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UNM reaffirms commitment to diversity following federal guidance against race-based programs

By Nate Bernard & Maria Fernandez

@natebernard14 & @dailylobo

The University of New Mexico will risk losing federal funding if it does not end race-based programs by Feb. 28, following a Department of Education memo that was sent to schools across the country Feb. 14. The memo cited Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans discrimination on the basis of race, color or national origin against any person, including within

programs that receive federal funding.

As of Feb. 21, UNM will not make any changes to its operations, nor to its academic programming or student support services, according to UNM Chief Marketing and Communications Officer Cinnamon Blair.

The memo addresses all American educational institutions that receive federal funding. It named diversity, equity and inclusion programs as discriminatory against students through perpetuating “crude racial stereotypes.”

UNM is a Hispanic-serving institution and has a Division for Equity & Inclusion, which was created in 2007

and tasked with the development of an institution-wide plan for diversity, equity and inclusion.

Although DEI is not explicitly defined within the Department of Education memo, DEI refers to “programs that ensure people from different backgrounds, cultures, identities and experiences feel accepted in their environments,” according to the Columbus Dispatch.

According to the memo, all educational institutions must end race-based programs by Feb. 28 or risk losing federal funding.

In 2024, UNM received about $383 million in both direct and indirect fed-

eral funding, according to Blair.

“I understand that the recent guidance has caused concern and uncertainty, especially for those connected to our support centers and programs designed to foster inclusivity and student success,” UNM President Garnett Stokes wrote in a Feb. 20 campus-wide email.

UNM will comply with all relevant laws “while preserving our commitment to student success and a welcoming campus climate,” Stokes wrote in the email.

UNM is home to resource centers for students of different racial back-

Speakers discuss Trump’s policies, free speech, divestment at Regents meeting

By Leila Chapa & Paloma Chapa

@lchapa06 & @paloma_chapa88

On Thursday, Feb. 20, speakers at a University of New Mexico Board of Regents meeting raised concerns about President Donald Trump’s executive actions on immigration, funding cuts, and diversity, equity and inclusion. The meeting, held at the Student Union Building, was the first open session of the spring semester and the first meeting for newly appointed regents Patricia Williams and Christina Campos.

Some student and faculty speakers also asked the Regents to consider divesting from Israel and the fossil fuel industry.

During advisors’ comments, Graduate and Professional Student Association President Michel Rivera Ramirez spoke to the Regents about his concerns related to Department of Education guidelines for schools to end race-based programs by Feb. 28.

“UNM should be mindful that we are not only a Hispanic-serving institution, but also we reside in a state with diverse people,” he said.

Speakers also mentioned the December 2024 amendments to UNM’s free speech policies during public comment.

“I am an absolutist when it comes to free speech,” Rivera Ramirez said. “That’s the price we pay for being in a land that guarantees free speech to everybody, regardless of whether they support one side or the other.”

Rivera Ramirez referred to the students, faculty members and staff in the audience who have been involved in the divestment movement at UNM.

“These fine folks back here, they’re meant to be here,” he said, pointing to a section of the audience filled with people carrying signs and wearing keffiyehs. “Regardless of whether it takes two hours, three hours of your

time to hear them out, you should hear everybody.”

Faculty Senate President Cris Elder spoke about the lack of representation of faculty, staff and students at Regents meetings.

“Our experiences, our concerns, our expertise are often overlooked in times of crisis,” she said. “President Stokes, I believe you’ll support doing a better job of viewing faculty, staff and students as important resources on campus, and not just bodies, individuals to be left sitting what feels like at the kids table.”

Representatives from Students for Justice in Palestine, Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine, Leaders for Environmental Action and Foresight, and Students for Socialism spoke during public comment.

Benjamin Abbott, a professor of women, gender and sexuality studies, spoke on behalf of FSJP.

“Instead of sitting here in front of us every meeting, silent and fearful, please have a meeting. Talk to us,” Abbott said during public comment.

SJP member Jillian Grandinetti told the Regents that she lost family members to an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon.

Jay Edwards, a political science student, spoke to the Regents on behalf of Students for Socialism about the Regents’ response to student demands for divestment.

“I do not know where our university stands in terms of its partnerships with the very companies that are making these unspeakable horrors a reality,” he said. “The only voice that I have heard speak on your behalf only talked about the importance of fiscally responsible policy and maximizing the return on the University’s investments for the students; this response was ahistorical with respect to the University’s actions against apartheid South Africa.”

After the meeting, Board of Regents Vice Chair Jack Fortner shared his thoughts about the public comments with the Daily Lobo.

“They were very respectful and I

like that, and we listen to them and we take notes,” Fortner said. “We don’t always agree, but we have to listen to them, and then sometimes regents will talk about what they said.”

Fortner told the Daily Lobo he would not speak on behalf of the Regents, but discussed his thoughts on Israel’s relationship with the United States.

“They’ve always been an ally of ours, and so I support Israel, and nobody likes the fight that’s going on in Gaza,” he said. “Many innocent people are being hurt, murdered and displaced. No one supports that. I don’t believe anything I say or do is going to affect what happens there.”

During public comment, Feleecia Guillen, director of communications and outreach for UNM LEAF, called for UNM to declare a climate emergency and divest from fossil fuels.

Fortner told the Daily Lobo that UNM can’t divest from fossil fuels.

“We’re supported by oil gas money from the Permian Basin,” Fortner said. “That’s why our budget has grown under this governor from 7 billion to 10 billion, so it’s hard to say divest from fossil fuels when it provides us so much benefit here at UNM. I want clean energy, but we can’t just divest like that.”

Representatives from SJP, Students for Socialism and LEAF said their organizations are uniting behind the cause of divestment from Israel.

After the meeting ended, student protesters chanted “Whose school? Our school,” and “Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest,” as they left the meeting.

Some students said they briefly spoke with regents outside after the meeting, including UNM graduate student and SJP member Mark Campbell. He told the Daily Lobo that he left the meeting feeling “cautiously optimistic.”

“Being able to have even short conversations with the regents represents a difference from the past, where it seems like we were at a deadlock,” Campbell said. “Hopefully we can meet to have longer conversations, and I look forward to that.”

Leila Chapa is the social media editor for the Daily Lobo. She can be reached at socialmedia@dailylobo. com or on X @lchapa06

Paloma Chapa is the multimedia editor for the Daily Lobo. She can be reached at multimedia@dailylobo. com or on X @paloma_chapa88

grounds, including El Centro de la Raza, African American Student Services, American Indian Student Services and the Asian American Pacific Islander Resource Center. UNM’s rapid response teams — which focus on how President Donald Trump’s administration will impact inclusive excellence, immigration policy, research funding and patient care, according to a Jan. 27 campus-wide email — will review the guidance, according to Blair.

see Commitment to diversity page 10

Inside this Lobo

HEARD: Darkness visible: the University of New Mexico’s archive on the sexual abuse of children by priests (pg. 2)

ALEXANDER & MCKELVEYFRANCIS: Stokes sets vision for UNM’s future at State of the University address (pg. 3)

BERNARD: UNM Mixed Martial Arts Club goes the distance and becomes official (pg. 4)

FULTON & PRUNTY: Santa Fe’s indoor soccer team strives for community first (pg. 4)

RESEIGH: OPINION: Bobbleheads of the Week — 4 Nations Face-Off edition (pg. 4)

CHAPA & CHAPA: ‘Les Misérables’ brings romance and revolution to Popejoy Hall (pg. 5)

DI MAURO & RITCH: UNM visiting artist Larry Madrigal gives talk at Albuquerque Museum (pg. 5)

HLAING: UNM study finds high levels of microplastics in human brains (pg. 6)

RITCH: REVIEW: Oscar-nominated live action short films fail to deliver (pg. 6)

PRUNTY: REVIEW: Cons outweigh the pros in Life Is Strange: Double Exposure (pg. 7)

UNM students and faculty members carry signs and flags in support of Palestine during the first Board of Regents open session of the spring semester on Thursday, Feb. 20.

Leila Chapa / Daily Lobo / @dailylobo

Darkness visible: the University of New Mexico’s archive on the sexual abuse of children by priests

By Alex Heard

Searchlight New Mexico

This story was originally published by Searchlight New Mexico.

If you have experienced sexual assault, sexual violence or unwanted sexual contact, you can contact the Rape Crisis Center of Central New Mexico at (505) 266-7711.

Links in this story contain graphic descriptions of sexual abuse of minors.

The Archdiocese of Santa Fe Institutional Abuse Collection is an important new archive for documents that were generated, in large part, by victim lawsuits brought during the long, terrible history of sexual abuse of minors by priests in New Mexico. It will be housed at the University of New Mexico’s Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections, and it is set to open to the public sometime in the spring of this year.

The archive, which is entirely digital, will be accessible to users from anywhere in the world. It’s seen as a groundbreaking cooperative effort between two sides that have been in fierce opposition for decades: abuse victims and their lawyers, and the archdiocese and its officials, lawyers and priests. The National Catholic Reporter has called it an “unprecedented” collaboration between survivors and church officials.

