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UNM releases draft changes to affirmative action policies
review and commentary through Friday, April 4.
Update 04/06/2025: The public review and comment period for the draft policies ended on Friday, April 4. The comments will now be compiled and go to Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration Teresa Costantinidis for endorsement, then President Garnett Stokes for approval.
This story was initially published on the Daily Lobo website on March 24.
The University of New Mexico released prospective changes to its affirmative action policies on March 28. The draft policies — which largely remove references to affirmative action — are available on the UNM Policy Office website for the campus community’s
Affirmative action at UNM seeks to promote race and gender diversity in employment by recruiting qualified women, minorities, people with disabilities and protected veterans, according to UNM Compliance, Ethics, & Equal Opportunity.
Typically, the public review and comment period for new policy drafts lasts 30 days. But a March 31 campuswide email announcing the draft changes reads that the period was shortened “due to the compelling legal need to revise these policies.”
The Policy Office can respond to questions that people comment on each policy, according to UNM Chief Marketing and Communications Officer Cinnamon Blair. After April 4, the comments and responses will be compiled and sent to Executive Vice President for Finance and Admin -
istration Teresa Costantinidis for endorsement, then President Garnett Stokes for approval. After that, the revised policies will be announced and issued on the Policy Office website, Blair said.
The University announced that it reviewed and would revise its gender-, race- and ethnicity-based employment policies on March 6. This followed the U.S. Education Department’s Feb. 14 memo to universities across the country, directing them to end race-based programs or risk losing federal funding.
UNM also released prospective changes to its security fee policy for on-campus speech events.
Draft Policy 2720: Equal Opportunity and Prohibited Discrimination (Interim)
University Administrative Policies - Policy 2720 outlines University equal opportunity and discrimina-
tion misconduct policies.
The prospective changes would remove “traditionally underrepresented groups, including women, racial/ethnic minorities (to include, Native Americans, Black/African Americans, Latinx/Hispanics, Asians, and Pacific Islanders)” from the list of groups that UNM aims to increase representation of through its affirmative action program. People with disabilities and veterans would remain on that list.
The changes would also remove the requirement for the University to create a written affirmative action plan that “measures whether women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and veterans are being employed at the expected rate.” Additionally, they would remove other University responsibilities regarding gathering and reporting affirmative action data.
The changes would mandate that departments take reasonable steps to ensure people who have a limited ability to read, write, speak or understand English have meaningful accommodations to access their programs and activities.
Draft Policy 3210: Recruitment and Hiring
UAP - Policy 3210 describes recruitment and hiring procedures, as well as employment restrictions.
The prospective changes would remove all mentions of and references to affirmative action within the policy.
One crossed-out section reads: “UNM is committed to meeting its affirmative action responsibilities in recruiting and retaining a highly qualified and diverse workforce.”
The draft policy still states that the
New Mexico created a safe haven for the trans community — but people are still scared
By Lily Alexander
This story was originally published by Source New Mexico.
Kylie Pucella, 21, a trans woman and senior at the University of New Mexico, began hormone therapy when she was 18. Since President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, she has worried that the legal protections for her care in New Mexico — often described as a safe haven for LGBTQ+ people — might not last amid presidential executive orders that target transgender rights.
She’s not the only one.
“People are really scared about losing their access to care,” Adrien Lawyer, co-founder and executive director of the Albuquerque-based
New Mexico Transgender Resource Center told Source. “But in New Mexico, that’s very unlikely to happen.”
That’s because the state created a legal framework well in advance of federal rollbacks of trans rights. But that hasn’t stopped legal challenges here, nor fully assuaged the fears of people who consider the care lifesaving.
The care
Gender-affirming care typically includes medication and surgical options that help people feel more aligned with the gender they know themselves to be, according to Dr. Molly McClain, a physician who provides gender-affirming care in the state. Medications include ones to suspend puberty, as well as hormone therapy to initiate puberty aligned with someone’s gender, McClain said. People 18 and older also have surgical options.
“The very important thing for ev-
eryone to recognize is that the way that someone feels affirmed in their gender is really, really individually dependent,” McClain said. “So not everybody needs to be on medications, not everybody needs to get surgery, and everyone has their own journey that they are embarking on.”
In New Mexico, most medical practices are doing their best to continue providing gender-affirming care while paying attention to the federal changes, McClain noted.
“I think we have a lot of protections here and a lot of support that kids in other states don’t — a lot of people who see them and hear them and love them,” McClain said.
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The Eric Olen era begins for men’s basketball
By Jaden McKelvey-Francis
On March 30, the University of New Mexico announced its hire of the 23rd head coach of the men’s basketball team, Eric Olen. He took over the job less than a week after previous Head Coach Richard Pitino announced he would move to Xavier University.
This marks the third major hire in Lobo athletics over the last four months, alongside new athletic director Fernando Lovo and head football coach Jason Eck. Olen is under contract with the
Lobos for five years, with a base salary of $1.2 million and an additional $50,000 per year, for a total payout of $6.5 million. He can receive further compensation by achieving athletic performance goals, like a Mountain West regular season championship or NCAA Tournament.
Olen brings winning experience to the program, having been the head coach at the University of California San Diego for 12 years, according to the UC San Diego Tritons. He led the Tritons to their first NCAA tournament in 2025 — the school’s first year of eligibility for the tournament after transitioning from Division II to Division I. He finished the season with a 30-5 record.
He had a 0.669 winning percentage as the Tritons’ head coach, over both Division I and II. He won Big West Coach of the Year the last two consecutive seasons.
Olen will have his work cut out for him, as he inherits a program that has made two consecutive NCAA tournaments, won a conference tournament in 2023-24 and a regular season championship in 2024-25, and seen consistent improvement over the last four years.
“No one will ever have higher expectations for our team and this program than me,” Olen said during his introductory press conference.
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Coach Olen, the new men’s basketball coach, is introduced at a press conference at the Davalos Center on Tuesday, April 1.
UNM senior Kylie Pucella says the uptick in anti-trans laws has made her worried about her own care.
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By Lily Alexander
Thousands gather at Civic Plaza for nationwide ‘Hands Off!’ protest against Trump administration
By Leila Chapa & Paloma Chapa
@lchapa06 & @paloma_chapa88
On Saturday, April 5, Albuquerque joined cities across the country in a “Hands Off!” protest, during which thousands rallied at Civic Plaza to protest against the Trump administration’s actions.
Speakers addressed local and national issues including immigrant rights, LGBTQ+ rights, climate justice, Medicaid, Palestinian rights, the right
to free speech, public education and the University of New Mexico’s policies.
Speakers at the rally included labor activist Dolores Huerta, former Secretary of the Interior and current gubernatorial candidate Deb Haaland, Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller, New Mexico Women’s March Chair Samia Assed, UNM law professor Ernesto Longa, among others.
