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Financial, academic hardships of unpaid student regent position encourage action

By Megan Gleason @fabflutist2716

Regent Melissa Henry, a former student regent, asked the Board of Regents Ad Hoc Governance Committee on Aug. 10, to consider policies that would provide a financial backbone for the unpaid student regent position after experiencing a lot of financial and academic distress during her past term. Ad Hoc Governance Chair and Regent Rob Schwartz hopes to bring this issue to the full Board of Regents at their next business meeting in October.

“It was very naive of me to take this position not knowing how it would impact my career and work opportunities at the University and off campus, and not only did I face the consequences of being in such a politicized, public position but my work and time to contribute to my academic program suffered,” Henry said.

“It is for these reasons that I ask the Board to consider protecting the most vulnerable position on the Board, which is the student regent, and consider policies that financially support this position.”

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Regent Rob Schwartz (right) talks to former acting Regent Marron Lee (left) at an Ad Hoc Governance Committee meeting in 2019.

Henry, who served a twoyear term starting in the fall of 2019, recalled various issues that stemmed from serving as a student regent, many having to do with employment conflicts of interest as well as staying financially secure. Henry explained one conflict of interest case in

Mountain West releases UNM basketball conference schedules

By Matthew Salcido @baggyeyedguy The Mountain West Conference released the University of New Mexico’s men’s and women’s basketball conference schedules on Friday, Aug. 13. For a women’s program that finished on top of the conference standings in regular season play last season, this new schedule could act as a roadmap to a future tournament win; for a men’s team that finished last in its own said standings, conference play will be just one of many challenges for the team.

Women’s basketball finished 11-3 in conference play last season, losing to only three teams: the University of Nevada, Las Vegas; California State University, Fresno; and the United States Air Force Academy. During tournament play, after the Lobos lost to Fresno State in the second round, they were supposed to play against San Jose State University and the University of Wyoming (the eventual Mountain West tournament champion) but the games were both canceled after one

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connection to UNM during her position as a clinician; in this case, she had to use her personal liability insurance to seek independent counsel due to connections with the University.

On the academic side of things, Henry was removed from the teaching schedule in her academ-

ic department for the first time in three years with no explanation.

However, Henry said her students often brought up her involvement with University business and her decisions as a student regent during her classes. In addition, during the same semester, Henry said her $20,000 scholarship

through the College of Education was “mysteriously relocated to a different student.”

Eventually, after her first semester as the student regent, Henry transferred to a 0.5 FullTime Employment (half the amount of hours of full-time employment) position at the University that was “mostly independent from University decisions and policies;” this was a downgrade in hours from the 0.75 FTE she was getting while working as a graduate teaching assistant previously. Schwartz brought up that if a student is giving up employment for the student regent position, they should at least be compensated as a University employee.

Randy Ko, the current student regent, said the student regent position is one of the most at-risk positions on the Board for conflicts of interest. He also mentioned that only financially stable students are able to serve this position.

“This public service should ultimately not be a financial burden to those who want to serve in such a capacity,” Ko said.

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UNM Art Museum eagerly anticipates late-August reopening

By Megan Gleason @fabflutist2716 Creativity is in the air as the University of New Mexico Art Museum looks forward to reopening on Aug. 31 after an 18-month closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The museum staff are currently working on preparations to ensure that they are ready to welcome back visitors shortly after school starts.

The museum will follow the University’s COVID-19 guidelines, which currently require that masks are worn indoors regardless of vaccination status. In addition, all personnel

accessing the facility must be fully vaccinated by Sept. 30. During the closure, the museum developed various scenarios for how the museum could cope during the pandemic and has different protocols ready in the event of a campus-wide change in mandates.

A current project that the UNMAM is focusing on is their upcoming exhibition called “Visionary Modern: Raymond Jonson Trilogies, Cycles, and Portrait.” This exhibit will start the same day as the museum’s reopening and run until Nov. 24, featuring Raymond Jonson, a former UNM professor and artist. This will be the only

exhibition for the fall, partly due to maintenance upgrades that are happening throughout the College of Fine Arts through November.

“This is maybe a soft opening for us in the fall, and fingers crossed we’re planning on really being back ‘full strength’ in the spring with exhibitions, programs, et cetera,” UNMAM director Arif Khan said.

UNMAM is classified as a teaching museum and has a study room available for students to further their education, which marketing manager Devin Geraci said is an opportunity for “an intimate view-

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ASUNM President Greg Romero agreed that the unpaid position limits which students are able to serve, and said students from lower income backgrounds should be able to have these kinds of opportunities.

