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Over a third of UNM students food insecure, even more lack stable housing By Annya Loya @annyaloyadl

In April — just one month into the COVID-19 stay-at-home order — 32% of UNM students reported experiencing food insecurity and almost 42% were unsure about their housing, according to a recent study conducted by the University of New Mexico’s Basic Needs Team. The team — comprised of researchers from a variety of departments and offices on campus — examined the rates of food and housing insecurity and how they are patterned across different demographic groups at UNM. New Mexico households have the highest rate (16.8%) of food insecurity across the country, according to the study. This means that as of 2017, one in six individuals and one in four children in New Mexico were living in homes “without consistent access to adequate food for everyone to live healthy, active lives,” according to the New Mexico Department of Health’s Indicator-Based Informa-

tion System (NM-IBIS). Poverty and income are the primary factors in food and housing insecurity, according to the study’s co-principal investigator Dr. Marygold Walsh-Dilley, and New Mexico has higher rates of poverty and lower incomes on average compared to the rest of the country. The researchers wanted to know “to what extent there is food and housing insecurity among UNM’s students and who is affected most by the insecurity,” Walsh-Dilley said. Noah Dowling-Lujan, a UNM student who has experienced homelessness, said that the UNM administration’s lack of action is the reason why many students aren’t aware of this issue. “It’s very normal to not be aware about what’s going on. I think that’s intentional. They don’t want to advertise these issues — UNM especially,” Dowling-Lujan said. “They always try to minimize every issue the school has ever had because they’re all about marketing and not about flourishing or social wellbeing.” The study also looked at the stigma and shame that often accompany

food and housing insecurity. According to Walsh-Dilley, if students were to be asked if they’d been homeless in the past 12 months, they’d likely be unwilling to answer “yes” because of the prevailing stigma surrounding homelessness. “A lot of students have a lot of notions about homeless people that are very wrong, and they are just fundamentally misunderstanding the issue,” Dowling-Lujan said. Dr. Sarita Cargas, the principal investigator for the study, said that it’s important for students to know that food and housing insecurity are systemic issues, not personal failings. “There’s harder things to fix like systemic inequality,” Cargas said. “We need students to know this is not their fault. These are system society problems. All of us should have a hand in addressing it. We need to treat it like a systemic issue and not something to be embarrassed about.” The housing insecurity survey included questions like: Did you have a rent increase? Was there an occasion where you didn’t pay the full amount of your housing utilities? Did you live with others beyond the

UNM professor, students celebrate women’s suffrage centennial with art exhibit By Megan Gleason @fabflutist2716 The centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage is upon us in 2020, and “A Yellow Rose Project” celebrates the victories and acknowledges the losses of the historic passage of the 19th

Amendment through an online photography exhibit. University of New Mexico Honors College associate professor Megan Jacobs was one artist chosen among over a hundred other women to contribute to the project, collaborating with UNM students Hyunju Blemel, Sydney Nesbit, Sierra Venegas and Tilcara Webb. A portion

of the exhibit is available to view in person at the Spectra Gallery at the Honors College. Meg Griffiths, co-founder of the project, said it was created “in response to a project that women started 100 years ago, which was working on getting the right to

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These photographs, on display in the Spectra Gallery at the UNM Honors College, celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the signing of the 19th amendment.

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expected capacity of the house? Did you leave your household because you felt unsafe? According to the study, LGBTQ students (mostly transgender and genderfluid students) are especially vulnerable to the insecurities outlined in those questions, and those insecurities can detrimentally affect their education. “We know that certain demographic groups are less likely to be academically successful and are more likely to drop out, and we think basic needs food and housing insecurity is part of the story,” Walsh-Dilley said. “If we could address food and housing insecurity,

then maybe we can contribute to making educational access more equitable across these different groups.” The researchers found that food insecure students had a lower GPA with an average of 3.46 compared to food secure students who had an average GPA of 3.65. This data suggests that basic needs insecurity negatively impacts students’ educational outcomes and may affect their ability to get through college successfully. “It’s not really fair for students to be contending with housing or food insecurity when they’re also trying to

