

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News

Santolina plan raises concerns for residents

Steven Mo Fye | March 26

More than 100 residents met downtown on Wednesday to protest against the proposed Santolina Master Plan. Members of nearly a dozen community organizations, along with five tractors belonging to local farmers, marched to the Bernalillo County Commission office to share their concerns about how the proposed city would affect the area’s already limited water supply. Virginia Necochea, executive director of the Center for Social Sustainable Systems, said despite their opposition to the plan, the Contra Santolina coalition is not an anti-growth group.

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Culture

Prof.'s with visible ink part of growing trend

Skylar Griego | March 26

Two figures square off. Wile E. Coyote eternally faces his nemesis: the Road Runner. This image is on the ankle of Michael Ryan, an associate professor of history, who is one of many people who sport visible tattoos in the workplace. Ryan said he has been getting inked since he was 18 years old. Each of his tattoos, even Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, have a deep and symbolic connection to him that he enjoys displaying, he said.