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COVID-19 campus testing available as UNM gears up for outbreaks By Lissa Knudsen @lissaknudsen

As student newspapers across the nation push back on administrators and media accounts that are framing party-going students as largely responsible for university COVID-19 clusters and outbreaks, the University of New Mexico’s Student Health and Counseling (SHAC) is busy gearing up its diagnostic testing capacity. UNM opened up a mobile testing site at the University’s C Lot — located at the corner of Las Lomas Road and Redondo Drive — early last week. With the prospect of imminent outbreaks and clusters like those seen at universities across the country, UNM is putting plans in place to stem a potential tide of cases that could arise from continuing in-person classes. According to UNM’s Bring Back the Pack: Targeted Testing website, “Individuals selected for testing will be identified in large part through the daily symptom screening or from self-reporting or through the Interventional Rapid Response Task Force (IRRTF) process.” An email sent on behalf of Provost James Holloway to all main and branch faculty also advised faculty to have symptomatic students contact SHAC and self-report using the “selfreport system.”

On Aug. 23, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new testing guidelines that state that if someone does not have COVID-19 symptoms — even if they have been recently exposed — they don’t need to be tested. The New York Times recently reported that “experts questioned the revision, pointing to the importance of identifying infections in the brief window immediately before the onset of symptoms, when many individuals are thought to be most contagious.” According to Dr. James Wilterding,

the co-executive director of SHAC, UNM will test asymptomatic students who have recently been exposed despite the revised CDC guidelines. “We are going to try to identify in a rational way (who to test) while also preserving the testing capacity in the state,” Wilterding said in a phone interview with the Daily Lobo. Wilterding explained that New Mexico is unique in that the state is able to work with TriCore Reference Laboratories in order to more quickly process testing. TriCore is a local lab

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Patients are separated into two groups: those who are symptomatic, and those who are asymptomatic but have been exposed to the virus.

Medical examiner says no CTE in Flowers autopsy By Hevyn Heckes @H_Squared90 Editor’s note: This article contains discussion of suicide. If you’re feeling suicidal, you are not alone. Please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 or UNM’s Student Health and Counseling at 505-277-3136. On Aug. 25, famed attorney Ben Crump announced a wrongful death lawsuit regarding the November 2019 death of former University of New Mexico football player Nahje Flowers. The suit alleges that Flowers suffered from untreated and/or undiagnosed chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) — a neurological disorder common in athletes who participate in contact sports such as boxing or football — due to repeated head trauma during the course of play in his capacity as a defensive lineman for the Lobos. The legal case against the NCAA — one of three defendants named in the lawsuit — may crumble before it even begins. The Daily Lobo obtained the medical examiner’s report from Flowers’ autopsy upon request from the UNM Health Sciences Center’s media relations office. According to the re-

port, the autopsy was conducted by Dr. Lauren E. Dvorscak, a licensed medical investigator and assistant professor of pathology at UNM. Dvorscak’s report stated she didn’t find sufficient evidence of CTE upon microscopically examining recoverable parts of Flowers’ brain. In civil cases — including wrongful death suits — the discovery phase is conducted after the complaint is filed. Thus, the plaintiffs’ counsel may not have had access to Flowers’ autopsy report while drafting or prior to filing the complaint. Their entire case against the NCAA, according to the complaint, rests on the possibility that undiagnosed CTE caused Flowers’ depression and the ensuing suicidal episode that led to his death. It wasn’t immediately clear wheth-

er Flowers’ injuries from his cause of death could potentially have obscured some evidence of CTE in his brain. Dvorscak did not respond to a request for comment as of the publication of this article. According to the Mayo Clinic, CTE cannot be diagnosed while the patient is still alive except in rare cases. It can only be diagnosed after an autopsy on a decedent who had a history of repeated head trauma. The complaint’s arguments against former football head coach Bob Davie allege that he was at least willfully ignorant of Flowers’ depressive behaviors and may have directly contributed to Flowers’ depressed mental state by repeated verbal and emotion-

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Nahje Flowers (right) and his teammates celebrate a win for the Lobos against the Aggies on Sept. 21, 2019.

