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By Jaden McKelvey-Francis @jadenmckelvey
Montoya, Salinas win ASUNM election ASUNM election turnout highest since COVID
for ASUNM president and vice president and 11 candidates for senate. Montoya won with 581 votes and Salinas with 567.
Hope Montoya and Owen Salinas will be the next president and vice president of the Associated Students at the University of New Mexico, according to unofficial results from the ASUNM Elections Commission.
Montoya and Salinas ran on a platform of expanding advocacy for students. Their major policy plans are “Lobo Print+,” to give students a credit for printing on campus, and continuing an effort to partner with ride share apps Lyft and Uber to get discounts for UNM students.
This spring election saw 1,408 students cast their ballots in an election that had three candidates
Montoya served as the ASUNM vice president and Salinas as ASUNM President Pro-Tempore.
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, elections held by ASUNM have seen a distinct drop in turnout compared to preCOVID levels.
This election saw the highest turnout since the Spring semester of 2019, which had 1,476 votes cast.
Using data from the ASUNM Elections Commission and the Daily Lobo’s archive, the Daily Lobo assembled the last 12 years of ASUNM election results — aside from Fall 2022, as results are not
available for that semester
The results from this year show a 82% increase over last semester’s election, a 4% increase compared to the last ASUNM presidential election and a 357% increase compared to the lowest turnout point, in Fall 2023.
This election cycle, approximately 8% of undergraduate students voted in the ASUNM election, an increase compared to the 4% of students in Fall 2025. Enrollment data for Spring 2021 could not be found.
Jaden McKelvey-Francis is the editor-in-chief of the Daily Lobo. He can be reached at editorinchief@dailylobo.com or on X @jadenmckelv
Pay-what-you-can model debuts in SUB
By Shin Thant Hlaing
@DailyLobo
Last month, the La Ventana hot food location in the University of New Mexico Student Union Building’s Mercado convenience store began piloting the new Fare Share program, which aims to alleviate food insecurity across Main Campus.
The program allows anyone with a valid LoboID to choose one entree, one side and one drink from La Ventana’s selection of food and beverages, then pay whatever they wish for what they’ve chosen. Fare Share may be used by customers once a day. Any excess revenue, meaning payment that exceeds the cost of providing the meal, is donated directly to the Lobo Food Pantry.
So far, 79 meals have been served through the Fare Share program, Director of Dining and Hospitality at the UNM Food Office Amanda Gerard said. This amounts to about 6.6 meals per day, and students pay on average $4.77 for a meal, which is about 74% of the retail price, Gerard said.
“We were pretty confident that if we saw a loss, it would be manageable to absorb. We don’t really know what is going to happen with this program at this stage,” Gerard said.
Gerard said Fare Share provides a typical retail experience with a flexible payment option.
“You can select however much you want to pay, including zero. Or you can pay more than the retail value if you would like to contribute to the program,” Gerard said. “Students, faculty or staff whoever is using the program, some are paying less than the retail value, some are paying more. But what we’re really looking to cover is the cost of the
food and labor.”
In response to the findings of the UNM Basic Needs Project, an investigation of food insecurity on campus, UNM Food asked prospective food contract partners to submit “innovative proposals” to alleviate food insecurity at the University of New Mexico during the partnership bidding process, Gerard said.
In 2023, the Basic Needs Project found that over half of surveyed higher education students from across New Mexico were considered food insecure by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Findings from the UNM School of Medicine in 2025 showed that these rates remained consistent among both undergraduate and graduate students.
Freshman Jerome Adams supports the program.
“I was not really aware of the program and I have never used it,” Adams said. “I think the Fare Share program is an extremely smart idea, it’s pretty cool that I can get a meal and support the Lobo Food Pantry.”
Junior Anneliesse Gonzalez said the program will help people get the nutrition they need.
“I think the idea is a very good idea, because the funding from people who are paying above retail price will go to another person’s meal,” Gonzalez said. “I think not a lot of people can afford ‘good’ food like prepared meals, and as a result often survive off instant or ‘bad’ food.”
Shin Thant Hlaing is a beat reporter for the Daily Lobo. She can be reached at news@dailylobo.com or on X @dailylobo
Owen Salinas (left) and Hope Montoya (right) were elected as ASUNM vice president and president with over a hundred more votes than their competitors.
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Mercado food stand at the University of New Mexico. Photo Courtesy of UNM Food via X (@UNMFood)
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Law school allegedly failed to protect students against sexual misconduct
By Paloma Chapa @paloma_chapa88
After law students sent an open letter on March 2 raising concerns about the University of New Mexico Law School administration, the University continues to face pressure with renewing Law School Dean Camille Carey’s contract.
The letter alleges multiple failures including protecting students and ensuring accountability in disciplinary matters involving Associate Dean Steven Homer and Carey in a case of sexual misconduct.
On Feb. 26, the ACLU wrote a letter to the Provost’s Office alleging that “problems at the law school are serious and merit attention.”
“Over the course of the last year and a half, an alarming number of students and staff have contacted ACLU-NM with a myriad of allegations of civil rights abuses occurring at the school at the hands of its leadership, including Dean Camille Carey and Associate Dean Steven Homer. At this point, the pattern has become too stark to ignore or to chalk up to a series of anomalies,” the letter reads.