Huerta, who will celebrate her 95th birthday on April 10, was greeted with a “Happy Birthday” song from the crowd.
“Thank you for joining this wonderful march, this national march, to protest what’s happening in Washington,” Huerta said.
Keller said he will defend Albuquerque and protect immigrant communities if Trump tries to cut diversity, equity and inclusion in the city.
“We’re not afraid to say those words, and we’re gonna keep saying them because it’s who we are,” Keller said. “Our strength is in our people and in our diversity.”
Robert Luke, a local radio entertainer who emceed the event, said he was pleased by the turnout.
“Sometimes you wake up in the morning and you’re just so frustrated by what’s going on around you,” Luke said. “But it was refreshing to see that there are a lot of people who feel just like me,
people who don’t look like me, but we still think and feel the same way.”
Assed told the crowd that as a Palestinian American, she feels “defeated” by what she has seen in Gaza.
Over 1,000 people have been killed since the collapse of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas on March 18, according to the United Nations.
“You must center Gaza in your fight for your democracy,” Assed said. “Fight for Gaza like you would fight for your home.”
Ellen Bernstein, president of the Albuquerque Teachers Federation, spoke about Trump’s orders to dis-
mantle the Education Department.
“Trump claims this is all about returning education to the states,” Bernstein said.
But, she said, Trump threatened to withdraw funding if school districts refuse to remove DEI in schools.
On March 28, UNM released proposed changes to UNM’s policies that largely removed affirmative action.
Longa spoke about these prospective changes and pro-Palestine free speech on college campuses.
He said that since dismantling the UNM Palestine solidarity encamp-
UNMPD begins using bodycams
By Lily Alexander & Lauren Lifke
@llilyalexander & @lauren_lifke
In March, the University of New Mexico Police Department began using body cameras.
This comes over a year after the Daily Lobo reported that UNMPD did not use body cameras because of a loophole in a state statute. A bill during this year’s legislative session aimed to close that loophole, but it did not make it past the Senate.
UNM announced that the police department would obtain the cameras in August 2024. So far, the cameras have worked well, according to Lt. Tim Delgado, who is in charge of UNMPD’s body camera program.
“The officers are good with it, and it’s helped a lot on calls, with arrests, complaints — because it shows the whole picture,” Delgado said. “It’s a
very clear picture — audio and video.”
The department does not have an official policy for the devices yet. The policy that Delgado developed is in the approval process, which involves the Office of University Counsel and Human Resources, according to Delgado. When it is finalized, it will appear in UNMPD’s Standard Operating Procedures manual, which is accessible online.
Currently, UNMPD operates the cameras under a partial policy, which outlines when officers should and shouldn’t use them, according to Delgado.
“For the most part, they know how to use them. We haven’t had an issue with them,” Delgado said.
Officers should activate the cameras during nearly every interaction they have with the public, according to Delgado. They often do not tell people that the cameras are on, he said.
“Anytime you have contact with anybody, you have to have it on for the most part,” Delgado said.
There are some exceptions, such as when officers have casual conversations with the public, participate in briefings or enter hospital rooms.
In a November 2023 interview with the Daily Lobo, then-New Mexico American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Peter Simonson said body cameras benefit both the community and officers themselves.
“It’s been a critical way for the department to get a deep understanding of how officers are actually abiding by internal policies,” Simonson said.
UNMPD’s body camera policy will outline a process that occurs if an officer does not properly activate their camera, Delgado said. This will involve a report or written memorandum to the officer’s immediate supervisor, he said. The supervisor will then decide what to do.
“What they’re really looking for is if it’s ongoing,” Delgado said. “Someone’s gonna mess up once in a while, but if there’s a pattern of it, they’re
gonna look at that really hard.”
State law holds that officers who do not comply with their department’s body camera policies may be presumed to have acted in bad faith, and may be deemed liable for negligent or intentional spoliation of evidence.
Delgado said that officer training on how to use the body cameras is an ongoing process. Axon — the body camera company UNMPD signed a five-year contract with — offered initial training.
Beyond the cameras, Axon provides UNMPD with a cloud-based storage system for the footage. This footage is never deleted, Delgado said, unless a camera is falsely activated.
UNMPD will no longer use audio recorders. The department does not have dashcams, but an officer’s body camera must stay on if a member of the public is in their car, according to Delgado.
In August 2024, UNM Chief Marketing and Communications Officer Cinnamon Blair told the Daily Lobo
that the body camera implementation would cost the University $344,000 from its general operating funds for the first year.
UNM decided to obtain the cameras following reporting by the Daily Lobo and KOB. UNM administration renewed the conversation following last spring’s pro-Palestine protests, Blair told the Daily Lobo in August. “I don’t know if it was a catalyst in and of itself, but I would say it was a contributing factor,” Blair said. “In retrospect, that could have aided us in having a more comprehensive picture of what went on.”
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Norton wins ASUNM presidential race, six new senators elected
By Elliott Wood @dailylobo
On Friday, April 4, the Associated Students at the University of New Mexico Elections Commission named Andrew Norton the winner of the ASUNM presidential race over current Vice President Mutazz Jaber, certifying the results of March’s election.
“Thank you to everyone for voting!
UNM showed out! Congratulations to all the winners! No matter what, we will all work together to ensure ASUNM and student voice is represented in the best way! A huge thank you to my opponent for being respectful, kind, and truly a friend. I cannot express the thankfulness for keeping this election friendly!” Norton wrote in a statement on his campaign’s Instagram account. Norton won with 61.2% of the
presidential votes. Out of the 16,108 undergraduate students enrolled this semester, 1,358 voted in the election, according to the ASUNM Elections Commission website.
“Congratulations to my friend Andrew Norton! I’m very excited to see all you do as ASUNM President next year!” Jaber wrote in a March 28 story post on his campaign Instagram account.
Among the election’s other winners
are Finance Chair Hope Montoya, who ran unopposed on the ballot for vice president, and President Pro Tempore Gabbie Gonzáles, who maintains her senate seat after being voted president pro tempore by the Legislature earlier this semester.
Other senators who won reelection include Aizza Rehman, Dillon Williams and Taylor Hedrick. The new incoming senators are Owen Salinas, Daniyal Hussain, Reza Riz -
vi, Kaia Lewis, Jill Grandinetti and Kenny Carver. ASUNM Elections Commission Executive Director Anthony Languit confirmed that no contests of the election were filed before the deadline of April 1.
Elliott Wood is a beat reporter and photographer for the Daily Lobo. They can be reached at news@dailylobo. com or on X @dailylobo
ASUNM VP impeachment attempt fails in full senate meeting
By Elliott Wood @dailylobo
The Associated Students at the University of New Mexico senate voted Wednesday, April 2, not to open a resolution containing articles of impeachment filed against Vice President Mutazz Jaber for failure to fill two “critical” vacant senate seats in a timely manner, according to Resolution 1S.
