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UNM encampment stands in solidarity with Palestine, other universities

By Paloma Chapa & Ella Daniel @paloma_chapa88 & @ella_daniel7

Update 4/28/2024 12:30 a.m.: Night seven UNMPD arrived at the encampment on Sunday, around 7:45 p.m. giving notices to protesters, according to the UNM Palestine Solidarity Camp Instagram.

At 11 p.m., one UNMPD car arrived. At the time of publication at 12:30 a.m., the officers have remained in their cars and have not approached the encampment.

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This story was last updated at 12:30 a.m. 04/29/24 — please check online for most updated information.

Students, alumni, faculty and community members have been camped out at the Duck Pond since Monday, April 22 in solidarity with Palestine and students at universities nationwide.

Encampments in support of Palestine have been set up on dozens of college campuses across the U.S., leading to hundreds of student arrests, according to the New York Times. Police officers have been present at the University of New Mexico encampment a majority of the nights.

The protesters are calling the University to divest from Israel, call for a ceasefire in Gaza and for the Board of Regents to employ the divestment resolution written by the UNM Law Students Against Impe -

rialism, the UNM Muslim Student Association and the UNM College Democrats. UNM has received grants from the U.S.-Israel Binational Foundations, according to The Jewish Virtual Library.

“(UNM is) trying to pretend that there’s no issue here. But it’s actually the most important issue in the country right now,” Bob Anderson, a retired faculty member, said.

On Wednesday, April 24, at an Associated Students at the University of New Mexico full Senate meeting, President Garnett Stokes was asked about whether campus representatives were going to come to a compromise regarding the solidarity camp.“ There are many perspectives on many complex issues, and our focus is on education,” Stokes said.

“Setting up tents and sleeping bags or an encampment of any kind is not permissible on the UNM campus, and is in violation of UAPPM Policy 2270; citations could be issued or arrests made for non-compliance,” UNM Chief Marketing and Communications Officer Cinnamon Blair said in a statement to the Daily Lobo.

“(The officers) come up (to the encampment) with usually about six of them, and they’ll (give) notices throughout the entire (encampment). They’ll give anyone with a sleeping bag or a tent or anything on that list of confiscated items and (give them the) notice,” Juarez said. “Then two to three hours later, they come back to enforce that so anyone who is given that notice and still has those items present has (will have them) confiscated.”

HLAING: ‘4% don’t pay the rent’: United Graduate Workers rally for higher wages (pg. 3)

PRUNTY: Women’s basketball: embracing a new era (pg. 4)

CICCONETTI & SECOR: The Savannah Bananas peel into Albuquerque (pg. 4)

About 40 protesters were present at the encampment at 12:30 a.m. The

encampment has grown in size and with more donations since Monday.

“There are a lot of students that have eyes on what’s happening across the country, and are making their academic decisions for where they go to higher education based on how campuses respond to these protests. So you have a lot of students

saying that universities that are supportive and are protecting students’ right to free speech – those are going to be at the top of their list versus some of these ones who have seen really violent responses,” Juarez said.

ALEXANDER & BERNARD: Nation’s first mental health responders sign union contract (pg. 6)

PUKITE: Daily Lobo News Editor files lawsuit against UNM records custodian (pg. 8)

BOLAÑOS: Cherry Reel showcase and encourages the act of creation (pg. 9)

CHAPA: International festival photo story (pg. 10)

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The University of New Mexico Police Department confiscates a sleeping bag near 11:45 p.m. at the Palestine Encampment on Friday, April 26.

Lieutenant Guadalupe Guevara speaks to the pro-Palestinian protesters at the Duck Pond on Friday, April 26.

UNMPD officers with students and community members at the Duck Pond on Saturday, April 27.

Leila Chapa / @DailyLobo / Daily Lobo Tables of food, water and supplies at the solidarity encampment at the Duck Pond on Tuesday, April 23.

Night

one

Protestors at UNM marched from Zimmerman Plaza to the UNM Bookstore and concluded their march at the Duck Pond. During final speeches, activists brought camping gear to the pond and began pitching tents to set up an encampment to occupy the area overnight.

The Office of Academic Affairs released a printed notice at 6 p.m., signed by Provost James Paul Holloway, asking that by 6:30 p.m. all tents be removed from campus, per UNM policy. UNMPD officers arrived at the same time, according to protester and former student Jonathan Juarez.

“(UNMPD) officers came out and told us that we had 30 minutes until 6:30 to vacate,” Juarez said.

At approximately 7:50 p.m., NMSP officers arrived at the encampment. Following, protesters began picketing around the encampment, resisting NMSP’s attempts to dismantle the tents. They continued this for an hour and a half until NMSP left.

“Stay together, stay tight, we’ll do this every night … disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest,” the protesters chanted.

The protest took place on the first day of Passover. After the police left, Jewish participants educated others about the holiday and provided matzo ball soup.

Close to midnight, the police returned to demand that they take down their tents.

Juarez, along with several other protesters, stayed overnight.

“Initially they really just started going for tents. They didn’t try talking to anybody or give any warnings or tell people to disperse or anything,” Juarez said.

NMSP attempted to issue a citation to one protester but dismissed it, according to Juarez and community organizer Siihasin Hope.

NMSP returned most tents — except one that was damaged, and another that was recovered by charity, according to Hope, Juarez

and three other protesters who wished to remain anonymous.

Camilla Allison, a doctoral student at UNM School of Law, said she was hopeful the protest would remain non-violent.

“I’m not basing our actions by (UNM’s) standards of what is or is not legally appropriate. We are basing our actions on our opposition to genocide,” Allison said.

Night two

UNMPD arrived around 1 a.m., as about 15 protesters were awoken by flashlights and officers demanding that their tents be taken down. Officers presented a document stating that tents and sleeping gear should be removed immediately.

“They came up to us with their flashlights (saying) ‘We’re going to confiscate those if you all don’t take the camping gear off of the lot,’” Hope said.

UNMPD returned to the camp at 3:30 a.m. and 5 a.m., according to the UNM Palestine Solidarity Camp Instagram.

The officers had mixed reactions to the protesters, according to Juarez and Hope.

“(At 3 am, the officers) were very quiet and sneaky about coming up to us. Normally they would pull up with their vehicles (to the roundabout) where we can see them and that’s how we know that they’re coming, (but) they actually parked far away and walked underneath the Dane Smith area, and then came out,” Hope said.

