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October 25, 2011
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Protesters may (un)occupy UNM by Luke Holmen and Chelsea Erven news@dailylobo.com
Occupy Albuquerque’s permit to occupy UNM’s Yale Park expires today, and UNM officials denied the protesters’ permit extension. University administrators told protesters they must leave Yale Park by 10 p.m. today because they violated their permit conditions by staying in the park overnight, UNM said in a statement Monday. The statement said the homeless population attracted by the protest is also a problem. The group has been giving free food to the area’s homeless.
“Some people are willing to get arrested” ~Anthony Bono protester “OvertheweekendUNMprocessed a number of incident reports involving drunken and threatening behavior on people in Yale Park,” it said. “Albuquerque Police arrested one man who threatened several people with a knife, and there were several other incidents including one involving a man who was a registered sex offender in two states. One person died in the area over the weekend.” UNM officials said they requested help from the City to address the
problem with transients attracted to campus, but said it is difficult to distinguish transients from protesters. “The nature of the (Un)occupy Albuquerque protest is that it attracts many different types of individuals, and there is no way to assess whether people are or are not part of the (Un) occupy protest,” the statement said. Protesters said they are considering staying on campus tonight after 10 p.m. in violation of the permit expiration, and are petitioning the administration in the meantime. They did not come to a final decision about risking arrests at their general assembly meeting Monday night. “We are pursuing direct action,” Peace Studies professor Desi Brown said. “We are going to petition president Schmidly tomorrow. We want to get as many students here at 9 a.m. as possible … for the petition and to discuss whether we are staying.” Protester Anthony Bono said some are prepared to face arrest tomorrow evening. “Some people are willing to get arrested, but we haven’t yet found a consensus, so we are still working on it,” he said. Protester John Lockridge said UNM’s policies are discriminatory. “They are selectively enforcing … they made no effort, as far as I know, to arrest the few people that are making problems,” he said. Brown said UNM’s administration had not made an effort to attend the general assembly meetings.
Juan Labreche / Daily Lobo Theo Walker (center) speaks to his Spanish 302 class at Camp Coyote on Monday morning. His class questioned Occupy Albuquerque participant Rhadona Stark (left of Walker) about the protesters’ motives. Camp Coyote’s future on campus is uncertain, as its permit expires today.
Woman dies at Camp Coyote by Chelsea Erven
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A woman staying at UNM’s Yale Park, Occupy Albuquerque’s Camp Coyote, died Saturday. Officers were dispatched to the walkway across Redondo Drive from Yale Park Saturday at 6:30 p.m. in response to a “woman having seizures,” police reports said. According to the reports an intoxicated man, Iran P. Phillips, attended
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to the woman. Phillips identified the woman as Stephanie. The woman died on a bench with her head in Phillips’ lap, the reports said. “Phillips said the female followed him to the bench and said she wasn’t feeling too good. Phillips said he told her to lie on his lap and take a power nap. … She had been asleep for 30 minutes and wasn’t responding, so he told a woman walking by to call 911.” Phillips said the woman told him
Lord, I was born a gambling Lobo by Stephanie Hoover
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Zach Gould / Daily Lobo Students made traditional papelpicado, calaveras de azúcar and flores de papel Monday in the SUB. The Mexican Student Association and Student Special Events hosted the workshops as part of their Día de los Muertos celebration. The event continues Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at El Centro de la Raza with the traditional blessing of the altar y ofrendas.
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she had finished a gallon of vodka prior to the incident. When officers arrived at the scene the woman didn’t have a pulse and wasn’t breathing. Albuquerque Fire Department was called to the scene and attempted to revive the woman, but attempts were unsuccessful, reports said. A representative from the Office of the Medical Investigator confirmed the woman’s death and took the body from the scene.
A newly developed gambling website, Lobo Poker Club, is exclusive to UNM students and claims “it’s impossible to lose.” Arizona State University student Chandler Bator created the site along with some 200 similar sites for universities across the country. Site members pay a monthly fee of $19.95, which gives them $10,000 of virtual money to gamble on the site. Students who win $50,000 in virtual money will receive $100 in real money or other prizes. Enough wins could net one a $10,000 seat to the World Series of Poker. “There are two major problems confronting University of New Mexico students this year that our federal government and the private sector have failed to address,” Bator said. “First, there is the lack of employment opportunities for students, both while in school and after graduation. Second is the persistent pursuit and predation of students by offshore gambling websites. At Lobo Poker Club, students are never allowed to bet real money, thus making losing impossible.” Bator said he will address student
unemployment issues by hiring 25 UNM students to work as campus marketers promoting the site. The site features a variety of casinostyle games and allows users to bet on local and national sports. UNM student Haley Frazier, who said she doesn’t gamble, said she thinks UNM shouldn’t support gambling for students. “I think it’s good to some degree, because they can only lose the $19.95 a month,” Frazier said. “But then it’s still playing into the addiction of needing to gamble, which I don’t think is something that we should be supporting in any way.” According to the National Center for Responsible Gaming, 75% of U.S. college students have gambled in the past year and 6% have a serious gambling problem. Gambling can result in psychological difficulties, unmanageable debt and failing grades, the center said. Student Josh Foster says he doesn’t gamble very often, and when he does it’s among friends rather than online. He said he would definitely consider using the site. “I don’t think it encourages gambling, I think it’s a good idea for students,” Foster said.
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