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Head coach Neal out after four years

By Isabel Gonzalez @cisabelg

UNM pays head coach over $1 million to buy out contract March Madness came to an end in the most dramatic way possible for a program that didn’t make it to the tourney.

On Friday night The LoboLair — an online aggregate of UNM athletics news — tweeted the breaking news of Craig Neal being relieved of his duties as the UNM men’s basketball head coach. A press release sent by Assistant Athletic Director of Communications Frank Mercogliano about 30 minutes later confirmed Neal’s departure.

This may or may not have come as a surprise to those who have been following the program.

On March 10, Athletics Director Paul Krebs provided a statement saying that “to end speculation,” he was announcing that Neal would be returning next season. He said the team’s performance this year had been affected because of injuries to several key players, and that he still had high expectations for the program with Neal at the helm.

What UNM acting President Chaouki Abdallah said on Friday night showed that the University had changed its mind.

“The decision made late tonight comes after lengthy consideration in light of recent developments that cannot be ignored.” Abdallah’s statement read. “We understand the frustration being voiced

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Former head men’s basketball coach Craig Neal walks off the court after a loss against UNLV on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017 at WisePies Arena. Neal was bought out of his contract with the University of New Mexico Friday night, ending his position as head coach for the men’s basketball team after four years.

by Lobo fans and hope they will see us through this time of transition and continue to support UNM athletics.”

The discontent by some fans was not subtle. Things went as far as someone starting a GoFundMe account to raise the $1 million

needed to buy out Neal’s contract.

As of Friday night, the account had raised $625.

According to the creator of the fund, who used the name “Louie Lobo,” this was mostly to prove a point and give fans a voice. The money raised would be donated to

the UNM Cancer Center.

Neal became head coach four years ago after former head coach Steve Alford left to UCLA. Neal had already been with the Lobos for six years as associate head coach.

Neal officially closes his career at UNM with a 76-52 overall re-

cord, his win total good for ninth in school history. He had a .594 winning percentage, eighth in school history.

During his first year as head coach, Neal got the Lobos to finish 27-7, culminating in a trip to the NCAA Tournament.

The following three years, however, were less than ideal, involving injuries and drama, including alleged death threats to Neal’s son that made headlines during this period. The Lobos finished those three seasons with a 49-45 overall record, including an even 27-27 in the Mountain West conference.

Although fans’ dissatisfaction with the program seemed to be a buildup from unsuccessful seasons, the frustration increased after five players from the 2016-2017 roster decided to leave UNM. Neal’s contract had been planned to run all the way to the 2019-20 season. To let Neal go, the contract required UNM to pay a $1 million buyout as well as the rest of that contract year’s base salary of $300,000.

Krebs, who at the time of the decision was in Arizona for the NCAA’s Final Four round, said the search for the program’s next head coach will begin immediately.

Isabel Gonzalez is a sports reporter for the Daily Lobo. She mainly covers men’s soccer and basketball. She can be reached at sports @dailylobo.com or on Twitter @cisabelg.

Local businesses suffer from ART Students

By Andres Del Aguila @Andres_DA95.

“No one wants to be on Central, not even the students,” Olympia Café owner Charlie Akkad said, frustrated over the restaurant’s 30 percent drop in revenue since the start of ART construction. “Mayor Richard Berry should have represented the people -- [ART] is a hindrance and it’s going at a snail’s pace.”

Many owners and managers of local restaurants along Central Avenue echoed Akkad’s frustrations. Since the start of the project, many businesses in the area have experienced consistent drops in revenue, requiring them to cut hours and work with a smaller staff to prevent layoffs.

Bill Hantzapoulos, owner of Gyros, an established 37-year-old eatery, said his restaurant experienced an increase in business before construction started. However, business rapidly declined when the city broke pavement and erected barriers that cut off foot traffic from UNM. Hantzapoulos said, so far, Gyros is experiencing a 16 percent drop in revenue each month and have cut hours to prevent layoffs. When business is slow, he’s forced to send employees home early.

According to the city’s website dedicated to the project, the finished transit line will “transport more people throughout the corridor while improving walkability,” and “connect the

people and businesses that are spread out along the Route 66 corridor, creating a unique and inviting cultural district experience.”