If there are vacancies in the senate, the vice president is responsible for contacting and appointing the official candidates who received the next-highest number of votes during the most recent general election who could fill those vacancies, according to the ASUNM Constitution.
If the candidates appointed refuse the position, the vice president is obligated to accept applications for the vacant seats and appoint replacements, with approval from two-thirds of the senate, within 10 days, according to the constitution.
Resolution 1S, authored by Sen. Jayce McCloud and Sen. Hope Mon-
toya, claims that the senate has not been at “full capacity” since Feb. 1, though Jaber disputed this.
According to Jaber, the final official candidate who was on the ballot from the fall 2024 election declined an open seat on Feb. 24, making that the first time a seat was left open that could not be filled without applications being opened to the student body. However, applications were not opened until March 10, as Jaber said that his responsibility after Feb. 24 was making repeated attempts to contact Maya Aldosari, who was inactive in ASUNM for the month following her appointment. Aldosari was considered “resigned” on March 11.
Bailey Rutherford and Aldorasi’s seats are the only ones yet to be filled.
Originally, the applications were set to be open for 15 days, but the senate received zero applications during this period, Jaber said. It was extended on March 26, and they are now reviewing two applications that have come in since, Jaber said.
Jaber said he would call a special meeting to convene with senators and vote on the candidates on Wednes-
day, April 9, before holding regular committee meetings.
Many who spoke during the public comment portion of the meeting in opposition to the resolution ascribed the impeachment attempt to personal or political grievances held by the authors. Others, including Jaber himself, claimed that McCloud and Montoya were not in communication with the vice president about the senate vacancies before the resolution’s filing.
McCloud is a first-term senator serving in his first of two semesters, and Montoya ran uncontested to secure the vice presidency during the most recent spring elections. Montoya originally ran on a shared ticket with Jaber that included an Instagram account managed by the two of them, but this partnership fell through due to what she described as “a difference of opinions,” she said. Jaber lost to Andrew Norton in the presidential race.
Montoya said she did not communicate her concerns directly to the vice president, but that when the vacancies came up in larger meetings, like during the Finance Committee meetings that she chairs, she got the
impression that Jaber was putting off that responsibility, she said.
Similarly, McCloud said that the few face-to-face discussions he had with Jaber about the matter were short and informal.
The resolution was not posted publicly until the agenda for Wednesday’s full senate meeting was posted online, days after the election ended, according to President Pro Tempore Gabbie Gonzáles.
Sen. Nick Romero called the timing of the resolution “potentially manipulation and election interference,” followed afterward by, “while not officially, it was,” during closing remarks at Wednesday’s meeting — alluding to Jaber’s loss to Norton.
Montoya said that while the resolution was not publicly available at the time of the election, senators did approach her on March 26 to ask about it.
Anthony Languit, the executive director of the Elections Commission, confirmed that no contests of election were filed before the deadline of April 1, and the results were certified last week.
As for the decision to pursue
impeachment in place of a lawsuit, Montoya said that it was “the best way to hold the position of vice president accountable,” and that the resolution allowed them to cite exactly which parts of the ASUNM Constitution were being violated.
The public-facing element was a big factor as well, Montoya said — something that a suit with the ASUNM Judiciary wouldn’t provide. She said that by the end of the meeting, despite not opening the resolution to a vote or discussion, they had gotten their message about accountability across.
“It brings it more to everybody’s attention, versus just a sweep under the rug,” Montoya said. “Did I want to impeach the vice president? No, but this was just one of the only ways to go about it to where it brings it to everybody’s attention on a larger matter.”
The next full senate meeting will be April 16 in the Student Union Building.
Elliott Wood is a beat reporter and photographer for the Daily Lobo. They can be reached at news@dailylobo.com or on X @dailylobo
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UNM to begin demolition of Motel 6 following acquisition
By Jaden McKelvey-Francis @jadenmckelvey
The Motel 6 that the University of New Mexico acquired in February is expected to be demolished within the next two weeks.
The University purchased the property for $5 million, according to a memo from Thomas Neale, the UNM director of real estate. The motel sits on an approximately 1.57-acre
plot of land just west of Lobo Village.
The UNM Board of Regents also approved an offer for the 1-acre plot of land next to the motel priced at $1.25 million, according to a statement to the Daily Lobo by UNM Chief Marketing and Communications Officer Cinnamon Blair.
After the motel’s demolition, the University plans to use the land it sat on for “mixed-use commercial development,” though no exact uses have been determined, according to Blair.
There is not yet a timeline for redevelopment, Blair wrote. Any timeline will be based on market demand for the area and identifying appropriate uses, which is determined by the University Asset Management Committee and the Board of Regents, she wrote.
The motel has a reputation for crime.
On Feb. 11, a Lobo Advisory alerted the campus community to avoid the Motel 6 area because shots had been fired at a car nearby, according to Albuquerque Police Department Director
of Communications Gilbert Gallegos.
The neighboring Lobo Village was the site of a shooting on Jan. 31, where two people were injured.
Neale told the Albuquerque Journal last month that the University discovered vandalized rooms and evidence of the recent manufacturing of methamphetamine in the motel. UNM administration and South Campus stakeholders hope that the removal and redevelopment of the property will lead to
a decrease in crime, but they also plan to enhance security in the area through collaboration with University and city agencies, Blair wrote.
“The demolition of Motel 6 will have an immediate impact on the reduction of crime in the area,” Blair wrote.
Jaden McKelvey-Francis is a beat reporter for the Daily Lobo. He can be reached at news@dailylobo.com or on X @jadenmckelvey
‘Common Ground’: UNM hosts campus tree celebration
By Addison Fulton @dailylobo
On April 1, the University of New Mexico hosted a campus tree celebration with speakers, live music, a seed-swap, tree-shaped cookies and a live tree-planting demonstration. The event corresponded with the beginning of April as Earth Month.
For the first time, UNM was recognized as a higher education “Tree Campus” by the Arbor Day Foundation. To qualify for the designation, an institution must meet certain criteria — including having a campus tree advisory committee, a campus tree-care plan, dedicated annual expenditures for trees, annual Arbor Day observance and a service learning project that encourages student engagement, according to UNM Director of Sustainability Anne Jakle.
The spoken portion of the event sought to address the past, present
and future of UNM trees.
“In 1905, the University President William Tight started planting trees on campus. He started with the ponderosa pines behind Hodgin Hall,” said Vice President for Institutional Support Services Shawna Wolfe.
“This simple act set into motion the culture of tree-planting and care that continues today.”
UNM Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration
Teresa Costantinidis said trees are not just an aesthetically pleasing part of UNM’s landscape.
