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ASUNM votes on budget, rejects McCain condolence By Justin Garcia @just516garc The Associated Students of the University of New Mexico Senate met Wednesday night to vote on balance forward requests, a condolence for Senator John McCain, and receive an update about the Johnson Center renovation and the UNM Police Department’s media presence. President Becka Myers requested that $37,788 of almost $50,000 in unspent money from last year’s budget be sent to cover costs of ASUNM’s eight student service agencies not previously covered in their budgets. This is the first time the balance forward requests have gone through the Finance Committee, said Madelyn Lucas, the Finance Committee chair. The balance forward request was unanimously approved. The remaining money will rollover into this year’s budget to be appropriated to student organizations. Senator Jorge Rios gave criticism for senators “not doing their homework” regarding discussion around the budget forward request. World Affairs Delegation, a model United Nation student organization, was appropriated $4,136 — much of the appropri-
ation was slated to cover rental costs. WAD requested $200 for “food and refreshments” and $60 to cover a subscription to Foreign Policy Magazine, both of which were not granted. Men’s Rugby, a club sport, received an appropriation of $6,678, Exercise Science Club received $1,130 and UNM Tennis Club received $2,555. A condolence to the deceased Senator John McCain was proposed and rejected with a 7-11 vote. The discussion was centered around the diversity of condolences and the thoughts expressed by the ASUNM Joint Council. As the roll-call vote bounced around the room, multiple senators, including President Pro Tempore Satchel Ben, hesitated for several seconds before voting. Ben evetnually voted against the condolence. “I was indecisive to start,” Ben said, adding that comments from Senator Mohammad Assed and the joint council persuaded him to change his mind. “I still had a very hard time with it.” Assed voted for the condolence in the Steering and Rules Committee last Wednesday, with the intention to vote against it in full senate. He said he wanted to ensure the condolence, and that ASUNM joint council’s position,
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UNMPD Officer Patricia Young speaks to the ASUNM Senate about the Lobo Guardian app on September 12, 2018.
was discussed during a full senate meeting. Assed said he believes the joint council is more representative of the student body than the senate. The recently appointed representative of the joint council said that the council wanted the full
senate to discuss the condolence further. She said “a condolence is written out for a white man, but not for others.” The ASUNM Joint Council is a body made up of student representatives from groups like the Veterans Resource Center, Wom-
en’s Resource Center, and Residence Life and Student Housing. The council meets twice a month to “offer opinions and feedback on major University initiatives, ASUNM Senate resolutions/bills, and serve as an advisory board for
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The State Fair comes to town Tempers flare at
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By Justine Lopez
@justine_lopez95 Sept. 6 marked the first day of the 80th annual New Mexico State Fair at Expo New Mexico. Visitors were immediately greeted with the sights and smells of fair foods and brightly lit carnival rides as they walked through the entrance. Vendors lined the main street of the fair as their displays enticed people to look at their homemade goods, from t-shirts to custom wood-burned signs. Some vendors even prompted people with a challenge of physical strength. UNM professor Jonathan Eldredge was in attendance on the fair’s opening day and was accompanied by his daughter Gabriela. The two have had a father-daughter tradition of attending the fair every year since Gabriela was a child. “When she was little we’d come like five different times,” Eldredge said. Some of their favorite attractions were strolling through the art pavilion and grabbing a slice of rhubarb pie from the Asbury Café. This year Professor Eldredge entered the historical category in the creative arts competition and won first prize for his submissions, one of them being his grandfather’s World War I diary. The two not only enjoy the arts,
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New Mexico State Fair attendees wait for a ride.
but also the unusual musical acts they get to see perform, they said. “Sometimes there’s some really interesting groups out here,” Eldredge said. “I’m exposed to music groups I’ve never heard before.” At the west entrance of the fair is the petting zoo where adults and children alike are invited to interact with pygmy goats, wallabies and llamas. Volunteers warn people as they go in to hold on to their belongings so wandering animals do not chew on loose articles of clothing. Other fair attractions include the carnival rides provided by Reithoffer Shows. The Reithoffer Company travels the country to provide attractions to different state fairs.
One of their popular amusements are caricature drawings. Caricature artists are supposed to emphasize the physical features of their subject to an absurd degree. “When you notice somebody you notice something that’s different about them,” caricature artist Brittany Arnold said. “Sometimes it’s their smile. Sometimes it’s the way their hair is. It really just depends on the person in the chair at the time.” Arnold started drawing caricatures as an after-school job at the Legoland resort in Florida. She has since been perfecting her art over the past four years, and began traveling with Reithoffer last year. On
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The latest Board of Regents meeting ended with a heated exchange between Regent Tom Clifford and Faculty Senate President Pamela Pyle Tuesday afternoon. Clifford accused Pyle and the rest of the faculty leadership of being “cowardly” on their behalf following the Regents vote to cut sports and not forgive the athletic department debt, which was something that the faculty had requested last winter. When asked if the faculty had taken a position on the Board’s handling of the athletics budget, Pyle said the faculty had weighed in behind the scenes because much of the faculty is gone during the summer when the decision was being made. She added that she frequently heard faculty asking why the department wouldn’t look at the “holy grail” of the Mountain West Conference and cut football instead of men’s soccer. She said that no one had asked her for a public
comment. Pyle also noted that the faculty wasn’t involved in the decision making process. “I guess my concern is that there’s been no public mention by the faculty that I’ve seen in support of our effort to have the athletics program retire its debt, which was the specific request that was made to us last winter,” Clifford told Pyle. As the two went back and forth, the tension in the room seemed to escalate and Clifford accused Pyle of hanging President Garnett Stokes out to dry on an issue that the Board of Regents and the University has taken a lot of criticism on. When asked about the exchange, Pyle provided the following statement to the Daily Lobo: “The accusation from Regent Clifford has no merit, and therefore really needs no rebuttal,” Pyle wrote. “Derisive comments are meant to separate people, not bring them together. Being a leader at any level involves having a high regard for those that you lead, and it seems apparent that some members of our Board of Regents do not value the community they serve. I
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