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Bomb scare proves to be a dud
Police closed off the Anthropology Annex and Science and Mathematics Learning Center after receiving a call about a “suspicious package” Sunday afternoon. UNMPD officer Mark Krueger said the package was found padlocked to the side of the Anthropology Annex facing the SMLC. Police closed off both buildings and called the Albuquerque Police Department and the Albuquerque Fire Department. Krueger said UNMPD responded first but asked for assistance from APD’s bomb squad when they couldn’t open the package. He said the package was probably just a “homeless person’s miscellaneous stuff and trash that they locked up.” At about 4:30 p.m., the bomb squad confirmed the package was not a threat, about two hours after the initial call to UNMPD. The LoboAlerts emergency messaging system was not used to notify students. “We’re not going to put out an alert every time something scary happens on campus, then nobody would listen,” said Dianne Anderson, UNM director of communication. “It would be like ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf.’” UNMPD must confirm the threat to students before issuing an alert, Anderson said. This time, she said the police force didn’t feel an alert was necessary. ~John Tyczkowski and Ardee Napolitano Photo by Juan Labreche @LabrecheMode
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Before the MWC indoor track and field championships, jumper Kendall Spencer said winning New Mexico’s first conference indoor title would bring a lot of pride to the team. The Lobos must be proud. Behind strong performances in a number of categories, the UNM men captured that first indoor crown Saturday in Boise, Idaho. The Lobos scored 185 points, beating runner-up Air Force by 40 points. Boise State took third with 141 points, followed by Colorado State with 102 and Wyoming with 72. “To accomplish something that hasn’t happened in 47 years and never in the history of the school indoors really shows (the athletes’) commitment to each other, getting better and trying to win championships,” said New Mexico head coach Joe Franklin, who was named the MWC men’s coach of the year. The UNM women had a strong showing as well, taking second place in team standings with 103 points. San Diego State won the women’s meet with 123 points. Nevada was third with 86. Seven individual championships, many coming in the jumps and distance events, spearheaded the Lobo men in their title run. Spencer, the defending NCAA indoor
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long-jump champ, claimed that event at the MWC with a 7.56-meter leap. UNM took three of the top four places in the long jump with senior Floyd Ross in third at 7.21 meters and freshman Yannick Roggatz in fourth at 7.14 meters. Ross followed his long-jump effort with a victory in the triple jump. With a 15.82-meter jump, Ross beat runner-up Rolando Trammel of Boise State by nearly a meter. UNM senior Ty Kirk was fourth with a 14.55-meter leap. UNM’s third jumping win came from sophomore high-jumper Django Lovett, who recorded 2.11 meters. Senior Richard York and sophomore Markus Miller added points as well, tying for fifth place with 1.96 meters. Distance runner Luke Caldwell captured two individual titles in his events. The junior clocked 14:30.30 in the 5,000-meter race and 8:14.66 in the 3,000-meter event. Sophomore Edwin Herring earned conference gold in the 800 meters in 1:50.59, and senior Richard York scored 5,590 points to take the heptathlon. York had the best mark in each heptathlon event except the 60-meter hurdles, pole vault and 1,000-meter run. UNM picked up key points in the mile, 60meter dash and pole vault. In the mile, junior Sam Evans clocked 4:10.04 for second and Caldwell was third in 4:10.91. In the 60 meters, freshman Ridge Jones took second in 6.87 and
Steve Nowland / NCAA Photos Junior Luke Caldwell displays the “New Mexico” across his jersey as he approaches the finish line during the Mountain West Conference indoor championships Saturday in Boise, Idaho. Caldwell won the 3,000 meters and 5,000 meters as the Lobo men won their first MWC indoor track and field championship. UNM had seven first-place finishes individually in the men’s meet. Spencer placed third in 6.95. Junior Logan Pflibsen was the pole vault runner-up with a 5.25-meter leap. In the women’s meet, senior Josephine Moultrie highlighted UNM’s performance with two first-place finishes. She won the mile run in 4:42.33 and the 800 meters in 2:09.75. Another Lobo distance runner, senior Kendra Schaaf, claimed the 5,000 in 16:48.35. UNM’s distance medley relay team of juniors Julie Brasher, Mia Weaver and Janna
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Mitsos, and freshman Jasmin McCray recorded a second-place time of 11:56.65, and senior Amber Menke took second in the pole vault with a 4.03 leap. The Lobos had bronze efforts from freshman long jumper Casey Dowling (5.93 meters) and 3,000-meter runner Kirsten Follett (9:41.29). “It was a phenomenal performance,” Franklin said, referring to the women’s team. “If we had a couple of things happen a little better, we could have been in the hunt (for first place).”