“They clean our air, they provide cooling shade during our increasingly hot summers and enhance the quality of life for students, faculty, staff and visitors,” Costantinidis said.
New Mexico, when seen on a heat map, is cooler than the areas around it partly because of its tree canopy, according to Costantinidis.
“In a time where finding common ground can be difficult, it turns out
there is one thing most Americans can still agree on: Trees are worth celebrating,” Costantinidis said.
She cited a Pew Research survey that found that 90% of Americans across the political spectrum supported planting trees to curb climate change.
Jakle said the UNM Office of Sustainability is relatively new; it was founded in March 2024. She said she hopes events like this will bring attention to the office and its goals.
“I think we really need to grow the culture of sustainability at UNM and raise the visibility of some of the amazing things that are already taking place, but that the campus community doesn’t know about,” Jakle said.
The event also featured a demonstration from UNM grounds manager Rich Schorr and arborists Adam Barber and Evan Lehman-Baker on how to properly plant a Shumard oak.
Jakle said she also hopes the event will inspire people to reflect on and value UNM’s trees.
UNM will continue to host Earth Month-themed events throughout the month of April.
Addison Fulton is the culture editor for the Daily Lobo. She can be reached at culture@dailylobo.com or on X @dailylobo
“I’m hoping they’ll pause and take a moment to really appreciate what an incredible resource our campus’ trees are. I think we walk underneath them all the time and don’t really stop to think about how unique this is in our desert environment, but also how much care and attention has to go into maintaining them,” Jakle said. “Just a moment of appreciation for our beautiful campus, and all the trees bring us.”
Teresa Costantinidis and Anne Jake break ground with the ceremonial shovel at Arbor Day on campus on Tuesday, on April 1.
Nelly Jean, a therapy dog from Southwest Canine Corps of Volunteers, bonds with students during the Cuddle A Canine event at Zimmerman Library on Thursday, April 3.
JayDee, a therapy dog from Southwest Canine Corps of Volunteers, bonds with students during the Cuddle A Canine event at Zimmerman Library on Thursday, April 3.
Denali, A therapy dog from Southwest Canine Corps of Volunteers, bonds with students during the Cuddle A Canine event at Zimmerman Library on Thursday, April 3.
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Guild Cinema April preview
By Elijah Ritch @dailylobo
Here are some of the films Albuquerque’s Guild Cinema — a short distance from the University of New Mexico campus — will show in April.
From April 8-10, the Guild will screen the 1980 film “The Elephant Man” as a part of its continuing tribute to David Lynch, who died in January. The film is a fictionalized account of the life of Joseph Merrick, a 19thcentury Englishman with severe facial deformities. Played by John Hurt, he is discovered in a freak show by a doctor, played by Anthony Hopkins, who rescues and takes care of him.
Widely considered one of Lynch’s most accessible works, “The Elephant Man” nevertheless sees the director in familiar thematic territory — finding the poetic in the grotesque. Complete with breathtaking black-and-white cinematography, “The Elephant Man” is a beautiful story from a master of his craft.
Sci-fi filmmaker Alex Proyas’ 1998 cult classic “Dark City” will screen at the Guild on April 11 at 10:30 p.m. Starring Kiefer Sutherland and Jennifer Connelly, the film is set in a dystopian world of perpetual darkness, where an amnesiac is wrongfully accused of murder and
sets out to prove his innocence.
When “Dark City” was originally released, it was presented in a truncated version intended to make the film more digestible to audiences, according to Paste. The Guild will present the film in its director’s cut, which restores Proyas’ original vision.
On April 25 at 10:30 p.m., the Guild will present the 1977 Japanese film “Hausu” — or “House” in English. One of the definitive midnight movies, director Nobuhiko Ôbayashi’s most famous work is a surreal horror film about a teenage girl who visits her aunt’s house in the country alongside several of her friends, wherein a series of increasingly bizarre events occur.
While “House” is a campy curiosity on the serious, it also serves as a metaphor for Japan’s collective trauma after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Equally frightening, funny and thought-provoking, “House” is an unforgettable cinematic experience.
Hong Kong filmmaker Lam NaiChoi’s 1991 film “Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky” can be viewed on April 26 at 10:30 p.m. Another East Asian film that has attained a cult following in America, “Riki-Oh” is an ultra-stylized, incredibly gory martial arts film in which the titular man has to fight
Policy changes from page 1
University maintains a commitment to equal employment opportunity to all qualified people. It removes “participation of qualified candidates from diverse groups in applicant pools” as a primary objective of the University’s recruitment and hiring process.
Under the draft, policies for alternative appointment, which occurs when the University needs to fill a position without conducting a recruitment, would change. The draft removes a section stating that in these circumstances, a hiring official may fill a position with someone who is a member of a historically underrepresented group if another more qualified member of a protected group is unlikely to apply.
Draft Policy 2740: Sexual Harassment Including Sexual Misconduct (Interim)
UAP - Policy 2740 describes University procedures for sexual harassment and sexual misconduct.
his way through an endless quantity of bad guys.
Infamous among genre enthusiasts for its near-constant barrage of violence, “Riki-Oh” is a perfect choice for the adventurous moviegoer.
The Guild will present the 2024 documentary “Porcelain War” on April 29 and 30. Winner of the United States documentary grand jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2024 and a nominee for Best Documentary Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards, the film centers around a group of Ukrainian artists pursuing their passions and careers amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Directed by Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev, “Porcelain War” stands as a powerful and timely example of how art functions as a method of resistance for people living under oppression.
A complete list of the Guild’s upcoming showings can be found on its website.
Elijah Ritch is a freelance reporter for the Daily Lobo. They can be reached at culture@dailylobo.com or on X @dailylobo
The draft changes part of the title of the policy from “Sexual Assault” to “Sexual Misconduct,” though this swap does not appear anywhere else.
The draft policy also changes the name of the Compliance, Ethics & Equal Opportunity grievance procedure from “Discrimination Grievance Procedure” to just “Grievance Procedure.”
Everything else, including the University’s prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sex — including gender, sex stereotyping, gender expression and gender identity — remains the same.
Draft Policy 2230: Major Events
UAP - Policy 2230 affirms UNM’s commitment to the protection of people and property and the preservation of human rights.
The policy aims to support chartered student organizations to host events on campus without regard to the perspectives that are expressed during the events, according to the draft.
The policy change follows a judge’s
2024 decision that mandated UNM to stop enforcing its security fee policy for on-campus speech events, in response to a lawsuit filed by the student chapter of conservative group Turning Point USA.
Funding for additional security measures at campus speech events would be UNM’s responsibility, and student organizations would not be charged for the extra security measures that UNM deems necessary to respond to protests or protect the community, according to the policy draft.