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Contact tracers work to slow the spread of COVID-19 By Nikita Jaiswal @DailyLobo A University of New Mexico student received a phone call from the New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) late one Wednesday evening. The department was calling to tell her she had tested positive for COVID-19. “I was so shocked when I found out,” she said, “but talking to the contact tracer eased my worries.” Contact tracers play an important role in combating the coronavirus. When a person tests positive for the virus, contact tracers call and inform them of their test result, which begins the case investigation. They ask whether the person is presenting COVID-19 symptoms, how severe they are and how long they’ve been present. Contact tracers also find out where that person has been and who they’ve recently been in contact with, and inform those contacts that they may have been exposed to the virus. They then inquire about the contacts’

health and provide the opportunity for them to be tested. By informing people of their potential exposure and encouraging them to quarantine, contact tracers help slow COVID-19 transmission. From the beginning of the pandemic, New Mexico has displayed one of the highest testing rates per capita in the country. Since Sept. 1, the state has reported nearly 100,000 test results, including just over 2,000 new confirmed cases. Contact tracers in the state aim to reach out to individuals who test positive within 36 hours of receiving their test result. This large operation requires hundreds of contact tracers who make calls around the clock. NMDOH spokesperson David Morgan said that there are approximately 270 full-time contact tracers, which doesn’t meet the estimated need for the population of New Mexico, according to an NPR report. When the state’s COVID-19 case growth peaked in late July, understaffed workers were constantly

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cope with the challenge of going to school and doing well. We want students to reach their full potential,” Walsh-Dilley said. The Basic Needs Insecurity at UNM 2020 Research Report is the first report in an ongoing investigation. Since the study was performed during the COVID-19 outbreak, the impact of the pandemic on both food and housing insecurity is unknown.

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drawing from their own lives and experiences for inspiration, according to Griffiths. “What you see is a huge sort of swath of perspective from very different women all across the United States, and at different ages and different stages in their careers,” Griffiths said. The exhibit also displays how not all women had the right to vote. Depending on race, some measure of equality in the democratic experiment would take time to succeed, according to the website. “Even though we technically got suffrage, it still took decades for women of color and all different minorities to actually get the right to vote just because of Jim Crow laws and all these other methods that the government tried to use in order to prevent women from voting,” Nesbit said. “So I think that I guess it would take another 40 or 50 years for us to really be able to celebrate and say that every single woman had the right to vote at this point.”

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“This is a real limitation on what we’re doing,” Walsh-Dilley said. The group of researchers will follow up on their findings with focus groups in the fall 2020 semester, and they hope to conduct another survey in 2021. “It’s nowhere near done,” Cargas said. While the UNM Basic Needs Project has received enthusiastic responses, raising funds to com-

plete the investigation has been the biggest challenge for the team of researchers. According to Cargas, the team would also like to collaborate with other colleges and universities in New Mexico as a next step for their investigation. The team has already applied for a major grant, and colleges such as New Mexico State University, Santa Fe Community College, Northern

New Mexico University and CNM have said they would like to participate in the next round of research. UNM’s other branches will also likely be included. The ultimate goal of the study, as stated in the report, is to “improve the food and housing security of students at the University of New Mexico through the combined activities of research, data collection and advocacy,”

Walsh-Dilley said. “It shows there’s so much possibility of addressing this in the future. It’s not just a hopeless social problem, and there are meaningful solutions out there,” Dowling-Lujan said.

Jacobs acknowledged works of specific artists that stood out in this perspective, such as Cindy Hwang’s “Forgotten Suffragette” series, which highlights activist women of color that are commonly underrepresented in the face of more popular white activists, according to the artist’s statement. “That’s bringing up, again, another sort of historical example that even when women had the right to vote, there were still exclusions that were happening for women of color,” Jacobs said. Blemel and Nesbit said that learning more in-depth about the history of suffrage has allowed them to expand on their view of female history and what it means today. “I think a big part of history is acknowledging what happened in order to prevent it from happening again,” Blemel said. Griffiths said one of the ultimate goals of the exhibit was to encourage and stimulate political activism. Jacobs highlighted the common-

alities between the fight for the right to vote and the current political scene, speaking specifically to the long voting lines in the Georgia primary in June. “I also think it’s important to say, ‘What things are repeating themselves?’ I felt this kind of uncanny sense of, ‘Oh my gosh, what’s happening right now with our upcoming election and with people having to wait in line for five hours to cast a vote,’ that’s really scary,” Jacobs said. “And I think that we need to be sort of looking to the past to say we don’t want to go back to those times — we want to make sure that we are preserving everyone’s right to cast a vote in democracy.” Jacobs said strides still need to be made for women’s rights, especially reproductive rights. “The exhibit was always meant to be online, so the coronavirus pandemic didn’t interrupt it in that sense,” co-founder of the exhibit Frances Jakubek said. However,