However, Hantzapoulos does not believe the finished rapid transit line will benefit the city and doubts it will increase business.

But he just hopes that former customers return.

“I better see Mayor Berry riding the bus every day,” he said, adding that ART resembles the Rail Runner.

“It’s never going to pay itself off or break even.”

Kelly’s Brew Pub Manager David McCrery said people are avoiding Central Avenue because of the traffic and scarce parking, adding that these are the main factors influencing decreased business at Kelly’s. The pub has experienced a 25 percent drop in revenue.

Like Hantzapoulos, McCrery has also cut hours and is now required to spread out duties among the employees.

McCrery said he is “very disappointed” that the city focused on the project’s completion, rather than considering “the interests of local businesses.”

Despite the construction’s impact, McCrery remains hopeful about ART’s potential benefits. He did, however, list some concerns.

Among them, he said ART is designed for a bigger city, adding that it could gentrify Nob Hill and he is worried that chains will start to “pop up

without homes

By Celia Raney @Celia_Raney

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The construction of the Albuquerque Rapid Transit bus system cuts through Central Avenue.

and drive out local businesses.”

“I would hate to see that happen,” McCrery said. “Nob Hill is such a fun neighborhood and that is the opposite of what it is supposed to be.”

Rachel Wainwright and Owen Callis, managers at Brickyard Pizza, are also hopeful that the end result “lives up to expectations.”

Brickyard has seen a slight decline in business, they said, adding that their delivery times have increased.

However, they said the construction has not affected their revenue.

Wainwright admitted that Brickyard has been lucky, acknowledging the woes of surrounding local businesses, while Callis said their bar and proximity to UNM keeps business steady.

In order to mitigate the construction’s impact on local businesses, the city has been planning to create a privately funded loan program.

Gary Oppedahl, the director of the city’s Economic Development Department, told the Albuquerque Journal last week that an official announcement regarding the loan program “will come in days,” but the department has yet to provide anymore details.

ART construction is set to finish late 2017.

Andres Del Aguila is a news reporter at the Daily Lobo. He can be reached at news@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @Andres_DA95.

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In 2013, FAFSA reported more than 58,000 college students nationwide were experiencing homelessness.

After the throes of a recession, Joseph Haynes became one of those students.

When he was laid off in 2014, Haynes realized he did not have the right experience to get a job in a post-recession market, so he chose to go back to school — choosing education over a place to live, a degree over a hot meal and a warm bed.

While all students are saddled with daily living costs, ongoing increases in tuition and post-graduation debt, homeless students also face issues of hunger, safety, and increased risk of sexual assault and overall physical and behavioral health.

As a diabetic, Haynes constantly worried about how to stay healthy while living on the streets.

“You’re pretty much not eating the proper food or a healthy diet,” he said. “Everything that you have to eat is processed.”

Professors and mentors helped Haynes through the two years he spent without a home, though ask-

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ing for help did not come easily.

“I’ve been taught to be prideful all my life. You try to do everything on your own before someone else could realize what you’re going through,” he said.

Because it is embarrassing to admit the need for so much help, many students do not identify themselves as being homeless.

The FAFSA report — which shows that the number of homeless students has risen by more than 6,000 since 2009 — is considered reliable, but not accurate.

Colleges and universities are not required to document the number of homeless students enrolled in their institutions, meaning many homeless students do not receive the resources they need.

Many campuses aren’t even aware of the seriousness of the problem.

“Since students may not come in contact with our services, or even identify themselves as being homeless, it is vital that we work towards an accurate state count,” said Benito Aragon, communications director for Heading Home.

Heading Home is a non-profit organization running several programs which seek to make experiences of homelessness “rare, short-lived and nonrecurring.”

“States are not federally required to track this number,” Aragon said. “As far as we can tell, UNM does not track this specifically.”

Trying to find food, shelter and a place to study, Haynes would often end up “so disoriented to the point where I was mixing up my classes.”

After one of his professors noticed that Haynes was writing answers for another class on his exams and quizzes, she reached out to him. Upon finding out he was homeless, she referred him to Heading Home.

UNM involvement In the fall of 2016, ASUNM took notice of the growing issue after attending the roll-out of the “Two Sides to Every Story” campaign to build student awareness and engagement with student homelessness.