The protestors have held space at the Duck Pond encampment, providing teach-ins, altar offerings and free meals. They plan to remain there until the University divests, according to Hope.

“We are all exhausted, but we’re all here because we are in solidarity with Gaza and Palestine,” Hope said. “There are people at night who are getting bombed or their children at night who are being shot at; a little bit

of harassment is nothing compared to what’s happening there.”

Update 4/25/2024: Night three Around 20 protesters settled in for the night. Near midnight, two UNMPD officers walked by the encampment. The night continued without police involvement. The protesters began the evening by placing wooden pallets under their materials and covering them with a tarp to protect them from the sprinklers. The encampment provided food, bug spray and toiletries to protesters, entirely donated by students.

Update 4/26/2024: Night four, day five

UNMPD officers arrived at about 10 p.m. on the night of Thursday, April 25, delivering notices identical to ones delivered to protesters previously, asking that camping gear be removed immediately. The date on the notices has not been updated since Tuesday, April 23. As of midnight, about 13 people planned to spend the night.

UNMPD left and did not return until around 7:30 a.m., according to Dakota Steele, a protester who spent the night. At 7:30 a.m., officers asked them to take down the two tents they had set up.

On Friday, April 26 at around 2 p.m., UNMPD officers returned to the Duck Pond. They removed all sleeping bags, tents and other camping gear, loading it into a truck to be taken to the UNM police station, as seen on a UNM Palestine Solidarity Camp Instagram livestream.

Protestors, including Juarez, said they would collect their materials from UNMPD or get more and return to the camp with them.

“And then we’ll take it again,” UNMPD Lieutenant Patrick Burk replied when removing gear at 2 p.m.

On behalf of the Faculty for Justice in Palestine at New Mexico Highlands University, Jess Goldberg and other members issued a statement to Stokes and Holloway, expressing

solidarity with the encampment.

The statement calls for a divestment from Israel and that students in the encampment not be met with violence from the police. “The expression of solidarity with those on the UNM campus is grounded in our ongoing solidarity with the people of Gaza in their resistance against genocide,” the statement reads.

“The leaders of our state institutions have a moral obligation to reject invoking state violence – as embodied by police departments, whether affiliated with a municipality, county, state or individual institution – as a response to student encampments,” the statement reads.

Update 4/28/2024: Night five

On Friday, April 26, UNMPD officers arrived at the encampment close to midnight, telling protestors to remove sleeping bags and not to sleep at the Duck Pond. Lieutenant Guadalupe Guevara and about seven other officers scanned the site with flashlights.

Officers delivered printed notices with similar language as the previous days. The difference was that the portion of the text reading the UNM policy was highlighted in yellow.

“We have to enforce the rule. If there’s people who are in sleeping bags who are sleeping here, we enforce that campus-wide,” Guevara told protestors.

UNMPD confiscated one sleeping bag.

“You can come all night long. We will be awake,” Juarez replied.

Police returned to the campsite at 2 a.m., shining flashlights around the encampment, counting sleeping areas and informing protesters they would return to ensure no one was in sleeping bags, according to the UNM Palestine Solidarity Encampment Instagram.

Night six

Between Saturday 4:30 p.m and Sunday 7 a.m., UNMPD cars parked near the camp, turning on their high beams and sirens in regular intervals, according to the UNM Palestine Solidarity Encampment Instagram.

On Saturday, April 27 at 7:30 p.m., UNMPD confiscated a tent pole from the encampment.

Around 11 p.m., UNMPD returned to the encampment to perform a walk-through. Two protesters who were playing musical instruments were knocked to the ground by police officers, according to Hope and two protesters who asked to remain anonymous.

“He attempted to move forward whether I was there or not … I got knocked backwards,” an anonymous protester said.

The protesters had a movie night where they set up lanterns, tarps and a projector to watch “Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.”

At 3:08 a.m., UNMPD came to check on sleeping bags and other items, according to the UNM Palestine Solidarity Camp Instagram.

“They were just coming through really aggressively, trying to grab people’s stuff as usual. They came every hour and then we chased them out every single time,” Hope said.

Paloma Chapa is the multimedia editor for the Daily Lobo. She can be reached at multimedia@dailylobo. com or on Twitter @paloma_chapa88

Ella Daniel is a freelance reporter with the Daily Lobo. She can be reached at news@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @ella_daniel7

Lelia Chapa contributed reporting to this article.

“I am trying to give you an education about what the policy is and you guys are just doing whatever you want,” Guevara told protesters, who began chanting “Free, free Palestine.”

Editors note 4/25/2024: This article has been updated to reflect all of the authors of the divestment resolution.

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UNMPD delivers a notice to students and community members at the solidarity encampment at the Duck Pond on Friday, April 26.

Leila Chapa / @DailyLobo / Daily Lobo UNMPD searches the solidarity encampment at the Duck Pond on Friday, April 26.

the rent’: United Graduate Workers rally for higher wages

By Shin Hlaing @DailyLobo

The United Graduate Workers of the University of New Mexico rallied at Scholes Hall for higher wages on Tuesday, April 23. While UGW initially asked for a 50% overall salary wage increase and a 58% increase to minimum salaries, the University administration proposed a 4% increase.

Three days after the rally, UGW received “more binding language” from UNM administration to include research assistants in proposed wage increases, a group that was previously left out, according to the UGW Instagram. They also received proposed increases to minimum salaries for project assistants and graduate assistants.

At the rally, graduate workers and research assistants expressed concerns about their financial well-being and future plans.

Aida Revilla, an information technology research assistant, works two consulting jobs in addition to her research assistant position “to make ends meet,” she said.

“I don’t think we’re asking for anything that’s either impossible or unfair. All graduate workers give so much of our time and energy to this institution and we deserve to earn a living wage,” Revilla said.

Gabriel Garcia – a doctoral student and a teaching assistant in the English department – cannot afford dental work he needs, he said, which affects his mental health.

“Just ask anybody who works for a living to figure out how they would live on such little money,” Garcia said.

For a single adult living in Albuquerque with no children, the minimum annual income before taxes is $41,647, according to the Massachusetts Institution of Technology living wage calculator.

Wilber Dominguez – a physics research assistant – Revilla and Garcia all make under $2,000 per month, they said. Garcia and Dominguez each pay an average of $1,250 per month for rent.