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Grisham signed the Reproductive and Gender-Affirming Health Care Act into law, which in part prohibits public bodies from restricting or discriminating against a person’s right to access gender-affirming care. The act defines gender-affirming care broadly, according to Jazmyn Taitingfong, a reproductive rights and gender equity attorney with ACLU of New Mexico.
“It’s described as psychological, behavioral, surgical, pharmaceutical and medical care services and supplies to support a person’s gender identity,” Taitingfong said. “So that’s a very wide definition, and that’s on purpose so that it protects people from discrimination from public bodies.”
The same year, Lujan Grisham signed protections for reproductive and gender-affirming health care providers and patients into law, preventing public bodies from releasing information or using their resources to assist outside investigations that seek to impose civil or criminal liabil-
Eric Olen from page 1
Olen will have to get busy building a roster and staff, as all of the assistant coaches from last season have either also accepted positions at Xavier or coaching jobs elsewhere, and nearly the entire roster is either entering the transfer portal or graduating. Olen was able to get three assistant
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ment, UNM has further regulated campus protests, limited public comment at Board of Regents meetings and “refused” to consider a motion for divestment from Israel, instead choosing to take a position of institutional neutrality.
“The Trump administration is now arresting and disappearing international students from our campuses across the country because they have dared to speak out against the ongoing genocide in Gaza,” Longa said.
ity on medical providers who provide this care in New Mexico.
“The reason that is so important is that many people are being forced to flee their home state to get certain types of health care — mainly gender affirming care and abortion health care,” Taitingfong said. “And so that is a level of protection if people go back to their home state.”
After taking office in January, Trump signed an order halting the use of federal funds for gender-affirming care for youth under 19 years old. While a federal court blocked the order, NPR reports some hospitals across the country have stopped performing gender-affirming surgeries and providing other care nonetheless.
According to Trans Legislation Tracker, eight anti-trans bills were introduced in the most recent legislative session, one of which would have largely prohibited health care providers from providing gender-affirming care to minors, and opened up doctors
coaches from UCSD to follow him to Albuquerque: Tom Tankelewicz, Sam Stapleton and Mikey Howell.
As of Sunday, April 6, only two players from the 2024-25 roster have not entered the transfer portal or been on track to graduate next month. These two are Ibrahima
On March 27, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the State Department revoked more than 300 student visas, while the Trump administration continues to detain and deport pro-Palestinian student activists, according to Politico.
Maria Lawrence, a special educator who works for a public school in the Albuquerque South Valley, said she is worried about immigration policies and the dismantling of the Education Department.
to liability. The New Mexico Attorney General’s Office commented that many of the provisions of that bill may have been unconstitutional.
Ultimately, none of the bills made it through the legislative session.
New Mexico’s protections have been long in coming, Lawyer said, noting that LGBTQ+ advocates have worked for decades to create statewide protections.
“We’ve had activists here for a long, long time — 30 years — trying to proactively create a legislative climate at the state level that’s incredibly protective, and it’s worked,” Lawyer said.
Fear persists
Despite the legal protections New Mexico offers, McClain said she worries about the impact of the federal climate on her trans patients and their families.
“What I’m seeing for all of these families is just a much higher level of stress and of fear,” McClain said. “I think we’re going to see a huge uptick in all the things that make trans and
Sacko and Deraje Agbaosi, with only Sacko appearing in a game and Agbaosi having an injury redshirt.
“We will recruit players who have a chip on their shoulder,” Olen said at the press conference. “I gravitate toward players with something to prove.”
Olen plans to have a fluid of -
“I’ve had students stop coming to school because they’re afraid of being deported,” she said.
Lawrence said she will do everything she can to protect her students and assure them that “ICE is not allowed” on her school’s campus.
Vice President of Indivisible Albuquerque Tiffany Stevens helped organize the event.
“I thought the turnout today was absolutely amazing,” Stevens said. “I have never seen such diversity in age
nonbinary kids sick already.”
Heather Johnson, also a trans senior at UNM, said she is concerned about the future of insurance coverage for hormone therapy. Earlier this month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a proposed rule that would prohibit individual and small business health insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act from covering gender-affirming care as an essential health benefit, according to KFF.
“As soon as insurance denies it, it’ll at least triple in price,” Johnson said. “A lot of this stuff is rather expensive, and insurance takes care of a fair amount of it. And so the real fear is that we’ll just be priced out of the medication we need to live.”
Johnson said the care allowed her to live a life that feels normal.
“It’s legitimately a life-saving care,” she said. “Without it, I wouldn’t be here, I guarantee that.”
For Pucella, access to hormone therapy allowed her to become a full
fensive system that relies on the players making decisions rather than set plays, along with creating offense through defense, he said.
UC San Diego had a tenacious defense — which ranked third in turnovers last season — and an offense that took care of the ball, having the fifth-best of-
groups — people of all backgrounds coming together to send a message to the government.”
Crowd members chanted “El pueblo unido, jamás será vencido” — or “The people united will never be defeated” — among other chants led by the speakers.
Protest attendee Jake Shoulders said they were visiting Albuquerque from Denver and decided to stop by the rally.
“I think that it’s fantastic that this is going on, everybody joining to-
version of herself. While she feels relatively safe in New Mexico, she worries that could change as national anti-trans sentiment and federal action continues.
“I’m not really sure if — given the climate of things if they keep on going the way they’re going — there really is going to be a safe haven anywhere in the U.S. for trans people,” Pucella said.
Lily Alexander is the editor-in-chief of the Daily Lobo. She can be reached at editorinchief@dailylobo.com or on X @llilyalexander
Danielle Prokop contributed reporting to this story.
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gether, seeing the problems in our country and trying to fight for what’s right,” Shoulders said.
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By Addison Fulton @dailylobo
On March 20, Apple TV released the finale episode of Season Two of “Severance,” the hit TV thriller created by Dan Erickson and directed by Ben Stiller. If you wish to keep the final episode mysterious and important, know this: it was excellent. If you wish to know more…
Spoilers ahead.
“Severance” mostly follows the lives of four employees who work for a company known as Lumon Industries. Their work is so secret that they must all undergo the titular Severance procedure, which splits their consciousness into two parts — an “Innie” who exists only at work, and an “Outie” who lives the rest of their life.
Outies have no memory of what they do at work, and Innies have no memory of anything except work. They don’t remember their childhoods, addresses, friends, significant others or even — as the show hauntingly reminds us — their mother’s eye colors.
The show mostly centers around Mark Scout and his Innie Mark S. Mark Scout decided to become severed to cope with the grief of losing
his wife Gemma in a car crash. Mark S. works as the head of macro data refinement — a department that sorts numbers based on how they make the employees “feel” — alongside Irving B., an artistic yet lonely man, Dylan G., a goofball dedicated to accumulating “work perks,” and Helly R., the newest member of the team who is obsessed with “quitting” her job and freeing herself.