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As mass eviction prospect looms, Albuquerque protest calls for rent, mortgage cancellation By William Bowen @BowenWrites

DOWNTOWN — As the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage across the nation, the United States is staring down the barrel of another crisis: a wave of evictions and foreclosures. Almost half of New Mexicans have experienced a loss of employment income since the pandemic began, according to Census Bureau data, and a recent estimate suggested that up to 42% of New Mexican renters are at risk of eviction. In response, the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) and the La Riva/Freeman 2020 presidential campaign organized a protest calling for the cancellation of rent and mortgages on Saturday, Aug. 29 in downtown Albuquerque. “The protest was strong,” said Karina Rodgers, an organizer for the PSL and a protest attendee. “We had about 50 community members show up and participate.” Rodgers said many attendees made “frustrated and impassioned” speeches about struggling to pay rent because of the pandemic and that the protest drew support from people driving by in their cars. “Almost every other car was honking in support,” Rodgers said. “People were raising their fists in solidarity as they drove by.” The federal protections provided by the CARES Act were set to expire on Aug. 31 but were extended through the end of the year. The eviction and foreclosure protections, however, only apply to renters living in homes with some form of federally backed mortgages. New Mexico’s stay on evictions is still in place, but landlords can still file for eviction. This means that evictions can still be approved, but the action will not be taken until the New Mexico Supreme Court rescinds the stay. Renters cannot be physically removed from their homes while the eviction stay is in place, but many are missing rent payments that may be difficult to pay back. “There may be a stop on evictions right now,” said Bex Hampton, another organizer for the PSL and a University of New Mexico alumni. “(But) people are still going deeper and deeper into debt, more and more people are losing their jobs and unemployment has recently been cut. There needs to be more done, locally and nationally.”

Studies show that there are serious health outcomes connected to the stress caused by eviction threats and proceedings. If a large number of New Mexicans are evicted, the state will face a second public health crisis beyond the pandemic. “The effects of eviction are just so wide-ranging,” said Serge Martinez, a professor at the UNM School of Law with a background representing tenants and tenant associations. “It’s traumatic to be evicted. Local social supports (are) severed. The effect is one that ripples out and has longterm effects.” These extend beyond stress and negative health outcomes. Eviction harms tenants’ credit scores, which can make finding a new home difficult. In some cases, being evicted can mean a person becomes unhoused. “It’s hard to find decent (housing) if you have an eviction,” said Hampton, who has worked in public housing. “Just one eviction can keep someone in a cycle of homelessness.” The effects of an eviction wave would be likely to hit hardest in groups who are still recovering from the 2008 economic recession. That crisis — now over a decade removed from its devastating peak — is still being felt, particularly in marginalized groups. Once again, these groups are disproportionately at risk to lose their housing in the midst of a pandemic that has disproportionately affected them already. “The communities that have rebounded the least (from 2008) have been communities of color,” Martinez said. “The foreclosure crisis hit Black homeowners disproportionately, so now more of those folks are renters than would be otherwise. It just builds.” The Great Recession of 2008 led to around 10 million foreclosures. For comparison, if policymakers sit on their collective hands, the coronavirus recession could unhouse twice as many renters, according to research from the international nonprofit Aspen Institute. “We see the government bailing out Wall Street, bailing out the banks and bailing out (large) companies,” Hampton said. “But they leave working class people and even people who own small businesses who are unable to pay rent out to dry.” As various safeguarding measures fall away, the nation pushes closer to crisis. “The dam is not just breaking,” Martinez said. “We are actively

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Black Student Alliance focuses on campus diversity, inclusion amid BLM momentum By Jasmine Casillas @jaycasillas The Black Student Alliance (BSA) at the University of New Mexico is focused more than ever on the necessity of diversity at UNM. The organization has already gotten to work alongside the start of a largely online fall semester amid the coronavirus pandemic. The BSA is open to all Black students but mainly consists of leadership from other African American student organizations on campus. Its mission is to tackle oppressive issues that affect all of UNM, according to member Ricardo Hill. This semester, the BSA is focusing on what ASUNM can do for the student body to implement inclusive legislation before they move on to working at a larger scale, like

taking issues directly to the University. They are also focused on emphasizing the importance of showcasing diversity at UNM by hiring more Black faculty and restructuring the way UNM markets to new students to include diversity in recruitment. “Things should be gearing up by next week. This is a very vital time in African American culture and community as a nation and as a whole,” Hill said. Hill said the BSA and other diversity groups should get more recognition in the recruitment process, similar to the spotlight that ASUNM gets in recruiting new students. “An ongoing effort has been having conversations with the community and making progress to implement things that can make all of us feel safe on campus including non-Black students but especially

