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ASUNM funds $10,000 to host speakers By Denicia Aragon @deniciaaragon98 The UNM College Republicans and Young Americans for Freedom will be receiving funding from the Associated Students of UNM through appropriations to host two guest speakers, Christina Hoff Sommers and Ben Shapiro, at the University. UNM College Republicans requested funding for Sommers, and YAF requested funding for Shapiro. Both groups received

$5,000, funding 50 percent of the speaker fees for each. ASUNM Sen. Hallie Brown said that while these speakers are free to say what they like because of the right of freedom of speech, she does not think these particular speakers should appear at UNM on the students’ dime. “While I do believe that these speakers shouldn’t be barred from speaking on our campus, I do think ASUNM should consider the implications of fully funding these speakers. In light of the Department of Justice investigation

and agreements regarding the sexual response on campus, it is problematic to bring a speaker like Christina Hoff Sommers to our institution,” Brown said. “She is an avid victim-blamer, she actively participates in rape culture, and that is something our campus is trying to combat.” Citing a study from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Brown said Sommers was quoted as saying in the study, “I mean, if a woman was unconscious or incapacitated, then every civilized person would call it rape. But what

about sex while inebriated? Few people would say that intoxicated sex alone constitutes rape.” Brown also called out Shapiro, who served for several years as editor for the controversial right-wing website Breitbart News. “Ben Shapiro promotes exclusivity, specifically devaluing the experience for people of color and blatantly ignoring the importance of diversity of thought,” Brown said. “I would hate to think ASUNM would support funding someone who’s so aggressively against what makes UNM one of the best plac-

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es to be, that being our diversity. UNM’s motto is ‘each of us defines all of us,’ and I think fully funding these speakers would not do justice to our diverse campus culture.” Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MEChA) President Sierra Ludington voiced concerns regarding student fees funding the speakers’ appearances. “While we have no interest in denying freedom of speech, we just feel like this money should not be coming from our student fees,” Ludington said.

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Library boasts new tech By Elizabeth Sanchez @Beth_A_Sanchez

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Kendall Kelly competes in the women’s mile run on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017 at the Albuquerque Convention Center during the Mountain West Indoor Track and Field Championships. Kelly placed seventh in the event.

By Bo Yu @Bo_YuB New Mexico track and field head coach Joe Franklin said there will be several Lobos heading to the NCAA Championships after the men and women’s teams both placed fourth at the Mountain West Indoor Championships on Saturday. New Mexico will be sending its

distance medley relay team, men’s runner Josh Kerr and jumper Jannell Hadnot to College Station, Texas to compete in the NCAAs on March 10-11. The Lobo men scored 78.5 team points and the women racked up 72.5 at the three-day conference championship, buoyed by 15 topthree performances, including wins in four events. “It was a really good day,” Franklin said. “We had lots of lifetime bests, some personal bests

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and school records.” The men won two events on the legs of Kerr, who was victorious in the one-mile run and as the 1600-meter leg of the distance medley relay. Kerr won the mile run easily with a converted time of 3:58.11, just off his season-best performance of 3:58.04, which ranks eighth nationally. Elmar Engholm finished third at 4:09.36 and Taylor Potter ran 4:15.67 to finish eighth in the same event.

On Thursday, the quartet of Kerr, Elmar Engholm (the 1200-meter leg), Mark Haywood (400-meter) and Kristian Uldbjerg Hansen (800-meter) all helped set a new UNM record of 9:38.83 to win the distance medley relay. That time is also good for the sixth-highest mark in the nation, locking in a berth for Kerr in two events at the national championships. It is no easy feat to qualify to run

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At an open house earlier this month, UNM’s Centennial Library unveiled several permanent new features in two new working and collaboration spaces that include VR platforms, among other things. The features are: geographic information systems; Mac, PC and Apple TV presentation platforms; and the HTC VIVE virtual reality platform, according to Karl Benedict, director of Research Data Services in the College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences. Data Curation Librarian Jon Wheeler said analysis workstations provide applications with many common platforms for quantitative analysis, geospatial analysis and coding. The new features take up a space previously occupied by an office and computer lab with limited access. Wheeler said that through “opening up both rooms and refreshing the technology,” they have provided students with “novel ways to interact with library and information resources.” Through using Google Earth, an immersive lab application and exploring a Vincent van Gogh painting, Benedict said the presentations were primarily focused on the VR system, as there was high interest in its capabilities.

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