“I cannot imagine going through my year with the time it takes to be on the Board of Regents and not having any compensation for it, and also going to school and also making a livable wage at another place,” Romero said. “The time is just simply not there. So I would just

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really advocate for the student regent to have some compensation so they can be their best selves on this board and dedicate even more time to it.”

University counsel Loretta Martinez brought up that many student regents are paid at other universities, and there was a general consensus among the committee that the same should apply to UNM. Henry cited New Mexico State University’s policy, which recently started paying student regents. Still, Henry didn’t deny that it would be a compli-

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cated task that is also dependent on what student is serving in the position.

Schwartz suggested that a proposed resolution could be a stipend equal to the amount of tuition for the student (who must be a resident of New Mexico), which would vary from undergraduate to graduate to medical students. This would also ensure that graduate students are not losing benefits like healthcare, since a stipend would guarantee University employee status whereas a scholarship would not.

However, Provost James Holloway said making the pay a fixed amount rather than varying it would make more sense since student tuition can differ by term, and also made note that this would be taxable. Holloway recommended Martinez’s team research compensation for this position based on other models, and Schwartz agreed.

Schwartz encouraged Martinez to draft up a legal analysis on restructuring the currently unpaid position during the next month so they can discuss it again and be

ready to take it to the full Board of Regents in October. Other suggestions for the analysis by the committee included looking at any overall structural issues in the student regent position and potential conflicts of interests if the position is paid, since regents aren’t supposed to financially benefit from their service.

of UNM’s players tested positive for COVID-19.

This season, the female Lobos will be playing in Wyoming on Jan. 13 and will consequently host the Wyoming Cowgirls in New Mexico on Feb. 5, making up for those canceled games.

Other matchups with formidable opponents to look forward to include: • UNLV — who finished 13-5 in conference — on Jan. 3 (home) and Jan. 27 (away) • Colorado State University — who finished 11-5 in conference — on Jan. 15 (away) and Feb. 2 (home) • Fresno State — who finished 12-6 in conference — on Jan. 22 (home) and Feb. 23 (away) Meanwhile, men’s basketball finished their last season with a

feeble score of 2-15 in conference play, beating only San Jose State and Air Force once each. These Lobos will face a formidable team immediately in conference play on Dec. 28 at home against Colorado State, who finished 14-4 in the conference play last season.

The conference remains strong after CSU, particularly with regards to San Diego State University, who finished 14-3 in conference play, won the Mountain West tournament and was the conference’s representative in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament; UNM will play the San Diego Aztecs at home on Jan. 15 and again in San Diego on Feb. 1.

Also sure to be tough matchups are the games with Utah State — who finished 15-4 in conference,

on Jan. 8 (home) and Feb. 22 (away) and Boise State — who finished 14-6 in conference — on Feb. 8 (home).

The non-conference schedules for both men’s and women’s basketball will be announced as the season comes closer, with the women’s team most likely hoping to score several NCAA-tournament-level teams and the men needing easier competition before a tough conference run. Conference game times will be set after input is received from major television networks and dates could still potentially be changed.

“We’re really just trying to get students involved in just about every aspect of the museum that we can,” Geraci said.

Khan encouraged students from all over campus, not just the art

department, to visit the museum, whether it be for a learning experience or just as a social or quiet space.

Khan also said staff and faculty are more than welcome at the museum, as he wants this to be a place the en-

tire campus can enjoy.

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ing with the artwork.” Khan said teachers can use “actual artwork instead of virtual slides” in this room, which is a big difference from the Zoom classes students have been attending for the past year and a half.

“I think it’s crucial for artists to see the real thing. It’s great to have art books and to see things online but a lot of work has a physicality and a presence that is undeniable, particularly sculptural works and paintings,” Constance DeJong, a sculpture professor with the UNM art department, wrote to the Daily Lobo.

“In reproduction you can see the object and understand it in limited ways, but being present with the work you experience the totality of the work.

There’s just no comparison.”

During their physical closure, the museum was using virtual exhibition software to upload museum exhibits online, and they plan to continue some of that virtual work as they reopen. UNMAM will be testing out a custom platform with New Mexico artist Rose B. Simpson in the fall, where she can correspond virtually with students about art-related work.