Shortly after the campaign began, ASUNM announced they would be starting a partnership with Heading Home.

Gabe Gallegos, communications

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Joseph Haynes stands next to a Lobo statue on UNM Main Campus on Sunday, April 2, 2017. Haynes is a UNM student who formerly suffered from homelessness while being enrolled at the University.

director for ASUNM, said the undergraduate student governing body believes students could get behind the issue and make a real difference in the community by jumping on board with the campaign.

“This is an issue that does not get talked about, but we know it’s real and we want to start an open dialogue about it,” he said.

The University’s partnership with Heading Home aims to bridge the gap between awareness and action.

“The aim for this partnership is to bring forth awareness and education on the issue, identification of students experiencing homelessness and efficient services that are at student’s disposal,” Aragon said.

The Two Sides campaign was started to build a conversation about homelessness and financial

disparity on campus, Gallegos said.

The partnership between ASUNM and Heading Home aims to expand upon that.

“We want our community to consider that there are indeed two sides to every story and that we can never know the hardships that students are going through,” he said.

On March 21, Heading Home participated in a roundtable discussion in conjunction with ASUNM. “Heading Home is currently involved in a collaborative effort with UNM stakeholders to assess the need, and the resources available, to address this important issue that so often goes unnoticed,” Aragon said. “We believe that no student should have to choose between housing and education.”

The roundtable discussion was

“extremely promising,” and resulted in short and long-term action items including student awareness campaigns, identification of resources within the University, identification of staff who may have contact with students experiencing homelessness and educating them on resources available.

In the future, the partnership will work in conjunction with stakeholders statewide to create an adequate assessment tool and matrix of responses for students experiencing homelessness.

“Students bring a great deal of enthusiasm and innovative ideas critical for raising awareness and — more importantly — identifying possible solutions on campus,” Gallegos said.

The first steps of the partnership

will figure out how to quantify the number of students experiencing homelessness at UNM, and will then focus on creating methods to prevent the situation from happening by opening new services, he said.

“You never know what someone is capable of by looking at them,” Haynes said, now living in an apartment, thanks to Heading Home. “It’s been a very humbling experience — I’m just doing whatever it takes to keep myself from experiencing this again.”

Celia Raney is a news reporter at the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at news@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @Celia_Raney.

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Local MC plans release party

By Troy Amato @Troy_Amato Local hip-hop artist and MC Def-I will premiere his newest project “Arrow•Rhymanics” in a special CD release party at the Launchpad on Saturday, April 8.

A unique blend of live music and art, Def-I’s CD release will be a 21+ event that features many of Albuquerque’s newest and hottest MC’s, producers, and artists.

“This is my fourth solo independent album, but it has various features and production from across the country. The name of the album is ‘Arrow•Rhymanics’ and it came about as my follow up to the last album, titled ‘Shields for Raining Arrows.’” Def-I said. “I have many influences from all over, but my favorite MC and producer who highly influenced this album is Evidence of Dilated Peoples. I’ve

been a fan of his and friend over the years.”

The album title “Arrow•Rhymanics” refers to the flow an MC gets into during rhyming. The album name is a flip of the word “aerodynamics,” which by definition refers to the study of the properties of moving air, and especially of the interaction between the air and solid bodies moving through it, Def-I said.

“As an MC is flowing, he or she is sending sound through air and I’ve always had an open ear to each one’s flow patterns and lyrics,” DefI said. “The name of the album came about from years of developing my flow and hearing others. I’ll perform at least five songs off the new project live at the album release party.”

The release party will be especially unique, as it features a variety of visual artists doing live painting and displaying their work

throughout the performance. There will be live performances from Raashan Ahmad, Soul Soup, Joe BZ, Truth 66, Dirt Villins, and Def-I. The release will also feature live art by Randy B, Cloudface, & Jay Smiley.

“Expect dope performances with MCs performing over live beats and canvases being painted live during the event,” Def-I said.

“I tend to rap fast and hope listeners can keep up and hear the lyrics and wordplay.”

Doors open at 9:00 p.m. with Def-I and company providing live music all the way until last call at 1:00 a.m. General admission tickets are $5 presale online at www. holdmyticket.com, and tickets will be $10 at the door.