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Woman assaulted on campus Professor was trying to help man who then attacked her by Ardee Napolitano news@dailylobo.com
Police say a male suspect attacked a woman on campus Tuesday night. UNMPD interim public information officer Trace Peck said that after receiving a call about the assault, officers went to Simpson Hall and witnessed the suspect hitting the victim, who was lying on the grass. He said the victim, who was a professor of the College of Education, was initially trying to help the suspect. “She saw the suspect being sick,” he said. “She went over to
give him assistance, and then he started hitting her.” The incident follows a string of recent assaults on campus. On Jan. 27, two men allegedly grabbed a female UNM student while she was jogging at Johnson Field, held her down and groped her under her clothes. On Feb. 4, a man allegedly groped a female UNM student over her clothes outside Castetter Hall. But Peck said this incident was not related to the recent sexual assaults on campus. Unlike the sexual assaults, no UNM alert was sent out by police regarding the most recent attack. But Peck said it was unnecessary for the police to send out an alert to students because police had already arrested the suspect.
He said that in all cases, UNMPD only sends out alerts if police have not arrested the suspect yet. “There was no potential danger … because the suspect was under arrest,” he said. “We only send (an alert) out if there’s a potential of danger, not to let everybody know who’s arrested.” Peck said the suspect is now in custody. “We were fortunate to see it happening, since we were able to charge the suspect with misdemeanor battery,” Peck said. Although Peck was not able to provide the name and age of the suspect, he said he could confirm the man was not a UNM student.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. — It has been just shy of 50 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Washington state law barring members of the Communist Party from voting or holding public-sector jobs is unconstitutional. Evidently, that is not enough time to remove it from the books. Washington is one of a handful of states with similar laws still in existence despite their having been declared unconstitutional decades ago. With few exceptions — most notably Georgia, where an anti-communist oath was administered to incoming Dunwoody City Councilmembers as recently as last year — the laws are treated as part of a bygone era, not unlike state statutes prohibiting interracial marriage, the last of which was removed from Alabama’s books in 2001 even though the Supreme Court ruled them unconstitutional in 1967. Rep. Joe Fitzgibbon (D-Burien) first introduced a measure to repeal Washington state’s anachronistic anti-subversives law last year, figuring, he says, that it would be an unceremonious end to a dead-letter statute originating from a dark period in our nation’s history. He was wrong. Though his bill passed out of the House Judiciary Committee, it did so on a partyline vote, with four Republicans opposed. With only so much political capital to expend on contentious legislation, House Democratic leaders declined to move it forward, and it never made it to the floor for a vote. This year, Fitzgibbon lowered his sights, introducing House Bill 1062 with the understanding that it likely would not even get out of committee. By the end of Friday, as a key deadline for policy-related bills passed without the bill coming up for a committee vote, that understanding was confirmed. “There are some (Democratic lawmakers) that think this is a bad political issue for us, but I really don’t,” he said. “I don’t think there is a lot of fear in our state these days about the prospects of
a communist takeover.” That may be, but several decades removed from the Red Scare, any suggestion of kowtowing to communists can still inflame passions. After Fitzgibbon spoke in favor of the bill in the House Judiciary Committee earlier this month, Rep. Matt Shea, a conservative Republican from Spokane Valley, was ready with a sharp rejoinder. “For the large Ukrainian, Russian, North Korean and Chinese populations in the state who fled communism — including my wife, whose father was arrested by the KGB, who suffered horrible persecution, whose friends were sent to the gulag in Russia — do you see this as a little bit of a slap in the face to them that communism is not subversive?” Responded Fitzgibbon: “I don’t believe we persecute people based
