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New management building breaks ground By Elizabeth Sanchez @Beth_A_Sanchez

As students returned from winter break, they were met with the sights and sounds of construction at the Anderson School of Management — all part of the creation of the McKinnon Center for Management. ASM professor Steven Yourstone said the new 61,000-square-foot facility will be almost entirely completed by March 2018, with equipment and furnishings that April and May, and staff/faculty move-in during June. Yourstone began working on the project 10 years ago and currently oversees a large portion of the project now that the demolition work has begun. The new facility will include: marketing and innovation labs, a lactation room, gender-neutral restrooms, new state-of-the-art classrooms, group study rooms and more, he said. It will also include features to make the building more environmentally friendly. However, the construction process has not entirely gone without a flaw. Norman Colter, a senior lecturer within the ASM Department of Accounting, said teaching in his classroom has become a challenge due to the construction.

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Construction equipment stands in place of a former section of the Anderson School of Management on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017. The new McKinnon Center for Management is under construction and has a projected finish date of March 2018.

BASEBALL

Lobos set sights on Omaha NM legislators resist Trump’s wall By Matthew Narvaiz @matt_narvaiz

With the start of the 2017 season less than a week away for the University of New Mexico baseball team, the expectations, as well as the pressure, set by both the team and the Mountain West Conference have never been higher. After being named the preseason favorites to win the Mountain West title by coaches around the conference, some Lobos believe that they are capable of going even further. “You always have to have those high expectations,” junior infielder Carl Stajduhar said of the Lobos being predicted to win the Mountain West. “And you have to set your goals high, because if you don’t set your goals high, then you’re not going to ever accomplish anything great.” This year’s team is as capable as ever to take conference, with seasoned veterans returning to the infield and newcomers coming to take some of the shine in open positions. Stajduhar — last season’s Mountain West Tony Gwynn Player of The Year recipient after

By Brendon Gray @notgraybrendon

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Senior outfielder Andre Vigil celebrates the Lobos’ Mountain West Championship victory on Saturday, May 28, 2016 at Santa Ana Star Field. The Lobos will have their season opener on Friday, Feb. 17, 2017.

hitting .331 with 18 home runs and 66 RBI— fills third base for the Lobos, while senior Jack Zoellner (.307, 8 HR, 46 RBI) will be playing first base. Head coach Ray Birmingham said he has been eyeing freshman Justin Watari at possibly breaking into the lineup to fill the opening at second base. Meanwhile, junior transfer Andre Gregory seems to have cemented himself as the

Lobos’ shortstop. “Middle infield is Andre Gregory, who has got all the tools in the world,” Birmingham said. “And I kind of scare him a little bit because I demand him to be perfect. He’s got to play where probably our best defenders over the last 10 years have been.” Gregory hit .326 in 126 at-bats for Cosumnes River College in

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A group of democratic state legislators are pushing to block President Donald Trump’s proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall. House Bill 292, proposed by New Mexico Rep. Javier Martinez, would block federal use of state land for building a wall between the state and Mexico. “The idea of dividing an entire people in or out is ludicrous,” Martinez said. Rep. Bill McCamley, who cosponsored the bill, said he supports legislation to block a border barrier because it “would be a huge waste of money.” He also noted that trade with Mexico, a state-wide economic bright spot, may drop as a result. “Building a wall doesn’t address the issues we have — it is a symbol that doesn’t represent us as a people,” Rep. Angelica Rubio said. “Whichever way you look at it, there is a strong community of Mexican people who are giving

back to our state. By putting up a barrier, we say we’re a people that are divided.” Amidst the legislative push to block a wall, other state leaders are pushing for a different outcome. New Mexico Land Commissioner Aubrey Dunn wrote a letter to the president, stating that she didn’t “wish to be part of political fodder for any side of this issue.” He also proposed a land exchange with the Bureau of Land Management and Department of Homeland Security. Under Dunn’s deal, state trust land within three miles of the border would be swapped for more valuable assets in Chavez, Lincoln and Otero counties. Under the New Mexico Administrative Code there are no rules blocking the State Commissioner from exchanging state owned lands for the state’s benefit. The proposed legislation may change that. The legislation outlines no trust land could be sold, leased, or “transferred,” for use as construction for the border wall.

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