“It used to be in journalism that students would go and write for the newspaper, and that was it,” she said. “You would go to the City Council, write the story, file it and go home. Now, a student who is working for a news organization or writing for their own blog, not only are they writing a story for deadline, they are going to be live tweeting, taking photos, sending video and audio.”

Cunningham said professors need to think in a “broad way” about the skills that students need to have for the job requirements they are going to have to meet.

She said her love for teaching started when she became the writing coach for the Daily Lobo.

“I really got jazzed by showing students how to do stories and showing them what multimedia elements they can add,” she said.

Cunningham said she saw a need for preparing her students to utilize social media and other online and digital elements, adding that professors need to consider technological advancements like 360-degree video, a tool journalists will potentially be using in the future.

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Troy Amato is a freelance reporter for the Daily Lobo. He can be reached at culture@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @Troy_Amato.

Journalists adapt to new media

By Andres Del Aguila @Andres_DA95

As the news industry evolves alongside technological advancements, students in the UNM Communication and Journalism department are honing their multimedia and mobile reporting skills to meet the demands of future employers.

Kate Nash Cunningham, a distinguished print journalist and UNM professor, said journalists must have the ability to portray a story on multiple platforms.

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Universities are now about profit, not education Editor, In all my years at UNM, acting President Abdallah is the only head of the school that I have seen who openly encourages community debate and discussion on controversial issues. This is the kind of openness and thinking that UNM and our state needs if we are to solve some of our social and economic crisis that seem to come rolling in like waves of low pressure weather off the Pacific coast.

On the issue of the UNM budget problem, we have to face the unspeakable fact that the modern university is a business corporation with education as a side product and not a main mission.

To finance this radical change that started about 1992 at UNM with the Reagan era idea of public-private partnerships, many departments have been basically privatized. They were tasked with raising most, if not all, their own

funds. Education was no longer a public service, but a market seeking product. Public schools at all levels have had to do this as a way to support the neoliberal trickle down theory. State legislatures loved this as it allowed them to cut taxes for the rich.

This idea was supposed to free up budget money for education, but privatization turned out to only be a smokescreen for a huge move into corporate and military research. Public institutions like UNM all have a non-profit status, too, which allowed more private sector profits and encouraged the sports arm of the universities to become corrupt entertainment industry functions.

Large corporations like GM and pharmaceutical firms started scaling back their own research departments and contracted out their needs to universities, selling them as opportunities for “students to learn hands on skills,” etc. It was tax exempt too. Supposedly a win-win idea, right? Wrong.

Under neoliberal public-private partnerships the benevolent rich were suppose to turn over their excess wealth to help fund pub-

lic education. What they did when President BillClinton repealed the Glass-Stengel Act was start a mega merger movement with many relocating to places like China and other low wage countries. They have basically under this smokescreen abandoned the American working class. Donald Trump used this to make his own job at the White House. Liberals in both the Democratic and Republican Parties many still have not figured this out, but Donald did.

What is so funny is that even Adam Smith spoke of the basic immoral ethic of allowing the rich total liberty and freedom of the market.

The new research university on paper sounded like a solution but it has cost taxpayers a lot of money and the education mission is now just an ornament on the Christmas tree of things called a university. Public-private partnership has been a setback and has changed the agenda of education at UNM, CNM and other public schools.

To accomplish this research idea the public, students, staff and faculty via UNM budget cuts have had to shoulder the cost of

expensive labs, facilities, subcampuses and faculty to draw in more research. When former president Caldera was challenged on the immorality of UNM doing nuclear weapons work he said, sure we do it to skim money to run the University. His honesty about war-profiteering has been missing since he was fired soon after this.

UNM and many other universities and even community colleges have been trying to duplicate the University of California WWII model of running a research lab for nuclear weapons. It was very profitable but it also requires a constant state of war. Not every campus can do this so now there are contract mergers of “educational” institutions doing weapons research to spread around the monies.

Sig Hecker, the director of the Los Alamos war lab, had a hand in all this at UNM as he was on the Board of Regents during this change.

But what in reality has happened is the opposite of wealth and prosperity. Corporate and military research has turned out to be nice subsidies for profit making firms and weapons producers. What we have gotten is a state with a very

rich and very poor class divide problem -- much like a colony in the old days.

