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Spring football clinic fosters Lobo community By Isabel Gonzalez @cisabelg

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UNM wide receiver Patrick Reed aids children during a relay race on Saturday, April 22, 2017 at University Stadium. Lobo football players held a football clinic where they ran drills with children and played games

The UNM football team stepped into University Stadium on Saturday for the program’s third annual Spring Showcase. Gates opened at 10:30 a.m. as an estimated 1,500 fans came to watch the Lobos go to work. The event showcased what the players have been working on during the offseason, but also to give fans an opportunity to renew or purchase tickets for the fall season, as well purchase Lobo merchandise. The day started with practice and several drills in which players wore full pads and uniforms instead of their regular practice gear. Players on the offensive side of the ball wore red, while the defense wore white — the quarterbacks wore a bold anthracite color. Afterward there was a small scrimmage that allowed fans to see all the skills put together, with the showcase concluding around 1 p.m. The event was kid-friendly as there was even a bouncy house for young fans to enjoy themselves if they needed a break from football. After the Lobos’ practice, there was a free clinic for them to work with the team. About 150 boys and girls ranging

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NM legislators debate The transformative power of art fetal tissue controversy By Celia Raney @Celia_Raney Press conference met protest in front of Hodgin Hall Wednesday when a speaker posed the question, “If you knew that women were hurt by abortion, would you rethink your opinion?” Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn, R-TN, was joined at UNM Wednesday morning by congressman Steve Pearce, R-NM, and other New Mexico representatives to host a press conference addressing criminal referrals for UNM Hospital and local abortion clinic Southwestern Women’s Options. “Various concerns of ethical and legal violations have been discovered at the University of New Mexico, and to this day no action has been taken,” said Dan Rosecrans of the Coalition for Life of New Mexico, addressing the audience over protesters screaming “lies” and “we trust providers.” As chair of the Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives, Blackburn discussed the findings of the panel, which indicated that local abortion clinic Southwestern Women’s Options had violated

several state and federal laws. “We looked at four specific areas that needed to have a deeper dive,” she said. “Number one: the laws protecting human research subjects and patient privacy. Two: laws regulating anatomical gifts for transplantation therapy, research and education. Three: laws protecting late-term and born alive infants. And four: laws pertaining to funding for fetal tissue research and abortion providers.” Blackburn referenced the New Mexico Spradling Act, which states any form of monetary exchange for anatomical gifts — in this case, aborted fetal tissue — is a federal violation. “Any penny, even one penny, of profit is a felony offense,” she said. Last month, the Daily Lobo reported on the issue of fetal tissue usage at UNMH. During the Lobo’s investigation into the legality of the process, specifically focusing on monetary rewards, SWWO told us “Southwestern Women’s Options does not recoup expenses associated with tissue donation or receive any monetary or other

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On the Daily Lobo website NARVAIZ: Lobo Baseball sweeps UNLV at home over the weekend.

Diana Cervantes / Daily Lobo / @Dee_Sea_

Photographs of the INSIDE OUT project line the south wall of the SUB. The artwork was created by international artist JR. The project aims to bring awareness to various types of disabilities.

By Nichole Harwood @Nolidoli1 UNM students have joined the global participatory art project titled INSIDE OUT, created by the French

contemporary artist who goes by the pseudonym “JR.” UNM Associate Professor Megan Jacobs, who joined the Honors College last year, introduced her students to the project in her class “Social Transformation Through Art.”

“The course is really looking at not only historic, but contemporary artists who challenge the status quo and challenge traditional notions in their respective cultures,” Jacobs said.

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