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Mitchem to be QB versus UTEP Gautsche sidelined with a possible concussion
by Thomas Romero-Salas sports@dailylobo.com @ThomasRomeroS
All Clayton Mitchem wants is an opportunity to show his skills. On Saturday at UTEP, he’ll get it. On Tuesday UNM football head coach Bob Davie announced that the junior transfer quarterback will start in place of injured sophomore signal-caller Cole Gautsche, who is reportedly suffering concussion-like symptoms after leaving Saturday’s game against the University of Texas-San Antonio. “I’m feeling pretty good about it,” Mitchem said. “I’m really more excited than nervous, I should say. It’s my first one on the Division I stage. Since I was a little kid I’ve been dreaming about playing on TV, and here it comes.” Davie said Gautsche should be able to return next week when the team travels to Pittsburgh on Sept. 14. “Again, those are day-to-day situations … it’s really out of my hands which it should be,” Davie
said at the media luncheon Tuesday. “We’ll wait and see, but the early prognosis is that we should have him back for Pittsburgh.” This will be Mitchem’s first Division I start. Before he transferred to UNM this spring, he spent the last two years at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M. In 2012, Mitchem was named Southwestern Junior College Football Conference Player of the Year for the Golden Norsemen. Mitchem received his first taste of Division I action against the University of Texas-San Antonio Saturday. With three minutes remaining in the game, Mitchem came in to relieve the concussed Gautsche. Mitchem drove the Lobos to UTSA’s 43yard line but was unable to convert a fourth-and-five to extend the drive, which gave the Roadrunners a 21-13 victory. In his first collegiate game, Mitchem finished 2 of 5 for 19 yards and rushed three times for eight yards. “It jumps out there pretty quick that Mitchem is a pretty talented guy,” Davie said. “He throws the ball quickly, gets rid of the ball quickly, good velocity. He’s smooth and fast, which is a good
Aaron Sweet / Daily Lobo UNM junior quarterback Clayton Mitchem drops back for a pass during the season opener Saturday at University Stadium. Mitchem is scheduled to start against UTEP this Saturday after sophomore Cole Gautsche left the opener bearing symptoms of a concussion. combination. He’s got all the skills — he just lacks experience.” Davie said the Lobos won’t have to change their offensive scheme at all because Mitchem has had time enough to get acclimated to the triple option system. “The fortunate thing is that
we had him in the spring,” said Davie. “Clayton has played a lot more football at the college level than Cole (Gautsche) did. He was a little bit more of a thrower and a double-read, not triple-read kind of option guy. We have the same exact scheme going in … that’s
what we are, and that’s what we’re going to be.” One start may not display what type of quarterback Mitchem is, but Davie said it will help him decide if Mitchem has some of the intangibles a signal caller needs
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PETA branch promotes veganism One-stop the work of several offices
Farm animals tortured, mistreated, activists say. by Ardee Napolitano news@dailylobo.com @ArdeeTheJourno
Fake chicken corpses rested atop one another in a bin inside a tent near the Student Union Building. Posters of farm animals doused in mud and blood lined the walls, while a baby pig squealed in a documentary playing on a large screen. The Glass Wall Exhibit, a nationwide event organized by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals 2, the student wing of the animal rights organization, visited UNM Tuesday morning. The exhibit went on until the afternoon. PETA2 College Campaign Associate Director Ryan Huling said his organization brought the event to the University to encourage students to go vegan. Huling said the event reveals animal cruelty common to many farms. “It pulls back the curtain on the cruelty that animals face,” he said. “Students at UNM will be horrified to learn that cows have their throats slit conscious and chickens are scalded to death for McDonald’s. This is certainly not the industry students would want to support.” Huling said the exhibit launched at the University of Utah in 2012 “to put students in animals’ shoes in the slaughterhouse.” He said it has since been presented at about 3,000
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Renee Lopez / Daily Lobo A large poster encourages attendees to empathize with animals farm-raised for consumption. On Tuesday, the student chapter of PETA set up an exhibit at UNM aimed at convincing passers-by to adopt vegan diets in response to the cruelty farm animals are put through when slaughtered for food products. schools across the United States, including the University of Florida and Yale University. He said he believes the exhibit is an effective way to alter students’ eating habits. Food service surveys conducted by PETA2 show that the population of vegan students in the country has risen by 50 percent since 2005,
Huling said. He said more accommodating campus dining environments around the country affected the increase. “Once students learn that animals are tortured … and killed for food, they look for vegan food that’s available,” he said. “It’s never been easier to eat good food without supporting cruelty to animals.”
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Huling said that contrary to popular belief, going vegan “costs as much (as) if not less (than)” normal on-campus eating habits. He said college foods such as pizza have vegan versions that cost about as much, and students can buy grains instead of meat.
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The Student Success Center had its official opening celebration Tuesday afternoon. It opened in Mesa Vista Hall in the University Advisement and Enrichment Center. Jennifer Gomez-Chavez, the director of UNM’s Office of Student Academic Success, said the program will serve as a “student one-stop” to offer help with admissions and enrollment services. “This one-stop will be focused on helping students with any questions, any obstacles or challenges that they will encounter,” she said. “We will be there to help them through that.” Gomez-Chavez said the center helps students confront Universityrelated problems they may be facing from any angle. “It’s personal, and it’s social, and it’s academic, too,” she said. “It’s a holistic approach to help
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