In a speech at the rally, Ernesto Longa, president of the United Academics of UNM, cited concerns about faculty salaries expressed at a July 15, 2003 Board of Regents meeting.

“The problem of noncompetitive wages for UNM faculty and graduate workers has been known by the Administration for over 20 years,” Longa said.

At the 2003 meeting, “salary issues” were listed as the number one faculty priority. Faculty assistant salaries were about 84% of the national average for the 2000-01 school year, according to the meeting minutes.

A wage increase would allow Garcia to stop taking out student loans, he said.

“It would be a huge peace of mind to be able to focus on my research, my teaching and my coursework,” Garcia said.

The wages graduate workers are paid also impact the students they teach in terms of quality of education and campus morale, Revilla said.

“This is a detriment not only to our

quality of work, but to the quality of work we’re providing to our students,” Revilla said.

The University is a central part of the state’s economy because it brings in students and economic opportunities, Dominguez said, and if graduate workers were not concerned about finances, it would make the institution more successful.

“This is really not just a graduate worker issue. Everyone in the state should be concerned about this. The flagship university of the state should be paying their workers a living wage,” Dominguez said.

Shin Thant Hlaing is a freelance reporter at the Daily Lobo. She can be reached at news@dailylobo.com

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UNM graduate student workers with handmade signs protest outside of UNM Scholes Hall on Tuesday, April

UNM graduate student workers with handmade signs protest outside of UNM Scholes Hall on Tuesday, April

Women’s basketball: embracing a new era

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By Rodney Prunty @Rprunty05

The last time the University of New Mexico women’s basketball team played was March 11 against the San Diego State Aztecs in the Mountain West Tournament. Unfortunately for the Lobos, they lost that game 67-56, ending their season. What has followed with the team can best be described as a mass exodus, with a total of eight players departing — seven through the transfer portal.

The one player who is not leaving via the transfer portal is guard Aniyah Augmon. Augmon is deciding to forgo her senior year to graduate and pursue other passions outside of basketball.

The biggest losses to the transfer portal for the Lobos are guard Nyah Wilson and forward Paula Reus, who both were significant parts of the team. Other players who are leaving through the transfer portal include Natalia Chavez, Nahawa Diarra Berthe, Mackenzie Curtis, Hannah Robbins and Jaelyn Bates.

The transfer portal leads to players leaving, which can make coaching

difficult. For Head Coach Mike Bradbury, it’s something to embrace.

“It’s something you just got to embrace. It makes things different. It makes things, at times, a little more difficult, but it’s something coaches have to embrace,” Bradbury said.

Being a player during the transfer portal era isn’t easy either, as teammates you built chemistry with can leave. Guard Vianè Cumber found the amount of players who left surprising, she said.

“It was kind of surprising, at first, to see the amount of players leave, but people transfer every year; this is just a part of it, we just have to go through it,” Cumber said.

Cumber has played her whole collegiate career with the Lobos. She started all 29 games she appeared in this previous season and was also a key piece of the roster. Being one of the only remaining starters from this previous season, Cumber is now in a leadership role.

Being in this role is something she doesn’t mind, she said.

“Just being in the program for the amount of years I have, being in a leadership role is something that is just part of who I am. I don’t mind it,” Cumber said.

The transfer portal hasn’t been all bad for the Lobos. At the time of publication, the Lobos have already started to recruit and sign players themselves.

Those players are guard Destinee Hooks from Vincennes University, forward Clarissa Craig from the University of Cincinnati and forward Amhyia Moreland from conference opponent San José State University. Bradbury said he feels good about the construction of the team so far — especially solidifying the front court — but is still working on getting some more players in.

“I think that we have done a really good job of solidifying the front court with some 4’s and some 5’s. We’re still working on getting some guards in here — we’ve had several visits and got more scheduled,” Bradbury said.

The Lobos are still a long ways away from the start of next season and there are still a lot of roster spots yet to be filled. Roster construction will be a key part of being competitive next season.

Rodney Prunty is a freelance sports reporter at the Daily Lobo. He can be contacted at sports@dailylobo.com or on twitter @Rprunty05

The Savannah Bananas peel into Albuquerque

weird kid. I always had crazy talents but I was always a baseball player,” Albritton said.

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The social media and baseball stars, the Savannah Bananas and Party Animals, made their Albuquerque debut to a sold-out crowd at Isotopes Stadium, bringing Bananaland to the Land of Enchantment. The teams played on April 20 and 21, selling out the stadium both days.

Banana Ball is different from your typical game of baseball. There’s a pitcher and a batter, and the goal is to make it around the bases and back to home plate, but there are many different rules and flares in the game that make it the show it is.

11 rules govern Banana Ball, including one that states the game will not exceed two hours, so no new inning can start after the two-hour mark, and every inning is worth one point. The team that has the most runs per inning wins that inning.

The Bananas have Dakota Albritton, the world’s tallest baseball player, who takes to the field on stilts. Albritton grew up playing baseball and decided to bring the stilts out to the Bananas tryouts in 2021 and it has been a skyhigh highlight for fans since then.

“I was always, you could say, a

For one player, Albuquerque was not just another game, but a homecoming. Drew Gillespie, the Party Animals’ pitcher, is a University of New Mexico baseball alumni and graduate of Sandia High School. Banana Ball may not be the ball game he grew up with, but Gillespie has thrown himself into it.

“I love all the tricks for our guys,” Gillespie said. “To not only be good at baseball to play at this level, but (also) to be willing to rip out a backflip or a between-the-legs catch is just incredible to me.”

Gillespie enjoyed being back in his hometown and took some of his teammates around Albuquerque when they first arrived.

“I took the boys over to my parents’ house, and we had dinner,” Gillespie said. “Then we went over (to) the Dirty Bourbon. We had a good time.”

Gillespie finds that preparing for the games, training opportunities and new ideas can be from anywhere at any time.

“You can find your training anytime of the day … (like) at the bar, finding a new dance move to put into a show,” Gillespie said. “With baseball, that’s kind of the easier side of things: practice every day, (and) with the dances, keep up with the TikTok trends.”

Gillespie got his moment to shine,

pitching at the bottom of the eighth inning just before the end of the game. In his stint on the mound, Gillespie struck out Jackson Olson, a fan favorite of the Bananas and resident Taylor Swift superfan.