This cooperation has not always been smooth, though, and it still isn’t. Fundamental disagreements are affecting what winds up in the collection, which will contain a wide range of materials, including police reports and depositions from survivors — documents which by definition tend to contain detailed, unsanitized accounts of sexual abuse. Another major part of the archive are the personnel files that were kept by the archdiocese on priests who’ve been credibly accused of sexual abuse. The opposing sides disagree about how many priests should be on the list of the credibly accused, so there’s ongoing friction over how many of those files should be in the archive.

Brad Hall, a retired Albuquerque attorney whose firm handled many of the cases represented in the archive — and who was involved in its creation as an outgrowth of the archdiocese’s bankruptcy case — told Searchlight New Mexico that about 400 abuse claimants were included in the eventual settlement, and that all of those claimants were given the option of placing their proofs of claim in the archive.

However, as spelled out in the 2020 Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) that established the archive, individuals have to formally opt-in to be included. “In the absence of a signed ‘Opt In’ form (or express confirmatory email),” the MOA states, “the presumption is that a victim has opted out. His or her victim file, or proof of claim form, or interrogatory answers of depositions, will not be included in the Abuse Documents Archives if a victim has not expressly opted in.”

People who choose to opt-in can also choose whether to do so with redactions — changes made to conceal, for example, the identities and private information of victims and their relatives.

According to librarians at UNM, the archive currently contains around 70 individual proofs of claim, 12 of which were approved without redactions. The numbers 70 and 12 are significant: that exactly matches the number of clients who gave permission to attorneys Hall, Levi Monagle and Lisa Ford to provide their proofs of claim. These three lawyers represented about 140 clients in the bankruptcy. That leaves roughly 260 clients represented by other lawyers.

Have those other clients made decisions on whether to opt-in? It’s impossible to say. The remaining clients were represented by many different law firms, inside and outside of New Mexico. Searchlight contacted five to ask about their clients’ opt-in decisions: Fadduol, Hardy, Cluff and Conaway, Rothstein Donatelli, and The Bennett Law Group in New Mexico; along with Tamaki Law and Fasy Law in Washington State. None replied. Likewise, officials at the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, including Archbishop

John Wester, did not respond to a list of questions about church contributions to the archive. Wester did offer a statement on why he has supported this collection.

“It was very important for us to give the files to UNM because transparency is one of the linchpins to combatting pedophilia,” he said in an email. “The files provide another layer of transparency for victims of clergy sexual abuse, their families and those who study pedophilia, in order to prevent this terrible tragedy from happening in the future.”

The issue of priest personnel files

None of the cases preserved in this archive went to trial — they were all collectively settled — but the prospect of public proceedings taking place is a main reason why the archdiocese chose to seek bankruptcy protection.

“When they filed their bankruptcy petition in 2018,” Hall told Searchlight in an email, “I think we had 20 cases in the pipeline and a few other firms were starting to file cases. The archdiocese could see there was an avalanche of victims coming forward, so they chose bankruptcy as a financial matter. And, as they’ve said, to make sure everybody gets a little closure and compensation, as opposed to there being a handful of big verdicts for a few, and nothing for many other victims.” Hall added that many of the cases were “potentially very high verdict cases — tens of millions.”

Describing the time frame covered in the archive, Hall said victim claims date from the 1950s into the 2000s, with most coming from the 1950s to the 1980s, forming “a sort of bell curve, with the vast majority of abused in the ’70s and ’80s.” Some victims, he said, were sexually abused when they were in pre-school.

The main contribution from the archdiocese will be the personnel files on priests. According to archivists at UNM, they have received approximately 120 personnel files, 68 of which were provided by the archdiocese, the rest supplied by lawyers who represented victims. Most but not all of these files concern priests; some are for other church employees.

As Monagle told Joshua Bowling in Searchlight’s report on the arch-

diocese’s list of credibly accused priests, there are 83 accused clergy listed on the church website — 105 if you include clergy who worked in the archdiocese but committed wrongdoing elsewhere.

Monagle believes that number ought to be higher. “We should be looking at a minimum of 151 personnel files or related documents in the archive,” he said in an email. “I fully expect the archdiocese to withhold significant portions of these additional files from initial archive production. It will take a legal push to get those additional files produced — likely from UNM. I sincerely hope that the university has the fortitude to pursue them.”

As Bowling explains in his report, the church has apparently decided not to include the personnel file of Father Richard Spellman, a priest who abused one of Monagle’s clients, Mela LaJeunesse. But parts of Spellman’s story will be told, because LeJeunesse optedin to having her unredacted proof of claim included. Searchlight has not seen this account, but its contents will be disturbing: Spellman started sexually abusing LaJeunesse in 1957, when she was 9. University archivist Portia Vescio told Searchlight that the nature of the material in this collection informed the library’s decision to make it accessible only online. “The first time I saw one of the stories from the proofs of claim, I was like, ‘I have to stop,’” Vescio said. “It’s really harrowing stuff in there. We decided that if we put everything online, then people could look at the materials from the safety of their own homes. If they had reactions, if they needed to take a break, they could do so safely.”

Avi Woontner, a library information specialist who’s in charge of setting up the digital archive, agreed that the contents can be jarring. Woontner, who earned their dual masters degrees at the University of British Columbia — in library and information science and archival studies — spent a summer working at the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre, which helps provide survivors of Canada’s

residential school system with access to archival materials held in the collections of partner institutions.

The archivists declined to give Searchlight an advance look at any material in the archive, but Monagle shared two examples of victim statements that will be included. Both of these individuals have given written permission for the publication of their stories in the archive.

The first account is from a man whose unredacted proof of claim described being sexually abused as a 12-year-old by the late Barry Finbar Coyle, a priest who worked between 1959 and 1974 at the Cathedral of St. Francis in Santa Fe and the Cathedral of St. Peter in Roswell. This victim also described extensive abuse by men he identifies only as Brother Thomas and Brother John, and said he was “sexually assaulted” in 1970 by the late Father Donald Starkey, whose name does not appear on the credibly accused list and who was not accused in litigation prior to the bankruptcy. Monagle does not know the full names of Brother Thomas and Brother John.

The second involves Father Arthur Perrault, who received treatment at the Servants of the Paraclete facility in Jemez Springs, which is discussed at length by Bowling. Perrault fled New Mexico in 1992, reportedly because he was aware that two lawsuits were about to be filed against the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, alleging that he had sexually assaulted seven children. He was arrested in Morocco in 2017, brought back to the U.S. and convicted in 2019 of sexually abusing an altar boy at two different locations in the early 1990s. Perrault remains in prison at Federal Medical Center Fort Worth after filing an appeal that was rejected in 2021. The victim’s account is redacted; his name and personal information will not be included in the archive.

Alex Heard is the executive editor of Searchlight New Mexico. Searchlight New Mexico is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that seeks to empower New Mexicans to demand honest and effective public policy.

Stokes sets vision for UNM’s future at State of the University address

‘It is in times of change that our true character shines the brightest’

By Lily Alexander & Jaden McKelvey-Francis @llilyalexander & @dailylobo

On Friday, Feb. 21, University of New Mexico President Garnett Stokes reflected on the past year and outlined plans for UNM’s future in her seventh annual State of the University address. During the speech, she mentioned the University’s response to President Donald Trump’s recent executive actions that target funding for higher education.

Part of the University’s response, Stokes said, includes maintaining UNM’s resource centers and health programs in the face of Department of Education guidance telling universities to end race-based programs by Feb. 28 or risk losing federal funding. The University’s rapid response teams, which were implemented after Trump’s inauguration, will continue to analyze executive orders and regulations, she said.

“In the meantime, we are continuing to keep in place the programs and resources needed to help support and encourage our student success,” Stokes said.

During the speech, Stokes said UNM would not compromise its core values, including inclusive excellence, when adapting to federal administrative changes.

“The facilities we have in place to support, guide, inspire, help and motivate our students play a vital role in their success,” Stokes said. “They have never been about exclusion.”

There is a section labeled “inclusive excellence” on the UNM website that provides updates and provisional guidance about Trump’s actions. As of Sunday, Feb. 23, the section

reads that the University is monitoring the impact “within this area and will provide information and/or guidance as it becomes available.”

Stokes also touted accomplishments and research breakthroughs at the University, referencing research about microplastics, quantum information science and engineering, and artificial intelligence. She discussed UNM’s work to address substance use disorders. UNM’s Center on Alcohol, Substance use, And Addictions conducts research to reduce suffering related to substance use and addictive behav-

iors, according to its website.

“Our state is No. 1 in the nation for alcohol mortality and eight in the nation for drug overdose deaths,” Stokes said.

Stokes did not explicitly mention the recent proposed cuts to National Institutes of Health research funding, which could lead to a $20 million loss for UNM. A federal judge temporarily blocked the proposed cuts after 22 states, including New Mexico, sued. The judge extended the block the same day as Stokes’ speech, but a lasting decision has not yet been reached in the case, according to The New York Times.

In the coming months, Stokes said she will conduct a search and name a director for the UNM Office of Substance Use Disorders, who will develop and implement a plan to expand the University’s workforce and increase access to evidencebased treatments.

Stokes also focused more broadly on health care and health education at UNM during the address. UNM Hospital is training Zuni language interpreters, Stokes said, which she hopes leads to more interpreter programs in other tribal languages.

Stokes thanked New Mexico vot-

ers for supporting general obligation bonds that provided funding for the UNMH Children’s Psychiatric Center and other infrastructure projects. She also referenced the start of construction on a new reproductive health center in Las Cruces, and the recent opening of a clinic in Roswell for HIV and sexual health care.