The UNM bloated Christmas tree budget needs to be trimmed, for one thing as a way to change all this.

But in main we have a situation where our educational agenda has been so badly damaged that it is common to accept the idea that higher education includes padding the bottom line of Wall Street firms and people like Jamie Diamond and accepting the idea that war and killing and spying and institutional violence are acceptable as normal educational goals. The moral cost now shows up in the budget crisis we have (all over the state really).

It is time now to return our educational institutions to the mission of true educational goals and drive out the temple of the forces of market madness and war profiteering. The neoliberal experiment has failed; it is time to move on.

Robert Anderson Daily Lobo reader

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Trump’s budget leaves ART funding uncertain

By Nichole Harwood @Nolidoli1 Federal funding for the Albuquerque Rapid Transit project, otherwise known as ART, is in limbo after the Trump Administration released its bare-bones proposed budget plan.

ART’s budget was originally formulated using federal funds totaling $69 million, more than half the total budget. The funds were to come through Obama’s New Starts grant program, but the ART project has not officially secured the grant yet.

President Trump’s proposed budget is for the 2018 fiscal year, and cuts all funding for the project.

ART funding is in Obama’s 2017 budget, however, which Congress will deliberate on soon.

“Based off our best understanding today, we are in no different of a situation than we were before,” read a statement from Rhiannon Samuel, director of communications for Mayor Richard Berry. “There is no new information today that leads us to believe that this project won’t be included in the 2017 budget. The professionals have repeatedly reported to us that no time in the history of the small starts grant has a city not been funded, especially if their project is already underway.”

ART Spokesperson Joanie Griffin also confirmed that ART is currently on track to be completed on time.

UNM Civil Engineering assistant professor Gregory Rowangould prepared an analysis of the initial engineering and consulting analysis

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study for ART, titled “Review of the Albuquerque Rapid Transit (ART) Project’s Potential Transportation and Environmental Impacts” in June.

The analysis showed the project is likely to cause more traffic and will not improve the transit service, Rowangould said.

“At this point, the questions are complicated. The thing is about halfbuilt, and obviously they are going to continue to build it,” he said. “But I think the question we have here is what are the options they have to pay for this.”

One such option would be to take money from other programs within the city, and reallocate those to the ART project, Rowangould said.

“Of course that’s a lot of money, and it’s not like there’s extra money.

So you’d have to not fund something else to try to fund ART,” he said, adding that another option would be to look to the state.

Although ART is not a state project, the city does get money from the New Mexico Department of Transportation.

That money comes from the state gasoline tax which goes to the DoT and is distributed back to municipalities to spend on projects, Rowangould said.

The department gives a portion to each city, but that money is already tied to projects for the next couple of years.

Another course of action would be to try borrowing money from other parts of the government, Rowangould said.

“There’s not enough money to pay for most things already, so I think it

would be very difficult position the city would find itself in,” he said.

An eye on a divisive president UNM Political Science professor Timothy Krebs said the options would be: generate money through old sources, outsource revenues and partner with the state or tap into any other kinds of federal money that can allow supplementing for the specific funds needed for the project.

Whether or not the federal grant will not come through is largely unknown, as the president’s budget proposal is just the beginning of a conversation about the direction of federal spending.

“The members of Congress are the ones that actually write the budget appropriately and the president doesn’t have the line of veto authority. The two senators from our state are democrats and they are going to support the project,” Krebs said.

At the moment, federal monies have been spent and the project is midway, he said. Projects the size of ART tend to not get dropped this far into their construction.

“The Congress is independent of the Executive (Branch), so the Congress doesn’t just have to rubber stamp the president’s budget. Much depends on what the final budget looks like, whether it reflects more of Congress’s preference or it reflects more of the Trump Administration’s preferences,” Krebs said.

A lot will depend on the political standing of the president, he said.

Right now the political standing of the president is not very high, so members of Congress are going to feel emboldened to not to follow along with

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A section of a median in Nob Hill is excavated as part of the Albuquerque Rapid Transit system.

Speculations about funding for the Albuquerque Rapid Transit system have arisen since President Donald Trump has not included the project in his annual budget.

what the president wants.

“It’s a very complex thing. You’ve got the congressional delegation and there’s a lot of support for this coming from New Mexico,” Krebs said.