Black students, because we don’t have a lot of spaces on campus,” Miles Blakemore, vice president of the Tau Sigma Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., said. The group has moved to a virtual model amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Students can find statements put out by BSA on UNM African American Student Services’ (Afro) Instagram page. The BSA also works with leaders from the Powerful Movement of Educated Sisters, Black Student Union, BGPSA, the Divine 9, Black Law Student Association and more. Hill is the Brothers Leading and Cultivating Knowledge president, an ASUNM senator and vice-chair of finance, a member of the Black Student Union and a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Hill has been involved with the BSA since he started attend-

ing UNM after transferring from Itawamba Community College in Fulton, Mississippi. His decision was driven by the issues on campus that have yet to be resolved. “(The purpose of the group) is to tackle bigger pressing issues of discrimination that still affect us as Black students on campus and the community,” Hill said. Blakemore has been a member of the BSA for three years. “When I found out there was such a thing as the BSA, where all these student leaders could gather and converse about centralized problems that are affecting all of us on campus, I jumped to the opportunity and I haven’t stopped since,” Blakemore said. In Blakemore’s experience, the BSA serves multiple purposes beside social change, such as a safe space for diversity, leadership connections and community skills. “I think BSA can be used as an avenue for social change. The greatest purpose of BSA is that it’s

cultivated for change on campus when it comes to the Black experience on campus in a positive way,” Blakemore said. Over the summer, the BSA remained active and had a meeting with ASUNM President Mia Amin, the chief of staff and a number of senators regarding a BLM resolution that was passed on June 11. Blakemore and Hill encourage students who are interested in participating to be active in UNM Afro and join one of their organizations. “I would say there’s really no requirements to join BSA. The number one thing is to be an advocate for the African American community on campus. Also show leadership, show you have a voice and you don’t mind speaking out on topics that some others might not. That's what BSA needs,” Hill said. Jasmine Casillas is a freelance reporter at the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at culture@dailylobo. com or on Twitter @jaycasillas

SHAC releases ‘HonesTea with SHAC HP’ podcast in attempt to assuage student anxiety By Samuel Fleig @samfleig Student Health and Counseling (SHAC) at the University of New Mexico recently released “HonesTea with SHAC HP,” a new podcast that reassures students that they are not alone in their struggles and anxieties when facing this most unusual school year amidst a pandemic. In the “Welcome Back Lobos” episode released on Aug. 18, SHAC student-employees Tiffany Martinez, Chris Naranjo and Leah Adent host the podcast (available on Spotify, Apple Music or Amazon) and discuss their thoughts and worries about the fall semester in a casual and relatable format. Martinez poses several questions to her fellow hosts about their feelings on returning to a campus absent of the educational and social opportunities many students have relied on to get through the stress that comes with school and work. This topic has been hot on everyone’s minds with the start of an online semester, and school seems to get more tedious and repetitive with every Zoom meeting I attend. There seems to be a limit on how interesting a Zoom call can get, and I find myself zoning out way more

than I did during in-person classes. The next segment is about how students are adjusting to virtual learning and the many obstacles and setbacks that come with this peculiar modality of teaching. Naranjo and Adent talk specifically about the learning curve and distractions with distance education. This part was easily the most relatable portion of the podcast, as students have been struggling with the distractions present in our own homes. When asked about returning to campus, Adent responded, “I am not looking forward to it. I feel like my anxiety is going to be quite high.” This woe is surely a perspective many can relate to, and I anticipate an eerily empty campus for the foreseeable future. The hosts reminisce on life as a college student pre-coronavirus and the many activities and routines that have disappeared in the past six months — a sad activity that’s easy to dwell on. “It’s been a different type of year. I miss being able to eat together or walking through campus and seeing people,” Martinez said. “I was on campus the day before yesterday, and it was dead.” Naranjo and Martinez go on to praise UNM students and the respect they have for the health and wellbeing of their fellow Lobos, seeming