Although striking out, Olson still had his noteworthy moments in the game with a walk-off in the second and a barehanded catch at the top of the eighth, living up to his Banana Ball celebrity status.

In an interview, Olson revealed his inner Swiftie, sharing that during the game, he planned to make a TikTok to “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” from Taylor Swift’s latest album, “The Tortured Poets Department.” “I’m gonna walk from the crowd today and make a TikTok with (“Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?”),” Olson said. “I’ve already learned all the lyrics. I’m very dedicated.”

In the fifth inning, Party Animal Jorden Hussein cruised up to bat in authentic New Mexican style in a blue lowrider. But the swag of his ride wasn’t enough to get him on base and he had to ditch his wheels and make the walk of shame back to the dugout.

The Banana Ball shenanigans were never-ending with players constantly interacting with fans in the crowd and performing their dance routines on the field. The Savannah

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A basketball sits on a paved court located at UNM’s main campus on Sunday, April 7.

Savannah Bananas

Gabe Howell (11) rounds second base and continues to third at Isotopes Park on Saturday, April 20.

Robert Anthony Cruz (15) of the Savannah Bananas leads the team in a pre-game dance routine at Isotopes Park on Saturday, April 20.

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Savannah Bananas Jackson Olson (8) and Ryan Cox (6) sit around second base waiting for the game to start at Isotopes Park on Saturday, April 20.

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By Lily Alexander & Nate Bernard @llilyalexander & @DailyLobo

The Albuquerque Community Safety department secured their first collective bargaining agreement with their union in March. The department cited lack of support for employee well-being, stability and mental health, according to ACS Agency Vice President and bargaining committee member Crystal Little.

The Union represents the first government agency in the nation that sends first responders with backgrounds in mental health to non-violent calls, according to Sherii Miera, an ACS behavioral health responder and bargaining committee member. Responders are dispatched through 911 calls, Miera said.

“One of our main goals throughout has been to focus on the safety and wellbeing of the responders and ensuring that our voices are heard,” Little said.

The Union first organized in 2022. Their main goal is to work with the City of Albuquerque to establish consistent safety procedures and attain first responder status, Little said.

first mental health responders sign union contract

“We don’t quite have (first responder) status yet. When there have been incidents where a responder is assaulted or a responder is unsafe for whatever reason, we don’t have that security, knowing that there is going to be something that’s followed through and knowing that we’re going to have the legal support necessary,” Little said.

In incidents of assault, first responders are supported by the city through procedures that label the incident as “assault upon a health care worker,” according to New Mexico statute 303-9.2. ACS employees lack the City’s support if an assault were to happen, Miera said.

In March, the union that represents ACS – the Communication Workers of America – and CABQ reached a collective bargaining agreement. The agreement established that ACS employees do not have to pay for any necessary emergency transport if they are injured on the job.

The agreement also established labor-management committee meetings between department administration and the Union. The meetings create an open dialogue that could solve concerns between the two parties, Miera said.

“We’ll have a brainstorming session

of, ‘This is the problem we’re seeing, this is what we need, this is the ideas we have, how to fix it,’ and then work back and forth on what we can agree to,” Miera said. “The management and admin were willing to give us the ability to go into these meetings and speak about things that are management rights, so that it can better build morale, and help the cohesiveness between the Department all the way around.”

The agreement also allocated increased pay to employees working the swing shift – the shift between the day and night shift – or the night shift. ACS responds to incidents 24/7, and each shift has its own difficulties, Miera said..

“Into the afternoon and then night shift … if somebody’s calling because they’re having a mental health crisis, it’s probably more imminent than necessarily somebody that has more options during the day to reach out to somebody else,” Miera said.

One of the goals of the Union is to ensure employees are properly trained, given the uncertainty they face responding to each call, Little said.

“We do encounter individuals who are not thinking clearly that may not be the most stable in the moment. They may not be creating a situation that is safe for themselves or for the people

around them, which means that we don’t know what we’re walking into,” Little said.

ACS administration and CABQ supported the effort to unionize, according to Jeffery Bustamante, admin and policy deputy director at ACS. In a March 11 post to the Union’s website, Little wrote that the unionizing process was met with “many obstacles from the City.”

“During the contract negotiations and the unionizing, there was a lot of contention, a lot of animosity, a lot of negativity between the Union and ad-

min,” Miera said. “However, after the contract, we have taken a breath. This is happening, this is not going away, we are here.”

Lily Alexander is the news editor for the Daily Lobo. She can be reached at news@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @llilyalexander

Nate Bernard is a beat reporter with the Daily Lobo. He can be reached at news@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @DailyLobo

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Daily Lobo News Editor files lawsuit against UNM’s records custodian

By Maddie Pukite @Maddogpukite

Editor’s note: Lily Alexander is the incoming editor-in-chief at the Daily Lobo. She was not involved in the reporting or editing process of this story.

The News Editor of the Daily Lobo, Lily Alexander, has filed a lawsuit against Rob (Robert) Tafoya, the Custodian of Public Records at the University of New Mexico for failure to provide UNM Police Department’s weapons inventory on March 5, 2024.

The legal complaint asks for the courts to enforce the Inspection of the Public Records Act (IPRA) by requiring UNMPD to provide the weapons inventory.

Alexander entered litigation with attorney Laura Ives. The complaint cites a 2015 court order that required the Albuquerque Police Department to provide their weapons inventory after initially denying a journalist’s request.

“The law is there and says that anyone, (including) a member of the public, has access to records that are public under that law. So that includes (the Daily Lobo) and transparency is really important for the University since they have so much money and control. Taxpayer money

goes towards UNM and UNMPD, so the people have a right to know what they’ve got,” Alexander said.

IPRA is a New Mexico State Law that makes public records available to the public. To request a public record, one files an IPRA request. A Records Custodian is who facilitates these requests, according to Melanie Majors – executive director of New Mexico Foundation for Open Government. UNM and UNMPD are both public bodies that are held to IPRA.

“The Inspection of Public Records Act is one of the laws that the legislature has enacted ... to allow the public access to its government – the public’s right to know. And under the inspection of (the) Public Records Act, everyone is allowed to look at a record,” Majors said.

On Nov. 27, Alexander filed an IPRA request for UNMPD’s weapons inventory. The following day Tafoya denied the request, citing the records were privileged to law enforcement.