“The design of the site is meant to be different from what students have been used to with their online teaching platforms, meant to be a little more visually engaging, a little more

poetic and not feel so much like ‘homework,’” Khan said. “(The goal is) that it’s really like a conversation with her and not an assignment.”

Once the project is over after the fall semester, UNMAM plans to share some of the artwork and conversations with the public. Because this is a first-time project for the museum, Khan said they are just testing it out for now. If it turns out to be successful, they plan to use it in the future to connect students and artists from all over the world.

“For artists in the community to see these exhibitions creates a sense (that) they are not alone in their studios but that there’s a whole world of creative people that they are a part of,” DeJong wrote.

Students are not only accepted as visitors but are also important in the museum’s workforce, Khan said. According to Geraci, the museum staff have been working to integrate student positions into a wider range of jobs at the museum, moving beyond strictly front desk work and transitioning to work with social media, communications and more. This way, in the case of another physical closure, student workers don’t need to worry about losing their positions since the work is based on more than just in-person museum visitors.

Matthew Salcido is the sports editor at the Daily Lobo. He can be reached at sports@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @baggyeyedguy

Megan Gleason is the Editor-inChief of the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at editorinchief@dailylobo. com or on Twitter @fabflutist2716

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Visitors enjoy the art exhibits at the University of New Mexico Art Museum. Photo courtesy of UNM Newsroom.

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Friday Night Live kicks off UNM’s Welcome Back Days

By Emma Trevino @itsemmatr Before the fall semester starts on Aug. 23 at the University of New Mexico, the Student Activities Center is kicking off the University’s Welcome Back Days with Friday Night Live on Aug. 20. After a year and a half of virtual learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this will be the first time for not only incoming freshmen but also rising sophomores to physically attend these events.

This in-person event is being held from 7-10 p.m. in the Student Union Building, with events including “karaoke, a DJ, henna tattoos, laser tag

arena, photo booths, student organization tables and UNM sports teams,” according to the SAC’s website.

SAC director Ryan Lindquist said the Welcome Back Days’ events are one of the best ways to get connected with resources and involvement opportunities on campus. Friday Night Live has over 70 organizations looking for new members, along with the bonus of free food. However, according to Lindquist, things aren’t quite the same as previous years.

“We’re trying to keep it as normal as possible, (but) my guess is with the pandemic, some people aren’t going to feel as comfortable participating,” Lindquist said. “We’re going to do our best to provide some

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Friday Night Live is designed to give people the maximum amount of opportunities to interact with one another and keep moving around, according to Lindquist. For example, laser tag will be held in the SUB ballrooms, while henna tattoos will be taking place on the plaza level.

Per University guidelines, all indoor activities, including Friday Night Live, will require that masks be worn regardless of vaccination status. SAC will also encourage masks to be worn during outside activities due to an expected high number of individuals attending the event.

According to Lindquist, it’s been hard to gauge how excited students

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are for the Welcome Back Days’ events. He said these in-person socializing events are much different than the Zoom events that students have been attending over the pandemic.

“It’s not just the first-year class, but it’s also the second-year class that really hasn’t seen a lot of

these events, so we’re hoping that there’s increased excitement for the (events),” Lindquist said.

Emma Trevino is the culture editor at the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at culture@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @itsemmatr

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QUESTION: What’s on your back-to-school playlist?

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As school starts back up, every student should be armed with a solid playlist to get them through the day. Whether you’re running to class or sifting through dozens of introductory assignments, here are four songs that are sure to liven up your days as you get back into the swing of things.

On Emma’s playlist: “Unlock It (Lock It)” by Charli XCX feat. Kim Petras and Jay Park This song, expertly squeezed in on XCX’s 2017 feature-heavy album “Pop 2,” is a blissful collection of electro-pop sounds and beautifully curated vocals

by XCX and Petras. “Unlock It (Lock It)” has recently enjoyed a resurgence thanks to a viral TikTok trend, and I

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couldn’t be more pleased. Dreamy lyrics like “Roller coaster ride in the fast lane/ Got the roof down/ Kiss me hard in the pourin’ rain” give the song an effortlessly in-love vibe that makes you smile every time.

I could probably do without Park’s verse, but it doesn’t even matter because the rest of the song is so good.