UNM School of Law alum Celia Lee said she was sexually assaulted by another law student in 2023 during her first year of law school. When reporting the incident and those that
followed, Lee experienced what the ACLU described in their letter as civil rights violations and “animus, sexism and retaliation” from Homer.
“I met with Homer, and told him what happened, and that’s when he asked me what I did to invite that into my life,” Lee said.
The letter alleges Lee was denied due process rights from Homer after the student who assaulted her made retaliatory allegations of misconduct against her in November 2024, following a No Contact Directive that was placed against the student.
“(Homer) called me in to talk about this alleged misconduct on my behalf,“
Lee said. “I felt like he had a bias against me because I had reported sexual assault to him.”
On March 31, former Law School
Dean Sergio Pareja sent a letter in defense of Carey to UNM President Garnett Stokes, the Provost’s Office and the Board of Regents. Pareja wrote that the student’s open letter, along with two additional letters from the New Mexico Hispanic Bar Association and the ACLU, are “rife with errors.”
Pareja addressed topics listed in the open letter, including admission of local Hispanic students, the makeup of the admissions committee, faculty retention, sexual misconduct and building hours.
“From informal conversations with
faculty, staff, and students, my sense is that a strong majority of people at the law school do not share the mountain of ‘concerns’ raised in the letters. Perhaps that is in part due to the fact that so many of these concerns are in fact false,” Pareja wrote.
Pareja wrote that he was “pleasantly surprised” that Carey wanted to extend her contract. Carey became dean of the law school in 2022.
When addressing the ACLU’s letter, Pareja wrote in his letter that “nobody’s due process rights were violated” and that the ACLU’s client “had the opportunity for a fair and impartial hearing, but she simply did not want that to happen.”
The ACLU stated in a legal filing attached to the letter that without court intervention and Homer not being removed from Lee’s disciplinary process, she would be “deprived of a fair and equitable process.”
Lee said that when she told Homer that the accused student — who had reportedly been accused of sexual harassment by multiple people — violated the No Contact Directive, he said he would not “micromanage” the directive.
“When someone is coming to you and saying ‘my life is falling apart because of something someone else at the school did to me, please help me,’ I like to think people are kind
enough to at least say ‘I might not be the right person but let me help you find the right person’ and that never happened,” Lee said.
The Daily Lobo reached out to Carey and Homer for comment, which was forwarded to UNM Executive Director of Strategic Communications Ben Cloutier, who wrote that the University is aware of the ACLU’s letter.
“In all cases involving allegations of misconduct, the University maintains policies and procedures for investigating and responding to such allegations consistent with applicable law, including federal regulations related to Title IX,” Cloutier wrote.
Lee was one of two students in the last year and a half that the ACLU formally represented for separate matters, according to the ACLU’s letter. Their other client was second-year law student Kaitlyn Urenda Harrison, who Homer placed in disciplinary proceedings after engaging in protected speech in violation of the First Amendment,” the letter reads.
Harrison publicly responded to a listserv email related to Charlie Kirk’s murder in Sept. 2025, and the investigation was dismissed in February.
The ACLU wrote that other students have contacted them about misconduct at the law school but could not share details due to “attorney-client privilege
and a pervasive fear of retaliation by UNMSOL’s leadership.”
“They’ve (law school leadership) silenced everybody. Everybody’s afraid to raise a complaint,” Harrison said. ”The dean and vice dean have broken the spirit of the school and it will have lasting consequences for not only the legal community, but the state, if they are not removed.”
Third-year law student Jordan Rosenberg Cobos described the School of Law as a “monopoly.”
“They’re doing a disservice to the state the way they’re running the school to the point where a lot of us students have talked about how there should be a second law school just for competition because they do such a bad job here that it’s the monopoly,” Rosenberg said.
Leila Chapa contributed reporting on this article.
Paloma Chapa is the multimedia editor for the Daily Lobo. She can be reached at multimedia@dailylobo. com or on X @paloma_chapa88
Editor’s note: Celia Lee was a reporter for the Daily Lobo in 201718. She was not involved in the reporting or writing of this article.
Page beats out incumbent Broadhurst for GPSA President
By Elliott Wood @DailyLobo
Marisa Page will be the next president of the University of New Mexico’s Graduate and Professional Student Association, defeating incumbent Travis Broadhurst in the election held from March 23-27, according to unofficial results posted after the ballots closed.
Page, a GPSA council member and
Native American Studies doctorate student, defeated Broadhurst 135 votes to 120, amounting to a 5% margin of victory.
“I see this role as rooted in the duty to serve the interests of all UNM students, not just those who voted, but all graduate students across UNM and their pursuit of knowledge,” Page wrote in an email to the Daily Lobo after the election. “I will work diligently to do my best for all of us and to act with honest
stewardship of the responsibilities of the graduate community.”
Page ran on a campaign that included support for international students, transparency of fees, greater engagement with the University community and an invitation for the next UNM president to get involved with classes for better understanding of the school’s culture and heritage.
Also on the ballot were nine constitutional amendments, all of which
passed with at least 70% of students who voted in favor of the changes. Among the changes were adjustments to wages for executive roles, a transition for some committees to sole director roles and tweaks to the process for impeachment and replacement of a president.