“Requested records consisted of privileged law enforcement information whose publication could reveal specific vulnerabilities, risk assessments or tactical emergency security procedures that could be used to facilitate a terrorist attack,” New Mexico Statute 1978 § 14-2-1-A (7) reads.

“In the original case – Judge Malott’s case – he was pretty succinct about his ruling. I wonder why the University thinks that that ruling does not apply to them. But we will see what happens if this case continues to court,” Majors said.

Tafoya did not respond to a request for an interview. Cinnamon Blair – Chief Marketing & Communications Officer for the University – responded with a written comment to the Daily Lobo.

On Dec. 11, Alexander provided the 2015 court order to Tafoya to review. He, again, denied the IPRA request on Dec. 15.

“The University is committed to compliance with the Inspection of Public Records Act and our policies developed in this regard. We, however, do not comment on pending litigation,” Blair wrote.

If Alexander graduates from the University while the case is still in litigation, her graduation will not impact the court proceedings, Majors said.

“Based on this and what we’ve seen from other such cases, it appears that (UNMPD) should be able to release the document. They tied the exception to records that could

be used to facilitate the planning or execution of a terrorist attack. I don’t see how that exception applies here,” Majors said.

The letter containing the complaint is still in transit once it is formally delivered a deadline will be set for UNM to respond to the legal complaint, according to Ives.

Maddie Pukite is the editor-in-chief at the Daily Lobo. They can be contacted at editorinchief@dailylobo.com on Twitter @maddogpukite

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Current Exhibits

Hulsman Undergraduate Library Research Award Winner Exhibit

Through April 30

Zimmerman Library Exhibit celebrates the 2024 winners of the Hulsman Undergraduate Library Research award winners. On display in Zimmerman Library Learning Commons.

Till We Are Full

Through May 3 Alpaca Gallery, 1415 4th St SW By Claudia Hermano.

Aberrations Through May 4

6th Street Studio By MFA Art Student Brianna Tadeo.

Layer Play

Through May 10

Tamarind Institute Collaborative Lithography Exhibition.

Maxwell Museum of Anthropology: Ancestors

Through May 11

Maxwell Museum of Anthropology

This exhibit will introduce our ancestors and close relatives, first came the early apelike Australopithecus (A.)* afarensis and A. africanus; these eastern and southern African relatives were the earliest humans.

Maxwell Museum of Anthropology: People of the Southwest

Through May 11

Maxwell Museum of Anthropology

The exhibition celebrates the cultural history of the Southwest, especially the close relationship southwestern people have had with the land around them.

Hindsight Insight 4.0

Through May 11

UNM Art Museum

The UNM Art Museum’s Hindsight Insight 4.0 exhibition, featuring portraits, landscapes, and abstract artworks, delves into narratives about racism, colonialism, and gender stereotypes, highlighting

curatorial authority and institutional voice.

Pelton & Jonson: The Transcendent 1930s Through May 11

UNM Art Museum

Paintings, drawings, and archival materials from the UNM Art Museum collection to illustrate the aesthetic achievements and personal connections between American painters Agnes Pelton (1881-1961) and Raymond Jonson (1891-1982).

Print in Action: Lithography and the Modern World Through May 11

UNM Art Museum

Presents lithography as an agent of social, cultural, political, and artistic change. The exhibition is divided into six sections: Drawing on Stone, the Reproductive Print, Advertising, Travel, and Collaborative Printmaking and Lithography Today.

Borders: Created, Contested & Imagined Exhibit Through May 29

Zimmerman Library Learning

Commons

A thought-provoking exploration of the dynamic interplay between maps and the societies they represent.

ALL REZ: Kéyah, Hooghan, K’é, Iina / Land, Home, Kinship, Life Through July 27

Maxwell Museum of Anthropology

A traveling, site-specific, experimental photography exhibition and museological project. ALL REZ centers the voices and experiences of Diné community members, offering a reciprocal process of exhibitionmaking.

Cuneiform and Cultural Heritage: Writing, New Ways of Being, and Displaced Artifacts Through October 31

Maxwell Museum of Anthropology This exhibition highlights the eight cuneiform tablets in the Maxwell Museum collections and attempts to uncover their journey to

Albuquerque.

Pedacitos de Resistencia: Socially Engaged Work in Latin American Special Collections Through December 2024 Zimmerman Library, Frank Waters Room Offers archival snapshots, pieces of collections to briefly showcase how socially engaged work can capture different histories, narratives, and imaginaries.

“Nothing Left for Me”: Federal Policy and the Photography of Milton Snow in Diné Bikéyah Through May 3, 2025 Maxwell Museum of Anthropology This exhibition foregrounds Diné perspectives on the intersecting and ongoing legacies of both photography and American colonialism.

MONDAY

Campus Events

Playlists, Snacks and Study HacksFinals MCM Living Room 10:00am – 2:00pm Hosted by the Anderson School of Management.

Manicure Mondays

Women’s Resource Center 12:00 – 2:00pm DIY manicure. Nail polish is provided, but feel free to bring your own.

Celebration of Regents Scholar Seniors Honors College Forum 5:30 – 7:00pm Annual farewell meeting that celebrates the RS Seniors. Food will be provided.

Student Memorial Ceremony

SUB, Ballroom C 6:30 – 7:30pm Take time to remember and celebrate the lives of Lobos who passed away during the last year. The formal ceremony will include

the calling of the names of the students as well as remarks from UNM administrators and a moment of silence.

Art & Music

Liquid Brass UNM Arts Lab

5:00 – 6:00pm A collaboration between the UNM Horn Studio and Augmented Spaces Class.

Violin Studio Recital Keller Hall 5:00 – 6:00pm Featuring the students of Dr. Cármelo de los Santos.

Symphonic Band

Popejoy Hall

7:30 – 9:00pm UNM Symphonic Band and the Albuquerque Concert Band perform Dancefares (Jess Turner), On This Bright, Morning (David Maslanka), American Hymnsong Site (Dwayne Milburn), Into the Blue (Joshua Hobbs), and Proud of Me (Michelle Fernandez).

Lectures & Readings

Thesis/Dissertation Presentations

Castetter Hall, Room 100 10:00 – 11:00am Jenna McCullough, Biology, presents “The Evolutionary Dynamics of a Rapid Radiation of Island Kingfishers.”