The energy both Petras and XCX bring to the track is only enhanced when you listen to the other tracks on the album; XCX’s “Tears” feat. Caroline Polachek is a great way to make yourself unnecessarily sad after this bop. Even though XCX recently hinted at a (devastating) departure from her signature hyperpop sound on Instagram, “Unlock It (Lock It)” will always be there for us to dance our

“no body, no crime” by Taylor Swift feat. HAIM The second single off of her ninth studio album “evermore,” “no body, no crime” is a criminally underrated song that sucks you in with the riveting tale of a cheating husband and a concealed murder. Swift stars as the friend of Este, whose husband is “acting different and it smells like infidelity.” You’ll have to listen to the rest of the song to find out what happens, but Swift’s enchanting songwriting skills and the haunting echoes of the HAIM sisters in the background won’t let you down.

Critically acclaimed at pretty much every point throughout her career, I started to assume a long time ago Taylor Swift would probably never write a bad song. So far, I’ve been right (barring her suffocatingly saccharine tune about being a great lover, “ME!”).

The rising intensity of the lyrics as the song moves along is complemented

by Swift’s vocals, which build in both volume and sheer passion. Whether you’re in a murderous mood or not, “no body, no crime” will definitely make you feel like a badass.

On Joseph’s playlist: “Amoeba” by Clairo Off her new sophomore studio ​​ album “Sling” is Clairo’s “Amoeba.”

This song is a perfect example of the growth and development that Clairo’s style and songwriting has taken as she moves out of her simple bedroom pop roots. In “Amoeba,” Clairo reflects on the negative aspects of her success in a conversation with herself. Lines like “Aren't you glad that you reside/ In a hell and in disguise?” and “And centerfold, humility shown/ You're

not as good as what your mama's sewn” are vicious and cold.

What makes this track so strong is its production and instrumentals.

Flourishes of horns blend perfectly with the weightless layered vocals of Clairo. The guts of the song are exposed during the key modulations towards the end of the song; this is also where hints of a clav, bass guitar and piano line mix with the ensemble creating a rich and dizzying groove.

Although the lyrics of the song are harsh, it all flows together incredibly well. “Amoeba’s” intricate beat uplifts the song, pushing frustration into an indie, earthy and raw dance groove.

Some of my other favorite tracks off “Sling” are “Partridge,” “Zinnas” and “Harbor.”

“Murphy’s Law” by Róisín Murphy Sadly, we all have been sleeping on Róisín Murphy. In October of 2020, Murphy released one of the strongest albums of the year titled “Róisín Machine,” and it does not disappoint.

Off this disco-and-house-inspired album is a song called “Murphy’s Law.” Murphy sings about her experience with Murphy’s Law, which states that “anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” Lines like “I feel my story's still untold/ But I'll make my own happy ending” as well as “And just when everything is goin' alright/ All my hard work goes down the drain/ And Murphy's law, I'm gonna meet you tonight” describe the relatable and ironic experience of working extensively on something only for it all to fall apart in front of you.

This gem of a song features a lead bass line, quick drum beat, piano and repetitive claps which fuse together creating the perfect disco song that sounds fresh and exciting in 2021.

Murphy’s smooth and pouty tonality adds a dark quality to the song which keeps it from being too bright.

I highly recommend listening to this album in full. Murphy and producer Richard Barratt (AKA DJ Parrot or Crooked Man) created each song to bleed seamlessly into each other, creating a non-stop, hour-long experience full of fun, house-and-disco-inspired tones.

And if “Róisín Machine” wasn’t enough for you, in April of this year Murphy also released a memorable remix version of the album titled “Crooked Machine.”

In summary, the addition of any (or all) of these songs to your usual music rotation could be just what you need to hype yourself up for the semester. It might seem trivial, but making the perfect soundtrack to your life can provide some serious encouragement.

These songs, and more, can be accessed in our “Back to School” playlist through the Spotify code shown below the “ask the editors” graphic.

Joseph McKee is the design director at the Daily Lobo. He can be contacted at designdirector@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @josephdmckee Emma Trevino is the culture editor at the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at culture@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @itsemmatr Have a question? We want to answer it! Questions for the editors can be submitted to the Editor-inChief at editorinchief@dailylobo. com. Title any submissions “ASK THE EDITORS”

Fake vaccination cards are dangerous and immoral This disturbing trend could be deadly for UNM

By Emma Trevino @itsemmatr With COVID-19 cases surging across the country, universities and employers have begun attempting to crack down on vaccine requirements. Although this signals a step in the right direction, the increasing number of fake credentials being used to cheat a verified vaccination status could very well land us right back where we started, or worse.

