Daily Lobo 03/19/18

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Lobos beat national No. 1 with tight 6-5 win By Robert Maler @Robert_Maler The University of New Mexico hockey club may not have advanced out of pool play at the 2018 ACHA National Championships, but the team seemed to have put to rest any questions about whether or not it belongs on the national stage. In its first-ever appearance on the national stage as a program, New Mexico ended with a 2-1 record in pool play — culminating with a 6-5 victory over the No. 1 overall team in the nation for most of the season, Michigan State. Quinnipiac emerged as the winner of Pool B by winning all three of its matches, including an 11-3 shellacking of the Lobos in their lone loss. UNM defeated Central Florida in overtime by a score of 4-3 in its opening match, but the team likely had a lot of soul-searching and serious questions about how to move forward against a very strong Michigan State team. After what New Mexico head coach Grant Harvey referred to as a “lackluster performance” by his goal tender, he went back and forth before electing to stay with senior

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UNM hockey players sit on their bench during a game on Sept. 27, 2013 at the Outpost Arena.

Lobo to hold town hall with Stokes David Harris resigns

after 14 years By Anthony Jackson

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Newly appointed UNM President Garnett S. Stokes tells reporters about her future plans for the University on March 5, 2018 at Popejoy Hall.

By Kyle Land @kyleoftheland The Daily Lobo will be hosting a town hall with Garnett S. Stokes, the new president of the University of New Mexico. It will take place March 27 at 4:30 p.m. in the Student Union Building Atrium. The event will be an opportunity

for the public to get to know Stokes a little more personally, as well as ask her questions about the variety of issues facing the University. The event is free and open to the public. Stokes started her position at UNM on March 1, after previously working at the University of Missouri, Florida State University and University of Georgia. Questions for the president can be submitted to opinion@

dailylobo.com or given to event hosts during the town hall. After event hosts ask Stokes a few of their own questions, they will read questions from the public. Kyle Land is a news editor at the Daily Lobo. He can be contacted at news@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @kyleoftheland.

“I tried to simplify the president’s role,” Harris said. “Most @TonyAnjackson presidents come in here, and they review the strategic plan, they The University of New Mexico tweak the strategic plan, they overwill be receiving a new Executive lay their own strategic vision. It Vice President takes a lot of reof Administrasources and tion by Dec. 31, time to reimagas current EVP ine things on a David Harris grand scale.” is retiring afHarris said ter spending 14 accepting the years at UNM. interim presiHarris held dent role led multiple governto six-day work ment positions weeks, and he before joining still had to fulthe University fill his role as in 2004 and said EVP of Adminhis experience istration. has helped him He called throughout his his work “goaltime at UNM. driven” and “My role was compared his to help with term to driving structural is- Courtesy Photo / Office of the EVP for on the freeway Administration, COO & CFO sues to try and and preventing create a stronger administrative… road rage. function here, at the University,” “One of the things a president Harris said. has to do is maintain the flow of Former UNM President Lou- things…in a sensible way, so peois Caldera left the University in ple can work together,” he said. 2006, and Harris was asked to act Harris returned to his EVP as interim president until a re- position in 2007 when former placement was found in May of UNM President David J. Schmidly 2007.

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