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Walker ends slump, UNM tops Nevada
Thomas Romero-Salas | February 4Until Saturday night, Demetrius Walker hadn’t been spotted on the hard court often.
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Track and field athletes rest for Don Kirby Elite Invitational
Christian Naranjo | February 4The UNM track and field squad managed several top-10 finishes at the New Mexico Classic, despite resting a majority of its top athletes.
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Lobos survive Cowboys, host Nevada Saturday
J.R. Oppenheim | February 1In his fifth start this year, Bairstow led the Lobo offense with 17 points, making five of his eight field goal attempts and seven of his 10 free throws.
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Controversial ‘UNM Confessions’ Facebook page allows UNM students to anonymously tell their scandalous stories
Nicole Perez | February 1Everything from on-campus defecation to a UNM professor’s porn stash is coming to light on Facebook.
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New decentralized budget management model aiming to increase University departments’ efficiency may be in UNM’s future
Ardee Napolitano | February 1The University is seeking a new academic budgeting model after three years of unsuccessfully trying to manage the shrinking budget.
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Touring truck pays students $1 to watch video of factory farm animal abuse
John Tyczkowski | January 31Students may rethink going to their favorite restaurant for a green chile cheeseburger after Wednesday’s demonstration.
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World’s first commercial spaceport, Spaceport America, one step closer to opening in New Mexico
John Tyczkowski | January 31New Mexicans are one step closer to having the world’s first working commercial spaceport in their state.
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BDSM and polyamorist communities alive and well in Albuquerque
Nicole Perez | January 31Two men dragged a screaming woman off the dance floor at Evolution Nightclub Saturday night, covered her mouth with a rag and bound her in the fetal position with green plastic wrap.
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UNM Day this year sees the introduction of a Lottery Scholarship bill in the House containing concrete ideas on how to achieve solvency
Megan Underwood and John Tyczkowski | January 30UNM students found that when they attended Tuesday’s legislative session, there was very little mention of UNM on what was supposed to be UNM Day
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UNM student Alray Nelson advocates for LGBT-friendly programs throughout the Navajo Nation, promotes his programs to officials in Washington, D.C.
Antonio Sanchez | January 30UNM student Alray Nelson said an incident of school bullying while he was a junior at Ganado Middle School in Arizona changed his life.
Culture
‘We are these nerds about toys’
Nicole Perez | January 30Today’s toys aren’t just marbles, jump rope and jacks: kids can now program solar-powered robots to navigate mazes, turn on the lights or get a snack from the fridge.
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Albuquerque gamers work 48-hours straight in Global Game Jam
Antonio Sanchez | January 29Empty energy drink bottles littered the halls of UNM’s Interdisciplinary Film and Digital Media building Sunday night as a horde of bodies rushed from one room to another.
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Athletics Department continues to pay back $1.25 million loan to the University despite tight budgets
Ardee Napolitano | January 29It will take the Athletics Department more than eight years to pay back the $1.25 million loan it took from the University last year.
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Opposing Legislature bills call for making state gun control laws stricter alongside advocating for the criminalization of enforcing federal gun control laws in New Mexico
John Tyczkowski | January 29This week, the Legislature opened with two opposing bills: one to tighten New Mexico’s gun laws, and one to make federal gun control laws unenforced in the state.
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Breaking: Police searching for two males who allegedly harassed a student
January 28UNMPD sent out the following email to students at around 1 p.m. Monday: “UNM police are searching for two black college age males who groped a female student as she was running around Johnson Field late Sunday afternoon.
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New report shows New Mexico hospitals score low on safety, UNMH score is one of the lowest in the state
Ardee Napolitano | January 28According to a new report, New Mexico has some of the most unsafe hospitals in the nation, including UNMH.
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President Robert Frank considering an initiative at UNM similar to Innovation Square at the University of Florida, may help job growth in New Mexico
John Tyczkowski | January 28UNM graduates are leaving New Mexico for better jobs, and the state’s economy has been stagnant in recent years, but UNM President Robert Frank said he has a plan that could help fix both problems.
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Students to address Lottery Scholarship, other UNM concerns in Santa Fe this Tuesday
John Tyczkowski | January 28UNM students are taking the future of the Lottery Scholarship into their own hands.
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Second week of the 2013 New Mexico Legislative Session closes with evidence tampering bill controversy, successful passage of UNM HCS funding bill through Senate Public Affairs Committee
John Tyczkowski | January 25New Mexico State Rep. Cathrynn Brown (R-Carlsbad) is backing down from her bill introduced Wednesday that would make an abortion after rape or incest an instance of tampering with evidence.
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Distant runners to make splash at New Mexico Invitational
Michael Sol Warren | January 25The UNM track and field team returns to the Albuquerque Convention Center this weekend. This time, they’re bringing the distance runners.