“You’ve got a Republican mayor, and this is sort of his signature project. It would be unusual for a project to get started and just get dropped when the locals are depending on these funds coming through.”

New Mexico’s two Democratic senators have a job to protect the interests of the state, he said, and although the ART project has been controversial, to halt it at this point could prove disastrous.

Businesses stuck in limbo with massive construction while waiting for the state, city or county to fund the project would also put businesses in

an even tougher spot than they find themselves in currently.

Krebs said the position that ART currently finds itself in is an opportunity for different levels of government to come together on something that is impacting and will continue to impact the lives of Burqueños for the foreseeable future.

“All the economic facts show this is going to beneficial to the city of Albuquerque and...these layers of government have to work together,” he said. “What happens at the state and local level is really, really, important.”

Nichole Harwood is a reporter at the Daily Lobo. She can be reached at news@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @ Nolidoli1.

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GPSA candidates, at a glance Presidential elections to be held this week

By Celia Raney @Celia_Raney The Graduate and Professional Student Association at UNM will be holding its elections for president this week from Monday through Thursday. Here are the three candidates for GPSA president, and their goals were they to be elected.

Alaa Elmaoued Program: Medicine, third year Hobbies: Hiking, outdoors, cooking, history discussions Favorite thing about UNM: The beautiful, open campus.

Running mate: None.

Previous GPSA experience: Graduate Health Chair, 2014-2016 Biggest priorities: Strengthening the student voice.

What is UNM’s biggest weakness, and what do you plan to do about it if elected?

UNM is a center of academics, and more respect and support needs be given to the learners and educators. I intend to facilitate the empowerment of the students in an increasingly bureaucratic setting.

What would be your long-term goals as president?

To reaffirm the importance of graduate student success at UNM. What is the importance of GPSA being connected to the student body?

GPSA is established and funded by the student body and is, therefore, unquestionably at the service of the students.

David A. Medrano Program: Masters in Healthcare Administration, first-year master’s student Hobbies: Swimming, hiking, reading, losing voice at The Pit, sitting at a brewery or local coffee shop with friends.

Favorite thing about UNM: My time at UNM has showed me that in spite of barriers, many opportunities are offered to our diverse student body that no other institution can offer. I hope to build on these opportunities and help all students achieve their potential.

Running mate: None.

Previous GPSA experience: Represented Medical Students as the GPSA Council Representative; GPSA Deputy Chief of Staff; GPSA Lobby Chair.

Biggest priorities: To increase student engagement in GPSA. Safety and inclusion are really important issues that the University must continually address.

To adequately represent GPSA member interest, I will reach out to all departments and engage students to truly understand how these issues and others affect them.

What is UNM’s biggest weakness, and what do you plan to do about it if elected?

Right now, UNM’s biggest weakness is not having strong relationships across all stakeholders. Given our budget crisis, we must work together to ensure that the University meets its mission while valuing the diversity that makes us great.

Part of forming these strong relationships means we need to increase the transparency behind our decisions.

What would be your long-term goals as president?

My long-term goal as GPSA President is to increase student engagement in GPSA. Many students are not aware of the services that GSPA can offer and how GPSA can advocate and support students.

What is the importance of GPSA being connected to the student body?

The GPSA is a strong voice for graduate and professional students here at UNM. The GPSA president takes the student voice

to numerous committees across UNM. Being connected to the student voice empowers the GPSA president to speak with authority while working with UNM administration, faculty, staff and decision-makers in Santa Fe. Eliberto Calderon Program: Organizational Development Hobbies: Learning, Frisbee golf, and traveling.

Favorite thing about UNM: Diversity of the Lobo community.

Running mate: James Kaminski for Counsel Chair.

Previous GPSA experience: GPSA Council Representative; Finance Committee member; Treasurer of the OILS GPSA Student Association.

Biggest priorities: Successfully hosting the Student Fee Review Board process. Working with administrators on new GPSA office space on North Campus to better serve our members there. Training committee and Chief Learning Officer to train student organizational leaders and students in navigating the GPSA support systems. Working on parking and transportation issues to make improvements for all of our members.

What is UNM’s biggest weak-

ness, and what do you plan to do about it if elected?