Graduate Studies Dean Candidate

Presentation

SUB, Lobo Rooms A&B

1:30 – 2:30pm Dr. Jesse Aleman, candidate for the position of Dean, Graduate Studies, presents.

Student

Groups & Gov

CSGSA Study Nights 1829 Sigma Chi Rd NE 4:00 – 8:00pm A

to study with others. Snacks will be provided.

Meetings

New Mexico Supreme Court Hearing for Johnson v. the Board of Education for Albuquerque Schools and Mary Jane Eastin CNM Smith Brasher Hall 10:00 – 11:00am Oral arguments for Johnson v. Board of Education for APS followed by a Q&A with the justices In the case, McKenzie Johnson now a UNM Kiva Club member, brought an action under the Human Rights Act alleging her teacher’s conduct during a class on Halloween violated her protected rights.

Workshops

Self Care Monday 12:00 – 2:00pm WRC Group Room Destress before the end of the semester. There will be sheet masks and more.

Jarana Workshop 4:00 – 8:30pm 2801 Lomas Blvd NE With Sinhue Padilla. Open to those who are interested

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The exterior of the Daily Lobo at Marron Hall on Sunday, April 28.

Cherry Reel showcases and encourages the act of creation

By Karina Bolaños @DailyLobo

On Friday, April 19, the Associated Students at the University of New Mexico Southwest Film Center held their ninth annual Cherry Reel Film Festival, showcasing 19 student-made films. This was the first time the event was held in Popejoy Hall.

This year’s festival showcased films ranging from documentary, to narrative, to experimental, according to Rylee Norman, executive director of the Southwest Film Center. Students, filmmakers and actors filled the seats of the auditorium to witness the screen light up with films

made by fellow students and friends. After the screenings, nine films were awarded in eight categories, including Best Animation, Best in Festival and Best Directing.

The festival encourages all students from many different majors to submit their work.

Erica Fish, director of “Diana & the Dryad,” won Best Animation. Fish’s film, a mixed media piece, explored Queer characters and myth retellings. It also featured the relationship between art and the artist.

“I want to make it clear that I am not an animation student,” Fish wrote. “I am a film student first and foremost with a deep love and appreciation for animation.”

Cherry Reel offers students the opportunity to submit prior class projects or explore personal creative interests. This allowed for a diverse and unique experience for viewers.

“Sweltering Heat,” a narrative film directed by Nata Aguilar, won Best in Festival.

The film was voiced entirely in Spanish and set “somewhere far below the U.S. Border,” according to the Cherry Reel Film Breakdown. It tells the story of a man whose “life falls apart after having stolen money from his employer,” the breakdown reads.

“I wrote (“Sweltering Heat”) because I was bored during the summer (and) I wanted our stories to be told. Our stories are valid,” Aguilar said.

The films had the audience laughing, gasping and crying.

“Pipe Dreams,” a film that shares the story of a Chinese man’s sacrifice for his children, shared a closing image of an acknowledgement to director Asiana Lee’s father for giving up his dreams so that Lee could pursue her own. The film won Best Directing.

Several films, such as “When the Grief Sets In” by director Wren Hartley, explored modern political and social issues. This was an experimental multimedia film that explored transgender grief and resiliency through poetic prose and various art forms, such as embroidery.

Bryant Staff, director of “Diary Entry 204,” and winner of Best Ex-

perimental, explored heartbreak through the narration of a past diary entry – one that showcased emotion and vulnerability.

Cherry Reel provides students with the opportunity to dive deeper into the world of acting, directing, and screenwriting, without boundaries or barriers.

“When you’re Black and Queer in New Mexico, you’re read a certain way. So it was nice to try and break that mold, and be recognized for breaking them,” Staff said.

Karina Bolaños is the Culture Editor at the Daily Lobo. They can be contacted at culture@dailylobo.com

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Thesis/Dissertation Presentations

1:30 – 2:30pm

Logan Hall, Room 226

Jalene Herron, Psychology, presents “We’ve been doing mindfulness since time immemorial’: Provider Experiences Using Mindfulness-Based Interventions in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities.”

Nuclear Engineering Seminar Farris Engineering Center, Room 2500

2:00 – 3:15pm Stephen House, SNL, presents “Electron Microscopy and Machine Learning for Nuclear Materials.”

Thesis/Dissertation Presentations

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Room 125E

2:00 – 3:00pm Daniel Manu, Interdisciplinary Engineering, presents “Deep Learning Framework for GraphBased Molecular Drug Discovery.”

Thesis/Dissertation Presentations

2:00 – 3:00pm Economics Department, Room 1008 Rex Sitti, Economics, presents “Three Essays on the Societal Impacts of Housing and Substance Use Disorder Treatment Programs.”

Thesis/Dissertation Presentations

2:00 – 3:00pm Dane Smith Hall, Room 227

Jens Van Gysel, Linguistics, presents “A Usage-Based Account of Ongoing Structural Changes in Sanapan??: Grammar Sketch and Case Studies.”

Campus Events

Playlists, Snacks and Study HacksFinals MCM Living Room 10:00am – 2:00pm Hosted by the Anderson School of Management. Summer Send-Off

10:00am – 2:00pm MCM Living Room Hosted by Anderson School of Management.

Son Jarocho Panel Zimmerman Library, Frank Waters Room 11:30am – 1:13pm Presentation about Son Jarocho with Patricio hidalgo, Yaratze Hidalgo, Sinhue Padilla, and Dr. Alvaro Alcantara.

Crafternoon 12:00 – 1:00pm Women’s Resource Center All supplies provided and no artistic ability required. Attend one or all sessions, no commitment necessary.

CTL Conversation Groups: Dine 4:00 – 5:00pm Ortega Hall LLC, Room 120 Hosted by the UNM Language Learning Center.

Theater & Film

HSA Faculty Movie Night 6:15 – 9:00pm Honors College Forum Watch a movie after the professor gives an introduction to the film and enjoy snacks, including popcorn, chips, candy, and Capri Suns.

Workshops

Jarana Workshop CCS Casita 4:00 – 7:00pm With Laura Rebolloso, Partricio Hidalgo, and Yaratze Hidalgo. Open to those who are interested in learning more about the practice of Son Jarocho.