“I want to express my gratitude for the support of the changes to the constitution,” Page wrote. “As a member of the legislative steering committee, it was essential to ensure those changes
were made, since it had been many years since any updates, and we needed to address current issues like fair pay for our directors and committee chairs.
Elliott Wood is the news editor for the Daily Lobo. He can be reached at news@dailylobo.com or on X @ DailyLobo
UNM hosts ‘Venezuela After Maduro’ talk with NYT journalist
By Maria Fernandez @DailyLobo
Native New Mexican and international correspondent for the New York Times, Simon Romero, has spent most of his career writing for Bloomberg and the New York Times in Venezuela, Brazil and Mexico.
On Thursday, April 2, the University of New Mexico Latin American and Iberian Institute hosted “Venezuela After Maduro,” a talk with Romero discussing the political and socioeconomic changes in the country in the wake of Nicolas Maduro’s capture by the United States in January.
“I have been covering the events of the past several months in Venezuela, which have been truly illuminating, but my experience with Venezuela goes back a long, long way, and what I’ve seen in the country, just in the past several weeks, is one of the most paradigm-shifting political processes anywhere in the world in recent years,” Romero said.
Romero gave an overview of the political space in Venezuela in the years before Maduro — who took power after the passing of his predecessor Hugo Chavez in 2013 — Maduro’s tenure as president and the state of the country after his capture on Jan. 3 as former vice president Delcy Rodriguez took power. Maduro’s capture was part of Operation Southern Spear, a U.S military counter-narco-terrorism campaign aimed at drug trafficking in the Western Hemisphere.
“Since (the capture), we’ve seen something really remarkable happening in Venezuela that we haven’t seen in Latin America for many decades,” Romero said. “Instead of regime change, this was something more akin to regime compliance. It’s a vivid illustration of the United States using both its military and economic strength, effectively turning one of the countries in our hemisphere into a vassal state.”
After Maduro’s capture, Venezuela, under the leadership of Rodriguez, has begun taking steps to become less oppressive, including allowing foreign journalists to return to the country. Romero recently received a visa and was able to visit Caracas for the first time in many years.
“What I saw simply floored me. All of the changes that had taken place in Venezuela over the last decade have just been immense,” Romero said. “Caracas is also much safer than it was before.
When we lived there, a lot of people would avoid going out at night for fear of being kidnapped or abducted or murdered or carjackings all the time, and now it’s fine to walk around the city.”
The vast amount of people who have fled the country have left Caracas, once a frenetic, traffic-congested city, remarkably empty, Romero said.
When Romero interviewed Venezuelans living in Caracas, he noticed a state of shock among those who remained in the country.
Many Venezuelans Romero spoke to wished to see elections and a democratic transition, while others were skeptical as to whether anything good would come from the U.S taking control of Venezuela’s oil industry.
“Of course, one of the most important outcomes of the recent events in Venezuela doesn’t involve Venezuela at all, but other countries around the world we’re seeing, like Cuba and Iran, which are still viewed as adversaries of the United States,” Romero said.
Joseph Garcia, a professor in the department of Chicano and Chicana Studies at UNM, attended the event.
“(The talk) is great. It creates a conversation. I don’t agree with everything (Romero) said, but for the most part, he’s on point. I mean, it was quite interesting,” Garcia said. “I’ve known about Simon (Romero) for many years, and I think it’s quite amazing that he’s from here, that he’s been able to do what he’s been able to do. It was quite a privilege.”
Barbara Grothus, a community member, attended the talk on her day off.
“I think it’s important to hear this voice, here in our state, a local person who’s gone on to have a career in Central and South America, coming with some real valid reporting, and I didn’t want to miss it,” Grothus said.
Maria Fernandez is the copy editor for the Daily Lobo. She can be reached at copy@dailylobo. com or on X @dailylobo
Golden Hurricanes end Lobos’ season in Indianapolis
By Alex Joe @DailyLobo
The New Mexico Lobos men’s basketball team had an excellent showing in the National Invitational tournament, winning three games at home against the Sam Houston State University Bearkats, George Washington University Revolutionaries and Saint Joseph University Hawks in The Pit by double digits. Their spirit was not enough to carry them to a complete victory in front of fans in Indianapolis, as they came up
short in a close game, battling the University of Tulsa Golden Hurricanes in the semifinals 74-69.
The Lobos had early troubles to overcome, trailing by 19-12 midway through the first half. Soon after finding their rhythm, the Lobos went on a 12-3 run to retake the lead 2422 with six minutes left in the half.
Tulsa would close out on an 8-0 run to lead 36-29. Lobo guard Uriah Tenette led the Lobos in scoring with 8 points.
Guard Jake Hall struggled during the first half but had a comeback in the second, scoring 17 points and
leading the team in scoring with 20 total points. The only other Lobo with double figures was center JT Rock, who finished with 14 points and 6 rebounds.
The Lobos went the entire second half without a lead, but were not blown out. The Golden Hurricanes scored the first basket and led by as many as 9. The biggest difference in the game was Tulsa shooting from beyond the arc, as they made 12 baskets from 3-point range while the Lobos only had 7.
With five minutes left, UNM tied the game, but their momentum
Lobos lose momentum after doubles match
By Paulina Acosta-Marta @DailyLobo
After the Lobos took the win from Colorado State University, the University of New Mexico women’s tennis team seemed to have fallen back with a defeat from the University of Wyoming Cowgirls.
