NM Daily Lobo 11 03 2014

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Campus cars out of service By Erika Eddy

William Aranda / Daily Lobo / @_WilliamAranda

A UNM truck with two flat tires parked west of Marron Hall on Sunday afternoon. According to a UNMPD statement, 57 UNM service vehicles had the air let out of their tires.

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The UNM Police Department received a report on Saturday of multiple campus service vehicles with flat tires. In a statement, UNMPD said that 57 service vehicles across campus were vandalized in what may be a Halloween prank. No damage was found aside from the air let out of the tires, and only UNM service vehicles were targeted. “Detectives will be looking into it throughout the week,” said UNMPD Lt. Tim Stump. “We will be

looking for possible suspects and a correlation to any other crimes.” The tires do not appear to be slashed, and it is not clear how or why the perpetrator would simply let out the air without causing any serious damage. There are currently no suspects or known motives for what seems to be a non-malicious crime, according to a statement. This does not seem to be linked to any other crimes, and UNM does not have a history of Halloween pranks. Detectives will be checking campus cameras and suspect

information as well patrolling areas where service vehicles are parked. “We will be reviewing the cameras on campus,” Stump said. When asked whether the acts caused any delays to work being done on campus, UNMPD did not comment. UNMPD asks that anyone with information to contact the department at (505) 277-2241 or police. unm.edu. Erika Eddy is a freelance reporter at the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at news@dailylobo.com, or on Twitter @erika_eddy.

APD, DOJ come to accord

neal before them

By Jonathan Baca

J.R. Oppenheim / Daily Lobo / @JROppenheim

New Mexico sophomore guard Cullen Neal gives fives to his teammates as he takes the floor for Saturday’s exhibition game against Western New Mexico. Neal scored 22 points in an 89-45 win, the Lobos’ first exhibition game of the 2013-14 season. For a complete game recap, see Page 12.

Award winners honored by recognition By Sayyed Shah The office of UNM President Bob Frank has announced the 2014 winners of the Sarah Belle Brown Community Service Awards. This year’s awardees include student winner Priscila Poliana, a graduate student in urban and regional planning; faculty award winner Dr. Arti Prasad, division chief for the Department of Internal Medicine and executive medical director of Center for Life; and staff award winner Ashley Taylor, senior academic advisor at Anderson School of Management. “These outstanding individuals exemplify UNM’s commitment to community service,” Frank said in a release. “They have gone above and beyond to help those in need and inspire change for the best.” The Sarah Belle Brown awards’ funding has been donated by

former Anderson School of Management dean Doug Brown and his wife, Sarah Brown, to recognize the volunteer service work done by members of the UNM community, according to UNM’s website. Poliana, who was the previous president of the UNM Graduate and Professional Students Association, currently works as a project planner for the STEM UP Cooperative, which works toward facilitating the transfer of STEM students from CNM to UNM, she said. “Knowing of the importance of Sarah Brown’s work and of the many qualified nominees, I feel honored and privileged to have been chosen as this year’s recipient,” Poliana said. “I would like to thank Sarah Belle Brown and Dean Doug Brown for their continued support of education and

lifelong commitment leveraging our community.” As GPSA president, Poliana sought to increase transparency in fees and tuition costs and helped to enact a tuition freeze in 2013-14, the first in many years, according to a UNM press release. Prasad, professor of medicine and chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine, has routinely contributed a significant amount of time and knowledge to community service activities including serving on the medical advisory board of the Cancer Services of New Mexico since early 2000, according to the press release. “I am truly honored to be receiving this award,” Prasad said. “I feel joyful that someone noticed this hard work and that the decisionmakers acknowledged the unique value of this health education work that it brings to UNM.”

She plans to expand her work in preventive and integrative health throughout New Mexico and wants to have a healthy New Mexico community by 2025. “This may seem like an ambitious goal, but can we think of any less than this for UNM’s community outreach efforts through an integrative health approach?” Prasad said. Taylor, the third recipient, who has bachelor’s degrees in Spanish and psychology, is highly involved in the community as a volunteer at Crossroads for Women, an Albuquerque organization that provides support for women who are homeless or suffer from mental illness or drug addiction, according the statement. “I feel honored to receive this award and it solidifies what

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The Albuquerque Police Department and the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday they had reached an agreement that will require the APD to implement sweeping changes in their policies regarding use of force and the handling of suspects with mental health concerns. The agreement states it is “designed to ensure police integrity, protect officer safety and prevent use of excessive force, including unreasonable use of deadly force, by APD.” The agreement will also create civilian oversight with advisory councils and a review agency that “independently reviews citizen complaints, serious uses of force and officer-involved shootings by APD.” The civilian agency is designed to rebuild the trust of the public by involving them in the process. It will also monitor, review and make recommended changes to APD policy on use of force. “By increasing transparency and accountability on use of force, APD will promote more effective law enforcement and will strengthen public confidence in APD,” the agreement states. The agreement addresses the nine main points raised in the DOJ’s original report released in April, which found that APD had engaged in a “pattern or practice of unconstitutional use of deadly force,” said U.S. Attorney Damon Martinez. “It is also a roadmap for rebuilding the trust between the community and the police,” Martinez said. The agreement must be filed in U.S. District Court by Nov. 10, after which a monitor will report to a federal judge about how the city is complying with the agreement. The federal judge will have the power to

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