Culture
Movie review: 'Insurgent' falls short.
Moriah Carty | March 25By Moriah Carty Equally as fierce as its predecessor, “The Divergent Series: Insurgent” captures a new struggle within the factions.
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UNM crime briefs for March 25
March 25On March 15, two officers were dispatched to Redondo Village in reference to a missing utility cart. According to the report, the officers made contact with the reporter who stated the cart was in its stored location at the Student Residence Center. The staff became aware of the missing cart the previous day when they were in need of it. No one had permission to take the cart. The case is closed pending further leads.
News
Architects design children's dreams
Marielle Dent | March 25Class has become a playground for a group of architecture students. A UNM architecture and planning class is participating in Parade of Playhouses, where teams from across the state design and build playhouses to be auctioned for charity.
Culture
Ballet course offered for healthier lifestyle
Khadijah Jacobs | March 25Recovering from traumatic illnesses and injuries is not always an easy process, and one local ballet program is helping those who have survived such traumas through a six-week course in the artistry. Bianca Juganaru, dance instructor and owner of Bianca Lily Ballet & Studio B,said she teaches Intro to Ballet for Absolute Beginner Adults at Maple Street Dance Studio.
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New Mexico DoH simulates health disaster at UNM
Jonathan Baca | March 25Scenario: a terrorist has unleashed an attack of weaponized anthrax onto a southbound Rail Runner Express train. Public health officials need to set up a Point of Dispensing location to hand out emergency medications during this crisis — and do it fast. This was the mock scene on March 18, when UNM Hospital’s Health Sciences Center and other emergency agencies teamed up for a training exercise put on by the New Mexico Department of Health.
Culture
DJ Sunuvphun is a former 'jazz elitist'
Skylar Griego | March 25What he saw when he glanced at the clock surprised him. It was 2 a.m. As the loops continued to play in his head, James Breslin worked furiously at his Digital Audio Workstation to form his latest creation. He looked up again, it was four in the morning. DJ Sunuvphun would have to get up soon to work his day job as a roofer, as his wife Sarah had reminded him the night before. Another night was lost in creating music.
Culture
Pop culture courses add substance to material
David Lynch | March 24The word “academics” usually conjures up images of math classes, chemistry labs, and literary analysis courses in the English Department. But UNM also offers several courses based on popular cultures that don’t seem to have educational value, at first glance. Yet instructors in these courses – like those focusing on hip hop, Harry Potter and fashion – do feature typical academic approaches and concepts that serve higher educational goals.
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Growing Chicano studies program gets votes from faculty senate
David Lynch | March 24UNM’s Chicana and Chicano studies program recently continued to gain recognition when the faculty senate voted for departmentalization of the program, allowing for more structure and opportunities for students interested in the field. Irene Vasquez, director of the program, said that growing the program has been an ongoing process since 2011. In 2013 a bachelor’s degree was installed, and in the fall it will get even bigger.
Sports
Lobos' run in postseason play comes to an close
Liam Cary-Eaves | March 24Poor shooting from the field and the free throw line ends the Lobos’ season in a 63-60 loss to Oral Roberts in the second round of the Women’s Basketball Invitational. Despite a late push, New Mexico couldn’t overcome a 20 of 70 shooting performance from the field to advance to the WBI semifinals. Head coach Yvonne Sanchez said her squad came out of the gates without a lot of confidence, which cost the Lobos another home win in postseason play.
Culture
Five & Why, what Lobos love to watch: With Anna Alfaro
Skylar Griego | March 24Many people say the best movies are those that take the viewer to another world. Anna Alfaro, a senior pre-design for performance major and an employee for the Southwest Film Center, said that all of her favorite movies are “nerd movies” for this reason.
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Researchers looking at better ways to eliminate bacteria
Sayyed Shah | March 24A team of researchers at UNM are developing new wipes for killing bacteria on different surfaces. The wipes aim keep different surfaces clean for longer than usual with the help of compounds developed by the researchers, said David Whitten, associate director at the Center for Biomedical Engineering.
Opinion
Letter: Attitudes expressed in letters show need for resolution
March 23Yay for freedom of speech for revealing yet another bigot. And hurrah that our constitutional rights trump any University-wide resolution. I wonder: does Mr. Ryu’s letter in Friday’s paper qualify legally as hate speech? It certainly defames, mischaracterizes and slanders an entire religious community of millions of adherents. You could argue it threatens, too. It does not provide any support for the contention that the recent University resolution is a bad idea. Although I am not familiar with the specific wording in the resolution, my understanding is that, in the face of a real or perceived threat, students should be protected on a university campus in terms of their right to exercise their religious freedom in a safe and non-hostile environment. It is letters such as Mr. Ryu’s that make the resolution a necessity. The environment in the United States is one laden with fear and hostility towards Islam which, in the United States, is a minority faith. Muslim students, just like any other students, should not have to deal with this.