Meetings

Student Advisory Council Meeting UNM Art Museum 4:00 – 5:00pm SAC works as a group to create a zine

UNMAM’s exhibition “Hindsight Insight 4.0” and themes relevant to art museums, museum studies, art history, art practices, etc.

Yoga Event Main Campus 5:00 – 6:00pm Yoga Class.

SSE Volunteer Meeting

SUB 6:00 – 7:00pm

WEDNESDAY

Campus Events

Belonging Beyond Cancer Support

Group 1:00 – 2:30pm UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center Support group facilitated by UNM CCC staff and a cancer survivor. Open to all cancers, genders, stages & caregivers.

CTL Conversation Groups: German 2:30 – 3:30pm Ortega Hall LLC, Room 120 Hosted by the UNM Language Learning Center.

CTL Conversation Groups: Portuguese Bate-Papo 3:00 – 4:00pm Latin American and Iberian Institute Hosted by the UNM Language Learning Center.

Annual Awards Ceremony and Reception 4:00 – 5:30pm Centennial Engineering Center, Larrañaga Engineering Auditorium and Stamm Commons A ceremony to recognize excellent students, faculty and staff in the School of Engineering.

Meetings

Executive Session Scholes Hall, Roberts Room 204 10:00am – 12:00pm

Committee of the Whole Scholes Hall, Roberts Room 204 12:00 – 2:00pm

Community Experience Meeting SUB, Room 1062 3:00 – 4:00pm

Lectures & Readings

Thesis/Dissertation Presentation

C&J, Room 124

10:00 – 11:00am

Naadiyahtu Iddrisu, Communication & Journalism, presents “Health Infographics: An Examination of Breastfeeding Infographics from the World Health Organization.”

LLC Speaker Series

Ortega Hall, LLC Lab 1

12:00 – 1:30pm Leah Shagam N’Diaye, Executive Coach & Management Consultant at Lion’s Tooth Leadership, presents, “How does foreign language acquisition set you up for the future?”

Art & Music

Piano Studio Recital Keller Hall

6:00 – 8:00pm Featuring the students of Dr. Falko Steinbach.

Workshops

PNMGC Workshop

1:30 – 2:30pm Southwest Hispanic Research Institute, Room 106 Dominique Rodriguez, UNM, presents, “ Agua Florida: History and Traditions of Spiritual Protection and Blessing.”

Zapateado Workshop 2801 Lomas Blvd NE 4:00 – 8:30pm With Yaratze Hidalgo. Open to those who are interested in learning more about the practice of Son Jarocho.

THURSDAY

Campus Events

Breathwork for Stress Relief Honors College Forum

9:30 – 10:30am Hosted by the Honors College. Light refreshments provided.

Colorectal Cancer Support Group 2:00 – 3:00pm UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center, Room 1048 In this group led by an oncology social worker & colorectal cancer survivor, people can share their personal experiences, ways of coping and helpful resources

Spanish as a Heritage Language Practice

Ortega Hall, Room 335 1:30 – 2:30pm Hosted by the UNM Language Learning Center.

CTL Conversation Groups: Japanese 4:00 – 5:00pm Ortega Hall LLC Hosted by the UNM Language Learning Center.

CTL Conversation Groups: Russian 4:00 – 5:00pm Ortega Hall LLC, Room 120 Hosted by the UNM Language Learning Center.

Student Advisory Council Zine Launch UNM Art Museum 5:00 – 6:00pm The launch of the UNMAM Student Advisory Council’s UNM ART MUSE/ ZINE.

Pathmakers End of Year Gala 6:00 – 8:00pm Honors College Forum

End of year celebration for Pathmakers mentors as well as a way to introduce new mentors to the program. There will be food

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Audience members fill Popejoy Hall to watch films at the Cherry Reel Film Festival on Friday, April 19.

Costume materials spread out on a table for a photo booth set up in the lobby of Popejoy Hall at the Cherry Reel Film Festival on Friday, April 19.

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Cherry Reel Film Festival participants pose for a group photo on the red carpet set up in the lobby of Popejoy Hall on Friday, April 19.

Cherry Reel Film Festival participants pose for a photo at the photo booth set up in the lobby of Popejoy Hall on Friday, April 19.

Cherry Reel Film Festival participants pose for a photo on the red carpet set up in the lobby of Popejoy Hall on Friday, April 19.

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Bananas and Party Animals alike did a variety of routines, dancing to songs like “Love Shack,” “Raining Tacos” and “Baby Got Back,” for which the resident “Dancing Umpire,” Vincent Chapman, threw out some moves.

A highlight of the night was the Bananas dancing to “Splish Splash” by Bobby Darin at home plate. Equipped with a loofah and bar of soap, Malachi Mitchell, aka “Flash,” took a (clothed) shower beneath the stream of Albritton’s watering can, singing along to the song.

It’s truly the fans that make the game what it is. Banana, Noah Bridges, said that the fans are the best part of getting to play this game. He will occasionally join some of the fans in the crowd, he said.

“I’ll just chuck my glove into the crowd and go hangout with them, because if I’m not gonna hit, I’ll make myself useful with the crowd,” Bridges said. “If I was a kid and I came to a game like this, and a player treated me that way, I’d have been over the moon.” Bridges isn’t the only one who sees how impactful the team is to kids. Albritton noted that kids quite literally

look up to him, both physically and as a role model.

“Whenever I take the field, kids look at me like I’m a superhero,” Albritton said. “It shows everybody that it’s okay to be different.”

Banana Ball lets the players relive their childhood baseball days when they were carefree and simply playing for the fun of it. That’s what the game is all about: having fun and making someone smile.

“I describe it as like when you’re a kid and playing with your buddies in the neighborhood. It’s just straight up fun and you’re trying to be your best because you’re playing against your best friends … just come out here and have fun and play backyard baseball,” Bridges said.

Francesca Cicconetti is a beat reporter at the Daily Lobo. She can be reached at sports@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @fran_cicconetti.

Elizabeth Secor is a freelance reporter for the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at sports@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @esecor2003.

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Sports & Recreation

UNM Women’s Softball vs. Fresno State 6:00 – 8:00pm Lobo Softball Field UNM Women’s Softball faces off against Fresno State. Tickets are free but must be acquired online.

Arts &

Education Informance 2:00 – 3:00pm Keller Hall UNM’s Music Education students present solo and ensemble performances of their favorite music.

