Thursday night in the SUB, UNM students, faculty and the Albuquerque community came out to support the Queer Straight Alliance and the Residence Hall Association’s fourth annual drag show
Every Saturday, locals and tourists gather at Robinson Park in Downtown Albuquerque on Eighth Street and Central Avenue to buy and sell fresh produce, handcrafted art and listen to free music.
Ezrah Reed is a UNM sophomore studying physics and astronomy. Originally, Reed planned to play college football, but found bodybuilding to be a more reasonable pursuit.
Abortion rights supporters cheer as the election’s results are announced at the Hotel Andaluz in downtown Albuquerque Tuesday night. Unofficial results from the Bernalillo County listed 55 percent against and 45 percent in support of the late-term abortion ban.
Speakers from various pro-abortion groups spoke Tuesday night after the voting results were released. The unofficial total of votes cast was 87,940.
Voters gather at Jefferson Middle School to vote Tuesday afternoon. Despite polling locations closing at 7 p.m., local news reports showed that people were still waiting in line to cast ballots.
At Jefferson Middle School’s polling location, Albuquerque voters wait in a line that extended through a gymnasium and outside into a parking lot.
Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance volunteers Joel Gallegos and Theresa Illgen stood on UNM’s campus Tuesday afternoon to encourage anyone walking by to vote. Last month, Albuquerque’s City Council voted against a polling location on UNM’s campus.
Despite no polling location on UNM’s campus, free trolley rides were offered every 30 minutes to local polling sites. Last week, members of Feminist Majority offered free van rides during early voting.
Tuesday morning, members of anti-abortion groups gather outside Planned Parenthood’s Surgical Center on San Mateo Boulevard. In 1916, Planned Parenthood was founded by Margaret Sanger and began as a birth-control clinic in Brooklyn, New York.
Abby Johnson, a former Director at Planned Parenthood clinic in Bryan College Station, Texas, stood along the median on San Mateo Boulevard across from a Planned Parenthood Surgical Clinic Tuesday morning. “I left in 2009 after witnessing a live ultrasound guided abortion procedure.”
UNM sophomore Kaitlyn Loafman said she was ecstatic and in shock during the announcement of her win last night in the Student Union Building. Loafman received 730 votes, the highest of all ASUNM candidates.
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