Student member access to resources and services. I will name an ad-hoc training committee and a CLO (Chief Learning Officer) to provide training to all of our members throughout the UNM footprint.

What would be your long-term goals as president?

To leave the GPSA organization in a better situation than when the first day I took office.

What is the importance of GPSA being connected to the student body?

GPSA is the governing body for all graduate and professional level students. Therefore, it is important to enhance our members’ quality of academic experience. All members should leave this campus feeling that they received a quality education and that they were supported by their student leaders.

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pitcher Luis Gonzalez and three hits was all the Lobos needed to capture a weekend series win over Fresno State on Sunday afternoon.

Gonzalez, with MLB scouts in attendance, put on quite the performance on the mound. He pitched seven innings, allowing six hits and two runs, while also striking out five.

“I love it,” Gonzalez said about going head-to-head with Fresno State’s starting pitcher, Ricky Thomas, who allowed two hits and three runs in six innings on the mound. “I love the competition. Anytime you can get a good pitcher out there, it just brings out the best in all of us.”

UNM (18-10, 11-1 MW) jumped out of the gate on offense in the first inning. A poised Gonzalez was walked in the leadoff spot for the Lobos, and eventually reached second base on

a Hayden Schilling ground out. With two outs, Jared Mang got the team its first hit on an RBI double to left-center, scoring Gonzalez.

In the third inning, however, Fresno State’s (15-12, 6-6 MW) bats came alive. The Bulldogs’ leadoff hitter flied out, but the next batter was given a free pass by Gonzalez. He would later make it to second on a sac fly, then reach home on a Jake Stone single, tying the score at 1.

UNM threatened again in the fourth after Zoellner was walked to lead off the inning, and he eventually reached third base on a wild pitch and a groundout via Beau Capanna. But Zoellner was thrown out at home after Andre Gregory hit the ball to Fresno State’s second baseman.

The sixth inning saw the Lobos score two runs, though none of them came courtesy of a hit. Instead, a throwing error and a walk with the bases loaded scored Carl Stajduhar and Mang, respectively, to put UNM up 3-1.

Fresno State produced a quick

turnaround and scored a run in the top of the seventh inning. UNM countered in the bottom of the frame, scoring three runs on two walks and a wild pitch to take a commanding 6-2 lead.

Cody Dye came in as relief for Gonzalez to start the eighth inning, but left the game after a first-pitch strike when he injured himself as he delivered the ball.

That didn’t matter, though, as Schneider filled in for the injured Dye, and retired the side in the ninth inning to give the Lobos their 11th conference win of the season and second over the Bulldogs.

Of the Lobos’ three hits, Vigil accounted for two of them, going 2-for-4 at the plate. Mang followed with one hit on three at-bats, though he contributed two RBI and two runs, respectively.

And even though Vigil paced the Lobos on offense, he also made two catches at the wall, preventing what would have been home runs off Fresno bats.

“It was a little difficult,” Vigil said about getting a read on the fly balls

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Senior Andre Vigil looks up at the sky after hitting against a Fresno State pitcher Sunday, April 2, 2017 at Santa Ana Star Field. The Lobos defeated Fresno State 6-2 in their last game in the series.

he eventually caught near the outfield wall.

Up next for UNM is a non-conference matchup at San Diego on Wednesday at 6 p.m.

Matthew Narvaiz is a sports reporter for the Daily Lobo. He primarily covers women’s basketball and baseball. He can be reached at sports@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @ matt_narvaiz.

Artists use photography to cope with mental illness

By Nichole Harwood @Nolidoli1 The special exhibit titled “PhotoVoice: Untold Minds” has been on display at the UNM Zimmerman Library since the end of March, and will be holding a special event on Thursday, where individuals will be given the

opportunity to meet PhotoVoice artists and mentors in the library from noon to 1:30 p.m.

Michele Herling, executive director for Compassionate Touch Network, said the Mental Health Resource Center Fair will take place on the same day and will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the UNM SUB. A number of resources at UNM

are in collaboration with the Compassionate Touch Network for this event. Among them is NAMI UNM, an on-campus affiliate of National Alliance on Mental Illness, and the Agora Crisis Center, Herling said.

“The board president of CTN and myself were talking about wanting a PhotoVoice exhibit which focuses in on giving voice to

individuals, to the individual and collective experiences of individuals living with mental illness,” Herling said.