Fake vaccination cards are not new in regard to this pandemic; a public service announcement about the illegality of fake cards was released by the FBI in March, near the time the vaccine was approved for the majority of adult individuals in New Mexico, proving that for as long as any place has required a COVID-19 vaccine, people have found ways to produce or procure counterfeit documents.

This progression is concerning to say the least. I’ve tried to stay

relatively optimistic during the pandemic, and my attitude was starting to seem justified as UNM announced their plans for mask and vaccine requirements. But this relief has been countered by the delta variant surge and more public resistance to getting the vaccine than I anticipated.

Benjamin Mason Meier, a global health policy professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, expressed grave concern over the accessibility of fake vaccine

cards. On Aug. 2, Meier wrote on Twitter that he spoke to worried students, each of whom said they “knew exactly how to buy a fake #COVID19Vaccine card & knew a fellow student who submitted one to (UNC).” This worry is not limited to UNC, as I fear fellow students at UNM could easily produce fake documents and endanger other students and faculty on campus.

When school starts and the weather begins to cool down, more and more of us are going to be con-

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gregating indoors; this wasn’t worrying to me at all a few weeks ago as I had already been fully vaccinated, COVID-19 rates were dropping off and New Mexico wasn’t in a danger zone of elevated cases.

Now, however, the delta variant has taken hold and cases in New Mexico are on the rise (including a limited number of breakthrough cases). Fake credentials could easily cause us to slip down into yet another period of unprecedented cases, rising deaths and online classes.

In terms of the vaccine proof

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itself, it’s based on a measly index card that’s easily replicable. Not only that but, in today’s society, verification of physical papers is endlessly difficult.

“The United States, unlike most countries which have electronic systems in place, is basing its vaccination on a flimsy paper card,” Meier said to the Associated Press.

Cybersecurity expert Maya Levine predicts an increase in purchases of fake vaccination cards online, through sites like Whatsapp and Telegram.

"For those people who are adamant against being vaccinated, they're finding opportunities in

not being limited in what they can do while still not getting vaccinated through buying these fake vaccination certificates," Levine said to ABC 7 News.

While this all may be incredibly discouraging, a large number of people have a more logical approach to fake vaccine cards. Twitter user Breion Brown posted earlier this month: “Why y’all buying fake vaccination cards for $500 when the vaccine is FREE?,” a question which has gotten widespread attention that certainly sparks hope in me.

It all comes down to efficacy. If universities can take the steps to implement serious consequences

for vaccination status forgery as well as work on an effective way to verify cards, then this would hardly be an issue. However, because universities are still relying on just paper vaccine cards alone (for those who are even requiring the vaccine), fully vaccinated students, staff and faculty are still in danger as the fall semester begins. As it stands, we’re all in for a bumpy road ahead.

Emma Trevino is the culture editor at the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at culture@dailylobo. com or on Twitter @itsemmatr

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Q&A with UNM museum directors

By Megan Gleason @fabflutist2716 Editor’s Note: This piece has been edited for length. The full versions can be found online.

The Daily Lobo talked to the Museum of Southwestern Biology and the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology to get updates on how they’re doing amid the COVID-19 pandemic along

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with the start of school coming up.

The Museum of Southwestern Biology continues their focus on research and education through their collections rather than public exhibitions, while Maxwell, quite oppositely, is gearing up to reopen on Aug. 17 to the public with some new exhibits and opportunities.

This Q&A addresses current and future happenings at both museums with director Christopher Witt of the Museum of Southwestern Bi-

ology and director Carla Sinopoli of the Maxwell Museum.

Q: Can you discuss the museum’s current and future operations?

CW: With respect to COVID, we’re in a real state of transition, as everybody is right now, where we’re just figuring things out in the new reality with the vaccine mandate and the start of the semester. So everybody’s a little on edge and kind of cautiously

optimistic right now, I think. But it’s also sort of scary with the new wave of the (COVID-19) delta variant so everything feels a little bit up in the air at this moment.

But in the big picture, the longtime picture, for the Museum of Southwestern Biology is steady improvement. And, I mean, the museum is about 100 years old; it was really founded in 1938 but some of the collections go back a little further than that and if you look at the long his-

tory of that, it’s just gotten better and better and better and the growth is exponential, and the scientific applications have grown and really picked up in the last year.

