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Garza brothers are all about family

Stephen Montoya | August 18

Three brothers set out many years ago to save an ailing family business by combining family traditions with popular music. The tradition is conjunto, the popular music is rock ‘n’ roll, and the business is Los Lonely Boys. For the Garza brothers, becoming successful working musicians was just a part of growing up in their native hometown of San Angelo, Texas. In 2004 Henry, Jojo and Ringo Garza wrote “Heaven,” a song that stayed at the number one spot of the adult contemporary charts for 16 weeks and catapulted them into a life of fame.

Culture

Records & Reviews: A Revelation from Los Lonely Boys

Stephen Montoya | August 18

Los Lonely Boys credit their ongoing success to love and holding fast to family traditions in their new album titled “Revelation.” The record spans many musical styles and influences to give listeners a better understanding of Los Lonely Boys’ range and songwriting ability. The first track on the album, “Blame it on Love,” may take some listeners off guard with its first traditionally Mexican notes.

News

Lounge area to accommodate new donors at Popejoy Hall

Robert Salas | August 18

Always in need of donations, Popejoy Hall will offer a new incentive to large contributors. The Popejoy Hall Donors’ Lounge will get a much-needed extension this fall.

The UNM Marching Band performs the UNM Fight Song for approximately 2,500 incoming freshman at Popejoy Hall on Sunday afternoon. This preceded the UNM Class Crawl and Movie on the Field, which are part of Welcome Back Days.

News

Ease into campus life with free food

Lauren Marvin | August 17

Free food. Most college students will go for that. That makes for a great opportunity this week, as more than 220 departments and organizations will participate in UNM Welcome Back Days. Ryan Lindquist, associate director of the Student Activities Center, said the Welcome Back Days provide an opportunity to spotlight the diverse departments and communities on campus, as well as a free meal for students.

Debris lay scattered outside the Electrical and Computer Engineering Building on Thursday. The UNM Physical Planning Department is still calculating the estimated cost of the damage to 50 buildings during the summer flooding.

News

Cost of flood repairs pending

Stephen Montoya | August 17

Although details on how much damage was done by last week’s flooding are still being gathered, UNM’s Physical Plant Department is doing its best to find and fix campus-wide problems. The next step for PPD according to Department Director Mary Vosevich is looking over the damages and determining the cost for insurance purposes to get the companies on campus to start making repairs. “We have equipment that determines moisture in a wall, so they know exactly how high they need to go to cut out any drywall to do those repairs,” Vosevich said.

News

Accused athletes return to football team

Thomas Romero-Salas | August 17

New Mexico head coach Bob Davie has reinstated running back Crusoe Gongbay and cornerback SaQwan Edwards to the football team after the District Attorney’s Office determined there was insufficient evidence to prosecute. The two returned to practice last week during training camp in Ruidoso, and are eligible to play in the Aug. 30 season opener. “It was my decision,” Davie said last week at a press conference. “Back in April, I suspended those two from the team because it was a criminal case and they were charged criminally. The reason I’m reinstating them is because I received word from both attorneys that the criminal case has been dismissed and it’s closed.”

News

Charges against football players dropped

Jonathan Baca | August 17

The District Attorney’s Office formally dropped charges without prejudice against two Lobo football players and one former UNM student. District Attorney Kari Brandenburg said on Wednesday that due to a lack of evidence her office was unable to indict SaQwan Edwards, Crusoe Gongbay and Ryan Ruff on kidnapping and rape charges. UNM is still following up on its own investigation, which could lead to disciplinary action including expulsion from school if it is found that the student-athletes violated the school’s code of conduct.

Opinion

Letter: Palestinian slaughter unjust, not self-defense

August 17

Editor, The onslaught of Palestine by the state of Israel has no justification. No slaughter can be justified, regardless of who commits it against whom. Those who try to rationalize the bloodshed into a moral-political necessity do so to hide their monstrous face behind a mendacious mindset. Rationalizing the impermissible is deliberate Orwellian miscategorization. The mass murder of the defenseless is never “self-defense.” None of the more than two thousand killed after a month of shelling has been a “threat” to the state of Israel.

Opinion

Letter: Finding the real, true meaning of happiness

August 17

Recently it was reported that Rush Limbaugh said that Robin Williams killed himself because Leftists are never happy. When I read that, I had the desire to ask Rush Limbaugh to search inside himself for happiness. I suspect if he were to do that, he would find the desire to make other people appear inferior to him, and a great deal of hatred, but no genuine love of other people and no happiness.

Sports

Sports briefs

Thomas Romero-Salas | August 17

Men’s basketball The men’s basketball team hired Alan Huss to become the new assistant coach, UNM announced Tuesday. Huss spent his last four seasons as the head coach of La Lumiere School, a prep program in La Porte, Indiana. He replaces Craig Snow, who became the new head coach at New Mexico Highlands University in July. Huss will officially join the staff later this summer, pending UNM human resources approval.

New Mexico volleyball setter Hannah Johnson runs drills with her teammates at Johnson Gym on Aug. 11. The volleyball team was recently recognized in the American Volleyball Coaches Association Division I Preseason Poll with nine points placing them among the Top 40 teams.