to stray from the overall theme of the show. Naranjo said what little students he saw on campus were socially distancing and wearing masks, which he said was reassuring. “Our Lobos are resilient. They always have been, and they always will be,” Martinez said. This light-hearted, stream-ofconsciousness based show is sure to make any anxious students feel heard and a part of something bigger, and it made me personally feel like I wasn’t alone in my concerns. The trio of student hosts encouraged any anxious or struggling students to seek out SHAC’s services, including Therapy Assistance Online. While listening to the first episode, I felt as though the hosts have yet to find their conversational footing and charisma. The loose nature of the introductory episode makes the focal point a little hard to identify at times, but I believe these minor issues will be resolved as future episodes focus more on answering questions submitted by students via SHAC’s Snapchat and Instagram pages. I want future episodes to feature a memorable theme song or introduction, which of course all great podcasts deserve. A consistent introduction is something that builds recognition in the listener’s head. It’s hard to find a single episode of “The

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Joe Rogan Experience” where he doesn’t open with an enticing and enthusiastic “Hello friends!” while the expletive-laden missives introducing “WTF with Marc Maron” immediately give the listener a sense of what they’re about to hear. Chris assures UNM students that SHAC employees want to see students succeed and that students shouldn’t hesitate to visit or take advantage of any mental health re-

sources on campus. “We wish you well, welcome back to campus and we look forward to surviving 2020 with you,” Martinez said to bring the podcast’s opening salvo to a close. Samuel Fleig is a freelance reporter at the Daily Lobo. He can be contacted at culture@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @samfleig

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that is owned partially by UNM Hospital and Presbyterian Healthcare Services, and Wilterding said this means the lab is able to focus on the state’s needs as opposed to the national labs used more widely across the country. “In many states in the country, they use national laboratories that are quite large and cannot be responsive to the environment,” Wilterding said. Even with a local lab, however, “Our state capacity is (still) about 8,000 tests a day, and we bump up against that many days a week,” Wilterding said. This limitation, according to Wilterding, is in part due to the fact that New Mexico receives fewer testing reagents from national sources. “There is a scarcity across the nation, and they tend to get sent to hot spots,” Wilterding said. A reagent is a compound or mixture used to detect the presence or absence of another substance, according to the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry Compendium of Chemical Terminology. Wilterding said that the state will need to continue to prioritize testing

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for high risk people - like people in nursing homes - because he predicts that the reagents needed to complete the tests will remain in short supply through the end of the year. “We are anticipating continued issues with restrictive supplies through December,” Wilterding said. Despite the reagent scarcity, New Mexico still has one of the highest testing rates per capita in the country. And, UNM is still planning to test both students who have symptoms and asymptomatic students who have had a known exposure. Students with symptoms will need to have their symptoms confirmed via a phone medical evaluation, and students who can provide evidence of a known exposure can also get a referral from a SHAC medical provider to get tested. Additionally, if UNM knows someone on campus has tested positive, the SHAC Rapid Testing and Intervention team “is going to look at where that individual has been, and then they will get a jump on the contact tracing by having all those possibly exposed test immediately,” Wilterding said.

Contact tracers are trained individuals who identify those who have been in contact with someone who is confirmed COVID-19 positive. “I think the best way to think about it is that the initial pass (conducted by the IRRTF) is casting a more narrow net for potential contacts who might test positive,” Wilterding said. “It’s not quite as nuanced as what the contact tracers will do, but it will be faster than they can get to it.” Contact tracers will “conduct investigations of the index case - the person who tests positive - and then they identify, based on the criteria, everybody who is considered exposed,” Wilterding said. “Then the contact tracers start trying to track down those individuals, and sometimes they also find other potential cases. So they are casting a very wide net, and it takes longer to do that.” UNM is in the process of onboarding contact tracers, and Wilterding expects they should be able to begin working in about two weeks. The tracers will report to Occupational and Environmental Health Services (EOHS), which is located on north campus, and

Dr. Denece Kesler, the director of EOHS, will serve as supervisor. There are some discrepancies across the student body and at other universities regarding how frequently some are receiving tests. UNM Athletics is proactively administering confirmation testing of all of their athletes, coaches and staff at least monthly, and the University of California, Los Angeles is testing every student living in university housing and every student who is participating in in-person classes. Wilterding, however, asserted that testing these students at move-in or the start of the semester isn’t sufficient. “If you are really going to use testing as your strategy to prevent transmission, you are going to need to test everybody on campus at least once a week, if not twice a week,” Wilterding said. “We don’t have the resources nor the testing capacity in New Mexico (to do this).” On the upside - and unlike other schools across the country - UNM has made a concerted effort to ensure that no one will be personally billed for COVID-19 testing.

