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August 25, 2010
Lambert back, but under lock, key by Isaac Avilucea
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Amie Zimmer / Daily Lobo The landlady of a fourplex house looks on in shock as firefights work to put out a residential fire at the corner of Cornell Drive and Lead Avenue.
Fire causes heavy smoke damage by Shaun Griswold shaun24@unm.edu
Albuquerque Fire Department responded to a residential fire in the 200 block of Cornell Drive S.E. yesterday evening. The fire took place in the front unit of a fourplex house. AFD spokeswoman Melissa Romero said the fire started in the
kitchen. The unit was vacant at the time, and the neighbors connected to the house evacuated quickly. “There was heavy smoke damage that entered from the front,” Romero said. “There were no injuries and everyone evacuated.” Romero said it is unclear what started the fire, but a neighbor said he saw wires hanging from the kitchen ceiling, badly disintegrated by the fire.
Natalie Livingston, a neighbor from across the street, reported the fire to AFD around 4 p.m. “We smelled smoke,” Livingston said. “We just got back from class, and we could see black smoke pouring out of the side, so we called 911.” Livingston and her roommate sat across the street at their house and shot video from her handheld camera. As smoked filled the block just
north of Frontier Restaurant, six fire trucks and three emergency vehicle units covered the street and yellow tape blocked traffic. Students walking home from school lined the sidewalk to get to get a peek. “I got a really good shot of the firefighters on the roof,” Livingston said. “It was a shock when we looked outside. We thought someone was having a barbeque.”
Lobo Gardens grow plants, social change by Chelsea Erven cerven@unm.edu
This summer, the Lobo Gardens class planted a seed for what grew into a full semester-long course focusing on community gardens and sustainability issues. Tema Milstein, the summer class’ professor, said the class is looking forward to bigger gardening projects this fall. “The class this summer was just fantastic,” she said. “We were able to transform two sort of forgotten, blighted areas of UNM into bountiful gardens.” This summer, the class worked hard to plant two community gardens that are now flourishing in the UNM Real Estate Department’s backyard and Hokona Hall’s
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courtyard. This fall, the class, called “Social Movements,” will continue to meet Tuesdays and Thursdays. So far, the class has 22 students enrolled, including many of the students who worked on the gardens this summer. Andrew Marcum, the professor teaching the class this semester, said the gardens will expand to other parts of campus, and the class is using other social movements as a model for their actions. “We are going to look at several other social movements such as the women’s rights movement and the civil rights movement and see how people can really change things and get things done,” he said. “The students in the class are not
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Fragrant Tobacco grows in Hokona courtyard.
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For now, Elizabeth Lambert will be allowed to play, but the gag order on her right to exercise free speech has yet to be lifted. Athletics Director Paul Krebs said Tuesday that Lambert will be reinstated to the UNM women’s soccer team. Facing a possible season-long ban from the Mountain West Conference, Lambert instead served a twogame suspension. “She has done everything and more that you can ever ask of somebody,” Krebs said. “She has arisen from that situation.” Now that her suspension is over, Lambert is eligible to compete in UNM’s away game against Wisconsin-Milwaukee, but head women’s soccer coach Kit Vela stopped short of saying Lambert would start or even be in the lineup on Friday, noting the team’s success so far in the vilified player’s absence. Early in the season, the Lobos are 2-0, and Vela said a roster shakeup isn’t necessarily needed. That ease-her-in attitude might be beneficial, since some hecklers have not forgotten what Lambert did. In a turbulent, physical match, Lambert tugged on BYU’s Kassidy Shumway’s pony tail, sending her tumbling to the ground, where she writhed in pain. Unable to keep her emotions in check, after receiving a elbow to the ribs, Lambert responded with a forearm shiver to the back of a BYU player. Several media outlets, including the Daily Lobo, have inquired about conducting an interview with Lambert to no avail. Since November, Lambert has been on media freeze, much of that time spent away from the team as a part of punishment for her role in the incident in Provo, Utah. Even Tuesday, when Krebs and Vela addressed Lambert’s reinstatement, Lambert was unavailable for comment. Forced uncomfortably into the spotlight, Krebs said Lambert doesn’t want to be the center of attention and instead wants her team to be the focal point, but given her cooperation with the conditions of her reinstatement, it would have been criminal not to allow her back on the team. Krebs said Lambert hasn’t shirked her responsibilities to the community. She actively participated in community service, kept her grades up and lived up to other internal requirements demanded by the Athletics Department. “Given all the publicity, all the focus on the Internet, the YouTube sensation, I think she wants to play
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