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‘Alt-right’ writer Are evals truly anonymous? to speak at UNM By Shelby Perea

By Johnny Vizcaino

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With the semester nearing its end, students are starting to see emails from “UNM Course Feedback” urging them to evaluate their courses and instructors from the fall semester. The email reads, in part: “Student feedback is highly valued and extremely important! Student feedback provided through course evaluations is crucial in order for Faculty to improve their instruction as well as other aspects of their courses. All responses are completely anonymous.” However, students had questions about just how anonymous and vital those course evaluations are, with UNM having transitioned from paper, in-class evaluations to online evaluation surveys two years ago. While the questions are not different, the means of cataloging the questions are. Students must log in with their UNM ID’s and passwords through UNM Learn or EvaluationKIT. Now that students must login, the process

Self-styled journalist and polarizing “alt-right” figurehead Milo Yiannopoulos has accepted an invitation from UNM’s Young Americans for Liberty to speak in the SUB on Jan. 27. However, “due to the partisan nature of Milo’s talks,” UNM College Republicans will be the group that officially plays host to the speaking engagement, according to UNM College Republicans Chairman Ryan Ansloan, who is also UNM YAL vice president. Yiannopoulos , who currently serves as tech editor for the farright, web-based publication Breitbart News, made headlines earlier this year when he was

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permanently banned from Twitter in an attempt by the social media company to crack down on abusive internet trolling. The gay, British free speech

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Milo Yiannopoulos is known for his controversial and polarizing stances on topics such as feminism, Black Lives Matter and Islam. Here is just a sampling of some of the things he has written or said on his current speaking tour, via Breitbart.com.

“Men don’t bond by eating bon bons and watching Desperate Housewives. They bond by telling dark jokes and brutally roasting each other. If a guy hasn’t called his friend a “cock-sucking faggot” at least once in the past week, they aren’t really friends. Taunting is how men bond.” -from “Full Text: Milo Defends Hazing, College Fraternities at Dartmouth,” Nov. 1, 2016.

of anonymity is less clear than handing in a nameless form. “Kind of and kind of not. We have to log in with our Net ID therefore I don’t know if they actually are anonymous,” said senior communication major student Krystal Romero, when asked if she felt like she can be honest on her evaluations. “If I’m the first one to submit it, won’t they be able to tell?” Romero recently completed all her course evaluations for the fall 2016 semester and brings up what other students have wondered: are the evaluations truly anonymous? “A student NetID is necessary for authentication and assignment of appropriate surveys, but response data is not associated with the student for instructors to view in the application. It is possible for students to reveal their identity if they answer qualitative responses in a manner that would be recognizable to the instructor,” assured Duane Arruti, chief information officer for UNM IT, and technical analyst Aaron Baca in an emailed statement. The Daily Lobo went to Electronic Survey and Election Support to find out exactly how the “response data is not associated

“JC Penney is joining the ranks of consumer products companies following a bizarrely quixotic business model — help your customers feel good about themselves until they drop dead from obesity-related illnesses. The problem? When they die, they stop buying your XXXL clothing.” -from “No, JC Penney, Fat People Should Absolutely Hate Themselves,” June 26, 2016.

On the Daily Lobo website McKibben: Absence of LoboAlert on armed man raises concerns Aragon: ASUNM fails resolution supporting orgs with political agendas

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“The growth of Islam should be one of the most disturbing things in the world for liberals. Here is a religion that forces women into submission, that executes gays, that tries to kill non-believers. They’re the Westboro Baptist Church on steroids, except they’re not mental trolls from Kansas. They mean it, and they’re spreading. Islam preys on the most vulnerable in society, offering them a sense of higher purpose. It’s no wonder that gingers convert to Islam in such high numbers.” -from “Full Text: 10 Things Milo Hates About Islam,” Sept. 27, 2016.

“Time for some honesty. Women are — and you won’t hear this anywhere else — screwing up the internet for men by invading every space we have online and ruining it with attention-seeking and a needy, demanding, touchy-feely form of modern feminism that quickly comes into conflict with men’s natural tendency to be boisterous, confrontational and delightfully autistic.” -from “The Solution To Online ‘Harrassment’ Is Simple: Women Should Log Off,” July 5, 2016

with the student.” However, we were told they were not allowed to speak with reporters and directed us to the director of Customer Services for UNM IT. Jason Slocum, who works in Information Technologies at UNM, said, “I feel that there is potential (course feedback) confidentiality risks because although we have anti-virus, there have been previous breaches to the UNM mainframe in the past.” Some students, on the other hand, felt comfortable with the online course feedback system. “Overall, I feel that you can be honest in evaluations to a certain extent. What I mean by that is that evaluations should be helpful with honest feedback so the professors can understand and make the adjustments they see fit,” said senior East Asian studies major Kylee San Miguel. “I like to think that it all is truly anonymous.” Some professors offer incentives or extra credit to encourage students to take the evaluations. Some students wondered too how they can prove they took the surveys without revealing their answers.

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UNM football players raise their helmets in a game against San Jose State at University Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016. After going 8-4 on the year, New Mexico will play in the Gildan New Mexico Bowl for the second consecutive season on Dec. 17 in Albuquerque

By Robert Maler @robert_maler For the second straight year, the New Mexico football team earned a bowl berth — and for the second straight year it will play in its home stadium as a participant in the Gildan New Mexico Bowl. In the press conference prior to the team’s final regular season game, head coach Bob Davie said he’d actually prefer to play in the New Mexico Bowl if given the choice.

“The thought of, if we’re bowl eligible, someone else playing in our stadium, someone else using our locker room…I just have a hard time seeing two teams playing in our stadium, when we can be one of them,” Davie said. The Lobos will get that opportunity after accepting a bid to play in the Gildan New Mexico Bowl against Texas-San Antonio (6-6, 5-3 C-USA). New Mexico (8-4, 6-2 MW) rebounded from a 1-2 start after it dropped two very winnable games to New Mexico State and Rutgers.

The team blew a 9-point fourth quarter lead against the Aggies, and a 21-0 first quarter lead to the Scarlet Knights. The team found a way to weather a storm that included early struggles, a defense that allowed big plays at times, and injuries to key players. Even as a predominantly runoriented team, the Lobos are a threat to score from anywhere on the field and posted a 5-1 record in front of its home crowd this season. 2016 has already yielded the first instance in program history New Mexico has produced two 1,000-yard running backs in a single season. Tyrone Owens had 1,084 yards on the ground, but was unable to add to that total as he didn’t play in the regular season finale. Senior running back Teriyon Gipson ran his season total up to 1,209, which now leads the team, after he reeled off a career-high 217 yards in the 56-35 victory over Mountain Division Cochampion Wyoming. Jason Sanders set new school marks in most made extra points in a season and consecutive PATs overall (which reached 81 over two seasons). He has also been a major weapon on special teams, with his ability to kick the ball out of the

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Staff: Daily Lobo newsroom broken into Check out the latest episode of the Wolf Tracks Podcast, where we discuss Yiannopoulos, last week’s Arts and Crafts Fair and more Follow the @DailyLobo on Twitter and vote in the #PollOfTheDay: Should UNM allow Milo Yiannopoulos to speak at the University?


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