Daily Lobo new mexico
The Independent Student Voice of UNM since 1895
wednesday April 1, 2015 | Volume 119 | Issue 130
ASUNM election season is on Two candidates in the hunt for undergraduate presidential seat By David Lynch It’s almost time to cast ballots for Associated Students of UNM elections, and voters have a choice between two presidential candidates. ASUNM senator Mack Follingstad said he is running on inclusion. His slate, GO ASUNM, focuses on electing people who have not yet served in ASUNM, something he said is essential to the survival of what the undergraduate student governing body stands for. Of the 11 senatorial candidates on GO ASUNM, five have any ASUNM experience, and most of that experience is with Emerging Lobo Leaders, the preparatory ASUNM program for future senators. “Within ASUNM, there’s the idea that you have to have this institutional progression when that’s completely false,” Follingstad said. “When the talent is out there, it has to be brought in. We can’t just keep the same ideas flowing through a pipe, because that’s the road to disaster.” In stark contrast to this philosophy, presidential candidate Jenna Hagengruber, the current ASUNM vice president, said that she and vice presidential candidate Alex Cervantes, a current ASUNM senator, built their slate with people whose past involvement in ASUNM has them fully aware of its important issues.
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ASUNM presidential candidate Jenna Hagengruber speaks to a student outside Zimmerman Plaza Tuesday afternoon. ASUNM is gearing up for elections that will take place April 8.
Of the 12 members in Hagengruber’s slate, Drive for ASUNM, six have worked with ASUNM in roles ranging from senator to attorney general. “When we were picking our
team, we really wanted to find people who had experience but weren’t naïve to think that ASUNM was this perfect thing,” she said. “There are so many things that can be improved
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upon, and we all are so passionate and informed that we want to be able to provide that environment for change.”
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Julia Purrington, right, participates in an interview on 94 Rock last year for the National MS Society.
walk, because I see people there who are in wheelchairs and they still do the whole course. Last year
, my dad did it for the first time. He is able to walk short distances but if he has to walk more than half a
mile he needs a wheelchair. His walk was incredible.” Walk MS is hosted by the National MS Society. It aims to raise $129,000 this year from fundraisers, donors and partners in the Albuquerque area. Walk MS in Albuquerque is one of 32 Walk MS events that take place in the Society’s south central region, according to a press release. “Walk MS: Albuquerque is a crucial fundraising and awareness event that contributes to the Society’s overall mission,” Maggie Schold, the Society’s south central senior development manager, said in a press release. “Together we can continue the driving force to stop disease progression, restore function and end MS forever.” Purrington has also co-founded Axon Potential, a student-run organization that raises awareness about all neurodegenerative diseases. She said the group arose from her collaboration with the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, which has been working on an MS philanthropy project. Although they were previously focused on raising awareness for
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Lamphere’s lawsuit a landmark for equality By Lena Guidi
Freshman calling attention to MS fight When she was 8 years old, Julia Purrington’s family received bad news. Her father had been diagnosed with primaryprogressive multiple sclerosis, a disease of the central nervous system that interrupts the flow of information within the brain and between the brain and body. Purrington decided to take a stand against MS when she was in seventh grade and has been involved in raising awareness ever since. As a freshman pre-law major at UNM, Purrington has revived Lobos for a Cure, a team of students who participate in Walk MS, an annual fundraiser to support programs for those affected by the disease. Lobos for a Cure stopped meeting a few years ago when its previous team captain left the group, she said. This will be Purrington’s seventh year participating in Walk MS. Last year she helped raise over $5,000, which made her a top fundraiser. “I walk for those who can’t,” Purrington said. “That’s why it matters so much to me to do this
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In 1973, Louise Lamphere went up for tenure at the Department of Anthropology at Brown University. A researcher in the budding field of feminist anthropology, she was one of the few women faculty members in a tenure-track position. At the time, 97 percent of Brown’s tenured faculty counterparts were men. When Lamphere was denied tenure in May of the next year, she filed a class action lawsuit against the university on the basis of sex discrimination. The case, Louise Lamphere v. Brown University, paved the way for increased gender equality in academia nationwide. Brown University recently recognized Lamphere’s achievements with a special symposium at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. Lamphere, now a distinguished professor emerita at UNM, began teaching at Brown in 1968. Her research, which focused on kinship and family structure, emerged during a time of social change both within academia and in the United States at large. “There was a very important anti-war movement in the country, and people at Brown were involved in that,” Lamphere said. “It was also the beginning of second-wave feminism. Some colleagues and I began to get involved in feminist activities.” She said she became friends with politically-involved graduate students through activities like attending the legislative hearing on abortion rights. Her research was also becoming increasingly focused on the experiences of women. During her time at Brown, she went to England on a research grant to study working-class women.
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