deadlines were changed, and in-person displays were adapted once the pandemic hit. “Working with all women, a lot of responsibilities change for a lot of people, so all of a sudden if you have children they’re home with you, and (that impacts) your personal art practice,” Jakubek said. “I think a lot of people had to adjust.” Griffiths said the project opened her eyes to a more selfless, collectivist mentality of working together towards a larger goal. “It really showed me in a very deep way of which women can not be supportive of each other when they’re all fighting for the same cause essentially, and that kind of individualism mentality and I think this project, for me, was the culmination of the opposite of that,” Griffiths said. “It’s all about collaboration. It’s all about celebration and/or acknowledgment and/or the understanding that we have to do better and educate each other and educate ourselves.” Jacobs noted how important it is to

have a national dialogue about voting and continue raising awareness of civic responsibility. “The women who did these things for us, who were beat up and thrown in jail and would go back to jail again ... They literally are our angels,” Griffiths said. The Honors College Research Institute provided funding for the collaboration between Jacobs and the students. “(This project) made me want to make those women before me proud of what they did, and that it didn’t go to waste,” Blemel said. Griffiths and Jakubek will lead a Zoom presentation about the project with the Honors College on Sept. 28 at 4 p.m.

on the phone. Now contact tracers are unsure how they’ll handle the upcoming flu season coupled with COVID-19 — a concern exacerbated by the difficulty contact tracers often have in contacting people who test positive. “We have a 50-50 chance for an individual to pick up the first time we call, the second time a 70% chance and the third time, if it comes to it, an 85% chance,” Morgan said. Some people are unreachable because they didn’t provide accurate contact information when they got tested, forcing contact tracers to use other means to try to reach them. The majority of people contacted are open to providing information about who they were in contact with, Morgan said. Even so, relying on people to have an accurate memory and be truthful about where they’ve been can sometimes pose issues. “I lied and said I got it from where I worked, because the person I got it from doesn’t have papers,” the UNM student said.

With people who frequently interact with others, it can be challenging to pinpoint where they may have contracted the virus. Sometimes people attended parties where social distancing guidelines were not followed, making it difficult to contact all of the attendees. Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, health care workers are legally prohibited from disclosing any private medical information to others, meaning individuals can feel safe when sharing where they’ve gone and who they’ve seen. For example, Morgan said that the department won’t report things like mask noncompliance. The NMDOH offers support services to people who test positive, including hotel rooms for people who would be financially unable to safely quarantine otherwise. “Our primary concern is to make sure that you are physically well,” Morgan said. Contact tracing is vital in ensuring

New Mexico’s hospitals aren’t overwhelmed by high rates of COVID-19 transmission, Morgan said. “The more people that require health care resources (such as ventilators and intensive care unit beds), the more strain we put on the health care system. That is why it is important to limit the potential for exposure,” Morgan said. The UNM student interviewed by the Daily Lobo said that after speaking with a contact tracer, her concerns were lessened and she was more informed. “After talking to the contact tracer, I felt so much better,” she said. “I now know what to do and how to handle the situation.” As of the publication of this article, 41 students, faculty and staff at UNM have tested positive for COVID-19.

Annya Loya is a freelance reporter at the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at news@dailylobo. com or on Twitter @annyaloyadl

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2020 / PAGE 3 By Gabriel Saiz @ GSaiz83 The University of New Mexico community is gearing up for the 2020 general election with in-person and online events for National Voter Registration Day on Tuesday, Sept. 22. An in-person voter registration drive will take place at the Pit from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tuesday. The organizers — the UNM Athletics department and the Albuquerque City Clerk’s Office — ask that participants bring their state-issued ID or proof of residency, according to a press release from the Athletics department. UNM assistant athletic director of marketing Carlos Ramirez said he wants to reach the student body and the area surrounding campus with the event. He also said that parking at the Pit will be free. Deputy city clerk Miriam Diemer said she hopes the event will make up for lost ground, as voter registration and voter information self-updates “flatlined” in March due to the coronavirus pandemic. An online civic engagement event hosted by the New Mexico Public Interest Research Group (NMPIRG) will start at 5 p.m. the same day. The event will double as a lecture series and voter registration drive. Several professionals and students involved in civics, including ASUNM President Mia Amin, will speak about the importance of youth civic engagement and common concerns students have concerning voting, like how to get registered. UNM junior and NMPIRG campus relations coordina-