Together, the four of them embark on a journey to better their lives, discover who they are and understand exactly what it is they do when they’re at work.
The second season of “Severance” was just as strong as the first. Firstly, the performances were excellent.
Adam Scott was able to truly shine this season, portraying equally complex and similar and yet distinct and nuanced characters in both Innie Mark and Outie Mark.
Dichen Lachman as Gemma gives a similarly gut-wrenching performance as she undergoes misery after misery. Gwendoline Christie gives an astonishingly tender and vicious performance as a severed goat-wrangler protecting her kids — baby goats. Everyone is at their best; it is the strong acting that allows the strange world of “Severance” to feel real.
Speaking of the strange world,
“Severance” Season Two did not shy away from the strong aesthetic and visual vocabulary it had in its first season. Too often, as the plot of a show becomes more complex, little details about set-dressing and color-grading are forgotten. “Severance” remembers, keeping its cool color-tone and vaguely anachronistic sets throughout.
Even though the technology of the “Severance” world seems more advanced than ours, it resembles technology of the 1970s: thick, chunky and made from white plastic. Even the cars are retro. Our characters have the technological power to cleave their consciousnesses in half, but still rely on phone booths, trains and CRT TVs.
In the world of “Severance,” it is perpetually winter and perpetually twilight. All of it serves to tell the audience, “This isn’t how it should be.” I adored this about the first season and was glad to see the motif continued.
Season Two was slightly slower paced compared to Season One, with a few episodes that stepped away from the main action of the show to highlight the lives and histories of our main and side characters. I enjoyed this, though others disagree. It prevented the action from feeling rushed and overwhelming, and
deepened my connections to the characters and therefore the story.
I must highlight Gemma again, not just for Lachman’s incredible acting, but for what Gemma brings to the narrative. When first introduced, Gemma was Mark’s dead wife. In Season One, we learned that she was still alive, but inexplicably trapped by Lumon, unbeknownst to Mark and his family.
Gemma seemed like all dead wives at first. She was beautiful. She was sweet. He loved her so much. But now she’s gone, and her absence matters more than her presence would have. Oh well.
When we meet Gemma, however, she is one of the most lucid and autonomous characters we know. Unlike much of the rest of our cast, she knows what life is like both under Lumon’s thumb and free. She fights to be back with her husband with wisdom and out of love. Despite her imprisoned status, she’s one of the most active and self-possessed characters we have.
Gemma is such an excellent twist on the “dead wife” trope; her character is elevated beyond an idealized, passive corpse. She’s arguably the character who fights the hardest and gets the farthest this season.
The Season One finale left audi-
ences wondering what was going on. There was a distinct aura of tension and confusion. Season Two, however, left audiences to ponder, “What are we going to do now?”
Our trapped characters are free, our free characters are trapped. Many of the big questions have been answered, but the path ahead is entirely unclear. Season Two tied up a lot of loose ends, but ended in a state of pure emotional toil.
As much as I liked the second season, I have some reservations about the next season. One of the initial appeals of the show for me was the theme of alienation and dehumanization caused by modern work culture. I’d hate to lose that as the show seems to pivot to focus more on interpersonal drama — particularly the bizarre love triangle between Mark, Helly and Gemma.
But the groundwork has been laid for a season that deals with both, equally. Despite my concerns for the future, I trust Stiller and the rest of the “Severance” team to deliver. Season Two was excellent, and I look forward to more.
Addison Fulton is the culture editor for the Daily Lobo. She can be reached at culture@dailylobo.com or on X @dailylobo
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UNO tournament deals out fun and funds Over $1,000 raised for local students
By Nate Bernard @natebernard14
On Saturday, April 5, Canteen Brewhouse hosted its third annual UNO Tournament, drawing about 50 card-playing beer lovers and card sharks to their patio for an afternoon of friendly competition, drinks and community support.
The event featured a bracket-style UNO competition with winners facing winners until one emerged as the ultimate UNO champion. Meanwhile, attendees enjoyed local brews and tested their luck in a raffle for prizes including T-shirts, water bot-
tles and gift cards.
Kenneth Kinderwater, who recently moved to Albuquerque, won both a raffle prize and a spot on the tournament bracket.
“I was looking online for events to do,” Kinderwater said. “Then I saw this, and I thought it would be a good time to spend an afternoon before the NCAA games this afternoon.”
Andy Dean, another participant, entered the tournament with confidence — but quickly found himself facing a metaphorical reverse card.
“I thought I was a world-class UNO player, but it turns out that my 11-year-old daughter is much better at UNO than I am,” Dean said.
Despite his humbling defeat, Dean won a $25 Canteen Brewhouse gift card in the raffle.
All proceeds from the event went to Mark Armijo Academy, a local charter school. Specifically, the money will go toward caps and gowns for students who cannot afford them, according to Venessa Urioste, the assistant director of Mark Armijo Academy.
“There’s approximately 84 graduates this year,” Urioste said. “It’ll pay for approximately 20 to 30 caps and gowns.”
Urioste competed in the event and was joined by her family and educators at the charter school.
“I would say I’m the UNO queen,” Urioste said. “Everyone knows the game. Every kid at 12 and 13 has memories of UNO with their family.”
The tournament additionally helps fund a celebratory dinner at the La Fonda del Bosque for the school’s top 10 seniors and their favorite educators, Urioste said.
The Canteen Brewhouse’s previous two tournaments also supported Mark Armijo Academy.
According to Jamie Schwebach, the general manager of Canteen Brewhouse and the event’s organizer, the tournament raised over $1,000 for the school. Urioste was “very excited” to hear how much money the event
brought in.
“We serve kids who totally need it and need our support, and they need the recognition. They need to be able to be celebrated in a beautiful way, and in a very beautiful space, for all their academic achievement,” Urioste said.
Nate Bernard is the news editor for the Daily Lobo. He can be reached at news@dailylobo.com or on X @natebernard14
John P. Hefti contributed reporting to this article.
DAILY LOBO C ampus Calendar of Events Calendar
MONDAY Campus Events
Ortega Hall, Lab 6
3:00 – 5:00pm Hosted by the Language Learning Center. Bosque Linguistics Association Ortega Hall, Room 124 4:00 – 5:00pm Undergraduate Linguistics Club.
Lectures & Readings
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation Farris Engineering Center 1025
9:00 – 10:00am Braden Foderaro, Nuclear Engineering, presents “Analysis of Heat Transfer and Pressure Drops Associated with Twisted Tube Heat Exchangers.”
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation FEC 3100 10:00 – 11:00am Ala Jararweh, Computer Science, “Leveraging Attention Mechanism to Unlock Gene and Protein Attributes.”
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation
ECE 237 10:00 – 11:00am Yonatan Melese Worku, Interdisciplinary:Engineering, presents “Optimizing and Securing Next-Generation Wireless Networks with AI-ML and Decentralized Systems.”
