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UNM bestows honors on black Lobo athletes By Sara MacNeil @sara_macneil The UNM Black Alumni Chapter honored 15 Sports Hall of Fame inductees, and gave Trailblazer Awards to Attorney Raymond Hamilton and retired judge Tommy Jewell on Friday. Many of the distinguished former Lobo athletes who received awards at the ceremony went on to play football, basketball and track and field for professional teams, later becoming educators and coaches as well as making contributions in their communities. Van Tate, sports director for KRQE News 13, announced the awards, listing the achievements of recipients that went beyond sports records, as athletes honored were not only recognized for excelling on the field, but also in academics and other career highlights. Barbara Brown-Simmons, president of the Black Alumni Chapter, announced that awardees were not just receiving a plaque, but would be incorporated into “Breaking the Color Barrier Through the Decades,” a Black Alumni Chapter interview documentary project aiming to preserve African-American history at UNM.
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Award winner Rene Matison receives his award on Friday, Sept. 30, 2016 at the Centennial Engineering Auditorium. Matison, alongside a handful of other African-American UNM alumni, gathered for a ceremony to recognize their collegiate and athletic accomplishments.
ASUNM passes restructuring of student elections By Johnny Vizcaino @thedailyjohnnyv Senators at last week’s Associated Students of UNM Senate meeting voted 14-6 to separate presidential and vice presidential elections from senatorial elections in a move meant to increase exposure, voter turnout and election equity. The change indicates a stark contrast for how candidates in future elections might run for the positions, as each winning presidential candidate dating back to at least 2011 has belonged to a slate — a group of candidates running together under a shared agenda — and the president’s slate has generally dominated a particular election. The legislation, authored by Senators Noah Brooks, Sally Midani and Hannah Williams, states that “the President and Vice-President shall be elected at-large, in a separate Spring General Election three weeks prior to the Senatorial election.” Separating the elections tends
to increase voter turnout for presidential elections, Brooks said, citing a 2005 study by University of Iowa researchers. “Overall, the costs do not outweigh the benefits of this bill,” Midani said. “In order to really allow the most qualified individuals to serve in this government body, some sort of format of risk will be necessary.” The current, simultaneous format of the elections makes it impossible for failed presidential and vice presidential candidates to seek another office if they lose, despite their qualifications. Although there is no way to prevent candidates from associating with one another, the newly adopted election structure will make individuals less dependent on group campaigning or senatorial slates, Brooks said. “The elections commission already doesn’t recognize slates, so we’re basically just discouraging it further,” Midani said, echoing her co-author and calling the legislation the best means by
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ASUNM Senators congratulate former president Jenna Hagengruber during their 2014 election. ASUNM approved a change that would put three weeks between senatorial elections and presidential/vice presidential elections.
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