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Muertos y Marigolds brightens the streets

The Annual South Valley Muertos y Marigolds Parade on Sunday Nov. 5, 2017 started at El Centro Familiar and made its way to the Westside Community Center. Crowds waited throughout the South Valley in anticipation. Some participants and onlookers painted themselves with skull makeup and dressed up in various Day of the Dead motifs. The parade showcased decorated cars and bikes, along with music. After the parade was over, people headed to the Westside Community Center to enjoy music, food and shopping. Visit dailylobo.com for the full photo gallery. Text By April Torres

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UNM’s little piece of history Pro-life students air

grievances at ASUNM By Brendon Gray @notgraybrendon

By Hannah Eisenberg @DailyLobo Few students know about the cultural, historical and environmental goldmine the University of New Mexico owns just outside the Taos valley — the ranch and 160 acres of adjacent land that once belonged to famous literary figure D.H. Lawrence. Lawrence is an English novelist and painter, best known for the boundary-breaking content of his infamous novel, “Lady Chatterley’s Lover.” Lawrence obtained the property in 1924 when his wife, Frieda, traded the manuscript of another one of his novels, “Sons and Lovers,” for the deed to the ranch. Together they spent roughly 11 months in Taos, and Lawrence passed away from tuberculosis a few years later. Frieda owned and frequented the ranch for another 25 years. Over these years, she hosted artists and writers such as Aldous

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Huxley, Tennessee Williams, Georgia O’Keefe and Ansel Adams, all drawn to the area that inspired Lawrence. “Curious as it may sound, it was New Mexico that liberated me from the present era of civilization, the great era of material and mechanical development,” he wrote. When Frieda passed in 1955, she left the ranch to the University of New Mexico with the condition that the property “be used for educational, cultural, charitable and recreational purposes” — and for many years, it was. From 1955 to 2008 the ranch received hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world. With the help of longtime caretaker, Al Bearce, a building called the Lobo Lodge was erected on the property in the 1960s. This building “slept and fed dozens of retreat and conference attendees at the Ranch for several decades” until it’s closure in 1983, according to information provided by the D.H. Lawrence

Ranch Initiative. The Peace Corps also held training events in the Lobo Lodge, and there were annual summer seminars in painting and design held there by UNM’s Fine Arts department. In the 1950s Bearce also relocated 22 cabins, donated to him by Los Alamos National Labs, to the property. For a small expense, UNM students and faculty could rent the cabins. On holidays, like New Year’s Eve, people would gather at the ranch to enjoy the serenity of the landscape — an escape from civilization, like the one Lawrence described himself. During this time, the ranch was the second most visited site in Taos, after the Taos Pueblo. With the proper facilities, the property was a place where students and faculty could gather in an area of community and creative engagement.

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At Wednesday evening’s meeting of the Associated Students of the University of New Mexico, members from Students for Life rekindled a debate over a pro-life resolution that failed to pass last week. Emotions were high as several members from Students for Life expressed their concerns to their Senate representatives. At one point, one student supporting the pro-life effort drew astonishment from the room, saying there was “no difference between (ASUNM) and Adolf Hitler.” The resolution — introduced by a seven-person, pro-life voting bloc — failed in committee following scrutiny of its sourcing and statistics. If passed, the resolution would have lent support to the pro-life Students for Life organization. “The ASUNM government acknowledges that students on the UNM campus actively participate in the pro-life movement,” the resolution read. Seven ASUNM senators sponsored the resolution, which was written with input from the leadership of pro-life student organizations on campus. If the resolution made it to the full Senate, the seven sponsors would have formed a near-majority voting bloc. Many of those senators are involved in pro-life groups on campus and are actively involved in the on-campus religious student organization LoboCatholic. But instead of making it to the entire Senate, the resolution was failed

2-3 in the Steering and Rules Committee. The supporting votes came from two of the resolution’s authors, part of that pro-life voting bloc. According John Valdiviez, vice president of Students for Life, that voting bloc — which ran together on the Speak Now slate — was backed by many pro-life students on campus. “They had a pro-life stance,” Valdiviez said. “We knew most of them from our clubs, so we encouraged our members to go out and vote. Of course, they can vote for whoever they wanted, but we said that these are the candidates who will pass pro-life legislation across the campus.” In response to the studentvoiced concerns, some senators

“I felt very targeted that the first time the Steering and Rules Committee shot down a bill, it was with an issue from Students for Life.” Francine Briones ASUNM Finance Committee Chair see

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