Center for Stable Isotopes Seminar PAIS Room 1010 12:00 – 1:00pm Conner Mertz, UNM, presents “Using Carbon Isotope Tracers to Identify Microbial Synthesis of Amino Acids.”
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation
Center for Fine Arts Room 1106
12:00 – 1:00pm Carlos Arellano Martinez, Music, presents “Composition Portfolio”
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation
ECE Room 118
1:00 – 2:00pm Aliakbar Ahmadikashani, Interdisciplinary: Engineering, presents “Data-Driven Constrained Control.”
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation UNM Collegiate Recovery Center Room 1020
3:00 – 4:00pm Zoe Gleitsman, Art History, presents “At the Edge of the Known World.”
Art & Music
Sandia Brass Quintet Keller Hall 6:00 – 7:00pm Coached by Dr. John Marchiando.
TUESDAY
Campus Events
Anderson Career Connection Anderson, MCM Living Room
10:00am – 1:00pm Employers will have dedicated tables to engage directly with job seekers share information about their company culture, and discuss career opportunities.
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.
GPSA Wellness Week Smoothies Duck Pond 12:30 – 1:30pm Free smoothies to students during GPSA’s annual Wellness Week.
Lectures & Readings
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation Science and Math Learning Center, Room 124
9:00 – 10:00am Ahsan Ali, Mathematics & Statistics, presents “Algebraic Multigrid Methods for Nonsymmetric and Indefinite Problems: Theory and Applications.”
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation
English Department
2:00 – 3:00pm Kanayochukwu Aniegboka, English, presents “Today You Become a Man.”
NUPAC Seminars
2:00 – 3:00pm PAIS 3205
Wesley Thompson, UNM, presents.
Middle East Lectures Series Reading Ortega Hall Reading Room
3:30 – 4:30pm Diane E. King, University of Kentucky, presents “How Migration Shaped
1990s-2000s Iraqi Kurdistan.”
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation Frank Waters Room, Zimmerman Library
5:00 – 6:00pm Emma Ressel, Art & Art History, presents “Extant Erosions.”
Meetings
Arabic Club Ortega Hall, Room 135 1:00 – 2:00pm Hosted by the Language Learning Center.
Art & Music
Percussion Studio Recital Keller Hall 8:00 – 9:00pm Featuring the students of Dr. Scott Ney.
Sports & Recreation
UNM Baseball vs Texas Tech 8:00 – 10:00am Santa Ana Star Field UNM Baseball faces off against Texas Tech. Tickets are free for students but must be acquired online.
WEDNESDAY
Campus Events American Indian College Day
Ballrooms 8:00am – 1:00pm American Indian College Day is an event that celebrates diversity and Indigenous students. It also promotes Tribal Colleges and Universities. Crafternoon Women’s Resource Center 1:00 – 3:30pm Hang out, relax, meet new people, and learn a new craft. This week will be coloring and open crafting.
Theater & Film
Arabic Film Screenings: Ghadi Ortega Hall, LLC Movie Room 3:00 – 4:00pm Ghadi is different from other kids; could he be an angel? His father Leba, along with his teammates, tricks the town into believing so.
Midweek Movies: Moana 2 SUB, Theater 5:30 – 9:00pm Moana journeys to the far seas of Oceania after receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors.
Meetings
UNM Medical Group Board of Directors Meeting Domenici Center for Health Sciences Education, Room 2410 8:00 – 9:00am
Hosted by the Language Learning Center.
French Club Ortega Hall, Room 124 2:00 – 3:00pm Hosted by the Language Learning Center.
UNM Sustainability Strategic Plan Campus Input Meeting North Campus, Domenici Center, Room 3710 4:00 – 5:00pm Provide critical input into UNM’s Sustainability Strategic Plan. All staff, students, and faculty members are welcome.
Art & Music
Arts in Medicine Concert UNM Hospital, BBRP Pavilion Cafe 12:00 – 1:00pm
Enjoy a lunch hour of jazz standards with the violin and piano duo of Jim Ahrend and Muni Kulasinghe.
Lectures & Readings
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation Moses Lab at Farris Engineering 3300 10:00 – 11:00am
Mohammad Abirul Islam, Computer Science, presents “Algorithms to estimate contours: two applications of analytical tools in differential geometry and topology.”
Fellows Symposium - Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections
Zimmerman Library Frank Waters 10:00am – 1:00pm
Maxwell Bush presents “Public Media in the 90s: Groundbreaking Television on KNME-TV.” Maria Feliza Monta-Jameson presents “Voices and Images from the Southwest: The Val de la O Show and The Nasario García Oral Histories and Papers/ Historias Orales y Fondo Documental Nasario García.” Judy A. Garcia presents “Interviews from the Anselmo Arellano Oral History Project.” Josh Heckman presents “Archives and Pedagogy: Utilizing New Teaching Methods at the CSWR.” Mark Campbell presents “El Fin de la Dictadura Perfecta: Keith Dannemiller’s Photography of Late 20th Century Mexico.” Daniela Geovanna Galvis Garzon presents “Entre el Alma y el Cuerpo: Unveiling Derli Romero’s Archive.” Travis Torres Thompson presents “Some State of Organized: The 35 Box Russell Means Collection and My Dysregulated Attention System.”
Lunch & Learn: Graduate Degrees and Certificates with ROI Anderson School of ManagementJackson Student Center 12:00 – 12:45pm Learn how to utilize UNM’s tuition remission to increase your earning potential, grow your career, and become an influential manager and leader in the UNM and New Mexico community and beyond. Lunch will be provided to all attendees, as well as an application fee waiver.
2025 Snead Wertheim Lecture Mesa Vista Room 1104 History Common Room 12:00 – 1:30pm Dr. Katherine Massoth presents.
Leveraging Your Language Degree for Language Access and Advocacy LLC: Ortega Hall, Rm. 124 12:00 – 1:00pm Joseline Segovia, Language Access Coordinator, Albuquerque Police Department, presents.
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation
Clark Hall, Room 201 12:00 – 1:00pm Jeffrey Bierman, Chemistry, presents “Sequencing and Mining the Genomes of Understudied Lysobacter in Search of Antibiotics.”
The Impact of Trump’s Tariffs School of Law, Room 2401 12:30 – 2:00pm In this event speakers will discuss and answer questions about the impact of the Trump tariffs on the U.S. economy and relationship with our trading partners, including Mexico and Canada.
Book Talk Ortega Hall, Room 335 1:00 – 2:00pm Lilian Gorman, University of Arizona, presents “Zones of Encuentro: Language and Identities in Northern New Mexico.”
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation 1:00 – 2:00pm Advanced Materials Lab, 1st Floor Ryan Alcala, Interdisciplinary: Engineering, presents “Thermally Stable Catalysts for Alkane Activation.”
