Daily Lobo new mexico
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tuesday April 7, 2015 | Volume 119 | Issue 134
Law program ranks in top 10 By Sayyed Shah The Clinical Training Program of UNM’s School of Law has been ranked 10 in the country in the U.S. News and World Report’s 2016 Best Law Schools List. According to the report, the UNM School of Law has a high law school ranking in clinical training as it offers programs for law students such as the Business and Tax Clinic, the Community Lawyering Clinics and the Southwest Indian Law Clinic. “We are extremely proud of our clinical programs at the law school. Our law school was among the first in the nation to have a clinical law program and one of the few that makes it mandatory for all students,” said April Land, associate dean for clinical affairs at the law school. The national recognition is even more meaningful now that almost every law school offers some type of clinical course or program, she said. U.S. News ranks professional school programs in business, education, engineering, law and medicine every year, according to their website. “Clinical Law students have the privilege of serving clients and our community. Students get the opportunity to experience the challenges and joys of practicing law while still in law school, under the close supervision of experienced law faculty,” Land said. One of the law school’s many unique features is that all of the courses in the clinical programs are regularly taught by full time-tenure or tenure track
faculty who also teach in “more traditional law classes,” she said. “This not only brings great teachers to our programs, but also brings the reality of the practice of law throughout our curriculum,” Land said. Law school offers four different sections of the clinical program, according to the officials. The business and tax section focuses on helping aspiring entrepreneurs and low income taxpayers with their legal issues. The Community lawyering section responds to the on the unmet legal needs of children and families in poverty. Southwest Indian law helps solve legal issues for individual clients and/or tribal groups or Indian communities. Law practice is an experiential learning rotation typical of a general law practice, where students represent clients in a variety of both civil and criminal cases. The program is designed to be flexible and responsive to community and student needs as well as faculty expertise, she said. “We are excited to be welcoming new faculty currently focusing on helping improve the lives of New Mexico’s children and families at risk and in need,” she said. “They are also addressing income disparity in our communities, and helping to provide a greater focus and point of real connectivity and service to the greater mission of the law school and the University through our collaborative and crossprogram work and initiatives.” The law school looks forward to continuing to combine the
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Artist Harriett Tsosie, center, talks to art goers during her exhibit Linguicide Friday evening at Weyrich Gallery. Tsosie’s artist talk will take place on April 25 at Weyrich Gallery.
Artwork keeps language alive Weyrich Gallery 2935 D Louisiana Blvd. NE weyrichgallery.com Hours: Monday: By Appointment Tuesday-Friday: 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday: 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Sunday: Closed
By Moriah Carty
In an effort to bring awareness to dead and dying languages, one New Mexico artist is looking to her past for inspirations. Last Friday, the Weyrich Gallery opened a new exhibit titled “Linguicide” from local artist Harriette Tsosie. The inspiration came, she said, from a DNA test she did after rummaging through her
grandmother’s belongings. What caught her attention the most was the diary her grandmother kept from 1900 to 1968, she said. In elegant cursive script, her grandmother documented much of her everyday life, she said. The journal became the basis for her piece titled “Order and Chaos.” The work represents the long courtship between her
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Student groups present annual concert fiesta By Matthew Reisen
Associated Students of UNM and Student Special Events is holding its annual Fiestas outdoor concert at Johnson Field this Saturday, keeping up with the decades-old tradition. Festivities begin around 1 p.m. and run until 9 p.m. The event is open to the public but UNM students are “especially encouraged” to attend, said Krista Marrs, executive director at SSE. “Every year we have learned that, there are always ways to improve and to make better festivals. So if students want to see more, want to see different things, we try to branch out and try new things and come up with new ideas,” Marrs said. “We’ve challenged the process on how to make the best accessible event for students.” Fiestas will have several performances of different musical genres including; Ugly Robot (rock), Sol de la Noche (Latin/Reggae), Le Chat Lunatique (jazz), Katastro (rock), Repel the Robot (alternative/ electronic rock), The Lonely
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Sol de la Noche band performs in a SUB Ballroom on Feb 25. Sol de la Noche will be one of the bands to perform at the Fiestas at Johnson Field this Saturday.
Biscuits (rock/soul/hip-hop), Sphinx (“space glam), Del the Funky Homosapien (hip-hop), Slow Magic and Carnage. Most of the beginning line up is made up of local bands from Albuquerque, including Sol de la Noche, who won their place in the band battle “Fight for Fiestas”
at the end of February. There will be two performance stages as well, she said, so when one band finishes on the main stage the second stage immediately comes to life with the next musical act, leaving no wait between enjoying each separate show. Marrs said SSE is also working
with KUNM this year in an attempt to do live broadcasting of the music and event. “So that way people will have a lot more access to us and if you don’t get to get out there for fiestas, if something is going on, you can tune in on the radio,” she said. Promotions Director Simon Kessler said aside from the music there will be plenty more going on at Fiestas this year. Other activities include the Rockstar Lounge, a mechanical bull, rock climbing wall, Henna tattoos, t-shirt screen printing, Spring Storm Celebration, numerous Give-AWays and of course, a variety of food trucks will be on sight. “It has been a really long process, and a cool process, of working with different groups and different students on campus to figure out what is the most attractive festival that we can put on for students and what is the best,” Kessler said. “I think in the last, obviously it’s been going on for 60 years, so there’s been a huge amount of transformation.” Frequent SSE collaborators and Fiestas sponsor, Redfish Entertainment, helped find some of the talent, he said.
Other sponsors include Ghetto Gentleman and Rockstar Energy, who will have its own lounge onsite where they will be giving out products through the day. Original artwork for Fiestas 2015 flier was done by El Moises, an artist based out of Taos, Kessler said. While looking for a good design and collaborator for the flier, SSE located the artist through the local Nob Hill shop, Masks Y Mas, he said. Kessler said attendance at Fiestas has increased since he started at SSE in 2012, when there were around three thousand attendees, to around 8,000 in 2014. This year Kessler and Marrs said they hope to attract up to 10,000 people, throughout the day, a number they hope to achieve due to the varietal set-list. “I think something we really shoot for, as far as music goes, is covering all of our bases. So doing a mixture of different genres so it appeals to everybody a little bit and we feel pretty good about the lineup we’ve made this year. It’s pretty across the board,” Kessler said. “We really try to
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