“I don’t think there is a lot of fear in our state these days about the prospects of a communist takeover.” ~Joe Fitzgibbon Wash. state representative on their political beliefs in Washington state, and I would say that applies to communists as well as anybody else.” In addition to Washington state and Georgia, Pennsylvania and California have laws requiring state workers to take an oath swearing they are not subversives or members of a group dedicated to overthrowing the government. At least five other states — Connecticut and Virginia among them — have laws prohibiting subversives from working in emergency management. Illinois has a statute barring communists from seeking elected office. Thanks to a series of 1960s U.S. Supreme Court rulings that found them to be unconstitutional,
those laws have long been all-but unenforceable. The ruling that struck down Washington state’s statute on subversive activities, handed down in 1964, found that the definition of a subversive group was too vague. Three years later, the Supreme Court ruled that Eugene Frank Robel, a worker at the Todd Shipyard in Seattle, had been wrongly fired from his job building warships over his membership in the Communist Party. “Robel put the nail in the coffin” for laws limiting communists from public-sector jobs, says University of Washington Law Professor Stewart Jay. “If you can’t fire (a communist) working in national defense, what can you do?” But while the Supreme Court struck down loyalty oaths that predicate public-sector employment on a lack of affiliation with a subversive group, it has upheld less-expansive pledges to defend the United States from its enemies and uphold the Constitution. Including those that also have anti-subversives oaths, at least 13 states have such laws on their books, including Florida, Tennessee and Arizona. In California, Marianne KearneyBrown, a math instructor at California State University East Bay who refused to take such an oath as a Quaker and a pacifist was fired from her post in 2008 before swiftly being reinstated and assured that she would not be forced to take up arms. Periodically, a lawmaker seeking to stem the perceived tide of cultural decline will propose a new loyalty oath. Last month, a Republican state lawmaker in Arizona, Rep. Bob Thorpe, proposed legislation requiring high school students to swear an oath defending the Constitution before being allowed to graduate. That measure, House Bill 2467, is pending. In general, though, such efforts are on the wane — a state of affairs not lost on communists themselves. “It’s a good thing to get rid of these laws,” says Libero Della Piana, vice chair of the Communist Party USA. “But the reality is that people are more worried about foreclosures on their houses than subversives in student government.”
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LAST WEEK’S POLL RESULTS: Two weeks ago, President Barack Obama gave his State of the Union address. What did you think? It was the usual circle jerking, all 28% pomp and circumstance. His speeches always give me hope 23% for our future, this one included. It sounded all nice and good, but we’ll see what he actually accomplishes. 19% I didn’t watch because I don’t care.
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THIS WEEK’S POLL: This week’s poll: The Associated Students of the University of New Mexico approved a resolution Wednesday night encouraging the SUB Board to replace the controversial Chick-fil-A in the SUB with another restaurant (see “ASUNM votes to evict mor chikin”). ASUNM said the vote represented what students want. The article also stated that 85 percent of students ASUNM surveyed said they wanted to keep Chick-fil-A in the SUB. What do you think about this? I want Chick-fil-A out of the SUB, but only because the food isn’t that great. I want Chick-fil-A out of the SUB because they stand for values I don’t agree with. I want Chick-fil-A to stay, and hope when the SUB Board votes on it this week, it considers what students want. I don’t care either way about Chick-fil-A. I’m disturbed by the fact that ASUNM claims to represent students, then clearly acts against what students want.