In terms of enrollment, Stokes said UNM had a record-breaking fall class for the second year in a row. The first-year class is also the most diverse in school history, with over 73% of students coming from traditionally underrepresented populations, Stokes said. She also mentioned UNM’s status as a Fulbright Hispanic serving institution Leader.

Stokes did not make any direct references to Trump’s immigration policies or their impact. Guidance for interacting with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents if they come to the UNM campus can be found on the updates and provisional guidance website. On Jan. 20, the Department of Homeland Security issued a directive ending the practice of ICE avoiding “protected areas,” including colleges.

“I can promise you this: When we say we’re committed to creating a welcoming and supportive environment for all students, we mean it,” Stokes said.

Lily Alexander is the editor-in-chief of the Daily Lobo. She can be reached at editorinchief@dailylobo.com or on X @llilyalexander

Jaden McKelvey-Francis is a freelance reporter for the Daily Lobo. He can be reached at news@dailylobo. com or on X @dailylobo

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UNM President Garnett Stokes gives the State of the University address at the SUB on Friday, Feb. 21. Paloma Chapa / Daily Lobo / @dailylobo

LOBO SPORTS

UNM Mixed Martial Arts Club goes

By Nate Bernard @natebernard14

What started as a small group of University of New Mexico student fighters meeting in the mat room to train has now become the official Mixed Martial Arts Club.

Founded by experienced fighters, the club meets every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday from 4-5 p.m. in Johnson Center to kick ass and take names. Prior to the club’s conception, a fighting community at UNM built its ground game through word of mouth, according to black belt karate fighter and MMA Club Treasurer Mark Evans.

“We’ve sort of been building a small community of martial artists,”

Evans said. “We would just come in and people would see us from on the track or whatever. They’d come in and be like, ‘Hey, what’s going on?’

And over time, we just built a larger and larger group. And so finally we decided, why don’t we make this an official thing?”

Around 15 people were expected to attend the club’s first official meeting, Jacob Armstrong — a jiu-jitsu, wrestling and MMA fighter and the MMA Club president — said before the meeting. An hour later, turnout came swinging, with around 30 people showing up.

The MMA Club’s ultimate goal is to get MMA recognized as a collegiate sport at UNM that competes against other universities, according

to Armstrong.

“We have to start off by creating our program and getting together our group, our team, our fighters, whoever it’s going to be, and then working with other schools — which we’re currently in contact with about starting tournaments, dual meets, different kinds of things where our teams can all compete — and we can create a nationwide system,” Armstrong said.

Albuquerque is one of the top five cities for pursuing MMA, Armstrong said. If the club was able to compete in collegiate sports, it could eventually dominate MMA teams across the country on the mat, Armstrong said.

The club’s ultimate goal is only

Santa Fe’s indoor soccer team strives for community first

By Addison Fulton & Rodney Prunty

@dailylobo & @rprunty05

Overseeing Santa Fe’s indoor soccer team comes with a lot of responsibility, which Santa Fe Gloom’s owner David Fresquez proudly handles. Fresquez started the team in December 2023 because he wanted children and families to have fun in Santa Fe even when the weather was too cold or too hot for outdoor sports. Initially, Fresquez tried to base the team out of the Genoveva Chavez Community Center’s ice

By Simon Reseigh @simon_reseigh

The inaugural Four Nations FaceOff hockey tournament came to an exciting conclusion Thursday night when Canada defeated the United States in a 3-2 overtime victory.

Where there’s a victor, there’s a loser, and sometimes certain athletes contribute to their team’s shortcomings. These athletes are favorably called bobbleheads.

With three other nations falling short, here are the bobbleheads who helped ensure the teams walked away from the tournament empty-handed.

Finland — Juuse Saros

Finland finished last in the tournament with 2 points, posting

one overtime win and two regulation losses.

Those two losses came with goalie Juuse Saros, who began the tournament on a sour note, allowing six goals against the United States. Saros was benched in favor of Kevin Lankinen, who helped secure the team’s lone win in overtime against Sweden.

Sweden — William Nylander

Sweden closed out the tournament on a high note, defeating the United States 2-1 on Feb. 17.

This came in spite of the lackluster efforts from right winger William Nylander, who finished the tournament with a meager two assists, two points and three shots on goal in three games.

During Sweden’s 4-3 overtime loss to Canada on opening night, Nylander got some light cardio in, managing

rink, but city officials did not approve the plan. Fresquez, however, was not discouraged.

“It’s not easily accessible to get to City Hall. For example, a lot of the people who wanted this team to happen were immigrants, were the Hispanic community on the Southside, and at that time, it was really hard to mobilize that community to speak out to their councilors,” Fresquez said. “So I knew that there was a huge support for this concept and for this team.”

Currently, the team often has their games in the Santa Fe High School gym.

For Fresquez and the Gloom, sports — particularly indoor soccer — are primarily about community.

“We go to a sports game to be around people, to have fun, to enjoy, to laugh, to cheer on a team, to feel a part of a community,” Fresquez said.

only two shots on goal while taking an early high-sticking penalty that led to a Canada goal just 56 seconds in.

The next game against Finland was another 4-3 overtime loss, where Nylander contributed slightly more with an assist on an Erik Karlsson goal in the second period that gave Sweden a 3-2 lead that they would let slip minutes later.

The third period was scoreless, sending the game to overtime, when Sweden would lose on a Mikael Granlund wrist shot through the legs of Swedish goalie Linus Ullmark.

Sweden needed more from Nylander in a must-win game, especially with the lack of scoring in the critical third period.

United States — Auston Matthews Matthews went goalless throughout the tournament — a far cry from

“You’re cheering for the sport and the team, but you’re also around other community members, and that’s what’s so special.”

Even the name of the Santa Fe Gloom has deep ties to the Santa Fe community. The name is derived from the traditional Zozobora festival in Santa Fe, where people come together to banish “Old Man Gloom,” Fresquez said.

“I was thinking of inspiration from the Oakland Roots, which is a team that New Mexico United plays. The Oakland Roots are all about being local, of having a lens of Oakland first and being rooted into your community. So I wanted a name that had that type of vibe,” Fresquez said. “The Santa Fe Gloom can now fit into the community as one: Zozobora. And two: the fútbol team.”

It has been clear since the creation of the team that it has been focused

his all-star production while on the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Matthews had two assists in the championship game, but his mistakes stood out in overtime. He had three chances to win the tournament for the United States in overtime, with his first shot going straight into the body of Canadian goalie Jordan Binnington.

Binnington made acrobatic saves on Matthews’ next two shots.

On the tournament-winning goal, Matthews left Connor McDavid wide open in front of the net, allowing the three-time NHL MVP to score and secure Canada’s revenge on U.S. soil.

Simon Reseigh is a freelance reporter for the Daily Lobo. He can be reached at sports@dailylobo.com or on X @simon_reseigh

on the community and growing a fanbase, and the branding for the Gloom has contributed to that.

“A big takeaway this year is the branding has been on point; people are wearing merchandise; we are becoming a team,” Fresquez said.

The Gloom currently consists of 20 players. For Fresquez, the players have been a high point this year.

“They are really good people,” Fresquez said, “After the games, the kids come running down to the court to get their autographs. They are very interactive with the community, and I think that’s what I am most proud of.”

Fresquez has a passion for this team and the community that surrounds it. It’s this passion that carries Fresquez’s vision for the future: the Gloom’s very own venue.

Santa Fe Gloom players stand during the national anthem before their match against Brusa FC at Santa Fe Indian School in April 2024.

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MMA club members Jason (top) and Mark (bottom) wrestle at Johnson Gym on Friday, Feb. 21.

Liliana Esparza / Daily Lobo / @lili.published

Illustrated by Emi Oaks

‘Les Misérables’ brings romance and revolution to Popejoy Hall

By Leila Chapa & Paloma Chapa @lchapa06 & @paloma_chapa88

On Tuesday, Feb. 18, during Popejoy Hall’s opening night of the Broadway musical “Les Misérables,” performers took audience members back to the era of the French Revolution through a mix of theatrics, operatic singing and elaborate stage design.

The Broadway cast performed for a crowd of nearly 3,000 people. The show was performed every day at Popejoy Hall through Sunday, Feb. 23.

Beginning with prison labor and prostitution, “Les Misérables” unfolds into a love story between an orphaned girl and a student who takes part in a bloody rebellion — the rebellion that inspired French author Victor Hugo’s

original novel published in 1862, according to TheCollector.

The story of “Les Misérables” has become one of the most celebrated musicals in theatrical history and has traveled to theaters across the globe, according to a Popejoy press release.

“Seen by over 130 million people worldwide in 53 countries, 438 cities and 22 languages, ‘Les Misérables’ is undisputedly still one of the world’s most popular musicals,” the press release reads.

“Les Misérables” is set during the unsuccessful 1832 June Rebellion, which erupted after the death of widely supported army commander Jean Maximilien Lamarque.

Students opposing the monarchy staged a rebellion, during which they built a barricade in the streets and took up arms, according to the program booklet.

The revolution was brought to

life when the cast sang “Do You Hear The People Sing,” followed by the sound of fake gunshots echoing throughout the theater as performers ran around the stage with fake rifles. Actors playing the student rebels climbed a large backlit barricade as fake smoke filled the stage.

