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Daily Lobo volume 117
issue 55
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The men’s basketball team played its final exhibition game Monday night and beat New Mexican Highlands University 92-70.
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the University in the past. APD Public Information Officer Tasia Martinez declined to comment on the arrests. She said that although APD conducted the bust, the narcotics sergeant “asked that (APD) refer all inquiries to the UNM PIO (public information officer) who has been sufficiently briefed on this incident from last week, according to the investigative unit.” But UNMPD Public Information Officer Robert Haarhues also declined to comment on the bust, saying his department was not involved. “UNM had nothing to do with the arrests made on campus,” he said in an email Monday. Anderson said the students who were arrested will face disciplinary actions from the University. She said UNMPD requested reports of the students’ arrests from APD, and that the dean of students will determine appropriate punishments based on the reports. “There will be disciplinary actions to be taken,” she said. “They could even be up for expulsion.” Anderson said the bust was a successful move by police. “It’s all because it is an open location, because police patrol the area and because students care,” she said.
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An undercover drug bust near the Duck Pond ended in the arrest of a dozen people, five of whom are UNM students. According to an article in the Albuquerque Journal, the Albuquerque Police Department was undercover on campus beginning on Thursday. One student reportedly sold drugs to an undercover police officer, and the other four tried to purchase drugs from an officer who was pretending to be a drug distributor. UNM Communications Director Dianne Anderson said that although the University did not know about the bust prior to the arrests, APD briefed the UNM Police Department earlier during the day. Anderson said that because drug arrests do not happen often on campus, the recent bust was unusual, especially considering the number of arrests made. “I think (APD) was able to make a lot of arrests in one day,” she said. “It’s an abnormal situation to have that many drug dealers on campus at one time.” According to the Journal, one officer told three students that he was selling $20 worth
of cocaine for $10 and escorted the students to an undercover police car. The three students were arrested for agreeing to purchase cocaine and charged with cocaine possession and conspiracy, the Journal reported. The Journal reported that one student, a freshman, was arrested after trying to sell $10 worth of marijuana to an undercover officer. The student was charged with marijuana distribution and conspiracy. In total, five people were arrested on suspicion of selling marijuana, two on suspicion selling methamphetamines, and the rest on suspicion of trying to buy marijuana from the officers. Anderson said most of the people arrested in the bust were repeat offenders. She said that after APD started to monitor areas south of Central Avenue more closely, dealers moved to the University area thinking police would not be able to follow them. “My understanding is some of these people had prior charges, and it appears that they may have come from other states,” she said. Anderson said that although UNM has its own police force, APD is still authorized to make arrests on campus. She said APD has regularly held patrols around
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Student Claire Gutierrez, right, gets instruction from Dorothy Baca, who teaches courses in theater costume and makeup at UNM. Gutierrez created the imitation gash across her face with silicone prosthetics and makeup. See full story Page 5.
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Forget “The Land of Enchantment,” a more exact state motto for New Mexico would be “The Land of Steady Voting Habits.” According to polling data for the past 56 years, New Mexicans tend to vote for incumbents in presidential elections. In the 14 elections since 1956, only twice have New Mexicans voted for a challenger instead of an incumbent. Those elections were in 1980, when the state went for Ronald Reagan instead of Jimmy Carter, and in 1992, when the state went for Bill Clinton instead of George H.W. Bush. Incumbents also tend to have a double-digit margin of victory in New Mexico: Eisenhower won by 16 percentage points in 1956; Nixon by 24.5 in 1972 and Reagan by 20.5 in 1984. Lyndon Johnson was not strictly an incumbent, since he ran for re-election in 1964 after finishing the remainder of John F. Kennedy’s term. He won New Mexico with an 18.9 percentage-point margin over Republican challenger Barry Goldwater in 1964. But exceptions to the trend of large margins of victory for incumbents have occurred in recent elections. In the 1996 election, incumbent Bill Clinton received a 7.3 percentage-point margin over Republican challenger Bob Dole, and in the 2004 election, incumbent George W. Bush carried New Mexico with only a 0.8 percentagepoint margin over Democratic challenger John Kerry. However, after a two-term presidency of any party, New Mexicans are much less clear about whom they want to vote into office next. After two terms of the Republican Eisenhower administration from 1952 to 1960, New Mexicans voted for Democrat John F. Kennedy, who won the national election in 1960. But Kennedy carried New Mexico by 50.2 percent of the votes to 49.4 percent for Republican Richard Nixon. And after two terms of Democrat Bill Clinton from 1992 to 2000, New Mexicans voted for Democrat Al Gore, who lost the presidential election to Republican George W. Bush. But Gore only carried the state by 0.1 percentage points — 366 votes. New Mexico also tends to vote for the winning candidate, only voting for the losing candidate twice during 25 elections since its statehood a century ago. These occurred in 1976, when the state went for Gerald Ford, and in 2000, when the state went for Al Gore. In addition, New Mexico’s partisan leanings in presidential elections are split, with the state siding with Democratic candidates in 13 elections and siding with Republican candidates in 12 elections. But New Mexican voters may be breaking free of these established electoral patterns. The history of narrow margins in an election after a two-term presidency disappeared in 2008, when Democrat Barack Obama carried New Mexico with 15.1 percentage points more than Republican John McCain. Historical evidence suggests that Barack Obama will carry New Mexico in 2012, given New Mexico’s history of voting for incumbents. If that trend continues, though, Obama’s win may only be by the single percentage-point margin that has occurred in the two incumbent reelections since Clinton.
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