The Mental Health Resource Fair taking place at the SUB will have members of NAMI UNM, the Agora crisis line and the Compassionate Touch Network available to talk with people about mental health, she said.

The Meet PhotoVoice artists and mentors event at Zimmerman will showcase 18 exhibit pieces. Anyone can come, meet and talk to the artist who took the photographs and wrote the stories that go with them as well as the mentors who worked with these artists, Herling said.

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have mental illness, they all have a diagnosis. We have created a mentorship program to work with individuals who are interested in photography who might not even know how to use a camera,” she said. “We have chosen mentors that either use photography as a hobby or are professional photographers to work with folks who have mental illness to take images they want to take.”

There are times when over 100 images are taken, and they must be culled down to one image before writing the backstory about the image and what it says about mental illness, Herling said.

“Many mental illnesses can get started in the college years,” she said. “But people do not talk about them because of the stigma that goes along with these illnesses.

Those involved in the exhibit hope it will help individuals experiencing mental health challenges to not feel alone in the world and not feel shame about the fact that they have an illness, she said.

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“Everything we do in Compassionate Touch Network is focus in on breaking through that stigma, because research shows the stigma around mental illness keeps people from seeking the help that they need,” Herling said.

A little less than 40 percent of people with a mental illness seek treatment, she said, because of the shame and isolation that goes along with these illnesses.

The notion that an individual should just “get over it” exists because people really don’t understand that mental illness is a biological illness, Herling said.

“It’s an illness that affects the brain and the biochemical nature of what’s going on in the brain, but most people don’t recognize that and think it’s just simply a thing that you can get over,” she said.

This is the first retrospective of PhotoVoice, where 18 total pieces from recent years will be shown.

The pieces are on 12 by 12 inch tiles, with the photos and the text professionally mounted on aluminum.

“We would love to come back every year. I’ve already gotten feedback from people we’ve been working with at the library that people have been coming up to them and talking with them about the exhibit,” she said.

Herling looks forward to hopefully having conversations with people about the process of PhotoVoice, as well as speaking to those who may be interested in becoming mentors.

Herling said she hopes that the exhibit spurs interest in participation among attendees.

“All of us want people to know you are not alone and that there is help out there. We want to either start or continue the conversation with people so that people will be able to move forward in their lives in a healthier way,” Herling said.

ments to citizen journalists to provide videos of events the station cannot cover, and a user is paid if their content is picked up by a news station.

Cunningham said it represents a change in the TV news industry, predicting that user-generated content will be increasingly utilized in the future.

“You don’t need the big video cameras of days past,” she said.

“You’ve pretty much got what you need in your pocket.”

Fresco was an opportunity for Cunningham’s students to try new technology and “get in the pipeline as journalists.”

Alissiea Hernandez, a junior at UNM, aspires to be a broadcast journalist in local television and said the evolving industry increases access to information, further connecting journalists with their audience.

Hernandez is concerned that rapid changes could further hinder the print and radio news industries, adding that she feels UNM has provided her with multimedia skills.

However, Hernandez thinks the broadcast elements are lacking, pointing to the Advanced Broadcast Class that was recently cut due to funding.

Hernandez said she also wishes the department would use its broadcast television studio. She plans to utilize Cunningham’s partnership with Fresco to gain vital experience that is required by TV news organizations.

“Kate does an awesome job at preparing students for what to expect,” Hernandez said. “With this partnership with Fresco, we are allowed the opportunity to not only connect with big time commercial networks to get hands-on experience, but we are practicing the required skillset as students.”

Nichole Harwood is a reporter at the Daily Lobo. She can be reached at news@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @Nolidoli1.

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Communications requires university journalism programs to meet “professional expectations of digital, technological and multimedia competencies.”

According to the council’s website, their mission is to “assure students, parents, journalism and mass communications professionals and the public that accredited programs meet rigorous standards for professional education.”

UNM’s Journalism and Mass Communication department has been accredited by the council.

To help students meet professional expectations, Cunningham partnered with Fresco News to keep students updated with recent developments in the industry.

She connected with the organization at the Online News Association Conference in Los Angeles, California last September and her classes will be the first in the country to utilize the online application, she said.

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