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LETTER Both parties must put nation’s well-being first Editor, It appears that Rush Limbaugh has become aware that the problems in this country are being caused not just by the Democrats, but by the fact that many members of both major political parties are not really trying to ensure that our government of the people, by the people and for the people will not perish from the Earth, and that unless most members of both major political parties begin to have that as their primary objective, our government of the people, by the people and for the people may indeed perish from the Earth. And now that Limbaugh is aware of that fact, he can join those of us who are doing what we can with what we have to ensure that our government of the people, by the people and for the people does not perish from the Earth. Robert Gardiner Daily Lobo reader
LETTERS Most students surveyed voted to keep Chick-fil-A Editor’s note: This is in response to the article “ASUNM votes to evict mor chikin,” published in Friday’s Daily Lobo. The article was about ASUNM’s vote to recommend kicking Chick-fil-A out of the SUB. ASUNM conducted a student survey about the restaurant, and 85 percent of students surveyed said they wanted Chick-fil-A to stay. This week, the SUB Board will vote on the restaurant’s future in the SUB. Editor, I am the president of the UNM College Republicans and I support Chick-fil-A. I don’t support it because I like chicken, which is what those who support it have been accused of, and I don’t support it because I am a bigot, another hurtful accusation of those in support of Chick-fil-A. I support it because I support freedom of speech. We have members of our organization who are part of the LGBTQ community, and they don’t feel threatened by Chick-fil-A because the issue has not directly affected them. Shane Windmeyer, a blogger for the Huffington Post and cofounder of the organization Campus Pride, an organization of alliance for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students that has been protesting Chick-fil-A on campuses across the country for nearly a decade, wrote in his blog, “Never once did Dan or anyone from Chick-fil-A ask for Campus Pride to stop protesting Chickfil-A. On the contrary, Dan listened intently to our concerns and the real-life accounts from youth about the negative impact that Chick-fil-A was having on campus…” Windmeyer later goes on to state: “Chickfil-A shared with me the 2011 IRS Form 990, filed in November for the WinShape Foundation, along with 2012 financials … the financials affirm Chick-fil-A’s values a year prior to the controversy this past July. The nearly $6 million in outside grant funding focuses on youth, education, marriage enrichment and local communities. The funding reflects Chick-fil-A’s promised commitment not to engage in ‘political or social debates,’ and the most divisive anti-LGBT groups are no longer listed.” In the article from the Daily Lobo, Earl Shank, an ASUNM senator, said, “Chick-fil-A
has made contributions to organizations that are opposed to the ideals of certain student groups on campus.” This statement, along with the fact that ASUNM is clearly not listening to the majority of the voices on campus, proves that it’s an extremely biased situation and not every voice is being heard. I’m pretty sure there is only one organization that is the driving force behind getting Chick-fil-A kicked off campus and sure their voices are being heard, but not everyone’s have been. Had I known that my vote would mean nothing when the survey came out, I would not have wasted my time. I hope the SUB Board makes a better decision and listens to what the majority of the campus is telling them. Alyssa Perez UNM student
Paying the legal wage is cheaper than a lawsuit Editor’s note: This is in response to the article “Protest over lack of wage increase,” published in Wednesday’s Daily Lobo. The article was about the approximately 75-person protest of the Route 66 Malt Shop. The protesters gathered because the owners are not paying their wait staff the new minimum wage. The wait staff had signed a contract agreeing to work for the old minimum wage to keep the restaurant from going bankrupt. Editor, It’s a good investment. The owner can’t legally not pay minimum wage. Employees can collect unpaid wages after they quit, plus twice that amount in penalties, plus interest, plus damages, plus attorney’s fees. One dollar per hour for 2,000 hours (an average work-year) is $2,000. Waiting until quitting turns that $2,000 into $6,000. The employer has no case; the contract the employees signed is invalid. Nothing will make the employer change his practice more readily than having to pay the cost of violating the law. Thanks for your attention. Russell Bell Daily Lobo reader
GOP tries to shift blame for sequester to Obama Editor, The blame game continues. While public opinion clearly shows that the majority of Americans blame Congress, not the president, for the soon-to-launch sequester, GOP leaders are putting the blame on Obama’s shoulders. They are even referring to the sequester as “his” sequester. Once again, members of Congress, particularly House Republicans, have amnesia. The president did not enact the sequestration provision, Congress did. They voted to enact the provision as a way to force themselves to take action on the deficit. Now is the time for Congress to do their constitutional duty to pass a budget and send it to the president. They seem to believe it’s the president’s responsibility to send them a budget they can pass. The Constitution mandates just the opposite. It is the responsibility of Congress to pass and send to the president a budget that he can sign. As the Senate and House Republicans once again try to blame all of the nation’s fiscal problems on the president, they should take heed and remember that there is a midterm election next year, and public opinion will dictate the results of that election. Jeffrey Paul Daily Lobo reader
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Mayor Berry says he will seek second term Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry has formally announced that he will seek a second fouryear term. Berry told reporters Feb. 16 that he still had more to accomplish and will privately finance his campaign rather than seek public funding. The 50-year-old Republican joins a race where he has already drawn two opponents in a nonpartisan race scheduled for Oct. 8. Former Albuquerque police Sgt. Paul Heh and former Albuquerque Public Safety Officer Pete Dinelli have announced their candidacies. Berry gained national attention in 2009 when he defeated three-term Mayor Martin ChĂĄvez and Richard Romero, both Democrats. Mayoral candidates have until April 29 to collect and submit the signatures of 3,000 voters registered in New Mexicoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest city.
