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A look into the life of a DACA beneficiary By Amy Byres
@amybyres12 Editor’s Note: This is the first profile in a series on DACA recipients. Continue to stay updated with the Daily Lobo for more information. When she was just 2-years-old, Daniela Fry immigrated to the United States from Mexico with her mother. And her life changed dramatically when former President Barack Obama signed the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy. “One of the first things that was interesting when DACA came out was how somebody made me feel important,” she said, now 21 and a senior at the University of New Mexico majoring in international management. For the first time in Fry’s life, she saw the possibility of going to college and working legally. “(DACA) allowed me to have hope and have faith a little bit more, not only for myself, but for a lot of other people like me,” Fry said. Her grandmother decided to help her apply to become a Dreamer. “It was defiantly costly, time consuming and very, very tedious,” Fry said. Her grandmother hired a lawyer
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Daniela Fry, an international studies major at UNM and DACA recipient, sits in the Student Union Building, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017. Fry is finishing her senior year and describes herself as a hard working, ambitious entrepreneur — and most importantly a Dreamer.
WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY
Lobos take home championship title Hogwarts By Tyrell Natewa and Robert Maler
@DailyLoboSports @Robert_Maler The Lobos ended the season as champions again, picking up their second national championship in three years by capturing the 2017 NCAA Championship title in Louisville, Kentucky on Saturday. The women’s cross country team is no stranger to performing at an elite level, having finished in seventh place at the same venue last season. In fact, the squad has finished in the top 10 for eight consecutive years after Saturday’s performance, winning the whole thing in 2015. Head coach Joe Franklin said this year’s squad was different, but the end result was the same, as the University of New Mexico stood atop the national cross country landscape with almost a completely different roster than two years ago. One thing that didn’t happen for New Mexico in 2015 was a firstplace individual performance at nationals. Sophomore transfer Ednah Kurgat accomplished that feat this year, winning comfortably with a time of 19:19.42 in the six-
kilometer run. The time also set a new meet record for the national championship run E.P. “Tom” Sawyer State Park, a release said. The performance capped an undefeated run for Kurgat, as she was the top runner in each of the five meets she competed in this season. “I was so excited,” Kurgat said in a release. “I don’t take anything for granted. My challenges are behind me. They all act as a stepping stone to where I am today.” Alice Wright, was also a part of the 2015 championship team, made the most of her additional training time when the senior sat out the 2017 Mountain Region Championships last week to prepare. She was part of a quartet of Lobos to log a sub-20 minute run time. Wright finished the race with a time of 19:49.73 to place 14th overall but was actually the number four scorer for her team. Weini Kelati came in seventh place overall at 19:35.77, and Charlotte Prouse was 12th after finishing the race in 19:48.93, as New Mexico grabbed four of the top-14 scoring slots. The performance earned all four women All-American honors for finishing in the top 40 of the field, marking the fourth consecutive
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comes to the SUB By Amy Byres
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Courtesy Photo / Mike Mulcahy / UNM Athletics
UNM’s Ednah Kurgat took first place overall at the 2017 NCAA Championships in Division I Cross Country in Louisville, Kentucky on Nov. 18, 2017. Kurgat is a sophomore transfer from Liberty University.
year Wright has earned All-American accolades in cross country. All five Lobo scorers placed in the top 25 in 2015, and although the team didn’t duplicate that feat, New Mexico still had some room to work with. Alondra Negrón Texidor rounded out the scoring for New Mexico with a run of 20:35.67, which was good enough for 85th place in the 255-woman field. Alex Buck and Kieran Casey
didn’t figure into the scoring but finished 105th and 123rd in the race, respectively. Negrón Texidor’s performance gave the Lobos a team total of just 90 points, edging out San Francisco (105) and No. 1 Colorado (139) to take home the hardware. New Mexico also scored under 100 points in 2015, posting a mark of just 49 points to win the title in
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The Student Union Building Atrium will fill with muggles, witches and wizards Tuesday from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. as part of this year’s Harry Potter Day. “Each year we gather more and more folks. What was sort of a noontime stop by and see some decorations has quickly turned into the Student Union Building being turned into the Great Hall with candles hanging from the ceiling,” said Student Activities Specialist, Rudy Montoya of Ravenclaw. The SUB Atrium will be filled with many different activities for community members of the wizarding world to enjoy. This includes: a photo booth, trivia games, butterbeer and button decorating, according to Student Activities Center employee Anna Padilla of Hufflepuff.
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