“Students who are tested will not get any charges for it,” Wilterding said. “We are going to try to bill insurance when we can, but our agreement with TriCore is that when they are unable to bill insurance, they won’t send (the bill) to collections or bill the patient they bill UNM.” The UNM Health Protocol Committee and the Testing Committee have worked for months to come up with this strategy, according to Wilterding. Wilterding said that he thinks the testing strategy is “workable and practical for our situation here and provides an acceptable level of risk for everybody.” “The committee as we have set up the testing here is very sensitive that the testing has to be equitable for all students and all populations on this campus, and we are committed to making sure it plays out that way, “Wilterding said.

She confirmed that the discovery phase of a civil lawsuit — including wrongful death — includes depositions. According to Gonzales-Zamora, settlement negotiations are still possible because they will occur during or directly after depositions. Gonzales-Zamora also commented on the reason for some of the allegations and requests in the complaint. She said that a complaint serves the function of “covering the bases” due to the limited amount of time in which a complaint can be modified or amended. For this reason, the original complaint included as many provisions for such

things as trial and requests for relief as possible to avoid being penalized for attempting to make late amendments or requests. The defendants’ counsel has the opportunity to file an “answer” to the complaint within 21 days of service, according to Gonzales-Zamora. It isn’t clear at this time whether the summons and complaint were served to the defendants — the NCAA, Davie and the UNM Board of Regents — on the day of Crump’s announcement of the lawsuit. Gonzales-Zamora stated that this type of lawsuit can take anywhere from 18 to upwards of 30 months to resolve. The next phases include the

defendants filing an answer, discovery and depositions — including possible settlement negotiations — and, if the depositions don’t yield a settlement, a jury trial to follow. Although research into CTE is still in its very early phase, it’s commonly understood by the medical community to be degenerative and has four stages similar to those of cancer, with the fourth stage preceding death. However, individuals suffering from the first stages of CTE may not survive to phase four due to depressive symptoms resulting in the taking of their own life.

School of Law provided this information as an individual who is an expert in civil procedure. All views expressed are solely her own. She does not speak on behalf of UNM or the School of Law or any of their affiliates. She is not affiliated with any party to the matter discussed, has not received any compensation for this interview and otherwise has no personal or economic interest in the subject of the publication.

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al abuse. The lawsuit also accuses Davie of granting exemptions from play for medical reasons to white players but not making such concessions for Black players. The complaint alleges that Davie forced Flowers to play after he made Davie aware of his emerging depression and beginning treatment with antidepressant medication — a treatment with which Flowers had no prior experience, according to the lawsuit. Veronica Gonzales-Zamora, an assistant professor at UNM’s School of Law, agreed to an interview with the Daily Lobo to clarify some points on the complaint.

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removing stones from it.” Martinez advised that tenants should do all they can to attend hearings if they are served with an eviction notice. Many courts are conducting remote trials in eviction cases, and if tenants fail to appear, the judge will automatically rule in favor of the landlord. “There’s a stay, but if you get an eviction notice, you should still go to court,” Martinez said. “Because if you don’t, you’re definitely going to get evicted. Even if you think you don’t have a good case, you still have to show up.” If a tenant can demonstrate financial hardship, the stay will still apply to them. If they can’t, the judge will likely rule in favor of the landlord.

Martinez further emphasized that the state could prevent the wave of evictions from occurring once the stay is lifted and suggested a re-appraisal of the country’s housing system. “No rent, no evictions, no mortgage payments: That’s only part of a long-term solution,” he said. “We should stop the machinery that moves to make people homeless, but we have to then take advantage of that break in the action to think about how the system works.” William Bowen is a freelance reporter at the Daily Lobo. He can be contacted at news@dailylobo. com or on Twitter @BowenWrites Courtesy Photo

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‘Fallout’: New book sobering reminder of nuclear devastation 75 years after entering atomic age By Hevyn Heckes @H_Squared90 Editor’s note: This book review contains graphic depictions of violence.