Santa Fe shows off Annie Leibovitz work SANTA FE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Annie Leibovitz, the photographer behind some of pop cultureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most memorable images, has brought some of her latest work to Santa Fe. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pilgrimageâ&#x20AC;? exhibition opened Feb. 15 at the Georgia Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Keeffe Museum. Leibovitz has said the idea grew out of a book she had wanted to make with her partner, Susan Sontag, with a list of destinations and an excuse to visit them. After Sontag died, she eventually revived the idea with her young children. Unlike Leibovitzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s photographs of celebrities and rock stars, the images in the exhibition include landscapes and people, but no faces. She photographed the homes of essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson, entertainer Elvis Presley and painter Georgia Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Keeffe and places such as Niagara Falls, Walden Pond and Old Faithful. There are about 70 photographs in the exhibition, all taken between April 2009 and May 2011.
Luke the koala at zoo gets a girlfriend The Albuquerque zoo has delivered a special Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day gift for Luke the koala â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a new mate. Zoo officials say a female Queensland koala named Netty arrived Feb. 13 from the Los Angeles Zoo.
After a few weeks behind-thescenes, the 7-year-old female will join Luke in the Koala Creek Exhibit. Zookeepers hope for koala joeys in the upcoming year. Netty was born at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, and was roommates with Luke in Los Angeles before he came to Albuquerque in December. Albuquerque zoo director Rick Janser says the zoo is excited to once again have Queensland koalas, and is honored to be chosen as a breeding facility.
Cottonwood named one of largest in US One of New Mexicoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rio Grande cottonwood trees has been crowned as a national champion by the American Forest Foundation. The New Mexico State Forestry Division says the treeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s measurements were recently certified by the foundation, which maintains the National Register of Big Trees. State officials say the cottonwood tree is 85 feet tall and measures 34 feet around its base. The tree is several decades old and is located on land owned by Albuquerque resident Richard Cordova. The stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s urban and community forester, Kelly Washburn, says the Rio Grande cottonwood is an important part of New Mexicoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s forested ecosystems as well as the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cultural identity. The forestry division says 15 national champion big trees of various species have been crowned in New Mexico over the years.
Snowboarder falls off ski lift in Santa Fe SANTA FE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A teenager who fell 45 feet from a New Mexico ski lift says he was falling straight toward a big rock and was sure he would die. Jacob Gutierrez, who is 17 and from Albuquerque, told the Santa Fe New Mexican he was throwing a snowball at a friend in the chair in front of him when he slipped off. He caught himself on the armrest, ditched his snowboard and tried to hang on. Gutierrez says he could see the lift shack at the end before he fell but ran out of strength. Gutierrez injured his liver and lungs, had a hairline skull fracture and a gash on his forehead. He spent three days in intensive care. A YouTube video of the Feb. 2 fall at Ski Santa Fe has gone viral.
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Displayed is Kosovo’s most emblematic terracotta figurine known as Goddess on the Throne, part of artifacts returned from Germany to the Kosovo Archeology Museum in capital Pristina on Friday. The artifacts are believed to have been stolen during the 1998-99 Kosovo war.
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The Associated Press Seven artifacts dating as far back as 4,000 B.C. have been returned to Kosovo after German police stumbled on them in an unrelated raid, the country’s culture minister said Friday. The artifacts date to the Neolithic period and are believed to belong to the Vinca, a prehistoric culture that traces back to 5,500
B.C. in southern Europe. Police in central Germany found them in 2005 during a separate undisclosed investigation, discovering the pieces in a sports bag belonging to two Serbs. It is not clear how they were brought out of the country, but authorities believe they were meant for sale to private collectors.
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Lobo Men won the Mountain West Indoor Championships, winning the long jump, heptathlon, 3000-m, 5000-m, and 800-m. Lobo Women also won the 800-m and the mile.
