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(un)Occupy Albuquerque celebrates one year by Megan Underwood news@dailylobo.com
Although members of the (un)Occupy Albuquerque movement were arrested last year for protesting at Yale Park on campus without a valid
permit, the group gathered there Saturday in celebration of the one-year anniversary of the group’s formation. Rather than protesting, members held plates of homemade food and listened to guest speakers and live music.
Norman Rockwell models reunite
Event organizer Amalia Montoya said the gathering celebrated all of the hard work members had put in over the last year to protest corporate greed as well as other issues, such as racism and discrimination. She said the group is interested in issues of tribal land.
“We renamed ourselves (un)Occupy in the very first week because we do live on indigenous land,” she said. “We want to raise awareness as to what decolonization looks like and how we can start doing that.” Montoya said members of (un)Occupy staged protests at the
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota to stand in solidarity with Native Americans. The (un)Occupy movement, formed in alliance with the Occupy Wall Street movement, works
see (un)Occupy PAGE 3
APPRECIATION
by Lisa Rathke and Michael Hill
The Associated Press MONTPELIER, Vt. — Don Trachte’s cowlick has been tamed. Mary Hall is no longer a towhead. Butch Corbett is still thin, but not the beanpole he once was. And Tom Paquin’s carrot top is thinner and grayer. Twenty or so people who were children when they posed in the ‘40s and ‘50s for their neighbor Norman Rockwell in the Vermont town of Arlington reunited there Saturday to share their memories of the great American artist who once lived in their midst. Rockwell captured scenes of everyday life in his paintings and illustrations for covers of the Saturday Evening Post, for the Boy Scouts and for its publication Boys’ Life, art now considered the very definition of Americana. He would pay his neighbors $5 a pop to appear in Hallmark cards, in calendars and on magazine covers that ended up gracing the coffee tables and littering the tree houses of millions of magazine readers young and old. “The Saturday Evening Post came out weekly, and we couldn’t wait to get it to see what was on the cover,” said Hall, who posed for Rockwell four times. “You could always recognize who it was.” She appeared as a blond girl wrapped in a quilt and being carried out of a flood by a Boy Scout in an image that became a cover of Boys’ Life, and as a teenager in a skirt, white blouse, bobby socks and loafers on a Post cover from 1948. It was called “Christmas Homecoming” and showed people welcoming home a young man who’s carrying a suitcase full of dirty laundry. An estimated 300 people from the area modeled for Rockwell during his 14 years in the southern Vermont town. Of the 70 or so still living, the oldest is 93 (he can’t make it to the reunion). Many still live in and around Arlington. Among the models planning to join in is Mary Whalen, who posed for the popular image of a
see Rockwell PAGE 5
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Daily Lobo volume 117
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Adria Malcolm / Daily Lobo UNM head football coach Bob Davie stands with players applauding the student section in University Stadium after a 32-29 loss to No. 24 Boise State Saturday night. The Lobos outscored the Broncos 29-7 in the second half, but fell short, in part due to three first half turnovers that led to 18 Boise State points. See the full story on the back page.
Zimmerman begins 24-hour schedule by Ardee Napolitano news@dailylobo.com
For the first time, Zimmerman Library is opening its doors to students around the clock for five days a week. University Libraries Associate Dean Nancy Dennis said that as of Sunday, Zimmerman will open at noon on Sundays and stay open continuously until 9 p.m. on Fridays. In the past, Zimmerman was only open until 2 a.m., but after a number of student requests and initiatives from student leadership during the past year, the hours were extended, Dennis said. She said this extension of hours was driven by students’ need to make Zimmerman more accessible. “A lot of students are working jobs,” she said. “They have family obligations (and) their only study time is late at night. If we can provide a space for them and help them succeed and complete their
coursework, that is very positive.” UNM student Ashleigh Reyna said Zimmerman’s new hours will make it easier for her to use the library. “I work at the 24-hour student residence center desk,” she said. “I’m at work or in class from 10 in the morning all the way until 8 at night. Not having to worry whether or not the library is still open will make things a lot easier.” Reyna said she uses the library at least four times a week to access texts required for her psychology classes and that she uses the library’s computers because she does not have Internet access at home. She said that due to her hectic schedule, being able to enter the library at any time will possibly help her do better in class. “I like to do homework any time that I have time. I try not to do too much of it at work, during which the library is open. But then I can now try
see Library PAGE 3
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Ruby Santos / Daily Lobo UNM students Olympia Omandam and Ben Russell study Sunday afternoon in Zimmerman Library’s west wing. Unaware of the library’s new hours, Russell was surprised and said he would use the library’s new hours because he often studies early in the morning.
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