Chamisa Volume 3 Issue Release 5:00 – 7:30pm Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, Hibben Center Presented by the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute.

UNM Symphony Orchestra

7:30 – 9:00pm Popejoy Hall Program details TBA. Tickets are $15 general admission, $10 seniors and UNM employees, $5 students.

Nucleus 7:30 – 9:30pm Elizabeth Waters Center for Dance Nucleus is a collection of original works by students in the dance program at UNM, showcasing the themes and ideas important to students of today. Tickets are $12 for general admission and $10 for seniors.

Lectures & Readings

Thesis/Dissertation Presentation

Mitchel Hall, Room 119 9:00 – 10:30am Jiekai Pang, Mathematics & Statistics, presents “Operations on Submodules with Multiplicative Property.”

Thesis/Dissertation Presentations

George Peral Hall, Room P135 10:30 – 11:30am

Sunanda Sharmin, Architecture & Planning, presents “Ridgecrest Drive: past, present and future.”

Thesis/Dissertation Presentation

English Department

12:00 – 1:00pm Anthony Yarbrough, English, presents “Outer California.”

Thesis/Dissertation Presentation

Logan Hall Library 12:00 – 1:00pm Catalina Pacheco, Psychology, presents “Barriers and Facilitators of Adherence to Behavioral WeightLoss Interventions among Hispanic/ Latina Women.”

Thesis/Dissertation Presentation

12:15 – 1:15pm Fine Arts Library, Room 406

Christopher Orphal, Music, presents “Composition Thesis Portfolio.”

History Department Colloquium

2:00 – 3:00pm

Mesa Vista Hall, History Common Room Dr. Alberto Wilson, Texas Christian University, presents “The Programa Nacional Fronterizo: Reformulating Regional Development and Urban Governance in Ciudad Juarez, 1961-1965.”

Meetings

– 1:00pm

Regents’

1:00 – 2:00pm

Club Meeting

– 4:00pm

“Sprechtisch” Meeting Bandito Hideout 7:00 – 8:00pm Hosted by the German Club.

FRIDAY

Campus Events

CTL Conversation Groups: French 11:00am – 12:00pm Ortega Hall LLC, Movie Room Hosted by the UNM Language Learning Center.

Engineering Expo IX 1:00 – 4:00pm Centennial Engineering Center, Larrañaga Engineering Auditorium and Stamm Commons. An annual event to showcase senior student capstone projects to our corporate partners, other students and faculty.

CTL Conversation Groups: Portuguese 1:30 – 2:30pm Ortega Hall LLC, Room 120 Hosted by the UNM Language Learning Center.

CTL Conversation Groups: Spanish 1:30 – 2:30pm Ortega Hall LLC, Movie Room Hosted by the UNM Language Learning Center.

Print in Action Opening Reception 4:00 – 6:00pm UNM Art Museum

Pride Convocation 5:00 – 6:00pm Honors College Forum

The LGBTQ Resource Center will host its annual Pride Convocation to recognize the accomplishments of LGBTQ graduating students.

Layer Play Opening Reception

5:00 – 8:00pm Tamarind Institute

Theater & Film

Enchantment Awards

7:30 – 9:00pm Popejoy Hall

Celebrate New Mexico’s high school musical theater talent on stage for one night. Featuring Tonystyle awards and selections from popular musicals, the Enchantment Awards offers a unique evening of performance for the whole family to enjoy. Tickets for adults are $31.50-$46.00. Tickets for 18 and younger are $16.

Lectures & Readings

Thesis/Dissertation Presentation

10:00 – 11:00am

Northrop Hall, Room 105 Savannah Devine, Earth & Planetary Sciences, presents “GNSS and InSAR Observations of Vertical Motion in the Valles Caldera, NM.”

Thesis/Dissertation Presentation

11:00am – 12:00pm

Castetter Hall, Room 100

Ethan Gyllenhaal, Biology, presents “Crossing the ocean: the importance of gene flow in island evolution.”

Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

3:30 – 4:30pm PAIS, Room 1100

Dr. Dave Kaiser, MIT, presents.

Chemistry Seminar

4:00 – 5:00pm

Clark Hall, Room 101

Rein Ulijn, University of New York, presents.

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Leila Chapa / @DailyLobo / Daily Lobo Bharatanatyam Dance performs on a pop-up stage by Sunandita and Madhumita at UNM Cornell Mall during the International Festival, hosted by the UNM Global Education Office on Friday, April 19.

Performance hosts introduce a new act on a pop-up stage at the UNM Cornell Mall during the International Festival, hosted by the UNM Global Education Office on Friday, April 19.

Lujaqui, artist vendor set up at the International Festival at UNM Cornell Mall hosted by the UNM Global Education Office on Friday, April 19.

Performance hosts introduce a new act on a pop-up stage at the UNM Cornell Mall during the International Festival, hosted by the UNM Global Education Office on Friday, April 19.

Mihwa Dawson performs Kayagum Korean music on a pop-up stage at UNM Cornell Mall during the International Festival hosted by the UNM Global Education Office on Friday, April 19.

Party Animals Riyan Rodriguez (21), and Savannah Bananas Kyle Luigs (12) and Zack Phillips (29) do a handstand contest before the first pitch is thrown at Isotopes Park on Saturday, April 20.

Bill LeRoy (1) from the Savannah Bananas throws a football with fans before the game on Saturday, April 20.

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Savannah Bananas Danny Hosley (18) at bat on Saturday, April 20 at Isotopes Park.

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SATURDAY

Sports & Recreation

– 1:00pm

Art & Music

Lab School Sharing Day 9:00 – 10:00am Keller Hall The students of UNM’s Suzuki String Lab School share what they have learned this semester.

Nucleus 7:30 – 9:30pm Elizabeth Waters Center for Dance Nucleus is a collection of original works by students in the dance program at UNM, showcasing the themes and ideas important to students of today. Tickets are $12 for general admission and $10 for seniors.

Campus Events

Left for Me Opening Reception 3:00 – 5:00pm Maxwell Museum of Anthropology Exhibition curator, Dr. Denetdale will give a brief lecture about the photograph that is an

Workshops

Zapateado Workshop 10:00am – 12:00pm CCS Casita With Yaratze Hidalgo. Open to

Workshop

4:00pm

Jarana Workshop 4:30 – 6:30pm CCS Casita With Sinhue Padilla. Open to those who

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