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Keller wins election with comfortable margin By Kyle Land and Madison Spratto @ Kyleoftheland @Madi_Spratto Over 96,000 Albuquerque residents exercised their right to vote in the mayoral runoff election Tuesday — a race that was decided in under just one hour. Democrat Timothy “Tim” Keller claimed 62 percent of the votes, making him the next mayor of Albuquerque. His opponent, Republican Daniel “Dan” Lewis, only managed 37 percent. “The early vote numbers look encouraging,” said Elizabeth “Liz” Keller after the polls officially closed at 7 p.m. Shortly after she left the stage, it was announced that Keller won the race. “For the second time, Albuquerque has spoken,” Keller said in his victory speech. “And this time it was loud and clear.” In the initial election on Oct. 3, no one received 50 percent of the votes necessary to take home the win that night. Keller came away with about 40 percent, and Lewis finished second with 23 percent, resulting in a runoff election. Hundreds of Keller supporters gathered at Hotel Andaluz in Downtown Albuquerque
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Mayoral Elect Timothy “Tim” Keller embraces his wife after delivering a victory speech to a crowd of supporters at Hotel Andaluz on Nov. 14, 2017. Shortly afterward his opponent Daniel “Dan” Lewis announced his concession.
Cherry Reel promotes student-filmmakers Getting to know our new president By Amy Byres
@amybyres12
The 2017 Cherry Reel Film Festival is a one-of-a-kind production that gives student-filmmakers an opportunity to share their work with the community. “Every year, you’ll never see the same film twice. It’s always something different. It’s amazing watching filmmakers be so proud of their work, and to watch them watch it on the big screen is amazing,” said Victoria MartinezVarela, executive director of the ASUNM Southwest Film Center. The film center, located in the Student Union Building, began coordinating dates and setting up the event starting in September. Submission genres include: horror, sci-fi, comedy, experimental, documentary, animated short and music videos. “It definitely takes a village to plan this event, but it’s so worth it and so rewarding,” said Martinez-Varela. This year one of the festival’s films will include work from co-
By Rebecca Brusseau @r_brusseau
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Co-founder of the Cherry Reel Festival Mikel “Kel” Cruz screens his film, “Strange Love,” on Nov. 18, 2017 at Mesa Del Sol. Cruz’s film will be one of the student films showing at the Cherry Reel Festival in SUB ’s ASUNM Southwest Film Center.
founder Mikel “Kel” Cruz. It will be the first year he is not involved in the operations of the festival and will solely be a filmmaker
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participant, Cruz said. “Cherry Reel itself started in 2015 with the help of student filmmaker Kel Cruz,” Martinez-Varela said.
“He came to us with the idea to rebrand and to market further in
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As the University of New Mexico settles into final projects and exams, there is new leadership to help guide the University’s future. A 10-month process of finding UNM’s 22nd president has led to the unanimous selection of Garnette S. Stokes, the University’s first female president. And she is not new to handling campus controversy. Personal safety and sexual violence became a persisting problem on FSU’s campus, leading to frequent instances of Title IX investigations. Stokes initiated an organization to address sexual
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