UNM women’s tennis team secured a narrow 4-3 victory over Colorado State on Thursday, April 2, rallying after losing in doubles.
The Lobos dominated singles play, winning four of six matches.
Lobo Head Coach Vicky Maes shared her expectations before the game.
“It’s great to be at home, so we’re excited about that,” Maes said. “We know Colorado State is a very solid team. I think it’s gonna be very close today as it always is in our conference, but we’re excited to play, and we have our own home crowd, so I expect the girls to show up and put on a great game.”
Maes said their strategy for the game was to focus on getting doubles, as it gives the girls momentum going to singles.
“We’ve been in a situation where we’ve lost the doubles point and had to get it together and put four singles wins on board. So, whatever winds up happening, you’d just like to see a good solid performance in the doubles,” Maes said.
One of the instances during court three of doubles, an intense match that had a long interchange, ended
with Lobos sending the ball outside the court and giving a point to the Rams. CSU would go on to win that match. Court two for doubles was played by Lobos, defeating opponents by 6-4, being the only Lobo pair to win the doubles match. Even though UNM lost the doubles match, it seems it served as motivation to catch up in the singles match, winning four out of six doubles matches.
The win may have led to a case of overconfidence against Wyoming on Saturday, April 4, as the Lobos lost 4-1.
Lobos took over the doubles with court one played by twin duo Vianca Corley and Vivica
Corley, defeating the Cowgirls 6-1, and court two played by Yu Yun “Kathy” Tsai and Bente Vandeputte, winning 6-4.
The doubles match was truly impressive, as the Lobos started the doubles match with fierce energy.
The Cowgirls seemed to be very spirited, as Wyoming player Anastasiia Kochelaevskaia defeated Vandeputte 6-0, 6-3. Ultimately, Wyoming won four out of six singles, with courts four and five having unfinished matches.
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once again faltered as the Golden Hurricanes went on another 8-0 run. The Lobos were able to cut the deficit to 3 with less than a minute to go, but they failed to get the stop or shot they needed.
The team had a lot of turmoil and change this past offseason including a new coaching staff heralded by Head Coach Eric Olen, who guided the team to 26 wins in his first year, along with a team spearheaded by a fiery trio of freshmen. Hall was named freshman of the year, and all Mountain West first team with 117 three pointers, averaging 16.3 points
a game. Tomislav Buljan was named all Mountain West second team, averaging a double double with 12.2 points and 10.3 rebounds a game. Tenette averaged 10.6 points and started the last eight games of the season. UNM is one of two teams this season with three freshmen average over 10 points, the other being the University of Arizona Wildcats.
Alex Joe is a freelance videographer for the Daily Lobo. He can be reached at sports@ dailylobo.com or on X @DailyLobo
Natural History Museum makes roaring return
By Elizabeth Bolke @DailyLobo
Once again inspiring the imaginations of all, the Natural History Museum has reopened its doors to the public after seven months of renovation. The Saturday, April 4, grand reopening had been a long-awaited event for a museum that has long been a staple in Albuquerque.
The day started with the ribboncutting to open the museum. Outside the event, guests enjoyed performances of lion dancers as they ate food from food trucks, and then were guided in by staff wearing dinosaur costumes.
Executive Director of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History Anthony Fiorillo said 1,600 tickets were sold online prior to the reopening.
Along with building maintenance work on the museum, the renovations included new skylights and a new lobby. The museum chose to renovate the lobby to streamline traffic into the museum, which was in full effect during the reopening with a line out the door.
Along with the renovations, the museum rearranged over a third of its exhibits; however, they kept the classics as the museum wanted to keep its connection between the public and the museum, Fiorillo said.
“We actually have some samurai helmets and a crocodile armor suit from an old Egyptian warrior,” Fiorillo said.
With the reopening, the museum has a new traveling armored animal exhibit on display until November. The animal armor exhibit explores how animals have evolved defensive armor to protect themselves from predators and competition over the last 500 million years.
Museum visitor Santiago Maculis was impressed by the renovations.
“Definitely an amazing job they did over there,” Maculis said.
Lauren Volchansky, a visitor at the museum, shared her favorite element of the museum.
“It’s always been the sound that plays in the ocean area. I don’t know, that sound was just always comforting to me. And it was a nice, calm experience before entering the terrifying asteroid part,” Volchansky said.
Another visitor, Jason Mercede, shared his favorite elements as well.
“I just loved seeing all the bosses, like a giant dinosaur, because seeing the grand scale of everything compared to how small we are. Just put a better visual, just how small we actually are compared to things cool,” Mercede said.
Elizabeth Bolke is a freelance reporter for the Daily Lobo. She can be reached at culture@dailylobo. com or on X @dailylobo
Attendees gather at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science for their opening day on April 4, 2026.
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Women’s Tennis
Yu Yun “Kathy” Tsai hits the ball during the women’s tennis match between UNM and the University of Wyoming at the McKinnon Family Tennis Stadium on April 4.
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Lobos celebrate with high fives during the women’s tennis match between UNM and Colorado State at the McKinnon Family Tennis Stadium on April 4.