Going into Saturday, the New Mexico women’s basketball team had not lost to Colorado State in The Pit since Jan. 6, 1998. The Lobos continued that record with a 71-56 trouncing over the Rams on Saturday. Ten players scored for the Lobos, with three in double figures. Sophomore Antiesha Brown led the way with 16, senior guard Caroline Durbin was second with 13 and junior forward Deeva Vaughn was third with 11. New Mexico’s bench outscored Colorado State’s bench 34-11 for its 14th straight win over CSU. Head coach Yvonne Sanchez said the Lobos are starting to play their best basketball of the season. “I think they are starting to come together and learn each other. You want to peak now. It feels really good to win the way we did,” she said. The first half was filled with 3-point shooting from both teams. The Rams shot 66.7 percent (6-9) from beyond the arc, while the Lobos shot 61.5 percent (8-13). New Mexico jumped out to a 35-29 lead, ignited by Brown nailing two treys in the final 55 seconds of the first half. Brown said the team expects her to provide energy off the bench night in and night out. “That’s my role on the team. I try to give everyone that extra boost by talking or hustling on every play,” she said. In the second half, the Lobos instituted a punishing defense and dominant inside scoring to further their lead. UNM limited CSU to only one field goal the first seven minutes of the second half. While the Lobos scored only four points inside the paint in the first half, they scored 20 points inside in the second half. The Mountain West contest had many implications on the conference standings. New Mexico’s (14-11,
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Aaron Sweet / Daily Lobo Sophomore guard Antiesha Brown pulls up for a jumper against Colorado State on Saturday at The Pit. UNM went on to win 71-56 and move into fourth place in the Mountain West Conference. 6-6 MWC) win bumps the Lobos to fourth place, behind San Diego State (21-5, 12-1), Fresno State (18-8, 10-3) and Wyoming (20-6, 9-4). Had UNM lost, it would have fallen to sixth place, behind UNLV (10-17, 6-7) and Colorado State (9-16, 5-7). Sanchez said the win shows
the team is improving. “We’re all fighting for as high of a seed as we can get in the conference tournament. Every game counts for us. One game at a time works wonders, but this game was a good one for us to get,” she said.
On Friday, they were placed in Kosovo’s Archeological Museum in the capital Pristina alongside the museum’s sole artifact, a similar terracotta figurine known as Goddess on the Throne, returned from Serbia through the mediation of the United Nations. Kosovo’s ethnic Albanians fought a separatist war against Serbia in 1998-99 and Serbia relocated some 1,200 artifacts from Kosovo’s museum to Belgrade during the 78-day NATO bombing
campaign that eventually ended the conflict. Serbia rejects Kosovo’s 2008 declaration of independence and ownership of the artifacts is still hotly debated. Eckhard Laufer, the German police officer who found the seven artifacts, would not give details on the original investigation saying only it “had nothing to with the traffic of cultural heritage.” The investigation into the provenance of the artifacts began in 2007, he said.
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“Most likely they had been illegally transferred to Germany,” Memli Krasniqi told The Associated Press. There was no registry for the items and it took investigators years to authenticate them and confirm they belong to Kosovo. “It has been a long period of expertise and analysis that we’ve done together with German authorities to conclude that they have been smuggled from Kosovo,” Krasniqi said.
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Sports briefs Baseball UNM dropped two out of three games at the Kleberg Bank College Classic in Corpus Christi, Texas over the weekend. On Friday, the Lobos defeated Texas A&M—Corpus Christi 7-0 thanks to junior pitcher A.J. Carmen’s seven shutout innings. Carmen allowed four hits, one walk with three strikeouts for his first collegiate win. Junior pitcher Kevin Baumgartner threw 5 2/3 scoreless innings against Iowa on Saturday, but it wasn’t enough as UNM lost 6-2 in 10 innings. The Lobos lost their final tournament game 10-8 to No. 16 Oklahoma on Sunday. Junior third baseman DJ Peterson went 3-for-5 with three runs, two RBIs and was a single short of the cycle.