tor Andrew Schumann said he wants the event to help “educate and inspire students” to register and engage in politics. “Young people definitely have the ability to make a huge impact,” Schumann said. According to an ASUNM resolution introduced on Sept. 16, Generation Z — people from the ages of 18 to 23 — are “projected to comprise one-in-ten eligible voters, up 4% in 2016.” ASUNM Resolution #4F — introduced by Senators Emma Hotz, Reina Harper and Ryan Regalado, with ASUNM Governmental Affairs and the UNM College Democrats and Republicans — encourages students to vote by mail and sign up as poll workers. Liam Paul, a UNM sophomore and vice president of the UNM College Democrats, said there is “so much more to it than just voting for president,” referring to down-ballot races — Congressional seats and state and local offices — that often most directly affect voters. “We’re giving away our right to self-governance by not participating in our democracy,” Paul said. Out-of-state students can choose to vote in either their official state of residence or the state of their school. Campus Vote Project and Rock the Vote provide state-specific voting information. The deadline to register to vote in New Mexico is Tuesday, Oct. 6 and the last day to request an absentee ballot is Tuesday, Oct. 20, both of which can be done on the New Mexico Secretary of State’s website. Gabriel Saiz is a freelance reporter at the Daily Lobo. He can be contacted at news@dailylobo. com or on Twitter @GSaiz83

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‘Avengers’ video game misses the mark by a long shot By Gino Gutierrez @GGutierrez_48 Over the past 10 years, Marvel’s Avengers intellectual property has been one of the most successful franchises in the entertainment industry. So when it was announced in 2017 that Square Enix was developing an Avengers video game, anticipation around the project began to build. The thought of being able to fly like Iron Man, wield Thor’s hammer and throw Captain America’s shield had many chomping at the bit to get their hands on the game. But after playing it, I was left feeling underwhelmed. Sure, taking control of these iconic heroes was a blast, but the sheer amount of life-

less characters, bugs, uninspired gameplay design and endless grinding left me feeling more annoyed than blown away. The characters are decent but largely predictable. The new addition to the Avengers team — Kamala Khan, or Ms. Marvel — breathes a bit of new life into the equation, but not enough to save this title. I found throughout the game I never truly connected with any of the heroes. I didn’t care for them in the same way I did in either the comics or the films. Now, granted, this could just be Marvel fatigue, but I’ll admit that I wanted more for them than I got. As for the story, it had its high points but was mostly forgettable. I found that the lack of gameplay diversity killed any momentum the story had. It was hard to look

forward to story progression when you knew the same monotonous combat and semi-puzzle solving awaited you. The combat system was fun at first, but once you mastered the repetitive light and heavy attack combos, every enemy encounter began to feel more like a chore than a challenge. The lack of diversity in the enemies you face plays a part in this as well. The enemies are basically glorified punching bags. Even the boss fights are an endless cycle of punching your enemy, retreating and dodging their attack, then moving in and punching them again. This is the entirety of the fight with very little excitement to accompany it. All in all, the combat system felt lazy and frustrating. I fre-

quently found myself endlessly punching the same enemies over and over again, only to have the boredom broken by missing the occasional dodge. Another borderline game-breaking feature are the bugs that litter the cutscenes and character models. From Captain America’s face not loading properly to Thor missing his hair, these bugs serve as yet another reminder of how unpolished this game really is. But the real features of the game that highlight its missed potential are the loot and gear systems. This game is built largely on the idea of grinding for better gear to outfit your hero. In most games, this presents an opportunity for the player to continue playing even after the final credits roll, but in “Avengers” this is simply not the case.

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Most gear never seems to actually improve the way your character performs in the world. There aren’t even any aesthetic changes applied to your character. For a game that Marvel fans had such high hopes for, it’s disappointing that it missed the mark so badly and failed to honor how multifaceted the Avengers truly are. Although the company has promised the addition of new heroes with their own storylines, I wouldn’t hold my breath. With the game in a state of disrepair, no amount of DLC will be able to bring back Marvel’s disillusioned fanbase.