In history and depicted on stage, the rebellion failed and most everyone at the barricade was killed by the French army, led by King Louis-Philippe. Actors depicted the sudden ending to the rebellion by collapsing on the set.

Romance simultaneously occurs in the midst of the rebellion.

The Thénardiers are a greedy couple, played by Kyle Adams and Victoria Huston-Elem, who run a shady inn and take advantage of their guests. Adams’ and HustonElem’s portrayal of the Thénadiers was comical and energetic through -

out the show.

Two leading female characters, Cosette and Èponine, are under the care of the Thénardiers as children, played by Greta Schafer and Emerson May Chan, respectively.

Cosette, whose mother dies from illness after being forced into prostitution, is abused and neglected by the Thénardiers, who are Èponine’s parents.

Cosette is rescued by leading protagonist Jean Valjean, played by Nick Cartell. She and Èponine, who are now played by Delaney Guyer and Mikako Martin, grow up to have a shared love interest, Marius, a student rebel played by Jeremiah Alsop. Maruis is ultimately Cosette’s lover.

Alisha Fitzgerald, program coordinator at the UNM Center for Regional

see ‘Les Misérables’ page 10

UNM visiting artist Larry Madrigal gives talk at Albuquerque Museum

By Emmett Di Mauro & Elijah Ritch

@dailylobo

On Thursday, Feb. 20, the Albuquerque Museum hosted painter Larry Madrigal to talk about his work in the University of New Mexico Frederick Hammersley Visiting Artist program. After the talk, Madrigal hosted a Q&A session with audience members.

“The program invites prominent contemporary painters from around the world to come live and work in Albuquerque,” according to the UNM Department of Art website.

Madrigal is from Phoenix. His first solo show was in Los Angeles in 2020, he said, and he has since had shows in Paris, New York and Bucharest.

Madrigal’s paintings are “a suspension and celebration of the precariousness by which our most mundane daily rituals are balanced on a precipice just above total anarchy,” according to the UNM Department of Art website.

“I know one thing that I wanted to do while I was here is … to connect one painting to capturing the chaos of trying to have this ambition as a painter and hold this responsibility of a family … and then I can move on to the really important stuff,” Madrigal said about his goals for his time in the visiting artist program.

The theme of the inherent chaos of family life continued throughout the showcased works.

Paintings such as 2023’s “Man on Trampoline” capture this feeling. Madrigal spoke to his interest in painting upside-down figures, which can be seen in this piece.

“Making of a Memory,” another painting from 2023 that was showcased during the talk, has an impending sense of chaos personified by the presence of a toddler standing at the mouth of a crowded slide at a park.

“I started painting parks … it’s a great opportunity to use multiple figures and to play around with all the great things about painting and abstraction,” Madrigal said.

Madrigal frequently paints pieces he describes as “commonplace allegories.”

One such painting is 2019’s “Fitting Room and the Search for Style,” which depicts a man trying on multiple different outfits in a clothing store’s fitting room.

“The fitting room is (an) analogy of trying to figure out what mode of painting or subject matter best fits my personality or demeanor,” Madrigal revealed.

He expressed his desire to paint a modern twist on the classical nude figure. This vision was realized in his 2019 painting “At the End of the Day,” which features a nude man taking off his socks and preparing to take a shower.

Madrigal also talked about his interest in “this negotiation with making paintings of intimacy, but it had one rule — that it had to be in the context of this chaotic life.”

During his talk, Madrigal spoke about an unconventional influence on his work: stand-up comedy.

“I love that in a lot of stand-up comedy, they take a lot of what’s familiar … and pull back layers and get to the absurdities of things,” Madrigal said. “It gets me really excited to do something that we’re familiar with but sort of be able to create opportunities to dig deeper.”

This influence can be seen throughout his work; he paints with a sense of levity and joy, one that is unencumbered by the harsh world outside.

“One of the things I’ve discovered about painting that’s really fun is how much creativity you can have while remaining in the realm of realism,” Madrigal shared.

Emmett Di Mauro is a freelance reporter for the Daily Lobo. He can be reached at culture@dailylobo.com or on X @dailylobo

Elijah Ritch is a freelance reporter for the Daily Lobo. They can be reached at culture@dailylobo.com or on X @dailylobo

A poster of “Les Miserables” is displayed outside of the theater on the opening night of “Les Miserables” at Popejoy Hall on Tuesday, Feb. 18.

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UNM study finds high levels of microplastics in human brains Microplastic levels may be rising over time

By Shin Thant Hlaing @dailylobo

A team of University of New Mexico scientists found that the human brain is the organ with the highest concentration of microplastics and nanoplastics compared to the liver or kidney.

The study, led by Matthew Campen, looked at the brains of people in New Mexico who died in 2016 and 2024. It also included samples from people who died from 19972013 on the east coast.

The total mass concentration of plastics in the analyzed brains increased by about 50% in the 2024

sample compared to the 2016 sample, according to the study.

Microplastic and nanoplastic — or MNP — concentrations in normal brain samples were 7 to 30 times greater than the concentrations seen in livers or kidneys, according to the study.

The researchers used potassium hydroxide to dissolve the brain tissue, which created a slurry — a semiliquid mixture. They then spun the slurry through a centrifuge, and small pellets of plastic collected at the bottom of a tube, according to the UNM Health Sciences Center. The resultant average pellet mass derived from 500 mg of brain tissue

was approximately between 3 mg and 41 mg, according to the study.

While there is a positive correlation between dementia and the level of microplastics present, no causal relationship was identified that proved microplastics can cause dementia. The levels of microplastics in the brain tissue of dementia patients may be elevated because of how the progression of the disease breaks down the blood-brain barrier, according to Marcus Garcia, one of the lead researchers.

There are concerns that the increased presence of microplastics in the brain could affect the firing of neurons, according to UNM re-

searcher Eliane El Hayek.

Microplastics that are currently found in our bodies are not from the plastic we’re using today, but from the plastic that was around up to 50 years ago, according to Garcia. This project sounds the alarm about the amount of plastic in the environment, Hayek said.

“The most important finding is that we’ve detected more plastic in human bodies over time,” Hayek said. “They are there and they are increasing. If there is no action to mitigate this exposure, this trend can continue, and that is why we are concerned.”

For now, the team hypothesizes

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REVIEW: Oscar-nominated live-action short films fail to deliver

By Elijah Ritch @dailylobo

On Feb. 19-20, Albuquerque’s Guild Cinema showed the five short films nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 97th Academy Awards

A diverse array of films are nominated in 2025. Out of the five nominees, only one film is primarily in English.

The Croatian film “The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent” is a dramatized account of the Štrpci massacre — the abduction from a train and subsequent murder of 18 Bosniak Muslims and one Croat by members of the Serbian military at the height of the Bosnian War. The film focuses on Tomo Buzov, a retired Yugoslav military captain and the one Croat victim of the massacre, who spoke up in defense of the train’s Bosniak passengers.

Directed by Nebojša Slijepcevic, “The Man Who Could Not Remain

Silent” has strong cinematography and is well-acted, but interestingly, the film chooses to frame the story through the eyes of another one of the train’s passengers, who simply witnesses the abductions. Due to this, the audience knows next to nothing about who the titular man is, and it’s not revealed until the credits that he was a real person.

There’s no resolution to the film. Buzov is taken off of the train and the film ends. The abrupt ending could work as a stark reminder of the suddenness of violence, but to American audiences — the vast majority of whom know little about this event — the film is woefully unprepared to tell this story.

“Anuja,” directed by Adam J. Graves and co-produced by Mindy Kaling, is an Indian/American co-production centering around the lives of two sisters who work as seamstresses in a factory. The titular girl, Anuja, is 9, but the factory owner forces her to pretend to be 14 so she can work legally.

Anuja is visited by a former teach-

er, who informs her of an upcoming test that will allow her to return to school if she passes. Anuja and her older sister, Palak, have to sell bags that the latter secretly made with scraps from the factory to afford the exam’s entrance fee.

The film ends with a montage of scenes between the two sisters while Anuja stands outside the exam room, deciding whether she wants to make this major leap in an uncertain direction. While it’s implied that she takes the exam, it’s not shown. For the second time in a row, a film fails to provide an actual resolution to the plot.

“Anuja” is one of the strongest of the five films, but its unsatisfying ending majorly derails what could be an excellent short film.

On the other hand, the Dutch film “I’m Not a Robot” is absolutely abysmal. Directed by Victoria Warmerdam, the film is a science-fiction satire about a woman who fails a CAPTCHA test and finds out from her boyfriend that she is, in fact, a robot.

“I’m Not a Robot” attempts to

comment on the genuine horrors of modern technology, but both its humor and its observations fall flat.

The dialogue is corny and unrealistic and its social commentary is one-note and surface level.

On the surface, “A Lien” — the sole English-language nominee — is timely and important. The film tells the story of a Salvadoran American man who tries to obtain his Green Card. At his appointment, he is arrested in front of his American wife and their daughter.

Directed by brothers David CutlerKreutz and Sam Cutler-Kreutz, the film feels exploitative and unnecessarily brutal, especially considering it was directed by two white filmmakers. The man is arrested and the film ends; again, there’s no resolution or catharsis. There’s a clear misunderstanding of the immigrant experience on the part of the directors that would be solved if the film came from a Hispanic/Latinx filmmaker.