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Senior men’s tennis player Jadon Phillips was just as concerned with his stomach Sunday afternoon as his upcoming doubles and singles match against Northwestern University. Phillips was feeling ill that afternoon, throwing up before he asked head coach Alan Dils if he could play. After Dils approved, Phillips went on to win both his doubles and singles matches, standing as the only player to garner a singles win against the Wildcats on Sunday. The Lobos endured their first home loss of the season as Northwestern swiped away a 5-2 win. UNM is now 5-6-0. Phillips won his doubles match with freshman Riaan Du Toit against Alex Pasareanu and Mihir Kumar 8-5. Phillips then met Sidarth Balaji for his singles match. Balaji entered the match with seven straight wins under his belt before Phillips broke his streak 7-6 (7-5), 6-2. For Sunday’s match, Phillips said he channeled his experience playing Balaji last year. “I knew his game a little bit and how he was going to come out and play. This year I did a few things differently,” Phillips said. “I was a little more aggressive and kept the balls deeper, I expected his best shots this year, I tried to stand my ground and serve better, just be more ready and aware.” Dils said Phillips’ two wins are indicative of the way he has been playing on the court and during practice. “Jadon lost to this guy last year at Northwestern pretty badly, and to turn around and beat him when he’s not feeling well tells you where Jadon is playing,” he said. The afternoon matchup with the Wildcats began with a slow start for the Lobos, as the Wildcats took an early lead with the first doubles match. Number one doubles senior Conor Berg and freshman Andrew Van Der Vyver were beaten by Wildcats Balaji and Raleigh Smith, losing 5-8. By the third doubles match, with one win tallied for both teams, the allotted doubles point came down to the Lobos’ junior Mads Hegelund and sophomore
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William Aranda / Daily Lobo UNM freshman Riaan Du Toit sets up for a forehand on Sunday at the UNM Tennis Complex. The game against Northwestern ended 5-2 and was the first time the Lobos lost a home game this season. James Hignett and the Wildcats Spencer Wolf and Fedor Baev. Hegelund and Hignett pulled through after a long match, winning the match’s tie break 9-8 (7-4). “In the tie breaker, we got down early and we told each other, ‘James, if we’re going to lose this, let’s lose it going for it,’” Hegelund said. Hegelund faced Chris Jackman in the singles category, coming up short after taking the match to a third set 1-6, 6-4, 4-6. “I think I was still mentally on the court in the doubles match, I wasn’t quite focused on the singles as I wanted to be and I started slow,” he said. The Lobos lost momentum as the day went on. No. 1 seed
sophomore Samir Iftikhar lost his early lead in the second set against Wolf, losing in the third set 6-4, 2-6, 5-7. No. 2 seed Berg lost to Smith 4-6, 6-7 (0-7). Dils said that while the Lobos suffered a loss, the team held its own better than it did in its previous encounter with the Wildcats. “They’re a very good team (Northwestern), probably better than their ranking, but we sunk our team in the match, won a great doubles point and gave ourselves a chance to win,” Dils said. “Now we have to learn a little bit from Northwestern — how we can win two or three more points under crunch time and do a couple things better, and we can turn those matches in our favor.”
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If your heart is in your dream Capricorn—Engage your passion this week, and you’ll have all the fuel you need to get yourself through a grueling couple of weeks. Whatever has kept you motivated is becoming a weaker influence, and you’ll be questioning why you do what you do for several weeks. It’s a time to mold a life you are more than OK with, to do something that excites you. Do what enlivens you, and success is assured. Aquarius—Get used to feeling ungrounded, as you’ll be quite spacey over the next month. Pisces is a particularly potent influence at this time, which blurs the lines you’ve established. It’s a kind of freedom you aren’t used to, more emotional and wavering. Go with the flow as much as you can, as struggle will only waste energy. Just be sure to take care of what’s on your plate, and when you’re feeling out of control, reach out to a friend and help in any way you can. Pisces—You can be the source of strength for many people this week, as Pisces is dominating the cosmic scene this week. With Mercury and Saturn in retrograde, everyone is off-kilter, but you may be better able to adjust to the uncertainty. You’ll gain deep satisfaction from letting others lean on you, but don’t go overboard. Save enough energy for yourself, as there’s great potential for you to revolutionize the way you live. Aries—Your inner fire is a bit dampened this week, a trend which will continue over the next few weeks. Although it won’t be easy to see things clearly and objectively, avoid blaming yourself more than is actually warranted. The best you can do is keep positive thoughts and avoid taking chances. Play it straight for a while, as Saturn and Mercury in retrograde cast a dark shadow over big decisions. Do not give into any whims for now. Taurus—Be wary of letting
your laziness get the best of you this week, or you face an uphill battle for the next month, trying to make up for what you missed. You are in a delicate position that will only be aggravated by melancholy and absentmindedness. The powerful Pisces presence makes these mind-sets almost inevitable, but this doesn’t mean you should give in. Persist in your efforts, even if it seems you are getting nowhere. A little progress is better than none. Gemini—Establishing the truth will be a waste of your time this week. It will be troubling to find you aren’t quite sure where you stand with anyone or in most situations. This is a time to tap into your intuition and strengthen your ability to feel out a situation, rather than relying upon the knowledge you’ve been given. It’s a stretch, given that you operate best in the mental rather than emotional playing field. Give it a shot though; you may surprise yourself. Cancer—Although you’re on rocky waters for the next few weeks, the skills required to navigate them effectively are ones you already possess. In fact, it is a good time to show people what you’re capable of and that you can be counted on when most people are floundering, as they are at this time. Most importantly, you need to believe you can do it. If you’re not on your own side, your potential won’t mean anything. Leo—You’ll have to rely upon yourself heavily this week, but don’t be shy about reaching out to people to share the way you’re feeling. However, people in your network will be so preoccupied with their own issues that they won’t have much mental space to take on yours. Don’t take this personally, as that will only make the next few weeks harder for you. In moments of uncertainty, go with what feels best unless that entails frivolous spending and other overindulgences.