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Search for new student regent underway By Spencer Butler

@SpencerButler48 The Associated Students of the University of New Mexico (ASUNM) and the Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA) have put out calls for the next student regent. The student regent is a member of the student body who serves on the UNM Board of Regents as one of seven full voting members. Melissa C. Henry, a doctoral candidate in the College of Education, is currently serving as the student regent, but her term expires at the end of the year. The next student regent’s two-year term will start in January 2021. In an email to the Daily Lobo, GPSA President Naguru Nikhileshwara “Nikhil” Reddy said that both GPSA and ASUNM were only given three weeks to complete their search. ASUNM and GPSA will interview applicants and each choose two candidates to recommend for the position, which they’ll pass along to UNM President

Garnett Stokes. Reddy said Stokes’ office sent them a memo on Sept. 1 telling them that the deadline for their recommendations was Nov. 1, but that deadline was later revised to Sept. 30 at Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s request. Due to the deadline being moved up, ASUNM and GPSA have only a week to interview candidates and submit their recommendations to Stokes’ office. Stokes will then interview the candidates and send her recommendations to Lujan Grisham, who is tasked with selecting the new student regent. Applications can be found on the ASUNM and GPSA websites, and must be emailed to the appropriate student government — ASUNM for undergraduates and GPSA for graduates. The deadline is 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 23. It is unknown if an international student is eligible to serve as a student regent. According to Reddy, ASUNM and GPSA asked University counsel to interpret the state constitution and provide clarification on the matter. When asked why students

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Historic Camino Real museum reopens after six month hiatus By Hannah John @yesitshannahj El Rancho de las Golondrinas, located near the Santa Fe Plaza, reopened on Sept. 9 after being closed for six months due to COVID-19 measures put in place by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. El Rancho de las Golondrinas was active in the 18th and 19th centuries as a stopping point for people who were traveling the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, a historic trade route between Mexico City and Ohkay Owingeh during the Spanish colonial era. It is now a museum that is dedicated to preserving an important site of New Mexican history. According to the website, the museum is meant

to promote and preserve the Hispanic heritage of northern New Mexico. The safety of the general public was kept in mind as to when it would reopen, according to the museum’s education and volunteer manager Laura Gonzales. “We wanted to push after the holiday so we were avoiding any potential rush of any out of town visitors, keeping safety in mind,” Gonzales said. “We wanted to wait until after the Labor Day holiday and give staff a chance to review all of the COVID safe practices and give us ample time to make sure we had the appropriate signage and the appropriate supplies in place.” The museum has put COVID-19 safe practices into order to keep its visitors safe, according to El Rancho director Daniel Goodman.

Goodman said the museum now requires online reservations to avoid going over the state’s mandatory reduced capacity, which is a maximum of 50 people per session. Walk-in sales are not permitted, and there is a limit of 10 people per group. According to the website, visiting times are broken into two sessions: one morning session between 10 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. and an afternoon session between 1:15 p.m. and 4 p.m. Between these two sessions, there is a window for cleaning and sanitizing. Goodman said masks are also mandatory while at the museum, whether an individual is outside or inside. “Normally, our season runs June through October. Within that season, we are open for self-guided tours, we’re open for private tours, we’re used to having lots of groups come through for tours and we’re used to having school groups come on field trips,” Gonzales said. “Every other weekend, we have about nine festivals per season — they’re big weekend events, so we’ve canceled all our major events for the season.” With the late opening and changes to its usual season, there was naturally a detrimental impact on incoming revenue. “It’s been really tough. We are a private nonprofit — we’re not a state institution, so we’re expected to meet our earned revenue, and that’s not going to happen this year,” Goodman said. “We just don’t have the people coming in for those admissions figures. We’ve done everything we can

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An old wooden barn located near the farming area of the El Rancho de las Golondrinas museum in Santa Fe, NM.

to make sure the museum is in a good place financially, that people stay on the payroll and stay paid.” However, despite the changes, Goodman and Gonzales are thankful for the support the museum has received, they only have hope for the future of El Rancho de las Golondrinas. “We’re just going to keep moving forward as best as we can and as safe as we can. We’re just grateful for the support we have had throughout the last few months,” Gonzales said. The museum has the option for purchasing membership with prices ranging from $40 to $100, which gives individuals access to free admission to the museum at any time. Goodman is thankful for the loyalty of El Rancho’s members as they go through the uncertainty

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A detailed look at one of the adobe buildings along the trails of the El Rancho de las Golondrinas outdoor museum in Santa Fe, NM.

of the pandemic. “We appreciate the support of our members and the people who come out here and want to learn about New Mexico history and take in the beautiful scenery,” Goodman said. “If any students need to get out of Albuquerque for a little bit and get a little fresh air, we’d love to have you all out here.” Until sept. 18 the museum will be open Monday through Friday. Beginning Sept. 23 through October, it will be open Wednesday through Sunday. Tickets for reserved times can be purchased online. Hannah John is a freelance reporter at the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at culture@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @yesitshannahj

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