CS: When we were shut down in March 2020 we shifted … to a lot of online activities — online exhibits, online posts, events and so on — and we want to continue doing that even as we physically reopen because that

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was a way to engage a much larger audience than we normally do. (We were) really getting people from all over the world to know more about UNM and our collections and what we do.

But we are also returning to doing these physical exhibitions (and we have our) Brazil exhibit, (which is a tribute to the Brazil National Museum that burned down in 2018), as our first new temporary exhibition that will be opening on Tuesday. We still have up, from before our closure, the amazing photography exhibit by Rapheal Begay, who’s a Diné photographer who recently e a r n e d his (Bachelor of Fine Arts) here at UNM and it’s called “(A) Vernacular Response.”

We’re kind of going to start slowly on our public events so we won't be having a big grand opening occasion this week; we want to make sure it’s safe before we invite large crowds of people into the museum, so probably in early November is (when) we’re thinking we’ll do a big lecture around the Brazil exhibit but that’s not solidified yet.

Q: How does your staff feel working with the University’s COVID-19 regulations and during the pandemic overall?

CW: I don’t think there’s any one view. I think everybody's been frustrated and complained and it's been challenging no matter what your view of it is, and we know it’s been challenging from the leadership perspective.

So I think everyone’s kind of hardened by this process; we feel battered by this and it’s been really hard to plan.

But I personally feel that I know it’s been a long winding process but I think that the UNM administration is maybe getting better at handling this.

And I’m kind of optimistic that we have a good plan in place for the fall and I think it’s sort of a reflection of what’s happening nationally.

This pandemic is really, in a way, helpful to get the public to understand why biodiversity collections are important because obviously you can have diseases like this jump out of animal populations to human populations; we should know where the diseases are in animal populations.

And I think that people are kind of shocked to know that we don’t know where all of the animal viruses are and that’s kind of a wake-up call to the state of biodiversity science.

CS: I think we did not open as early as some museums did around the state because we were concerned

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about keeping everyone safe; we’re a fairly small space. But I think everyone is feeling comfortable with the mask regulations. We certainly support that and I can speak for myself and I think for all the staff that we were very pleased when vaccines were mandated on campus.

We are committed to keeping our visitors safe. We host a lot of K-12 classes including students who are too young to be vaccinated so it’s a high priority for us to be sure that everyone follows safety regulations and guidelines.

Q: Do you have any current collections or future collections that particularly stand out to you?

CW: We have phenomenal collections. Our premiere collection is the mammal collection and this is something that everybody at UNM should know about because it’s the second-largest mammal collection in the world, after the Smithsonian. But it’s growing at a rate that's about ten times as fast as the Smithsonian so it's far more important scientifically than their collection so I think it’s the best one in the world; but by the numbers, it's the second largest.

So I think if there’s one thing people should know about the strength of our museum, it's the mammal collection, and that's tied together with our frozen tissue collection. A huge portion of those — over 300,000 mammals that they have — are paired with frozen samples that are preserved in liquid nitrogen cryostorage in a stateof-the-art facility that we have for storing wild animal tissue samples.

CS: We recently received an archeological collection from a site called Treasure Hill, which is a Mimbres-period archeological

site down near Silver City, and it is a very important collection because it comes from the work of an archeologist named LaVerne Herrington, who owned the site and protected it from looting for many decades and carefully documented the materials. And she has passed the collection onto the University of New Mexico and the Maxwell to be held in trust and cared for properly …

We recently have also accepted a collection of Native American baskets that was just brought in.

W e ’ v e had a lot of interest in donors finding homes for their collections this year. I think as people are taking stock of their lives and their possessions during the pandemic, a lot of people have reached out to us. We haven’t been able to accept many things; we make sure the collections we accept are legally owned, and ethically excavated and recovered, and fit the mission of the museum so we turn down a lot of very generous offers as well. But we’ll be working on those collections and working on some of our Central American textile collections too this year. So there’s always stuff to do here.

Q: Do you have anything else you’d like to tell the community?

CW: I think that I would like to tell the community that COVID is a disease that emerged from animal viruses and we’ve got to support natural history collections if we’re going to understand animal viruses and be able to predict and prevent and manage pandemics.

CS: (I’d like to tell the community) just how excited we are to welcome people back to the museum. I think I said in some email I sent out to our members (that) I've spent a lot of hours wandering around the museum while we’ve been closed and looking at the objects, enjoying the collections, and it’s not the same when other people aren’t there enjoying it too. So I think we're just excited to see what the year will bring and to, once again, be able to welcome people back.

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