Virgo—You can have a relaxing few weeks if you learn to let go of the minutiae for the time being. This doesn’t mean slacking on any of your responsibilities or obligations, but it is time to choose your battles and decide what truly matters to you. Rather than agonizing over the little things in life, you’ll do better to explore the larger picture, to get to know your spiritual side. If you don’t know where to begin, sit in silence and see what comes to mind. Libra—You are alone on a ship drifting far from the shore. You can see all the people you love, and you want them to come with you, but this journey must be taken solo. Only you will understand what you’re about to experience, as the next couple of weeks are more of a personal journey for spiritual discovery. Keep reminding yourself there’s nothing to be afraid of, as fear will put a dark spin on what you find. Scorpio—It may be an intense few weeks for you, but in a way that is intensely pleasurable, even when challenging. By the end of this period, you’ll appear to be the same, though you’ll come away with a new concept of yourself that will subtly shape your life for weeks to come. It’s an impressionable period, so spend your time wisely. Each experience and person you encounter will color your world, so use only the paints that please you. Sagittarius—The thoughts that float through your mind in the shower, the passing fancies that lend color to your daydreams, sneaking suspicions that seem improbable: All of these are worth examining over the coming weeks. In fact, these become more real than the world you see because they so potently affect your perceptions. Understand that what you are experiencing isn’t necessarily real, but take inspiration and guidance from it regardless.
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Gale Memorial Lecture & Painting and Drawing 6:00pm Sara Raynolds Hall, Room 102 Los Angeles artist Allison Miller presents. The New Feminist Agenda: Defining the Next Revolution for Women, Work, and Family 7:00pm – 9:00pm SUB Ballroom B Madeleine Kunin, former governor of Vermont, analyzes where progress stalled, looks at the successes of other countries, and charts the course for the next feminist revolution.
Student Groups & Gov. Bound 5:00pm-7:00pm SUB Alumni Students for Miracles Meeting 3:00pm – 4:30pm SUB Acoma A & B University Students Studying Russian 4:00pm – 6:00pm SUB Mirage- Thunderbird
UNM Wesley Grief Support 7:30pm – 9:30pm SUB Luminaria Creative and Social Enterprise In The 21st Century 1:00pm – 3:30pm SUB Ballroom B HNBA Moot Court Oral Argument Practice 4:30pm – 5:30pm School of Law Rm 2404 International Medical Delegation to Brazil 4:00pm – 5:30pm SUB Luminaria Muslim Student Association 11:45am – 1:00pm SUB Alumni Navigators Leadership Training 6:30pm – 9:00pm SUB Mirage Community Bricollage Meeting 7:00pm – 8:00pm SUB Trailblazer Fisher vs UT Affirmative Action Discussion 12:00pm – 1:00pm Law School 2401
Workshops Authorship: Exploring Journal Ethics, First Author Guidelines 2:00pm – 3:00pm Centennial Science and Engineering Library, LL2 Room 255 The Graduate Student Funding Initiative (GSFI) offers a one stop shop for preparing funding proposals. Creating Motivation for Change Workshop 3:30pm – 4:30pm SHAC Help resolve ambivalence about changing behaviors, such as, exercise, study habits, diet, drinking and drugging. No charge to UNM students. Buttons and Shrinky Dink workshop 11:00am – 1:00pm SUB Plaza Atrium With ASUNM Crafts Studio as part of I Love UNM Week.
Theater & Films People Before Profit 10:00pm SUB Theater Film Series