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New Mexicans are perhaps more acutely aware of U.S. nuclear capabilities and the bomb ‘Little Boy’ dropped on Hiroshima, since its predecessors were developed and tested in our own backyard. However, most people alive today will not remember the immediate aftereffects of the outsized attack on Japanese citizens that capped off the second world war. Modern awareness of the atomic bomb and the events of WWII are mostly relegated to fictionalized accounts contained in films such as “Pearl Harbor” and “Schindler’s List.” The events surrounding WWII have long since become a cultural legend, and first-person memories of these events no longer exist. We’ve simply forgotten the horrors of global war — until now. Leslie M. M. Blume set out to refresh our collective memory regarding the widely recognized end of WWII in “Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World.” She has done so in spectacular fashion – recalling our consciousness to the famous New Yorker article written by one John Hersey. Blume details the difficulties Hersey confronted in reporting the truth of the atomic bomb’s lingering effects on Japanese citizens and the censorship levied against

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war correspondents prior to and during Hersey’s investigative presence in Japan. Blume somehow manages to insert the reader in a manner usually only employed by fiction novels. She plies the reader with insight into how Hersey was able to convince Japanese victims to talk to him — a man they had every reason to hate and mistrust as a representative of their enemies in the U.S. She explains that Hersey’s interviewees found him affable, educated and empathetic. His personal qualities endeared him to these people who would otherwise have gladly sent him on his way without a word. Reading this book provides a timely and poignant reminder on the 75th anniversary of the bombings. One is forced to confront the human cost of nuclear weapons. Blume brilliantly interweaves Hersey’s reporting with her own so the reader is able to feel present with Hersey during his research and the victims of Little Boy’s aftereffects. It becomes more and more clear that those who perished immediately with the bomb’s initial blast were the lucky ones. Hersey and Blume graphically recount the physiological and psychological trauma Little Boy’s victims endured. One particularly memorable excerpt states, “(Japanese soldiers’) eyes had melted away in their sockets; the liquid had run in rivulets down their faces, which were burned beyond recognition.” Other excerpts tell of victims whose faces had “melted”

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with the blast so that their appearance seemed blurred. Clearly, this novel contains sensitive and graphic depictions of physical trauma suffered by Japanese citizens of Hiroshima. This fact takes nothing away from the importance of the reader confronting these depictions to truly understand the catastrophic risks of nuclear war. Fictional chaos theorist Dr. Ian Malcolm (played memorably by Jeff Goldblum) said in the film “Jurassic Park,” “Your scientists were so concerned with figuring out if they could that they didn’t stop to ask themselves whether or not they should.” This concept and ethical philosophy is perhaps more applicable to the invention of the atomic bomb — a weapon capable of far more devastating effects, up to and including nuclear winter, environmental devastation and species annihilation, than a few stray T-Rexes in a theme park. As Hersey conveys and Blume emphasizes, nuclear weapons are a tool that have the real potential to bring about humanity’s self-inflicted extinction. Hersey’s reporting on the atomic bomb’s effects on the citizens of Hiroshima is perhaps a deterrent preventing nuclear disaster, but we must keep these consequences at the front of our minds to continue avoiding the doomsday clock finally tolling the midnight hour. “Fallout” is the poignant reminder we need right now. Hevyn Heckes is a freelance reporter at the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at culture@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @H_Squared90

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thing. With (analog) film classes, it's absolutely necessary to have in-person class," Wilkinson said. Caudilina Roer, a studio art minor, stressed the difficulty of learning art practices from one’s home as well. “I feel like something like art is better to be observed in the process to understand exactly what you’re doing and if you’re doing it right,” Roer said. Some courses, such as printmaking and jewelry-making, are excessively difficult and some-

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Methods of learning and practice have changed radically for University of New Mexico fine arts students because of distancing procedures amid the coronavirus pandemic in the fall 2020 semester. As a plethora of courses are now being held primarily or solely online, students in hands-on art studies have voiced a number of concerns with the quality and value of their current education.

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Studio art minor Caudilina Roer stands near cleaning supplies in an open practice space of the UNM Art Building.