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ASUNM meetings broadcasting bill awaits approval from legal counsel
By Shin Thant Hlaing @DailyLobo
The Associated Student at the University of New Mexico STREAM Act — mandating ASUNM Full Senate Meetings be live streamed or recorded — passed last October, but the bills implementation and official inclusion into the lawbook still awaits approval from the Office of University Counsel, ASUNM President-Elect Hope Montoya said.
University Counsel is a body that provides legal advice to various administrative organs including ASUNM, according to the Office of University Counsel.
“I guess you could kind of call it a stoplight system. Green signifies that the bill is okay to be included into the lawbook. Yellow signifies that there are parts of the bill that require
edits. Red means no, don’t include it in the lawbook,” Montoya said.
Prior to the STREAM Act being passed, ASUNM meetings were already compliant with the Open Meetings Act through minutes taken by a clerk, a draft of which required to be prepared within 10 working days of the meeting and then approved, amended or disapproved at the next meeting.
“A problem we have had since last year and the year before is that people’s tone or how they come across can be misinterpreted when reading summarized minutes. This year we are trying to do our minutes by writing down word for word what people say rather than summarizing as we have done in previous years, but with the livestreamed or recorded meetings, it will help alleviate the issue,” Montoya said.
During the April 1 full senate
meeting, general updates from University Counsel were shared, but there have been no updates on the STREAM Act, ASUNM Steering and Rules Committee Chair and coauthor of the STREAM Act Jillian Grandinetti said.
Some dedicated meeting recording hardware was set up in the April 1 meeting, both as a testrun for the STREAM Act, as well as a procedural recording of an entire full senate meeting to show to new senators during orientation, Grandinetti said. ASUNM Attorney General Breahna Roark told senators they could expect to hear back regarding legislation passed last semester by the next Full Senate or by the end of the semester at the latest, Grandinetti said.
Montoya said recorded meetings may be uploaded to a YouTube channel and
livestreamed on Instagram.
“Students who are unable to make it in person, or who want to see what a full senate meeting is like can tune in from wherever they are. A member of the Albuquerque community can also listen to the meetings if they want to,” Montoya said.
There are other university student governments that livestream or upload videos of their student government meetings including Wichita State University, the University of Florida and the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
“It just makes a lot of sense for a government that represents the undergraduate student body to have meetings be available to the undergraduate student body. The Board of Regents does this, and people are able to engage through YouTube live comments,”
Grandinetti said. “I also think it does a lot for ASUNM’s commitment to accessibility, because students can use closed captioning to see or understand what is going on.”
More students being able to see how ASUNM Meetings operate will allow more students to engage with the organization, Grandinetti said.
“Anyone can author a bill through the Steering and Rules Committee. Last semester, the student organization LEAF, Leaders for Environmental Action and Foresight, authored a resolution, and it was really fun to work with them,” Grandinetti said.
Shin Thant Hlaing is a beat reporter for the Daily Lobo. She can be reached at news@dailylobo.com or on X @dailylobo
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Alum shares story of cerebral palsy, self-advocacy, success
By Addison Fulton @DailyLobo
Travis Davis is a University of New Mexico alum, having graduated in 2016 with a master’s degree in adapted physical education. Since completing his degrees, Davis has worked as a disability advocate, consultant, coach and public speaker. He said that what he wanted to impart to students was the importance of thinking big and not limiting oneself.
“Having a visible disability or using crutches or a wheelchair, it just adds extra attention,” Davis said. “In order for me to be a self advocate, in order for me to get the things that I want as a person with a disability, I have to be vocal. In order for me to be vocal, I have to communicate, and that really pushed me out of my comfort zone, because if you’re not vocal about what you want and what your needs are, you’re never gonna get them.”
In 2025, Davis gave his second TEDx talk on how his crutches became a source of strength. The talk featured and introduced “CRUTCH” as an acronym, standing for creativity, resilience, understanding, trust, confidence and heart.
“It was about growing up with cerebral palsy and using forearm crutches. For a long time, I felt like those were a detriment, or it was a disadvantage,” Davis said. “But as I got older and graduated with my undergrad and with my master’s degree, I realized that my crutches actually were a source of strength. So I came up with a crutch acronym to help people understand that their limitations could actually be a strength.”
Davis said his UNM experience helped him learn more about the different perspectives of people with various disabilities.
“It was not only enriching for me as a student with a disability, but it gave me more perspective of other
disabilities that I hadn’t really come in contact with,” Davis said. “I took great classes, like legal rights for persons with disabilities, nonprofit management, human sexuality for individuals with intellectual disabilities. That gave me more of a foundation to not only to be more grounded as a professional, but as someone that has a disability to work in that area.”
Next for Davis is a talk at DisruptHR — an organization centered around bettering human resources professionals — in Albuquerque on April 20.
“I don’t put limits on what I can do,” Davis said. “If I’m able to do it, then there’s no reason why a student at UNM, I mean, who may have a disability, we may not. That’s, in my opinion, irrelevant, because you can always figure out a way.”
Davis also shared words for students with disabilities at UNM and beyond about the importance of finding community.
“Any goal that you want to do is gonna be difficult. And it can be increasingly difficult when you have a disability. So, I would say keep persisting and find community,” Davis said. “Even if those individuals don’t have a visible disability, there is still power
in connecting with a professor, or other students on campus, that are involved in a group that may not have anything to do with disability, because your perspective matters. And so, because your perspective matters, anybody is able to take away something through your lived experience.”