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation Zimmerman Library 2:00 – 3:00pm Amy Dottson, English, presents “A Catalogue of Wildfires.”
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation Center for Arts, Room 1020 3:00 – 4:00pm Breanna Reiss, Art History, presents “The Social Life of Plants: Botanical Representations in Moche Art.”
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation ARTSLab 4:00 – 5:00pm Rebecca Cook presents “Autobody.”
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation PAIS 2540 4:00 – 5:00pm Connor Smith, Interdisciplinary: Engineering, presents “Exploring the Quantum Many-Body Problem with Neural Quantum States.”
Ruth Kennedy Public Talk Hibben Room 105 4:30 – 5:30pm Nadia Neff presents “Nutritional Adaptations to Early Maize Cultivation: Earliest Isotopic Evidence of Maize-Based Animal Husbandry in the Neotropics.”
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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. Text studies, theological dialogue, spiritual practices, prayer, worship, Holy Communion, and service opportunities LGBTQAI+ Affirming.
Weeknight Workshop: Build a Book Enclosure
UNM Art Museum 5:00 – 6:30pm UNMAM Collections Manager, Andrea Perez-Martinez, will lead participants through a hands-on exercise in creating a four-flap enclosure. Each participant will create a custom enclosure for a small book selected from the Raymond Jonson Archive.
Lectures & Readings
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation C& J, Room 134
12:30 – 1:30pm
Ismat Begum, Communication & Journalism, presents “Tales about Afghan Women Refugees: U.S. News Media Framing in the Context of the U.S. Military Withdrawals from Afghanistan in 2021.”
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation
George Pearl Hall Room 104
12:30 – 1:30pm Chloe Dichter, Art History, presents “Nosh.”
OSE Seminar
CHTM Room
12:45 – 1:45pm
Dr. Igal Brenner, Senior Scientist at SNL, presents.
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Luther House/ Open Table Connections
and Dialogue
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation
ECE Room 118 1:00 – 2:00pm
Torin Sammeth, Electrical & Computer Engineering, presents “RF Emission from Partial Breakdown Events and their Classification.”
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation ECE , Room 238 1:00 – 2:00pm Giovanni Reyna, Electrical & Computer Engrineering, presents “A Dynamical Efficient Predictive Controller for Voltage Regulation in a DC to DC Boost Converter.”
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation
Ortega Hall, Room 106 1:00 – 2:00pm Mu nis Nazzal, Linguistics, presents “Uncovering Language Bias Towards Written Language Used Among Bilinguals and People with Disabilities.”
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series PAIS 3205 2:00 – 3:00pm Lucas Hunt, NRAO, presents.
Meetings
SCRAP Meeting Popejoy Hall, Room B-409 4:00 – 5:30pm Join SCRAP in their weekly meetings.
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.
Students For Life SUB, Cochti Room 4:00 – 5:00pm Art & Music
UNM Concert Choir Popejoy Hall 7:30 – 8:30pm Conducted by Dr. David Edmonds. $15 general admission, $10 seniors and UNM employees, $5 students.
Workshops
Soil Workshop Lobo Gardens
2:00 – 3:15pm Join Lobo Gardens for a soil workshop with Steffany Olivas, CABQ Local Agriculture Community Coordinator.
FRIDAY
Lectures & Readings
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation College of Nursing and Public Health Excellence, Room 1601 11:00am – 12:00pm Jonathan Hulse. Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, presents “Vaccines Addressing Tau Pathology and Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias.”
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation Zimmerman Library, Frank Waters Room 1:00 – 2:00pm Vera Clyne, English, presents “Mother Dream.”
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation ECE , Room 118
1:00 – 2:00pm Keith Bova, Electrical & Computer Engineering, presents “Antenna Analysis Using Mixed Computer Platforms (AACP).”
Economics Seminar
Econ, 1002
2:00 – 3:00pm Samuel Asare & Wilfred Padmore Osei, PhD candidates, UNM, present.
Heidegger’s Monadology: Leibnizian Tropes in Heidegger’s Metaphysical Decade
3:30 – 5:30pm MITCH Room 102
Steven Crowell, Rice University, presents.
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium PAIS 1100
3:30 – 4:30pm Joel Meyers, SMU, presents.
Philosophy Colloquium MITCH 102
3:30 – 5:30pm Steven Crowell, Rice University, presents.
Graphic Art and Revolution: One Woman’s Experience UNM Art Museum 5:00 – 6:30pm Margaret Randall presents.
Meetings
Qur’an Reading Group 10:00 – 11:00am Ortega Hall, LLC Movie Room Hosted by the Language Learning Center.
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.
Lab 1,
Arora presents an interactive workshop on differentiating Pretérito Indefinido and Imperfecto in Spanish. Through strategies, activities, and instructor feedback, this session will help participants use past tenses effectively in both written and spoken Spanish. Open to all Spanish language learners.
Exhibits Red Light Buena Vista Opening 4:00 – 7:00pm Clark Hall Room 101 MFA Thesis Opening.
SATURDAY
Campus Events
Limina Release Party Honors College Forum 5:00 – 7:00pm Celebrating the release of Limina:UNM Nonfiction Review Volume 37.
Art & Music
Lab School Recital Keller Hall 12:00 – 1:00pm A showcase by the young musicians in UNM’s Suzuki String Lab School. Free admission.
Curator Tour w/Daniel Ulibarri 516 Arts 516 Central Ave SW 2:00 – 4:00pm In this group exhibition curated by Daniel Ulibarri, ‘New Tableau: Experiments in Photography’ explores how contemporary artists are returning to the photographic medium’s experimental beginnings within the context of modernity.
Junior Viola Recital Keller Hall 4:00 – 5:00pm
Lab School Recital Keller Hall
6:00 – 7:00pm A showcase by the young musicians in UNM’s Suzuki String Lab School.
Graduate Percussion Recital Keller Hall 7:00 – 8:00pm Zachary Schoonmaker, with Andrew Thompson, Carolina Munoz, and Alejandra Estrada.
The New Mexico Philharmonic Popejoy Hall 6:00 – 6:30pm Classics 6: Essential Tchaikovsky. Tickets start at $42.50.
Sports & Recreation
UNM Softball vs Colorado State Lobo Softball Field
2:00 – 4:00pm UNM Softball faces off against Colorado State. Tickets are free for students but must be acquired online.
UNM Baseball vs Washington State Santa Ana Star Field 2:00 – 3:00pm UNM Baseball faces off against Washington State. Tickets are free for students but must be acquired online.
Workshops
SOCALLT 2025 Conference Language Learning Center 8:00am – 5:30pm South Central Association for Language Learning Technology (SOCALLT)
SUNDAY Sports