“The Last Ranger” is a South African film about a young girl living

near a wildlife preserve who witnesses poachers carve off a rhino’s horn and murder one of the park rangers. The girl grows up to become a park ranger herself.

Directed by Cindy Lee and based on a true story, the film features the real video footage of Thandi the rhino when she was found after she was poached in 2012. It’s incredibly graphic footage that is necessary in terms of highlighting the evils of poaching, but its inclusion in the film doesn’t feel needed.

Like the film preceding it, “The Last Ranger” revels in the brutality of its subject matter, then offers up a cloyingly hopeful ending that isn’t earned. The five films nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film are a mediocre group, in which “Anuja” emerges as the clear frontrunner in terms of quality.

Elijah Ritch is a freelance reporter for the Daily Lobo. They can be reached at culture@dailylobo.com or on X @dailylobo

DAILY LOBO C ampus Calendar of Events ampus

MONDAY

Campus Events

Anthropology Annual Opportunities and Jobs Fair

SUB, Ballrooms C & B

11:00am – 2:00pm The UNM Department of Anthropology will host the Annual Anthropology Opportunities and Jobs Fair. There will be over 30 recruiters this year. Anthropology students are encouraged as well as students in related fields to attend and talk with recruiters. Refreshments will be provided.

Manicure Monday WRC, Group Room

2:30 – 4:00pm Attend for a DIY manicure. Hang out, relax, meet new people, and do a little self care. Nail polish is provided.

Japanese Study Session

Ortega Hall, Lab 6

3:00 – 5:00pm Hosted by the Language Learning Center.

Latin Declensional Endings Cookie Decorating Ortega Hall, LLC Lab 2

3:30 – 5:00pm Join the Department of Languages, Cultures & Literatures for an educational event with a combination of Latin grammar and cookie decoration with Professor Luke Gorton. Queer Trans Gym Takeover

LGBTQ Resource Center 4:45 – 5:45pm Join the LGBTQ+ Resource Center for a welcoming and fun gym session.

Stress Reduction Yoga SHAC Plaza 5:15 – 6:15pm Hosted by Student Health and Counseling.

Meetings

UNM Fiber Arts Club Meeting Honors College Forum 11:30am – 2:15pm Join the Fiber Arts Club for their weekly meeting.

Students for Justice in Palestine General Meeting Honors College Forum 3:00 – 4:00pm UNMSJP General weekly meeting. Anyone welcome to join.

Theater & Film

UNM History Department Film Screening: 20 Days in Mariupol Science Math and Learning Center, Room 102

3:30 – 5:05pm As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war’s atrocities.

Lectures & Readings

UNM History Department Presentation and Q&A Science Math and Learning Center, Room 102

2:00 – 3:15pm Dr. Dominika Laster and Dr. Erika Monahan, UNM, present “Stories of Ukraine”: Three years of the Ukrainian People at War 20222025.”

TUESDAY

Campus Events

Yoga with the AAPIRC Mesa Vista Hall, Room 1064

12:00 – 1:00pm Join the Women’s Resource Center, Global Education Office, and the Asian American Pacific Islander Resource Center in their weekly yoga meetings.

Lectures & Readings

NUPAC Seminar PAIS, Room 3205

2:00 – 3:00pm Hijas Farook, UNM, presents “A Search for New Physics in Decays of B Mesons to Muon Pairs, Development of New Particle Timing Technology, and Characterization of Radiation Damage in Silicon Detectors at the Large Hadron Collider.”

Meetings

Monday-Sunday, February 24 - March 2, 2025 Events are free unless otherwise noted! To submit a calendar listing, email calendar@dailylobo.com

Arabic Club Ortega Hall, Room 135 1:00 – 2:00pm Hosted by the Language Learning Center.

Student Advisory Council Meeting 3 UNM Art Museum 4:00 – 5:00pm This semester SAC will work as a group to create a zine that focuses on themes from UNMAM’s exhibition Hindsight Insight 5.0 and themes relevant to BioArt; intersections between art, science, and technology; art museums; museum studies; art history; and art practices.

Art & Music

Sinfonia: Sturm Und Drang Keller Hall 7:30 – 9:00pm

Sports & Recreation

UNM researchers find the brain is now the organ with the most microplastics in the body. Photo illustration by Liliana Esparza and Leila Chapa.

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REVIEW: Cons outweigh the pros in Life Is Strange: Double Exposure

By Rodney Prunty @rprunty05

The narrative-based game Life Is Strange: Double Exposure came out on Oct. 29, 2024, and was the sixth installment of the Life Is Strange series. The game was highly anticipated, as it saw the return of the fan-favorite, time-traveling protagonist from the first game, Max Caulfield. This is the first time in the series that a protagonist from a previous game was thrown into the spotlight again.

Despite the game looking promising at first, it failed to deliver on the hype and turned out to be a disappointing game.

There are things to like about the game, such as Hannah Telle’s amazing performance as Max. She doesn’t miss a beat in her return to play the character; she gives it her all in every scene. The graphics are also the best they have ever been. Developers Deck Nine Games and Engine Software used motion capture for the game, which helps players see a lot of the emotion some of the characters are going through.

On the topic of characters, there are not many good ones, but one of the best is Moses Murphy. Max spends most of the game interacting with Moses, and all around, he is the most likeable character outside of Max herself.

Max’s new power is also a very interesting concept that gets adapted well. Her new power sees her traveling through different timelines: one where her friend Safi is dead and another where she is alive.

That’s about everything to like about the game, as the cons outweigh the pros.

The first thing most fans will notice is the absence of Chloe Price, Max’s best friend. The writers came up with the excuse that Max and Chloe separated sometime after the first game if the player chose the ending where the two ended up together. This is where a problem arises — it ruins that choice from the first game and makes it irrelevant.

Moving past that point, the other characters besides Moses are disappointing as they

are middle-of-the-road, bland or straight-up bad. Characters like Reggie, Diamond, Amanda, Loretta and Gwen are just middle-of-the-road characters.

Vinh is one of the worst characters in the game. He’s just not likeable. And surprisingly, Safi is not a good character either. She starts out decently in Episode 1, prompting players to want to get to know her more, but by the end of the game, she turns more into a villain — which the game never frames her as.

The choices in the game are also not impactful. It’s a game series where choices are supposed to matter, but you don’t get that here. The final choice is laughably bad and lacks the emotional impact that the other games’ final choices have.

There is also very little world-building in this game, which it desperately needs, as the world around Max seems very dull. In the first game, players had a whole town to explore and got to see how different characters — even minor ones — lived their lives. It felt like a real world.

But in this game, players see three or four settings throughout the whole game with background characters that don’t matter.

One other huge issue with the game is the story. The first three episodes take players on an engaging murder mystery as Max jumps through timelines to figure it out. By the end, however, the game seems to forget what it started as and turns into a jumbled mess of plots. The ending seems lackluster and forced.

Life Is Strange: Double Exposure’s biggest issue is that it tends to focus more on the powers aspect than the story aspect. In the end, there are hints about having an Avengers-level meet up between other characters in the series who have powers, but that simply is not Life Is Strange — which is why this game is easily a 4/10.

Rodney Prunty is the sports editor for the Daily Lobo. He can be contacted at sports@dailylobo. com or on X @rprunty05

HAPS The Entertainment Guide

Monday

Ancora Cafe and Bakery

Monday Gaming Night

Board games, chess club, and more!

Hours: 6 AM - 8:30 PM, 148 Quincy St NE

Annapurna’s World Vegetarian Cafe

Chai Happy Hour 3-5pm

Monday: 8am-8pm

2201 Silver Avenue SE

Big Ass Cookies

Order delicious sweets online! @bigasscookiesllc oterolane@yahoo.com 505-550-9478

Birthright of Albuquerque

Providing love, support, and hope to woman both before and after childbirth.

birthright.org/albuquerque New Volunteers Always Welcome

Monday 10AM-1PM 3228 Candelaria Rd NE

Career Services

“All Majors” Job & Internship Fair

March 6: 10am-2pm Location: SUB

Visit career.unm.edu for more info!

Chicharra Poetry Slam Festival

March 20 - March 22

Free Workshops | Open Mics Daily cicadapoetryslamfestival.com

Happy Cat Hotel & Spa

Book a Room or Spa Today!