In his mind, accessibility and inclusivity should remain a priority for the University, especially as it prepares to undergo a leadership change, Davis said.
“I think that we’re always striving to be better, but partner with the Office of Equal Opportunity and the Americans with Disabilities Act coordinator at UNM. Find out from students through the accessibility resource center, ‘what’s not working?’” Davis said. “Have that be part of the dialogue for the incoming president. I think that’s widely important to the success of the University, because if you make it accessible for those with disabilities, you’re making it accessible for everybody.”
Addison Fulton is the culture editor for the Daily Lobo. She can be reached at culture@dailylobo. com or on X @dailylobo
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Counseling Skills Support Group
Counseling Center 2:00 – 4:00pm Guided discussions and practical tools in a supportive, confidential space to practice self-care, improve time management, reduce stress, navigate life transitions, strengthen relationships and communication.
Honors Student Association General Meeting Honors College Forum 5:30 – 7:30pm Art & Music
Double Reed Studio Recital Keller Hall 7:00 – 8:30pm Featuring the students of Professor Denise Turner and Dr. Jillian Kouzel.
Penelope Teixeira Keller Hall
8:00 – 9:15pm Graduate cello recital.
Lectures
& Readings
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation Logan Hall, Room 125 8:30 – 9:30am
Antonia Young, Psychology, presents “Mixed Methods Moderation Analysis of Historical Trauma, Enculturation, and Drinking among Southwest Indigenous Young Adults.”
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation Anthropology Room 248 10:00 – 11:00am
Ortega, Room 124 1:00 – 3:00pm Conversation group follows.
Nicollette Appel, Anthropology, presents “Disparities Between Chronological and Biological Age: A Biocultural Analysis of Aging in Contemporary Populations.”
Director’s Lectureship Seminar Series UNMCCC Auditorium 11:30am – 1:00pm Dr. William A. Calo, Pennsylvania State University, presents “From Research to HPV Cancer Prevention: Turning What We Know to What We Do.”
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation Domenici North Wing Room 3710 1:00 – 2:00pm Marissa Westenskow, Biomedical Science Graduate Program, presents “Molecular Dissection Of Microrna-150-5p Upregulation By Prenatal Alcohol Exposure.”
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation Parish Library 1:00 – 2:00pm Paris Baldante, English, presents “Aerial View.”
CSWR Graduate Fellow Panel and Display Panel Water Room 1:30 – 3:30pm In Process: Graduate Students Activating Archives, Art, and Community Knowledge.
Discovery Series: AI Benefits Panel Honors College Forum 4:00 – 5:00pm Student Panel on the Benefits of AI.
TUESDAY
Campus Events
Recovery in Academia
SHAC Workshop Room 16
12:30 – 1:30pm Skills based support for mental health and substance abuse. Bingo Night in the Library
Zimmerman Library Ford Room 254 6:00 – 7:00pm Hosted by the INLP and LRE.
Lectures & Readings
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation Castetter Hall 107 9:00 – 10:00am Katelyn Driscoll, Biology, presents “Reassembling Riparian Ecosystems: Stream Restoration Effects on Vegetation, Arthropods, and Aquatic-Terrestrial Connectivity.”
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation Center for Environmental Research, Informatics, & the Arts Room 337 10:00 – 11:00am Shayne Halter, Biology, presents “Energy Management and Water Balance in Migrating Hummingbirds.”
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation PAIS Room 1010
10:00 – 11:00am Miles Kelsey, Earth & Planetary Sciences, presents “Quantifying CO2 and CH4 Fluxes in a semi-arid floodplain - Assessing drivers of magnitude and timing.”
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation PAIS Room 1010
10:00 – 11:00am
Sarah Shrum, Biology, presents “From Cranes to Clinics: Genomic epidemiology of pathogens at the human-animal interface.”
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars PAIS Room 3205
2:00 – 3:00pm Wilber Dominguez, UNM, presents.
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation Center for Environmental Research,
Informatics, & the Arts Room 337 2:00 – 3:00pm Joseph Ferreri, Electrical Computer Engineering, presents “Evaluating Intracavity Electromagnetic Field Probes and Sources: Implications for Shielding Effectiveness Testing.” Meetings
Bosque Linguistics Association LLC, Ortega Room 120 4:00 – 5:00pm Study session. Help with coursework, exam prep, any linguistics questions, or just want to hang out.
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Meetings
LEAF Weekly Meeting Honors College Forum 4:00 – 5:00pm How to make UNM and our community at large a better, more sustainable place for our environment, facilitate volunteer opportunities, and keep watch on legislation that make impact the environment and those who live within it.
ASUNM Full Senate Meeting SUB, Lobo A/B 6:00 – 8:00pm
Lectures & Readings
Biology Brown Bag Seminar
Castetter Hall Room 100 12:00 – 1:00pm Dr. Ellen Wohl, Colorado State University, presents.
STEAM Webinar 12:00 – 1:00pm
Zoom
The daily e-mail calendar will have the Zoom link.