Sports

Volleyball team comes with fresh faces and international experience

Liam Cary-Eaves | August 17

Young teams are often threatened with having to endure a learning curve. However, the University of New Mexico volleyball team is confident that the unit will be good to go as soon as the season starts. “This team has been a long time in the making. We’re excited about it,” head coach Jeff Nelson said. “We’re poised to make a good run for a while … We’re ready to make a run at the conference championship.”

New Mexico men’s soccer head coach Jeremy Fishbein speaks about the upcoming season at the Colleen J. Maloof Administration Building on Friday. The men’s soccer team opens up its season with an exhibition game against Fort Lewis at the UNM Soccer Complex at 7 p.m tonight.

Sports

Men's soccer team sticks together for strong season start

Isabel Gonzalez | August 17

Although the UNM men’s soccer team had a successful season last year, the question at the beginning of every season is always the same: What will this season be like? Last year the Lobos won the Conference USA regular-season title in its first season in the league, and made it all the way to the Final Four in the NCAA Tournament. It was a season the team could be proud of, but success did not come easy; senior forward James Rogers said the team didn’t know what to expect at first because they had lost many good players.

Former New Mexico forward Cameron Bairstow and center Alex Kirk take their final walk off the Pit floor during the last home game on March 5 against Air Force. Bairstow and Kirk signed with the Chicago Bulls and Cleveland Cavaliers, respectively, over the summer.

Sports

Former Lobos make NBA picks

Staff Report | August 17

Both halves of last year’s strong New Mexico backcourt reached the NBA ranks over the summer. Cameron Bairstow signed a professional contract with the Chicago Bulls, the team announced on July 21. The Bulls drafted Bairstow with the 49th overall pick just one year after taking another former UNM player, Tony Snell. “Appreciate all the support from everyone throughout this process!!” Bairstow wrote on Twitter. “Excited to be a part of the Bulls!!”

Sports

Lobo women finish Italian tour with loss to Netherlands

Liam Cary-Eaves | August 14

The New Mexico women’s basketball team concluded its tour of Italy with a 54-41 loss to the Netherlands National Team.

Sports

UNM women take first loss in Italian hoops tour

Liam Cary-Eaves | August 13

The New Mexico women’s basketball team had trouble closing out the Netherlands national team in its first loss of the Italy exhibition tour.

Culture

Fall term debuts with Friday Night Live!

Tomas Lujan | August 10

Live from the University of New Mexico, it’s Friday Night Live! This Friday, the Student Union Building will host the seventh annual Friday Night Live!

Culture

UNM camp integrates mathematical concepts

Lauren Marvin | August 10

UNM is hosting a camp devoid of sleeping bags, tents or smores. This camp is comprised of calculators, mathematical equations and computer programming. Monika Nitsche, a professor of applied mathematics, said high school and college students from across the Southwest attended a four-week math camp in July. “The idea is to give students the opportunity to deepen their knowledge in math and also exposure in application, showing them how things they may have learned in the classroom and different classes are all required to solve a particular application,” Nitsche said. Transformations and modeling were the themes of four mini courses, she said.

News

Arts let students 'escape for a day'

Moriah Carty | August 10

The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History is using a “magic” bus to inspire poverty-level children by giving them a chance to escape their environment for a day. Rita Butler, the program manager at the museum, said this is the 20th year of the Magic Bus Program, which is funded by the community and private donations. “The program brings school children to the museum, totally free,” she said.

The walls of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Building are exposed and ready for repair on Wednesday afternoon. Several UNM buildings, including Centennial Library and Hodgin Hall, were damaged during the storm that swept through Albuquerque on Aug. 1.

News

Flood damage lingers as term looms

Stephen Montoya | August 10

Back-to-back rainstorms resulted in damage to almost 40 buildings on the UNM main campus last week. Some of the departments hit hardest include the School of Engineering, the recently remodeled Honors College, Hodgin Hall and the Centennial Library located underground. Nancy Dennis, associate dean of the Centennial Library, said she has yet to find out the extent of the damage after hearing that there was standing water in the library. “All those things kind of start filtering through your head when you get that phone call at 3 o’clock on Saturday morning, and you know it’s not good news,” Dennis said. The first step to salvaging any damaged books starts with calling a book restoration company that will freeze the saturated material and thaw it out over a slow, tempered process, she said. Ninety boxes of damaged books were sent to the BMS CAT Disaster Restoration plant in Fort Worth, Texas for the restoration process to begin, Dennis said. “If print and books stay wet in a high-humidity and high-temperature environment, then mold can start growing in that material,” she said. The normal response time for saving print materials after they’ve become wet is 48 hours, she said.

Culture

Records & Reviews: Roses & Revolutions

Stephen Montoya | August 10

Roses & Revolutions takes listeners along a journey of stardom and tenacity with the band’s new EP of the same name. What happens to the majority of “American Idol”3 contestants after the applause quiets down and the only stage they find themselves on is a new stage of life?