8:30 am to 5:30 pm

happycathotel.com/albuquerquenm

JC’s New York Pizza Dept. Buy Pizza, Wings and more with LoboCash through Grubhub 11 AM - 10 PM 215 Central Ave, NW 87102 (505) 766-6973

Mama and the Girls Cannabis Dispensary and Education Center 8 AM- 10:30 PM 915 Yale Blvd SE Ste B

Outpost Performance Space Student discounts available! www.outpostspace.org For upcoming shows

Quirky Used Books & More Books, Puzzles, Stickers, Mugs, Etc. Mon: 11am – 6pm 120 Jefferson St NE

Sunshine Theater The Amity Affliction March 3rd 2025

$30 - $80 | 7:00pm | All Ages 120 Central Ave SW, 87102

Treasures of the Earth Show Albuquerque Gem and Mineral Club Over 50 dealers, silent auctions, educational booths, and displays. March 14-16, 2025 | Expo New Mexico Test With Truman Be Empowered. Know Your Status. Walk in HIV Testing

Monday: 8am-noon 801 Encino Pl NE

Tuesday

Ancora Cafe and Bakery

Open Jam

Sober Sound Lab

Hours: 6 AM - 8:30 PM, 148 Quincy St NE

Annapurna’s World Vegetarian Cafe Chai Happy Hour 3-5pm

Tuesday: 8am-8pm 2201 Silver Avenue SE

Big Ass Cookies

Order delicious sweets online! @bigasscookiesllc oterolane@yahoo.com 505-550-9478

Birthright of Albuquerque

Providing love, support, and hope to woman both before and after childbirth. birthright.org/albuquerque

New Volunteers Always Welcome Tuesday 10AM-1PM 3228 Candelaria Rd NE

Career Services

“All Majors” Job & Internship Fair

March 6: 10am-2pm Location: SUB Visit career.unm.edu for more info!

Chicharra Poetry Slam Festival March 20 - March 22

Free Workshops | Open Mics Daily cicadapoetryslamfestival.com

Happy Cat Hotel & Spa Book a Room or Spa Today! 8:30 am to 5:30 pm happycathotel.com/albuquerquenm

ancora cafe COFFEE WITH A MISSION

Providing paid job-skills training to those in recovery through our non-pro t cafe & bakery.

Mon-Sat: 6am - 8:30pm Sun: 8am - 4pm 148 Quincy St NE, Albuquerque, 87108

Photo courtesy of IMDb.

HAPS The Entertainment Guide

Career Services

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3.8

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Sunshine Theater Spencer Sutherland February 25th 2025

$25 - $75 | 7:30pm | All Ages 120 Central Ave SW, 87102

Treasures of the Earth Show Albuquerque Gem and Mineral Club Over 50 dealers, silent auctions, educational booths, and displays. March 14-16, 2025 | Expo New Mexico

Test With Truman Be Empowered. Know Your Status. Walk in HIV Testing

Tuesday: 1pm-5pm 801 Encino Pl NE

Wednesday

Ancora Cafe and Bakery

Games & Karaoke

Family Night

Hours: 6 AM - 8:30 PM, 148 Quincy St NE

Annapurna’s World Vegetarian Cafe Chai Happy Hour 3-5pm Wednesday: 8am-8pm 2201 Silver Avenue SE

Big Ass Cookies Order delicious sweets online! @bigasscookiesllc oterolane@yahoo.com 505-550-9478

Birthright of Albuquerque Providing love, support, and hope to woman both before and after childbirth.

birthright.org/albuquerque New Volunteers Always Welcome Wednesday 10AM-1PM 3228 Candelaria Rd NE

“All Majors” Job & Internship Fair

March 6: 10am-2pm

Location: SUB Visit career.unm.edu for more info!

Chicharra Poetry Slam Festival

March 20 - March 22

Free Workshops | Open Mics Daily cicadapoetryslamfestival.com

Happy Cat Hotel & Spa Book a Room or Spa Today! 8:30 am to 5:30 pm

happycathotel.com/albuquerquenm

JC’s New York Pizza Dept. Buy Pizza, Wings and more with LoboCash through Grubhub 11 AM - 10 PM 215 Central Ave, NW 87102 (505) 766-6973

Mama and the Girls

Cannabis Dispensary and Education Center 8 AM- 10:30 PM 915 Yale Blvd SE Ste B

Outpost Performance Space Student discounts available! www.outpostspace.org For upcoming shows

Quirky Used Books & More Fiction & Nonfiction Wed: 11am – 6pm 120 Jefferson St NE

Sunshine Theater The Plot In You: North America 2025 February 26th 2025

$28 - $78 · 7:30pm · All Ages 120 Central Ave SW, 87102

Treasures of the Earth Show Albuquerque Gem and Mineral Club Over 50 dealers, silent auctions, educational booths, and displays. March 14-16, 2025 | Expo New Mexico Test With Truman Be Empowered. Know Your Status. 801 Encino Pl NE 505-272-1312

Thursday

Ancora Cafe and Bakery Open Mic Night Hours: 6 AM - 8:30 PM, 148 Quincy St NE

Annapurna’s World Vegetarian Cafe Chai Happy Hour 3-5pm Thursday: 8am-8pm 2201 Silver Avenue SE

Big Ass Cookies Order delicious sweets online! @bigasscookiesllc oterolane@yahoo.com 505-550-9478

Birthright of Albuquerque

Providing love, support, and hope to woman both before and after childbirth. birthright.org/albuquerque New Volunteers Always Welcome Thursday 10AM-1PM 3228 Candelaria Rd NE

Career Services

“All Majors” Job & Internship Fair March 6: 10am-2pm Location: SUB Visit career.unm.edu for more info!

Chicharra Poetry Slam Festival March 20 - March 22 Free Workshops | Open Mics Daily cicadapoetryslamfestival.com

Happy Cat Hotel & Spa Book a Room or Spa Today! 8:30 am

HAPS The Entertainment Guide

Test With Truman

Be Empowered. Know Your Status.

Walk in HIV Testing Thursday: 5pm-7pm 801 Encino Pl NE

Friday

Albuquerque Little Theatre

Check out the 95th season! albuquerquelittletheatre.org

Ancora Cafe and Bakery

Musician & Artist Showcase

Hours: 6 AM - 8:30 PM, 148 Quincy St NE

Annapurna’s World Vegetarian Cafe

Chai Happy Hour 3-5pm Friday: 8am-8pm

2201 Silver Avenue SE

Big Ass Cookies

Order delicious sweets online! @bigasscookiesllc oterolane@yahoo.com 505-550-9478

Career Services

“All Majors” Job & Internship Fair

March 6: 10am-2pm Location: SUB Visit career.unm.edu for more info!

Chicharra Poetry Slam Festival

March 20 - March 22

Free Workshops | Open Mics Daily cicadapoetryslamfestival.com

Happy Cat Hotel & Spa

Book a Room or Spa Today!

8:30 am to 5:30 pm happycathotel.com/albuquerquenm

JC’s New York Pizza Dept.

Buy Pizza, Wings and more with LoboCash through Grubhub

11 AM - 12 PM

215 Central Ave, NW 87102 (505) 766-6973

Mama and the Girls

Cannabis Dispensary and Education Center

8 AM- 10:30 PM 915 Yale Blvd SE Ste B

Outpost Performance Space

Student discounts available! www.outpostspace.org For upcoming shows

Quirky Used Books & More

More than 16,000 Used Books Fri: 11am – 6pm 120 Jefferson St NE

Sunshine Theater Buy your tickets today! Check out sunshinetheaterlive.com for more showings!

Treasures of the Earth Show Albuquerque Gem and Mineral Club

Over 50 dealers, silent auctions, educational booths, and displays. March 14-16, 2025 | Expo New Mexico

Test With Truman Be Empowered. Know Your Status. 801 Encino Pl NE 505-272-1312

Saturday

Albuquerque Little Theatre Check out the 95th season! albuquerquelittletheatre.org

Ancora Cafe and Bakery

Sports Night Hours: 6 AM - 8:30 PM, 148 Quincy St NE

Annapurna’s World Vegetarian Cafe Chai Happy Hour 3-5pm Saturday: 8am-8pm 2201 Silver Avenue SE

Big Ass Cookies Order delicious sweets online! @bigasscookiesllc oterolane@yahoo.com 505-550-9478

Career Services

“All Majors” Job & Internship Fair March 6: 10am-2pm

Location: SUB Visit career.unm.edu for more info!

Chicharra Poetry Slam Festival March 20 - March 22

Free Workshops | Open Mics Daily cicadapoetryslamfestival.com

Happy Cat Hotel & Spa Book a Room or Spa Today! 8:30 am to 5:30 pm happycathotel.com/albuquerquenm

JC’s New York Pizza Dept. Buy Pizza, Wings and more with LoboCash through Grubhub 11 AM - 12 PM 215 Central Ave, NW 87102 (505) 766-6973

Mama and the Girls Cannabis Dispensary and Education Center

8 AM- 10:30 PM 915 Yale Blvd SE Ste B Outpost Performance Space

Student discounts available! www.outpostspace.org For upcoming shows

Quirky Used Books & More Saturday, February 22

Book Signing: “A Gradient Into Shadows” Speculative Short Fiction

By Local Author Stuart Mascair Sat: 3pm-5pm 120 Jefferson St NE

Sunshine Theater

Palaye Royale - Death Or Glory North America 2025 March 1st 2025

$25 - $75 · 8:00pm · All Ages 120 Central Ave SW, 87102

Treasures of the Earth Show

Albuquerque Gem and Mineral Club Over 50 dealers, silent auctions, educational booths, and displays. March 14-16, 2025 | Expo New Mexico

Test With Truman Be Empowered. Know Your Status. 801 Encino Pl NE 505-272-1312

Sunday

Albuquerque Little Theatre Check out the 95th season! albuquerquelittletheatre.org

Ancora Cafe and Bakery

Sports Night Hours: 8AM - 4PM, 148 Quincy St NE

Annapurna’s World Vegetarian Cafe

Chai Happy Hour 3-5pm Sunday: 10am-8pm 2201 Silver Avenue SE

Big Ass Cookies

Order delicious sweets online! @bigasscookiesllc oterolane@yahoo.com 505-550-9478

Career Services

“All Majors” Job & Internship Fair

March 6: 10am-2pm

Location: SUB Visit career.unm.edu for more info!

