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Politics impedes lobo recovery

The lobo is the mascot of UNM, but New Mexico’s wild lobos have held a spot on the list of endangered species for several decades. Recently, statues of this wild animal are abundant throughout campus, but their presence in the wild remains precarious. The Endangered Species Act is designed “to provide a means whereby the ecosystems upon which endangered species and threatened species depend may be conserved, (and) to provide a program for the conservation of such endangered species.”

UNM declared a Bicycle-Friendly Campus

UNM is among 100 universities recognized as a Bicycle Friendly Campus. The University’s bronze-level award, which was given out by the League of American Bicyclists, was based on evaluations of what the league calls the “Five E’s”: engineering, encouragement, education, enforcement and evaluation and planning.

Five & Why with Joseph Bartolotta

Life is yet another reason to add to the endless list of why people read books. Some people enjoy reading because they want to feel as if they are living the lives of the characters. This can be seen in the types of books Joseph Bartolotta, Lecturer III of English, said are his five favorites.

Film festival heats up Albuquerque

As the weather around the state cooled down, things heated up in Albuquerque at the fifth annual Pornotopia. More than 500 people attended the film festival organized by the Self Serve Sexuality Resource Center. Titles such as “Lesbians of Enchantment,” “Fistbump,” “Putting the Sex Back into Sex Education” and “Bike Porn,” among others, filled the Pornotopia itinerary.

Men's soccer season falls short of NCAAs

The season is over for the New Mexico men’s soccer team. The field for this year’s NCAA Division I Men’s Soccer Championship was announced Monday morning, but with an 11-6-1 overall record, the Lobos did receive an at-large bid.

Motorsports club ranked in world

One fast-moving club on campus is moving up the national and world leader boards. UNM’s Formula SAE motorsports program has been ranked No. 5 in the country and No. 18 in the world, according to a poll issued by the Formula Student Combustion World Rankings. The competition, put on by SAE International, focuses on engineering and design education.

Students share cultures, cuisines at international cookoff

UNM’s international education week started Monday with the second international cook-off competition. The event, organized by the Global Education Office in collaboration with the Department of Enrollment Management, featured teams from Japan, China, Iran, Bangladesh, India and the Czech Republic participating in the live “Iron Chef” style competition for the best cuisine.

Riddle fells another long-standing record

In the space of just seven days Chantale Riddle has climbed to the top of the record books with two prestigious New Mexico volleyball records. With 18 kills on Nov. 8, Riddle became New Mexico’s all-time leader in points, and on Saturday Riddle ascended to claim sole possession of UNM’s kill throne. Both records were held by Lobo alumnae Tania Gooley.

ASUNM voter turnout slumps in recent election

Voter turnout for last week’s Associated Students of the University of New Mexico Senate elections was a fraction of that seen in previous semesters. The 682 Lobos who voted last Wednesday amounted to a meager 40 percent of those who got to the polls a year ago.

Turquoise-clad Lobos topple stubborn Titans

On a night full of turquoise-accented jerseys the New Mexico men’s basketball team found itself in a dogfight with Cal State Fullerton. The Lobos led almost the entire game, but could never seem to shake the pesky Titans. Five straight free throws by sophomore guard Cullen Neal sealed the game for the Lobos in a 67-59 win on Saturday at the Pit.

Competitive Lobos still struggle to clinch wins

New Mexico is starting to gain a reputation for being competitive, but that reputation isn’t backed up by many wins this season. That didn’t change Saturday against Utah State in Logan, Utah. UNM found itself back in the game when redshirt freshman quarterback Lamar Jordan hit wide senior receiver Tyler Duncan for a 59-yard touchdown, cutting Utah State’s lead to just 28-21 with 4:17 left in the game.

Men's, women's cross country teams run off to nationals

Both the men’s and the women’s New Mexico cross country teams will be packing their bags to compete in the national championships. The women were able to breathe easier knowing they were headed to Terre Haute, Indiana, directly following the second-place finish in the 6-kilometer race at the UNM North Golf Course on Friday. The men, on the other hand, did not get an automatic bid to the national stage following their seventh-place 10-kilometer bid at the Mountain Region Championships. Instead, the Lobos earned an at-large bid from the Division I Men’s and Women’s Track and Field Committee on Saturday.

Cracked comedians to crack up Albuquerque

It would be surprising to find a college student who has never read a Cracked.com article. The website’s comedic lists, like “5 Adorable Behaviors That Mean Your Dog Hates You,” and “6 Unshakable Beliefs You Develop Growing Up a Redneck,” have made Cracked one of the most popular comedy sites on the net. And now some of the site’s contributors are coming to Albuquerque.

School of Law fields LGBTQ legal questions

For the first time in New Mexico history, volunteers from the law school’s clinical program met with members of the LGBTQ community to provide legal assistance on specific issues. In New Mexico, the LGBTQ community has made strides on their mission towards full equality with the recent legalization of same sex marriage. However, there are still challenges the community has to overcome, said John Flores, program coordinator for EQNM.

UNM finds shooting, tops Idaho State in opener

Shooting was an issue for the New Mexico men’s basketball team in its first two exhibition games. UNM seemed to have come out of its slump in its season opener against the Idaho State Bengals in a 79-55 win on Friday night.

A look at the Farris Engineering Building's upcoming renovation

Charity art raffle to benefit homeless community

A UNM alumna is organizing a charity art raffle to benefit some of Albuquerque’s neediest citizens. Jodie Herrera, a New Mexico native and 2013 UNM graduate, said the event will combine her solo art show along with a raffle of works done by dozens local artists to benefit Albuquerque Healthcare for the Homeless. The show, titled “The Shape I’m In,” will be held on Nov. 22 at 6 p.m. at Tractor Brewery off of Fourth Street, she said. Herrera said she wanted to address the issue of homelessness in Albuquerque as the winter season approaches.

Grad student one step closer to Mars

Zach Gallegos, a graduate Earth and planetary science student, is intent on being a member of the first astronaut team to establish a permanent colony on Mars. This Dutch non-profit agency has set a goal of sending the first four-person crew to Mars in 2024, and then successive crews every two years after, according to the Mars One website. There is, however, no return mission planned. The astronauts would live out the rest of their lives on the Red Planet.

Letter: New Mexico deserves better than buying dirty coal mine

Times have changed since solar and wind power first became available. Across the country, the cost of coal is going up, and the price of clean energy – like wind and solar – is coming down. Employment trends are changing, too. Today, more workers are employed in the clean energy industry than in coal mining nationwide. Since 2012, New Mexico’s solar industry has added nearly 1,000 new jobs. Almost 2,000 New Mexicans now work in our state’s growing solar economy. As owner of a local solar company, I’ve seen the remarkable transition to clean energy take root in our region. Solar electricity costs less than grid energy, and home and business owners are taking advantage of the opportunity to fix their energy costs for the long run. We’ve added 30 employees in the past year to keep up with demand. It is a really exciting time.

Column: As times progress, society goes in reverse

Whatever happened to the Space Age? I never thought I’d grow old in an era where everything is actually worse than it was in the good old days. Civilization has seemingly gone several steps backwards spiritually, socially and technologically since the 1970s. I grew up expecting to take my summer vacations on Mars, and here it is 2014 and we’re living in a country that currently lacks even a high-speed rail system. The aging space shuttle fleet was decommissioned a few years ago, following numerous catastrophic failures, yet America is supposed to be the wealthiest, most technologically advanced nation on earth. What went wrong?