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation
Centennial Engineering Center
Media Lab
3:00 – 4:00pm Derek Belka, Interdisciplinary: Engineering, presents “Mechanisms of Advanced and Energy-Efficient Wastewater Treatment.”
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation
Ortega Hall Room 124
3:00 – 4:00pm Mia Del Rosario, Spanish Portuguese, presents “Al-Manfiyun exiliados: Descendant Voices of the Lebanese Diaspora in Mexican Literature.”
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation
PAIS Room 2540
4:00 – 5:00pm Andrew Forbes, Physics Astronomy,
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presents “A Quantum Phase Space Description of Local Noise in Atomic Ensembles.”
Workshops
STEAM & COPH Presents: Writing Accountability Groups COPH East Room 1107
10:00 – 11:30am Join Dr. Dolores Guest and Dr. Martha Grimes for one to two hours of focused, independent writing. Each writing group time is designed to support your individual goal achievement.
Sports & Recreation
UNM Women’s Softball vs UNLV Lobo Softball Field
12:00 – 2:00pm Tickets are free for students but must be acquired online.
UNM Women’s Softball vs UNLV Lobo Softball Field
2:00 – 4:00pm Tickets are free for students but must be acquired online.
THURSDAY
Campus Events
President’s Smoothies
Duck Pond
12:00 – 1:30pm In support of GPSA’s Appreciation Week, President Stokes will again provide smoothies to the campus community.
Open Table Connections Dinner and Dialogue Luther House
5:00 – 7:00pm Free weekly meal, along with text study, prayer, spiritual practices, public theology intentional community and advocacy for justice and peace.
Lectures & Readings
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation Mesa Vista Hall Room 1104
10:00 – 11:00am
Davis Massey, History, presents “La Raza in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A Comparative Regional Study of Mexican American Elite IdentityMaking from Texan Independence to the Mexican Revolution.”
OSE Seminar PAIS Room 2540
12:30 – 1:45pm Dr. Ivan Deutsch, UNM, presents.
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation Logan Hall Room B15
2:00 – 3:00pm Carlos Maestas-Olguin, Psychology, presents “Acute and Chronic Oral Administration of CannabidiolDominant Cannabis Products: Sex- and Formulation-Dependent Effects on Anxiety-Like Behavioral Patterns in Rats.”
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation Communication and Journalism Room 219 2:00 – 3:00pm Natalie Hamren, Communication Journalism, presents “Advertising Influence on Climate Change News Coverage: A Comparison of The New York Times and The Guardian.”
CART Astrophysics Seminar PAIS Room 3205
2:00 – 3:00pm Debanjan Sengupta, NMSU, presents.
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation
Centennial Engineering Center, Room 3031
3:00 – 4:00pm
Ankit Aryal, Interdisciplinary: Engineering, presents “Understanding Spatial Spillovers in Electric Vehicle Charging Access and EV Perception and Barriers for Informed Infrastructure Planning.”
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation
ARTSLab
3:00 – 4:00pm
Daniela Del Mar Olivares, Art History, presents “An Anthology of Arroyo Logics.”
Research Days 2026 Castetter Hall Room 100 3:30 – 4:30pm Dr. Priyadharshini Devarajan, Stony Brook University, presents “Guardians of the Airways: The Protective Roles of Specialized CD4 T Cells in Respiratory Immunity.”
Art & Music
Musicology Colloquium
Keller Hall
2:00 – 3:00pm Dr. Patricia Shehan Campbell presents “World Music Pedagogy as Pathway to Intercultural Understanding,” as part of the Musicology Colloquium Series. Ravijit Khalsa Keller Hall 6:00 – 7:15pm Junior piano recital.
Meetings
Disabled Student Union Meeting Women’s Resource Center Group Room 12:30 – 2:00pm
Family & Friends Cancer Support
Group
CCC Education Wing
4:00 – 5:30pm A journaling support group for anyone who has a loved one with cancer, a loved one who has survived cancer, and/or a loved one who has died from cancer.
Workshops
Leadership in Engineering CENT Room 2080 and Zoom 5:00 – 6:00pm Dr. Lilian Casias, Sandia National Laboratories, presents. The daily e-mail calendar will have the Zoom link.
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FRIDAY
Lectures & Readings
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation
CERIA Room 337
10:00 – 11:00am Noelle Mason, Biology, presents “Characterizing genomic, morphological, and environmental variation in desert spadefoots.”
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation Ferris Engineering Center Room 1025
10:00 – 11:00am Ethan Rashap, Nuclear Engineering, presents “In-Situ Measurement of Dynamic Deuterium Retention in Tungsten-Based Alloys Under Plasma Exposure.”
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation Center for High Technology
Materials Room 101
11:30am – 12:30pm
Maxwell Aiello, Physics Astronomy, presents “Optical Nuclear Spin Detection in Diamond and Varifocal Metasurface Optics.”
CMBD Seminar Series Fitz Hall Room 303
12:00 – 1:00pm
The Cellular and Molecular Basis of Disease (CMBD) Series is the Health Sciences Center’s most prestigious seminar series and is meant to enhance biomedical science education by hosting high-profile scientists to speak on current topics in biomedical research.