Chicharra Poetry Slam Festival March 20 - March 22

Free Workshops | Open Mics Daily cicadapoetryslamfestival.com

Happy Cat Hotel & Spa

Book a Room or Spa Today! 8:30 am to 5:30 pm happycathotel.com/albuquerquenm

JC’s New York Pizza Dept. Buy Pizza, Wings and more with LoboCash through Grubhub

11 AM - 10 PM 215 Central Ave, NW 87102 (505) 766-6973

Mama and the Girls Cannabis Dispensary and Education Center

8 AM- 10:30 PM 915 Yale Blvd SE Ste B

Outpost Performance Space Student discounts available! www.outpostspace.org For upcoming shows

“We know that our students also hear about the rapid changes being proposed or enacted in federal programs,” Stokes said at her State of the University address on Friday, Feb. 21.

“Our rapid response groups will continue to analyze any enforced orders or regulations and will let our community know immediately our understanding of what they might mean.”

MMA from page 4

possible through fostering a welcoming environment for people of all skill levels to be able to come and train, Evans said.

“I think mixed martial arts is probably one of the easiest sports to enter,” Evans said. “You can pursue a path that allows you to work towards the things you’re better at.”

The club can lend new fighters

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It’s unclear whether the Department of Education guidance will impact UNM’s Title V grant funding.

The Department of Education provides Title V grant funding to HSIs to “expand the educational opportunities for Hispanic Americans and other underrepresented populations,” according to the Department of Education.

In 2020, a Title V grant totaling

boxing gloves and shin guards used for striking during the meetings, Armstrong said.

“All it takes is interest,” he said.

“The best thing about MMA is you don’t need to be Michael Jordan. You don’t need to be anything. You can be any build. We have every kind of build, and you can just come in and all you need to do is want to

Santa Fe Gloom from page 4

“We’re gonna have our own venue space where we sit thousands of spectators,” Fresquez said. “You can go to a Gloom game in the afternoon, and go see a concert at night. It will be an event space and

that is the future for the Gloom.”

This venue is part of the Gloom’s five-year plan.

The Gloom will play their second to last regular season game on Saturday, March 1 which will be

‘Les Misérables’ from page 5

Studies, attended the show on opening night and said she likes how “Les Misérables” is a story of “mercy and grace.”

“I love the way somebody impacted John Valjean’s life, and he remembered that, he took it to heart and he turned his life around for the better and made an impact on other

Microplastics from page 6

that a primary entryway for MNPs into our bodies is the food that we eat.

Although the brain absorbs a lot of nutrients, it doesn’t have a strong filtration system to remove the nanoparticles in the same way the liver and kidney do, Garcia said, and this is why microplastics have accumulated in the brain so easily.

“The degradation of single-use plastic over decades leads to microplastics and

people’s lives,” she said.

Fitzgerald also compared the two love interests of the story.

“The love story between Marius and Cosette, that was fine, but what really stood out was Èponine,”

Fitzgerald said. “She loved (Marius) so much that she would help him

nanoplastics ending up in our groundwater and soil,” Garcia said. “This, in turn, ends up in our vegetation as well as what’s being consumed in our livestock. MNPs then accumulate in their tissue, which is what we end up consuming.” MNPs can be ingested or inhaled, according to Nature Magazine. Plastic particles are also “intentionally added” to cosmetic products — such as lipstick, lip gloss and eye makeup — to improve

nearly $2.7 million was awarded to UNM’s Valencia campus, according to UNM Valencia.

UNM still recognizes itself as a HSI, but can’t speak for whether the Department of Education recognizes the University as an HSI, according to Blair.

“Let me be clear - our commitment to the core values that underpin our

learn and just be kind.”

In the UNM MMA community, no one is ever scared to bring new people to the mat, Armstrong said.

Fighter Alex St. Clessis Brown sees potential for the club to grow into something “pretty major,” they said.

“I plan on competing,” St. Clessis Brown said. “Don’t you want to beat Texas at some point?”

their black-out game against Colorado Futsal Academy. The Gloom already lost to Colorado Futsal Academy earlier this year and are hungry for revenge.

“We expect a lot of fans there, it’s gonna

with his relationship with Cosette — that was true love.”

Fitzgerald said that in terms of production, Popejoy’s showing was better than what she remembers when she previously saw the show on Broadway.

“It would be hard to believe that a

their look and feel during application, according to Science News. They often contain additives to enhance their mechanical properties, flexibility, durability, stability and color, which can leech into seawater or the environment when broken down, according to the National Institutes of Health.

Some team members are involved in research projects that investigate further questions raised by the find-

support centers and programs will not be diminished. We have always viewed these centers and programs as playing a vital role in the success of our students,” Stokes wrote in the Feb. 20 email. “These services are not about exclusion; they are about creating a campus where every student can reach their full potential.”

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For Evans, MMA is a good way to build confidence and test himself, he said.

“I think what I like about MMA specifically is that I feel like I always have to challenge myself to do better,” Evans said. “You may not see the changes when you look back a few months between your skill then and skill now. If you consistently keep

be revenge city for sure,” Fresquez said.

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production on Broadway would be any better than this one that I saw at Popejoy,” she said.

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ings, such as how the microplastics are getting into our system and what types of food sources are most susceptible to microplastic accumulation.

“We have ongoing research that investigates the accumulation of polymer plastics in different types of food,” Hayek said. “Different types of meats, cheese, vegetables and processed foods.“ Hayek said she felt a sense of responsibility when conducting this study.

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practicing, you’ll say, ‘Wow, I’m so much better than I used to be.’”

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“It’s not like in the past, where the research is only going to be advertised in a small scientific community,” Hayek said. “It is going out to a very large scientific community as well as to the general public.”

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DAILY LOBO C ampus Calendar of Events Calendar

Monday-Sunday, February 24 - March 2, 2025

ASUNM Full Senate Meeting

SUB, Lobo A & B

6:00 – 7:00pm

Workshops

Study Hacks: The Test Cycle Mesa Vista Hall, Room 1064

12:00 – 1:00pm

Hosted by the Asian American Pacific Islander Resource Center.

American Indian Student ServicesTaxes American Indian Student Cente

3:00 – 4:00pm Hosted by the Center for Financial Capability.

Theater & Film

Classics Film Screening: Gladiator Ortega Hall, Language Learning Center Movie Room

3:00 – 5:00pm A former Roman General sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery. Hosted by the Department of Languages, Cultures & Literatures and the Language Learning Center.

Mid Week Movies: Wicked

SUB, Theater 5:30 – 9:00pm

Misunderstood because of her green skin, a young woman named Elphaba forges an unlikely but profound friendship with Glinda, a student with an unflinching desire for popularity. Following an encounter with the Wizard of Oz, their relationship soon reaches a crossroad as their lives begin to take very different paths. Sign-In at

the movie.

Art & Music

Arts in Medicine Concert

UNM Hospital, BBRP Cafe 12:00 – 1:00pm Arts in Medicine presentsthis week with jazz standards provided by Trio No. Bring a lunch to the BBRP at noon for this weeks surprise musical guest.

UNM Symphony Orchestra: Stories in Sound Popejoy Hall 7:30 – 9:00pm Orchestral works and a solo performance by Lorenzo Gallegos. The program features L’apprenti Sorcier (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice), Béla Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 2, Grazyna Bacewicz’s Overture for Orchestra and Alexander Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances. Conducted by Dr. Sebastian Serrano-Ayala and Col. Jim Keene. $15 general admission, $10 seniors and UNM employees, $5 students.

Lectures & Readings

Thesis/Dissertation Annoucement

Clark Hall, Room 201 10:00 – 11:00am Jeremiah Abok, Chemistry, presents “Drug Targets Illumination: An Evidence-Based Data Analytics & Informatics Approach to Hypothesis Generation Through Clinical Trials and Genomic Variants.”

THURSDAY

Campus Events

Family & Friends Cancer Support Group

College of Education & Human Sciences, Education Wing 4:00 – 5:30pm A journaling support group for anyone who has a loved one with cancer, a loved one who has survived cancer, and/or a loved one who has died from cancer.

UNM Alumni Association Awards Dinner The Event Center at Sandia Golf Club 5:30 – 8:00pm Join the UNM Alumni Association at The Sandia Golf Club Event Center as they recognize UNM graduates. Tickets are $75 per person and must be purchased online.

Open Table Connections Dinner and Dialogue Dane Smith Hall 5:00 – 7:30pm

Following a free community meal, The Open Table Connection will offer a variety of ways for students to learn about, connect with, and live out their faith. They offer text studies, theological dialogue, spiritual practices, prayer, worship, Holy Communion, and service opportunities LGBTQAI+ Affirming.

Lectures & Readings

Thesis/Dissertation Presentation

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Room 237 1:30 – 2:30pm Ethan Wade, Electrical Computer Engineering, presents “Modeling and Simulations of an Input Coupler for a High-Power Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier as a Preliminary Investigation into a Multi-Stream Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier.”

PNMGC Presentation

SUB, Ballroom B 6:00 – 7:00pm

Events are free unless otherwise noted!

