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UNM bests Seattle 4-2 in season opener By Cameron Goeldner @goeldfinger
On an emotional night, in front of a combined crowd of 2,314, the University of New Mexico men’s soccer team opened the season with a 4-2 victory over No. 22 Seattle University. “Lots of emotions today,” said head coach Jeremy Fishbein. “It was a hard one to get going but we’ve got a confident group, I couldn’t be prouder of our guys.” A roster that is filled with new faces saw an immediate impact from those players, as Matt Puig and Omar Grey combined to record three goals and two assists and provide an attacking threat that the Lobos had lacked last season. “(The attacking group) is going to be really special,” Puig said. “Very, very excited with the versatility we have with more guys, different guys — you’ve got Omar (Grey) coming in off the bench doing a great job. Antoine (Vial) and I are doing great up there, we’re going to score goals, that’s our job.” Antoine Vial opened the scoring for the Lobos in the 25th minute as he connected on a ball from Puig into the box and slotted into the back of the net. As the Lobos celebrated the opening goal, Seattle defender
Nathan Aune, the Western Athletic Conference preseason defender of the year, was shown a red card. This left the Redhawks a man down for the rest of the match, and without their captain. The Lobos added a second goal to double their lead just five minutes later, as Puig opened his UNM account with his first goal on a ball that landed at his feet off of Grey’s head. Seattle answered with their first goal of the game thanks to Julian Avila-Good. Puig got his second of the game five minutes in to the second half after a long ball from Tom Smart into the box ricocheted off of a Seattle defender and landed at Puig’s feet for the easy finish. He said that the goals he scored were two of the easiest he’s scored in his college career and described them as casual finishes. Seattle answered again, this time in the 74th minute, when Cody Gibson headed in a rebound after Orlando Neto fired a shot off the post. The Lobos finished the scoring in the 83rd thanks to the freshman Grey, a player originally from Seattle and whose college decision came down to SeattleU and UNM. “I’m from Seattle so I’m playing against all my friends and all my family is watching,” Grey said. “I was actually deciding between the two schools, so I was anxious
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Omar Grey (center) is surrounded by his teammates while celebrating his first goal at UNM against Seattle University on Aug. 24, 2018. Grey, who is originally from Seattle, decided between the two schools in the recruiting process.
to score. When I finally got that goal it was a relief, it was great because I felt like it welcomed me to my new crowd, to my new home, it was exciting.” Grey and his teammates certainly had plenty of opportunities to celebrate, and will look to continue
that trend on Monday night against the University of Washington at 7 p.m at the UNM Soccer Complex. Cameron Goeldner is a sports beat reporter and photographer for the Daily Lobo. He primarily covers men’s soccer, women’s basketball,
softball and the Albuquerque Isotopes, but also contributes content for baseball, basketball, football and track and field. He can be reached at sports@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @goeldfinger.
LaPo introduces to-go option C&J building requires By Madison Spratto @Madi_Spratto It’s sustainable, it’s to-go and it’s thanks to one student. La Posada’s newest program, LaPo To-Go, gives students the ability to take their favorite dining hall food anywhere they please, using reusable containers. Coleen Geraghty, a civil engineering major and sustainability minor, came up with the idea for reusable to-go boxes in the La Posada dining hall last spring during her time as a sustainability intern for UNM Food. Geraghty saw the amount of one-use food containers around campus as an opportunity to reduce plastic waste, as well as a push to change the culture of UNM in a more sustainable direction, which she says is her goal. The Director of Marketing and Guest Experience for UNM Food, Thea Evans, said a to-go option from the dining hall has been a common request from student-focus groups — that’s where Geraghty comes in. The waste that a to-go option would produce was one of the factors that Geraghty said delayed the process, but by researching other options and what universities around the country were doing she found the company OZZI. According to their website, OZZI is geared toward college and university campus dining halls and aims to reduce the amount of
one-use to-go containers. So how does it work? Students with the Unlimited Meal Plan are able to receive a token at the beginning of the semester that they can exchange for one OZZI to-go container, which then counts as one of their two daily on-the-go swipes. Containers can hold one large entree and two sides and comes with reusable utensils. However, the lid must be closable. Dirty containers can be swapped for a clean one or a token. Evans said dirty ones will be cleaned in an industrial washer to ensure sanitation for the next student.
There is also the option of purchasing a container for five dollars if someone does not have an Unlimited Meal Plan. Currently there are 600 containers in rotation, but Evans and Geraghty said they hope for the program to be expanded. Evans said UNM Food is completely invested in the program, and La Posada is just the starting point to gauge campus involvement. She said their longterm goal is to have to-go boxes in all swipe locations. Data will be taken every week to
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A La Posada cook fills one of the new LaPo To-Go boxes with Mac & Cheese on Aug. 26, 2018.
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ID swipe for entrance By Anthony Jackson @TonyAnjackson University of New Mexico students must now use their LoboCard to enter the Communication and Journalism building. The announcement was made via email from Jessica Chavez, the C&J program coordinator, on Tuesday, Aug. 21. The email explained how students have to swipe their card to gain entry: make sure your photo is facing Redondo Drive Northeast as you swipe from top to bottom. If done correctly, a green light will appear — students are advised to enter through the left door. David Weiss, the C&J department chair and an associate professor, made the decision to use the swipe access after a tumultuous year in a particular area of the C&J building — the bathrooms. “We started noticing during the school year last year that people would be going in and locking themselves in (the single-user bathrooms) for hours at a time,” Weiss said. Weiss said he would have to wait for whoever is in the bathroom to
come out, and when he went in, what he saw would produce concerns about safety in the building. “Sometimes we found needles; we found garbage; we found old discarded clothing,” Weiss said. “One time one of my staff members found two people having sex in one of those bathrooms.” These instances, Weiss said, led to lock combinations being installed to gain access into the single-user bathrooms last year. Weiss said incidents increased in the summer of 2018. One in the public C&J bathrooms where he “walked in to find an almost naked man basically bathing himself in one of our sinks.” Other instances include people occupying bathroom stalls for five or seven hours at a time. “The campus as a whole is available to everyone, but it is not available for anyone to do things that are illegal or dangerous,” Weiss said, adding that “(mandatory swipe access) was a tough decision to come to.” Throughout North, South, Main Campus and branch campuses in Valencia and Gallup, there are 70 University buildings that use a swipe or badge access type of security, said Daniel Richards, a supervisor
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