Panel Discussion with Book
Publishing Professionals
Zimmerman Library Waters Room 1:00 – 3:00pm
Featuring: Michelle Komie (Princeton University Press) Nick Larson (Radius Books) James Ayers (UNM Press) Kate Schell (Routledge).
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation
Logan Law Library
1:00 – 2:00pm Kara Link, Psychology, presents “Examining Associations Between Socioecological Factors And Addiction Cycle Domains In Separate Community And
Treatment-seeking Samples.”
Thesis/Dissertation Presentation
Clark Hall Room 201
1:00 – 2:00pm Glorianne Dorce, Chemistry, presents “Method-Dependent Emergence of Nanoscale Entities in CAU-Derived Carbonaceous Systems.”
Querencia Presentations
Chicana Chicano Studies La Casita
2:00 – 4:00pm Join UNM students as they share their works on Querencia in a Resolana conversation with Professor Levi Romero and beva sanchez padilla.
Snead Wertheim Endowed Lecture
Hibben Room 105
2:00 – 3:00pm
Dr. Field’s presentation focuses on the ideas of author and intellectual Uriah Katzenelenbogen’s conceptualization of multiculturalism.
Sociology Colloquium
Social Sciences Room 1061
2:00 – 3:00pm
Dr. Enrique C. Ochoa, California State University, presents “México Between Feast and Famine.”
Research Days 2026
Castetter Hall Room 100
3:30 – 4:30pm
Dr. Nandita Garud, University of California, presents “Pervasive selective sweeps across human gut microbioms.”
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
PAIS Room 1100
3:30 – 4:30pm Carl Willis, UNM, presents “When Nuclear Power Goes Wrong: A Nuclear Engineer Reflects on Visits to Three Nuclear Accident Sites.”
Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology Seminar
Castetter Hall Room 101
4:00 – 5:00pm Viswanathan Palanisamy, UNM, presents.
Abril para la palabra y el Cuarto Encuentro de Ángeles en La Tierra del Encanto LLC, Ortega Hall Room 335
5:00 – 6:00pm
Abril para la palabra 2026 and Cuarto Encuentro de Ángeles en La Tierra del Encanto includes great
poetry and narrative readings, literary talks, book presentations, and much more by special guests, students from the Spanish and Portuguese Department, and poets from México and United States.
Meetings
Powering Up Parenting Students Meeting Women’s Resource Center Group Room 12:00 – 1:00pm
Nahuatl Club Weekly Meeting Latin American and Iberian Institute Room 107
3:30 – 5:00pm
Nahuatl variant presentation. Everyone is welcome. No previous experience with the language is required.
Japanese Language And Culture Club SUB Sandia 5:00 – 6:00pm
Art & Music
Joshua Duran Keller Hall
4:00 – 5:15pm Junior bassoon recital.
Samuel Dickson Keller Hall 6:00 – 7:15pm Graduate trumpet recital. Alejandra Valencia Estrada Keller Hall 8:00 – 9:15pm Graduate flute recital.
Sports & Recreation
UNM Woman’s Tennis vs Utah State McKinnon Family Tennis Stadium 11:00am – 1:00pm Tickets are free for students but must be acquired online.
UNM Baseball vs San Diego State Lobo Baseball Field 6:00 – 8:00pm Tickets are free for students but must be acquired online
SATURDAY
Campus Events
Limina 2026 Release Party Honors College Forum
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4:00 – 6:00pm
Celebrate the publication of the 2026 edition of Limina, UNM’s premier nonfiction student review.
Fiestas 2026 Johnson Field 5:00 – 9:00pm Gates open at 4:30. UNM ID is required for entry. Each UNM student with ID may bring up to one guest.
Theater
CURRENT EXHIBITS
Jaune Quick-to-see Smith: All My Relations Tamarind Institute Through April 10, 2026
In honor of the late American artist, an experienced and prolific printmaker, featuring 20 lithographs made in residence at Tamarind from 1980 to 2022, alongside works by artists whose paths and practices were influenced by the artist.
Pink Noise
6th Street Studio March 25 – April 11, 2026
Abby Nickles, UNM, presents.
Ruiqi Xu MFA Thesis
John Sommers Gallery April 6 – 17, 2026
Ruiqi Xu, UNM, presents.
An Anthology of Arroyo Logics ni de aquí, ni de allá 2009 Ridgecrest Dr SE April 3 – 24, 2026
MFA Thesis Exhibition by Daniela del Mar.
Metal Rules!
Through May 2, 2026
INHABIT Galerie; 4436 Corrales Rd
MFA Thesis. Participating Artists: Bailey Anderson, Bruna D’Alessandro, Welly Fletcher, Shirley Klinghoffer, Stephanie Lerma, Iulia Octavia, Karen Yank.
Seeds of Compromise
AC2 Gallery 301 Mountain Rd NE April 11 – May 11, 2026
MFA Thesis Exhibition by Saul Ramirez.
Sachika Goel MFA Thesis
Open Space Visitor Center
April 10 – July 30, 2026
Sachika Goel, UNM, presents.
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One Earth, One Kin Spectra Art Gallery, Honors College Through Spring 2026
The exhibit showcases connection and kinship with the earth through the eyes of student artists. Pieces by Arwen Lynch-Poe, Caitlyn Bizzell, Leo Brocker, Loui Burton, Maria Paez, Noheya Behay, and Phaera Fields.