Kevin Powell, UNM, presents “Hip Hop is Resistance: The Future of America.”

LVI Journal of Anthropological Research Distinguished Lecture Hibben Center for Archeology Research, Room 105 7:30 – 8:30pm Dr. Jada Benn Torres, Vanderbilt University, presents “Marketing Race: The Allure, Promise, and Pitfalls of Genetic Ancestry Testing.”

Meetings

SCRAP Meeting

Popejoy Hall, Room B-409 4:00 – 5:30pm Join SCRAP in making a promotional banner for “You Are Alive, But Are You Living?” Attendees should bring supplies if possible.

Student Groups & Gov

Chinese Club Study Group

Ortega Hall, LLC Lab 1 12:30 – 3:30pm Join Chinese Club for their weekly group study sessions.

Theater & Film

Rhythm India: Bollywood & Beyond

Popejoy Hall

7:30 – 9:30pm Experience the vibrant costumes, dynamic music, and soulful rhythms of the “ghungroo” dancing bells in this journey of dance and celebration. Ticket prices range from $25-$75.

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Lectures & Readings

CMBD Seminar Series

Fitz Hall, Room 303

12:00 – 1:00pm Ekrem Emrah Er, University of Illinois at Chicago, presents the Health Sciences Center’s weekly seminar series hosting high-profile scientists to speak on current topics in biomedical research.

PNMGC Presentation

Zimmerman Library, Frank Waters

Room

1:00 – 2:00pm

Dr. Bernadine Hernandez, UNM, presents “Archives for Us: The “HowTo” Guide on Archival Research.”

Department of Africana Studies

Presentation

SUB, Theater

2:00 – 4:00pm

Dr. Kideste Yusef, Chief Gary Hill, and Kemba Smith-Pradia will present in phase 4 of the “I Fear for My Life: Building Trust and Reducing Fear” initiative.

Economics Seminar

Economics Department, Room 1002

2:00 – 3:00pm Yongyang Cai, Ohio State University, presents “Dynamics of Global Emission Permit Prices and Regional Social Cost of Carbon under Noncooperation.”

Mechanical Engineering Graduate Seminar

Centennial Engineering Center, Room 1041

3:30 – 4:30pm Nathan Schroeder, Sandia National Labs, presents “Concentrating solar power (CSP).”

Physics and Astronomy Colloquium PAIS, Room 1100

3:30 – 4:30pm Diego Dalvit, LANL, presents “Quantum Radar with Undetected Photons.”

Chemistry Seminar Clark Hall, Room 101 4:00 – 5:00pm Arghya Chakravorty, OpenEye Scientific, presents.

Meetings

UNM Hospital Board of Trustees Meeting UNM Hospital, BBRP Conference Room 9:30 – 11:30am

Qur’an Reading Group 10:00 – 11:00am Ortega Hall, LLC Movie Room Hosted by the Language Learning Center.

Abroad 101 Group Session Mesa Vista Hall, Room 2120

1:00 – 2:00pm Students are required to meet with an advisor prior to applying to study abroad. Group sessions will review all the mandatory information you need to know before applying to study abroad.

Student Groups & Gov

Japanese Club

SUB, Scholars Room

5:00 – 6:00pm Join this Language Learning Center group to learn more about Japanese language and culture.

Theater & Film

SWFC Movie: Memoir of a Snail

SUB, Theater 6:00 – 8:00pm After a series of misfortunes, a snailcollecting, melancholic misfit learns how to find confidence within herself amid the clutter of everyday life. Sign in at the movie.

Art & Music

Piano Masterclass: Michelle Cann Keller Hall 10:00am – 12:00pm

UNM Piano Performance students will join Michelle Cann onstage for a piano masterclass. Community members are welcome to attend.

Fred Sturm in Concert Keller Hall

7:30 – 9:00pm

UNM Music alumnus Fred Sturm performs the early and late music of Frederic Mompou. $20 for general admission, $12 for seniors.

UNM Choirs: Las Cantantes & Dolce Suono Keller Hall

7:30 – 9:00pm

Conducted by Dr. Patrick Gill and Sharee Gariety. $15 general admission, $10 seniors and UNM employees, $5 students.

Voltage – The UNM Faculty Dance Concert

Rodey Theatre

7:30 – 9:00pm

Voltage showcases works by national and international artists who have worked with UNM Dance students to bring their original creations to life. This year’s concert features Contemporary works by Vladimir Conde Reche, Donna Jewell, and guest artists Seán Curran and Elana Anderson. Flamenco works for Voltage were choreographed by guest artists Ricardo Moro and Florencia Oz.

$15 General, $12 Faculty & Seniors, $10 Staff & Students, tickets must be purchased online.

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UNM Baseball vs Rhode Island Santa Ana Star Field

2:00 – 4:00pm UNM Baseball

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CURRENT EXHIBITS

These Fleeting Shadows Dissolve by Day’s Light

Through March 1, 2025

6th Street Studio MFA Thesis by Brianna Tadeo.

Undergraduate Research Opportunity Conference Exhibit Through March 14, 2025

Zimmerman Library, 3rd Floor Lobby

The exhibit will be 3 research posters and a digital display to promote the upcoming undergraduate research opportunity conference in April 2025.

Oaxaca Ingobernable: Aesthetics, Politics, and Art from Below Through March 14, 2025

Maxwell Museum of Anthropology

concert features Contemporary works by Vladimir Conde Reche, Donna Jewell, and guest artists Seán Curran and Elana Anderson. Flamenco works for Voltage were choreographed by guest artists Ricardo Moro and Florencia Oz.

$15 General, $12 Faculty & Seniors, $10 Staff & Students, tickets must be purchased online.

Theater & Film

Dirty Dancing in Concert

Popejoy Hall

3:00 – 5:00pm

Enjoy the digitally remastered hit film on a full-size cinema screen, with a live band and singers performing the film’s songs. Ticket prices range from $25-$89.

Oaxaca Ingobernable: Aesthetics, Politics, and Art from Below, explores subversive representations of embodied resistance by Indigenous and Black Oaxacan communities in Mexico and the United States through collaborative artmaking practices and largescale relief prints, on view in the Hibben Center and Maxwell Museum of Anthropology.

Entangled Cultures: How Humans and Microbes Co-create through Fermentation

Through March 14, 2025

Maxwell Museum of Anthropology

Entangled Cultures presents diverse global examples of traditional vessels used in the creation and consumption of fermented foods and beverages.

Sub Terra Through March 15, 2025

716 Solano Dr NE Daneil Forest’s MFA Thesis exhibition.

A walk through installation of 5 immersive works. 2 years in the making.

Seeding Radicle Futures Through April 3, 2025

Center for Southwest Research, Frank Waters Room

This exhibition presents student and faculty artworks from the community-engaged art studio class called Seeding Radicle Futures. Featuring work by: Elena Bunker Ruiz, Daniela del mar, Simon Doane, Sachika Goel, Ellan Luna, Fin Martens, Lucy Osborn, Hannah Taylor, Jacob White, and Ruiqi Xu.

Tamarind Exhibition: Home Again: Artists on NM

Through April 4, 2025

Tamarind Institute

Home Again: Artists on NM comprises a selection of works on paper created by artists who are either based in or inspired by New Mexico, including Andrew Dasburg, Judy Chicago, Jim Dine, Rose B. Simpson, and Emmi Whitehorse, among others. The exhibition is an expanded and extended showing of Tamarind at El Zaguán.

“Nothing Left for Me”: Federal Policy and the Photography of Milton Snow in Diné Bikéyah Through May 3, 2025

Maxwell Museum of Anthropology

This exhibition foregrounds Diné perspectives on the intersecting and ongoing legacies of both photography and American colonialism.

Graphic Art and Revolution: Latin American Posters 1968-2000

Through May 17, 2025

UNM Art Museum

This exhibition features materials produced in response to populist, anti-imperialist, and anti-dictatorial revolutionary and resistance movements from 1968 to 2000. Representing a range of nations and organizations, it includes prints created in Mexico, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panama, Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Cuba.

Legacy of Hip Hop: A Sonic

Exploration

Through July 1, 2025

Honors College Forum, Spectra Gallery Collaborative works from students

in the Legacy of Hip Hop course, where creativity meets culture.

Each group of students has designed an original album cover and produced a song, exploring the deep connections between visual art and music in hip-hop culture. Visitors can experience the full impact of these creations through a series of headphones, placed next to each album cover, allowing them to listen to the unique sounds that inspired the visual art.

Pelton & Jonson: The Transcendent 1930s

Ongoing exhibit

Raymond Jonson Gallery

Paintings, drawings, and archival materials from the UNM Art Museum collection to illustrate the aesthetic achievements and personal connections between American painters Agnes Pelton (1881-1961) and Raymond Jonson (1891-1982).

Ancestors

Permanent Exhibit

Maxwell Museum of Anthropology

Ancestors will lead you through those aspects of modern humanity that makes us unique and successful tracing the path of evolution through the past four million years.

People of the Southwest

Permanent Exhibit

Maxwell Museum of Anthropology

The exhibition celebrates the cultural history of the Southwest, especially the close relationship southwestern people have had with the land around them. Through time, the connection between people and land has produced a deep spiritual bond that continues today in the daily life of many communities

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