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UNM hosts Black Cultural Conference

Johnny Vizcaino | September 17

This week, for the first time in seven years, African American Student Services will be sponsoring the Black Cultural Conference at UNM. Thematically, the conference is geared toward “Mobilizing the Black Millennial Legacy.” The 2017 Black Cultural Conference will be taking place from Thursday, Sept. 21 until Saturday, Sept. 23. The conference will kick off with a networking event on Thursday at 5 p.m. in the Ethnic Center foyer. Then, Friday will be filled with workshops and roundtables exploring topics such as leadership, health, positive self-image, social justice and the importance of developing an intergenerational strategy for mobilization. These sessions will take place in the SUB starting at 9 a.m.

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Student group helps minorities with college

Johnny Vizcaino | September 14

For the Men of Color Initiative, there’s more to being successful in college than reading a textbook. It takes more than a one-time orientation featuring an overload of information and a goody bag to express the importance of networking and real-world community engagement. That’s what the initiative is aiming to showcase with its first-ever “Males of Color Success Networking Summit.” “When you know who you are, and you know that historical piece of your place in society, and then you have a peer coach who’s been at UNM for years who knows how to navigate the system, it makes a huge difference,” said Rodney Bowe, director of MOCI.

Ryan Tynan, Co-owner of Urbana works on prepping micro sprouts for harvest on Aug. 27, 2017.

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Urbana puts a sustainable twist on farming

Johnny Vizcaino | August 27

Dreams, oftentimes, are rooted in realities. And so it is with the dream of local entrepreneurs Rebbekka and Ryan Tynan, founders of what they are calling Albuquerque's first commercial Aquaponic micro-farm. Theirs is a dream that is rooted in perhaps some of the harshest of human realities: hunger and exploitation. “Food scarcity really is the starting point for so much of this world’s strife,” Ryan said. “Everybody has to eat,” Rebekah agreed.

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Freshmen Issue: Where incoming students can find coffee near UNM

Johnny Vizcaino | May 14

For a lot of college students, beginning the day usually involves having some coffee. For freshmen, beginning a college career might involve finding out where to get that coffee in the first place. The Daily Lobo sat down with five local coffee shops before orientation sessions and asked them to tell us a little about how they brew business. The following list of coffee shops is organized in order of physical distance from Main Campus.

Louie’s Rock n’ Reels store is a popular Albuquerque movie and music poster store. Louie’s Rock n’ Reels is located on Harvard St. across UNM.

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Freshmen Issue: Original movie posters — Move in with originality

Johnny Vizcaino | May 14

Looking for something to make your house, or dorm, a home? Then find a decoration you like, something you actually enjoy seeing for meaningful reasons — not just something that conveys some transitory trend or fading fad. That’s the advice Louie Torrez has for folks embarking on the journey out of their childhood homes and into places of their own. Torrez is the founding owner of Louie’s Rock-N-Reels, the poster shop located at 105 Harvard Dr SE, across Central from Main Campus.

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Project ECHO may face cloudy future under Trump administration

Johnny Vizcaino | December 16

In our current healthcare system, the interests of hospitals and clinics don’t always align with the interests of patients, but healthcare providers shouldn’t feel penalized for doing right by those who require their services. That was the message that UNM Hospital doctors had for U.S. UNMH doctors told U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, D-NM, during a visit on Wednesday. The senior senator from New Mexico received an update on Project ECHO, an internet videoconference-based “telehealth” service aimed at revolutionizing medical education and reducing healthcare disparities in hard-to-reach, rural areas by “moving knowledge instead of patients,” said Sanjeev Arora, the project’s founder.

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Provocative speaker plans to visit UNM

Johnny Vizcaino | December 4

Self-styled journalist and “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.

KIVA Club members march with demonstrators during an Indigenous Peoples’ March Monday, Oct. 10, 2016. KIVA is a student organization based out of UNM that educates and encourages students and community members on Native American issues.

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KIVA Club's long activist history

Johnny Vizcaino | November 20

What began in 1952 as a social club for Native American students at UNM, quickly evolved into one of the most politically active groups in New Mexico by the time the Civil Rights Movement was at its peak in the '60s. Kiva Club, a student organization meant to encourage community involvement in Native American issues, is steeped in a history of consistent activism. To many students, Kiva Club might best be known today for its ongoing campaign to abolish the University’s official seal — which it has called offensive — but this effort is just the latest in a series of social movements spawned by the group’s members.

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Hundreds march against hate crimes on campus

Johnny Vizcaino | November 16

Hate crimes are on the rise all across the country since the end to a turbulent presidential campaign last week, and now the nation’s students are taking action, including at UNM. In a stand of solidarity against hate, University students and faculty — along with other local citizens — took part in the national #OurCampus movement against hate by staging a national walkout on Wednesday. The event’s organizers called students to action by way of a nationally-distributed Walkout Toolkit, which lists organization methods, de-escalation tactics for demonstrators, and a list of goals and demands.

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Local Democrats celebrate Election Night wins

Johnny Vizcaino | November 9

Despite federal election results, the Democratic Party of New Mexico has been given some cause for celebration. DPNM held an election night event at the Hotel Andaluz in downtown Albuquerque, attended by several dozen people including voters, volunteers, and key party members. Decade-long Bernalillo County Clerk Maggie Toulouse-Oliver, a democrat, will be New Mexico’s next Secretary of State. After maintaining a senate majority and flipping the house of representatives, Democrats now control the New Mexico state legislature.