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Presidential Candidate La Riva visits campus By Sara MacNeil @sara_macneil Gary Johnson and Jill Stein are two names that voters are discussing as an alternative to the major party nominees, but New Mexico voters have another option as well. Socialist Presidential Candidate Gloria La Riva visited UNM Tuesday to inform students that she’s actually on the ballot in New Mexico. Many students were surprised there were other candidates running in the current election, La Riva said. “They keep asking, ‘President of what?’ We keep saying, ‘The United States. We are running against Trump and Clinton. We’re actually on the ballot,’” she said. Democratic and Republican candidates are already on the ballot in all 50 states, she said, while third parties have to collect signatures to get on ballots. Things haven’t gone as smoothly for La Riva in Florida as they have in New Mexico. Florida is trying to kick her off its ballot, she said. “It’s virtually impossible for a party like ours to have the millions of dollars to attain ballot status. It’s very unfair,” she said.
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Gloria La Riva gives a campaign leaflet to Jorge Limas, who told La Riva he had two felonies and wasn’t able to vote. La Riva is running under the Socialist Party in the 2016 presidential election.
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‘Eye-opening’ season begins Friday at Notre Dame By Bo Yu @DailyLobo The New Mexico cross country team is ready to officially start its 2016-2017 season with high expectations at the Joe Piane Notre Dame Invitational on Friday in Notre Dame, Indiana. It was at the Notre Dame Invite last year that the New Mexico women’s cross country team finished in first place, and stormed to its dominant performances in the program’s first-ever national title in November. The latest National Coaches’ Poll voted the women’s team No. 2 in the country, behind Providence, who the Lobos face this weekend. UNM held the No. 1 position for the past ten weeks. Although UNM enters the new season with expectations to defend its national championship, head coach Joe Franklin said the lofty bar set last year doesn’t make the team feel any different, its goals hasn’t changed after being the last team standing last fall. “No, no changes, that’s the goal.
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Redshirt sophomore Kendall Kelly crosses the finish line at the the Lobo Invitational on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2016 at UNM’s North Golf Course. The Lobos will compete at the Joe Piane Notre Dame Invitational on Friday in Notre Dame, Indiana.
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Because you never know what’s going to happen,” he said. “Make sure you are doing the right things. Any given day, you got a chance.” Franklin emphasized the team had fun and never talked about winning, and that the coaches care more about the fitness and health of their team members rather than performance. “If you care about those things, their performances are going to happen,” Franklin said. However, after winning the national title, some change was inevitable. Redshirt junior Alice Wright admitted there would be more pressure, even though there was no actual expectation from the head coach. “Definitely brings more pressure for us,” Wright said. “But at that moment (of winning national title), we were feeling pretty relaxed.” Wright did not treat pressure as a problem for the Lobos as they were always running as a team. “Because it does actually take off your own pressure for being in your own team,” Wright said.
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