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Lobos pull off dramatic win against Fresno By Matthieu Cartron @cartron_matt The University of New Mexico women’s soccer team pulled off a dramatic late comeback against Fresno State in the first round of the Mountain West Conference tournament, beating the Bulldogs in penalties 5-4 Tuesday night. “I’m just so proud of them,” UNM head coach Heather Dyche said after the game. The Lobos had already improved upon last season by qualifying for the Mountain West Conference tournament. UNM nearly took the second seed this year but missed out after losing 4-3 to San Diego State last Friday. The fourth-seeded Lobos played the Bulldogs earlier this season in conference play and won 1-0 through a game-winning goal from senior forward Claire Lynch. But Lynch, who has scored 10 goals this season, received a second yellow card in the 74th minute, signaling an automatic red card and ejection. Still, the late setback didn’t prove to discourage the Lobos, who had started the game on the front foot through a goal from senior forward Eileen Zendejas. Zendejas’ goal in the 16th minute gave the Lobos a shortlived lead. In a span of five minutes
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UNM midfielder Jessie Hix prepares to score on a header during a game against Colorado State University on Oct. 20, 2017. Hix has scored seven goals this season — six of those goals have been with her head.
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Pro-life bill struck down “Stranger Things 2” By Brendon Gray
@notgraybrendon On Wednesday, senators of the Associated Students of the University of New Mexico voted against a resolution that would have given support to the Students for Life student organization. The resolution failed 2-3 after a tense committee meeting. The two authoring senators, Jonathan Sanchez and Catriona Byrne, defended their legislation throughout the discussion, despite pushback against the quality of information included in the legislation. The resolution claimed about 25 percent of women will have an abortion before the age of 45. However, 2013 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicates the abortion rate for women aged 15 to 44 is 1.2 percent — or 12.4 abortions per 1,000 women. More than 20 percent of these abortions were early medical abortions, according to CDC information. The resolution also claimed medical side effects of abortion included
sepsis, damage to internal organs and death. According to the CDC, of the 664,435 abortions reported in the U.S. in 2013, only four women were reported to have died as a result of complications from known legal induced abortions — about 0.0006 percent. The ASUNM resolution supported their claims with statistics from afterabortion.com, a subsidiary of an anti-abortion research group, the Elliott Institute. “I’m here to say this doesn’t stand for the quality we need today,” said ASUNM Sen. Anand Macherla, one of the three senators to vote down the resolution. Sanchez disagreed with Macherla. “You guys just nit-picking our sources was rather petty,” he said in a post-meeting conversation. “We could have changed our sources.” The resolution also claimed women who have had an abortion are at a higher risk for breast cancer. The authoring senators cited the website, abortionbreastcancer.com, which provided no information that links abortions to breast cancer. The CDC provides no information supporting the ASUNM
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resolution’s claim connecting abortion to breast cancer. The authoring senators used one clinical research source for the legislation, relying on three other blog websites for their information. “All this resolution is doing is saying there’s a pro-life movement on campus. That’s it,” Sanchez said. The resolution stated the student organization, Students for Life, “holds important and valid opinions.” “The ASUNM Government acknowledges that students on the UNM campus actively participate in the Pro-Life movement,” read the resolution, written with input from campus pro-life groups. The two supporting senators felt the issue should have been discussed before all ASUNM senators and shouldn’t have been failed in committee. Bryne hinted that a similar resolution will likely be introduced at the tail end of the semester. Brendon Gray is a beat reporter for the Daily Lobo. He primarily covers ASUNM. He can be contacted at news@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @notgraybrendon.
builds on success By Hector Valverede @hpvalverde Warning: some spoilers ahead... The first season of Netflix’s “Stranger Things” was a phenomenal throwback to the best decade ever, with a modern flourish that helped it stand out from classic 1980s flair. With great performances all around and a unique science-fiction intrigue, “Stranger Things” quickly cemented itself as a part of the golden age of television. The show’s second season retains most of that momentum with a few noticeable stumbles along the way. “Stranger Things 2” introduces a fresh slate of new characters on top of the beloved established cast. One character is returning after being previously sidelined last season, and becomes an integral part of the narrative through his tragic connection to the Upside Down. Among the super-stuffed serving of newcomers, one character that
caught my attention was Joyce Byers’ new boyfriend, Bob, played by Sean Astin. Picking up in 1984, about a year after the first season’s events, “Stranger Things 2” deals with the aftermath of the Demogorgon’s presence in the town of Hawkins, Indiana. The extra-dimensional gate to the Upside Down has opened wider since then, and Will’s bittersweet return to Hawkins is plagued with visions of an enormous shadowy creature invading the town. Meanwhile, Nancy is haunted by the memory of her dead friend, Barb, the kids befriend “Mad Max” Maxine while Police Chief Jim Hopper grows closer to a familiar face. Season 2, in fact, has so much going on that it begins to leak quality as it continues. Where the first season successfully converged a series of separate storylines and characters, the second diverges widely, which offers more variety, but makes it a bit tough to care
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