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Native law grads in demand
Robert Salas | March 23By Robert Salas UNM’s School of Law recently ranked among the top 100 law schools in the country and part of the reason for that may be a program offered at only two dozen universities in the country.
Sports
Sports briefs for March 23, 2015
Liam Cary-Eaves | March 23UNM needed only six innings of play to take the rubber match from Utah State 12-2 on Sunday. Junior pitcher Lauren Soles threw a gem, with the fifth inning as her only blemish, allowing two runs on four hits in her second complete game of the season. New Mexico’s offense provided plenty of firepower against Utah State (9-19, 1-2 MW), slugging six homers in Sunday’s contest. Junior outfielder Mariah Rimmer led the way in an eight-run sixth inning, crushing a solo-shot to left field and a three-run homer to collect all four of her RBIs on the day.
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Legislators pass blame for unpassed bills
Marielle Dent | March 23This year’s legislative session ended on Saturday with a major task left incomplete: Passage of a $275 million capital outlay bill that would have funded infrastructure projects statewide. The bill, which is usually passed every session, died because of partisan disagreements that characterized most of this session. On Friday the House Ways and Means Committee voted to cut $45 million in funding for community colleges, senior centers and pueblos across the state to put toward highway funding. These changes to the Senate-approved bill were debated until the final minutes of the session.
Sports
Women's basketball: Lobos face formidable postseason challenge
Liam Cary-Eaves | March 23New Mexico’s post play will face a significant test against a prolific rebounder, as the Lobos host Oral Roberts in the Women’s Basketball Invitational second round. Vicky McIntyre, the Golden Eagles’ 6-foot-7 redshirt senior center, has 508 rebounds this season, which is sixth best all-time in NCAA history for a single season. Only nine players have eclipsed the 500-rebound plateau in a single season. “You can’t make it easy on her because she is awfully good,” head coach Yvonne Sanchez said. “She gets a double-double almost every game.”
Opinion
Letter: Students need support in face of misconceptions about Islam
March 23It has come to my attention that many negative and misleading things about Islam are being published in the Daily Lobo. As per my right to freedom of speech granted to me in the American Constitution, I would like to now respond to these attacks from the American Muslim point of view. First of all, I’d like to point out that lecturing people on what their religion teaches when you are not even a part of that religion is as if I went to a lawyer asking for a medical diagnosis. In Islam we have many different sects and schools of thought. In addition to the Sunni and Shi’a — the two main sects — in Sunni Islam we have four primary schools of thought, or madhebs. These schools of thought are set up to interpret Islamic jurisprudence. We also have many other different interpretations of Islam. So the idea that you can group everyone under “one” Islam is an ignorant attempt to paint all Muslims the same. Similarly, this type of language is actually utilized by terrorist groups in an attempt to make Muslims feel alienated from their societies and recruit them to join these organizations.
Sports
Sand volleyball: UNM's newest sport starts with a struggle
Liam Cary-Eaves | March 23New Mexico’s newest athletic program played on its own turf — sand, actually — for the first time on Saturday. The New Mexico sand volleyball team struggled in its home debut against No. 18 Grand Canyon University, dropping both matches 4-1 at StoneFace courts. UNM now sits at 1-3 on its inaugural season. Assistant coach Lisa Beauchene said the program is continually improving and New Mexico needs to keep facing quality competition to progress further. “We’re playing a lot of the Arizona teams more than once, which is really tough competition, but good experience for us,” she said.
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LGBTQ student finds place on UNM campus
Cara Grasso | March 23For most students, college is a time for experimenting with new identities and figuring out which ones fit best. For at least one student, arriving at UNM was the first time she felt she could truly be herself. Liviana Rodriguez, a freshman fine arts major, said she remembers being seven years old, throwing pennies into wishing fountains, wishing she could be the gender she felt she was on the inside. She began her transition from male to female during high school, and said she faced discrimination. “I heard slurs all the time,” she said. “I heard ‘tranny’ and was referred to as my old name, and people purposefully used ‘he,’ and that felt really bad. I always felt really alone, especially in my high school.”
Sports
Spring football: Practice brings defensive changes
Thomas Romero-Salas | March 23Spread offenses have forced New Mexico to make a defensive change this upcoming season. UNM will shift from its base 3-4 defense to a 3-3-5 system in order to shore up its passing defense. The 3-3-5 is played with five defensive backs and just three linebackers, while the 3-4 has four defensive backs and four linebackers. The Lobos ran the 3-4 defense for the past three seasons and ranked near the bottom of Division I football subdivision schools in passing over that span.
