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Coach Davie to return for 2019 season By Cameron Goeldner @goeldfinger University of New Mexico head football coach Bob Davie will return for the 2019 season, Athletic Director Eddie Nuñez announced in a statement on Friday night. The statement, in its entirety, is below: “After meeting with Coach Davie, both he and I are looking forward to the 2019 season,” Nuñez said in a release. “Recruiting is already in full swing. Since taking over in 2012, the team has set records in the classroom, won a division title and qualified for two bowl games. Neither Coach Davie nor I were satisfied with the results of last season. Coach Davie and his staff, as well as our department, are striving to make the 2019 season a success, and that process has already started. Coach Davie wants to be at New Mexico and wants nothing more

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UNM head football coach Bob Davie speaks to the media during a press conference.

UNM celebrates Hanging of the Greens By Justine Lopez

@justine_lopez95 On Friday the University of New Mexico lit up with luminarias for the annual Hanging of the Greens. Students, alumni and community members gathered outside of the UNM bookstore to start their campus stroll, but after a cup of hot chocolate first. Whether referred to as luminarias or farolitos, thousands of these

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little lights decorated campus. School organizations who participated created their own designs out of the glowing paper bags. Members of the UNM Mortar Board society, the student organization that hosted the event, were clad in outfits from the North Pole. A band of student elves followed closely behind Mr. and Mrs. Clause as they led the crowd on their stroll. The stroll had many stops along the way outside of the Student Union Building, Smith Plaza and

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University of New Mexico students walk toward Smith Plaza during the Hanging of the Greens on Friday, Nov. 30

the President’s House. After an enthusiastic rendition of the “Twelve Days of Christmas,”, the Mortar Board Society presented President Stokes with a Christmas wreath to hang outside of her home. UNM senior Joey Robledo was present at the event and said this was his first time participating with the carolers. “It’s great. I love the environment,” Robledo said. “I love people coming here, there’s different backgrounds but we’re all here to support and have fun at UNM.” After stopping at the President’s House, the second to last stop along the way was outside of the Alumni Memorial Chapel where the crowd sang “Feliz Navidad.” Finally, everyone walked to Hodgin Hall for more hot chocolate and posole. People were also able to place unwrapped books under the tree at Hodgin Hall as donations to the UNM Children’s Hospital. Since President Stokes took office earlier this year this was her first time participating in this UNM tradition. “It’s really, really beautiful,” Stokes said. “The enthusiasm of the crowd… seeing all these lights, getting the wreath and having Santa Clause help me hang it up.”

Stokes said that she does not have a preference about the name of the little bags but it well aware of the naming debate. “I’m sure I can just call them both and we’ll have it settled,” Stokes said. UNM alumni and staff member Ethan Rule, has come to the Hanging of the Greens for the past six years but said he never participated as a student. “It’s a good community thing so I think every year coming to it, even though it is the same thing, it’s still the most monumental community event that UNM has,” Rule said. Rule said he habitually grew up calling these paper lights “luminarias” but became conflicted after someone from Santa Fe told him they were called “farolitos.” “I just call them glowing paper bags,” he joked. After the stroll people enjoyed the last bit of light as the flickering candles from within the bags began to fade. Justine Lopez is a culture reporter at the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at culture@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @justine_lopez95.

As Capitol Hill continues to cast doubt over the future of the landmark 1973 federal abortion ruling Roe v. Wade, New Mexican Democrats in the State Legislature are planning a preemptive measure to ensure abortion access remains legal at the state level. The state law being revisited is a criminal law from 1969, N.M. Stat. Ann. § § 40A-5-1, -3 (Appendix D), which makes it a fourth degree felony for abortion providers to end a woman’s pregnancy with exceptions in the case of health risks, birth defects, rape or incest. The law also stipulates that an abortion provider with moral or religious objections to the procedure is not obligated to perform it. After the Roe v. Wade ruling, this statute became unenforceable — although it has remained on the books for nearly 50 years. Following the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy from the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year, President Donald Trump’s controversial nominee Brett Kavanaugh was successfully confirmed by the Senate to the high court. The concern from abortion rights advocates for the continued existence of Roe v. Wade began to escalate with the confirmation of the conservative justice, underscoring a long simmering fear stoked by Trump’s rhetoric on the contentious issue. In an interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace in the closing stages of the 2016 presidential election, Trump was asked explicitly if he would like to see the court overturn Roe v. Wade. Trump said, “Well, if we put another two or perhaps three justices on, that's really what’s going to be — that will happen and that will happen automatically in my opinion, because I am putting pro-life justices on the court.”

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Hot shooting leads Lobos to victory on road By Robert Maler @Robert_Maler The University of New Mexico men’s basketball team collected another win, thanks in part to some sharp-shooting from the 3-point line. Senior guard Anthony Mathis poured in seven 3-pointers en route to scoring a game-high 23 points to lead his Lobos to an 85-75 victory over the Bradley Braves on

Saturday evening. New Mexico entered the game as the second-best 3-point shooting team in the nation, hitting at a 47.9 percent clip. That percentage took a hit, but UNM made good on 12 of its attempts from long range. UNM (4-1) got off to yet another slow start and turned in a sub-par shooting performance in the first half, which created an early hole for the team to attempt to climb out of. The Lobos managed just three

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points in the first 10 minutes of its previous game against UTEP and trailed by 11 points as a result. The Braves didn’t need nearly as much time to build such a lead. Bradley connected on its first four shots, including three straight 3-pointers to race out to an 11-0 lead about two and half minutes into the game. Bradley’s Elijah Childs hit a jumper with 12:47 remaining in the half to give his team a 16-7 edge, but

then the Braves went cold and got sloppy with the ball. Some rushed shots and three turnovers allowed New Mexico to string together a 12-3 run to pull within 19-18 after point guard Keith McGee made a jumper in the paint. The Braves tried to create some separation again, but were plagued by 12 first-half turnovers which disrupted any chance at generating an offensive flow. After back-to-back 3-balls by Mathis, the Lobos enjoyed

their first lead, 24-22, just inside the seven-minute mark. Mathis continued to have a hot hand and capped the first half by hitting his sixth 3-pointer to give the Lobos a 41-32 advantage at the break. The 18 points, all from beyond the arc, in the opening 20 minutes was twice as much as any other player. Darrell Brown led Bradley with nine first-half points, which also came exclusively from deep.

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