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Students offered food assistance By Madison Spratto @Madi_Spratto
A scholarship tailored to giving Lobos the chance to experience La Posada Dining Hall was awarded to four students for the Spring 2018 semester. The Associated Students of the University of New Mexico, UNM Food Services and Chartwells — UNM’s food service provider — combined forces to award four Teal Club Memberships to deserving Lobos through the Food 4 Lobos Scholarship. The scholarships will last throughout the semester and have a total value of $7,800, said Mason Martinez, chief of staff for ASUNM President Noah Brooks. To qualify for the scholarship, a recipient must be a current UNM student, either an undergraduate or non-degree student who has not received a baccalaureate degree and be enrolled in school full-time. The scholarship is typically awarded to two students for a full academic year, but this semester ASUNM elected to provide four during the Spring semester, Martinez said. Martinez said ASUNM is always looking for scholarship
opportunities and ways to give back to students, and the continuing collaboration between Chartwells, UNM Food Services and ASUNM is what inspired the Food 4 Lobos Scholarship. Tim Backes, the associate director of Dining & Food Services, said money for scholarships was written in the contract between Chartwells and the University, which is how Food 4 Lobos is funded. Backes said at the start of a new fiscal year UNM Food Services will receive money for scholarships and then will give that money to ASUNM and the Graduate and Professional Student Association. Once the money is handed over, the process is completely up to ASUNM, Backes said. Since the inception of the scholarship three years ago, he said ASUNM has given food services a list of the final five applicants for review, and they have always approved them in the past. “(ASUNM) is closer to the fire,” Backes said. “They know the students’ needs, (and) they know who’s best to receive this.” Backes said he is grateful that “from the get go” ASUNM has taken charge of the scholarship — including creating scholarship applications, a
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committee to review applications and then sending the top five back to Chartwells and Dining & Food Services to review. The scholarship GPSA awards to students is different, because the students are usually nontraditional and would not typically eat at La Posada, Backes said. Instead of Teal Club meal plans, GPSA gives their scholarship money in the form of dining dollars.
Backes said too often people think students have the funds to not only pay tuition, but also take care of their nutritional needs, which he said is not the case. He said it is a proven fact that students do better in school when they can count on three meals a day, and that the relief of not worrying where their next meal is coming from can be beneficial. “It’s just something that’s incred-
ibly important to me, that we give back to the students,” he said. “I’m just really really happy that Chartwells sees the benefit in this also.” Madison Spratto is a news editor at the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at news@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @Madi_Spratto.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
UNM-Valencia celebrates Taiko Lobos fall in nail-
biter to Wyoming
By Annie Edwards @annie_ce18
The University of New Mexico Valencia Campus hosted a taiko Japanese drumming lecture and demonstration Monday, as part of the “Valencia Speaks” series. Julia So, Ph.D. organized this event, inviting Anita Lee Gallegos to the Student Community Center at the Valencia campus to demonstrate traditional Japanese drumming, called taiko. Gallegos, a 2018 New Mexico Women of STEM honoree, is a physicist as well as a martial artist and founder of the Bushido Kenkyukai in Albuquerque. She and three of her taiko students demonstrated drumming through various pieces, and between performances Gallegos gave the audience information about taiko, its history in Japan and its later development in the United States. Dressed in her colorful happi, a traditional taiko coat Gallegos said she ordered from Japan, Gallegos cracked jokes as she introduced a festival piece from Kyoto. “I was told a lot of sake drinking was going on at this time,” she said. Gallegos studied taiko drumming for 15 years, but began learning martial arts earlier in her life. She said taiko professionals
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also complete rigorous physical training, and many consider taiko to be a form of martial arts. Gallegos invited audience members to try playing the drums near the end of the demonstration. One of her students helped correct the posture and forms of the audience participants who played on stage, along to the beat that Gallegos set on her own drum. Before Gallegos and her students performed their final piece, a composition called “Matsuri,” or “festival” in English, Gallegos said she feels a sense of community she feels through taiko and martial arts. “Dōjō is family to me,” Gallegos said. Dōjō translates to the practice halls used in martial arts.
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“We have such a wide variety of things that come to campus, be it speakers about society, or we’ve had people from various agencies around Albuquerque, or whether it’s art and culture. I think it’s very beneficial to get those ideas out to the student body,” said Dean of Instruction at Valencia, Laura Musselwhite. Audience members included UNM students Aaron Wroten, Diego Avitia and Elisa Ashford. “Seeing other cultures coming into play, I guess you can say, really opens your eyes to see that there is a lot more that we may not exposed to without events like this,” Wroten said. Avitia agreed with Wroten, and said he learned something new from
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On her first 3-point attempt this season, junior post Jaisa Nunn nailed it with confidence — and off of the backboard, of course. But that shot wasn’t enough. Wyoming — who had an answer for the Lobos at every corner — was already up by four points with just two seconds to play. The shot was, in essence, meaningless as the Lobos fell, 63-62, at the Pit on Wednesday evening. The Cowgirls slowed down the fast-paced Lobos to their speed, pressuring them on defense and hitting threes with ease. They held UNM to 38 percent shooting, though that number is skewed, since the Lobos hit 57.1 percent of their shots in the fourth quarter. In the other three, the Lobos weren’t there offensively. Wyoming hit 50 percent of its 3-point attempts (10-of-20) and 37.7 percent of its shots overall, though that wasn’t all. They also outrebounded the Lobos 37-31, with 12 of those being on the offensive end — and they came when it mattered most.
For most of the fourth quarter, both teams played physically. Fouls were called and fouls weren’t called, and though UNM outscored the Cowgirls 24-18 in the quarter, it was never enough. The Lobos had their chances, with the Cowgirls leading by no more than four points in the last two minutes of play. But freshman guard N’Dea Flye, when UNM was down 58-55 with under a minute, threw the ball away and turned it over. Wyoming is just the second team this season to beat the Lobos at home — UNLV accomplished that earlier in the season. “Here’s the thing: I’m not going to sit here…It’s my fault that we didn’t (follow the game plan),” UNM head coach Mike Bradbury said. “It probably happened four or five times — and it probably happens four or five times every game. The difference is, (Wyoming) makes you pay. Not some of the time, every single time they make you pay.” On the bright side for the Lobos, though, senior guard Tesha Buck broke the program record for threes made in a season — she now has 83.
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