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Photography major Elizabeth Wilkinson said distance learning affects not only the production of her art, but the nature of her creativity. "When I'm around other people, I get most of my inspiration and most of my motivation, so not having those people around has been a huge burden on my work," Wilkinson said. Wilkinson noted the importance of certain art studies being held in person. "With digital photography, it's easy to do hybrid (instruction), but a lot of lab time is still required with prints and every-

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times even impossible to do without a space to use equipment, according to Roer. “I can’t use a blow torch at home; I can’t use a printing press in my own house. It’s very dependent upon things on campus,” Roer said. Brittany Francisco, a film and digital arts major, echoed all of these concerns, noting the detrimental impacts of distance learning even more as she works on her senior film capstone, a culmination of her prior three years of education in film and digital arts. "(Capstone) — that's the biggest thing for film students their final year,” Francisco said. “I haven't been able to form groups, and it's hard to communicate with everybody's schedules and get a hold of everybody.” Francisco further noted nervousness surrounding her future job prospects as opportunities

for students to work on local film productions have decreased — a result of recent initiatives to limit New Mexican film production sizes and activity. Jess Liesveld, a theater major with a concentration in acting, believes the pandemic has certainly brought difficulties for theater as well. “I would prefer it would be face-to-face interaction, because I think theater and acting is dependent on not just seeing but also feeding off of the energy of the other person,” Liesveld said. “It’s kind of difficult to attempt to do that without being physically there.” However, Liesveld said there may be valuable new perspectives to learn from the challenge. “The instructor is trusting that we do (practice) on our own time, and I think that’s 75% of acting — trust. So it’s interesting to build that skill in terms of a performer,” Liesveld said. “We’re actually learning our content based on if we really truly want to learn it, rather than just having to do it because we’re taking a class.” Hoping for a better future, Liesveld is looking forward to new opportunities even during a pandemic. “I like to be positive — the idea is that it will get better,” Liesveld said. “Maybe there’s something we can take out of this to better theater, to better acting.” Liberty Stalnaker is a freelance reporter at the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at culture@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @DailyLobo

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“I started thinking a lot more about what students are going through once I had a plan, so I tried to incorporate more student engagement in my class,” Whalen said. However, Whalen emphasized the fluid nature of the semester’s progression, as some of her course sections may need to shift from faceto-face instruction to being fully online. Previously, her lecture classes had been in-person, but after low attendance in one class, Whalen is considering transferring it to Zoom. Whalen’s labs are completely face-to-face, in which students enter the building in small groups and work on experiments individually while wearing masks. Only students with accomodations from the Accessibility Resource Center are exempt. According to Whalen, over 700 faculty members participated in summer training provided by the Center for Teaching Excellence and supported by University administration, and they were informed in May of the upcoming hybrid semester. Michael Rocca, who is currently teaching a survey course on American politics in addition to a graduate seminar, said he spent the

summer tinkering with his new office space, which included purchasing a DSLR camera and a separate computer monitor. “I give UNM President Garnett Stokes, the deans, the provost and the administration credit for sending us signals early on that we would go online,” Rocca said. “I also give credit to the IT department for compiling tutorials and training faculty to use Learn the best they can.” Rocca said one of the most frustrating aspects of remote instruction is the online semester coinciding with a presidential election. “Being in an online environment can’t come close to replicating the excitement that an in-person class gives to me and my students,” Rocca said. Rocca said he chose a remote arranged format to accommodate students living in rural areas who might not have the internet connection needed to log onto class. Providing online resources such as informational video clips and interactive graphics, as well as an increase in students visiting Rocca’s virtual office hours, are some benefits of the online system. Marissa Greenberg, who teach-

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“We don't have the ability to make infinite exceptions to our course policies, because we are already stretched,” Whalen said. “Keep your integrity, and don’t get to a place where you feel like you have to cheat. Care about learning, not about the grade.” Rocca expressed a desire for students to be patient during the inevitable obstacles of virtual learning. “I haven’t been this nervous for the first day of class in 15 years. I usually get butterflies walking into my first day of class, but I was a nervous wreck when my Learn page went live on Monday,” he said. “I and my colleagues are working hard, and we want to deliver the most organized and engaging content we can. ” Greenberg emphasized communication and empathy as key tools for the semester. “I would like (students) to know this change is as, if not more, disruptive for faculty as it is for them. We have trained to do what we do in one modality, and now we have to relearn everything,” Greenberg said. “I’d encourage them to be kind.” “The more compassion and the more we can see each other as human beings, the better off we will be when this thing comes to an end.” Beatrice Nisoli is a senior reporter at the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at culture@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @BeatriceNisoli

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