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35 people test positive for COVID-19 as fall term commences Unreliable coronavirus count stems from voluntary self-report system, lack of contact tracers

By Cameron Ward @xx_cameo_xx

As the infectious spread of the coronavirus multiplies locally and around the country, many students are wondering how the pandemic will impact the University of New Mexico community during the 2020-21 academic year.

With students, faculty and staff beginning the slow, deliberate process of returning to campus on Aug. 17, the University disclosed to the Daily Lobo that 35 people with ties to UNM’s main Albuquerque campus have tested positive for COVID-19.

Two students, one faculty member and 11 staff members from UNM’s main campus have self-reported that they have tested positive for COVID-19, according to University spokesperson Cinnamon Blair.

Those numbers don’t include student-athletes, coaches or other personnel in the Athletics department, nor do they count UNM Health Sciences Center (HSC) testing data.

According to Blair, both institutions have different testing protocols in place and track their own data.

Four student-athletes and two Athletics coaches and/or staff members have tested positive since testing began earlier in the summer. Additionally, two students, five faculty

members and eight staff members at HSC have tested positive, according to HSC spokesperson Mark Rudi.

“What is clear is that despite months of planning for a safe return to class, and despite drastic changes to campus life, the virus is already spreading widely at universities,” the New York Times recently reported.

In accordance with the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act — a federal law that protects the privacy of most patient health data — individuals who test positive for COVID-19 cannot be publicly identified.

The main campus data was collected in the University’s self-reporting system between April and August.

The self-reporting mechanism is the tool that all faculty, staff and students are instructed to use to report if they test positive, Blair said.

According to Blair, the University is in the process of working on a “public facing dashboard” that would add more transparency to the currently-opaque COVID-19 reporting infrastructure.

UNM Hospital and Health Sciences Center currently uses a more robust tracking system than those used by main campus or Athletics due to the utilization of contact tracers.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, contact tracers conduct interviews

Liam DeBonis / Daily Lobo / @LiamDebonis A statue wearing a surgical mask on campus at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque on June 3, 2020.

and test those who have been in close contact with individuals who have tested positive, including “any individual within six feet of an infected person for at least 15 minutes.” In addition to encouraging staff, faculty and students to self-report, HSC is using contact tracers to help identify and proactively test those that may have been exposed to people who are COVID-19 positive.

University Libraries remain closed to public, students due to pandemic

By Megan Gleason @fabflutist2716 Students at the University of New Mexico will have to find new study spaces at the start of the semester due to the delay in the opening of University Libraries (UL).

UL pushed back its originallyplanned opening on Aug. 10 to an anticipated opening on Aug. 17 to no date for a public opening at all.

Instead, UL is following a two-stage opening plan, according to Associate Dean of Public Services Mark Emmons. This includes the Zimmerman Library, Centennial Science and Engineering Library and Fine Arts and Design Library.

“What we’re trying to avoid is having too large of a viral load in our buildings,” Emmons said.

The first stage will consist of limited library staff in the buildings until further notice. Emmons said staff and employees that currently

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The south entrance of Zimmerman Library on UNM main campus, overlooking Smith Plaza.

have the ability to work from home are doing so.

The following specifications must be met before stage two proceeds: contact tracer and library employee training, accessible rapid testing and a new security guard.

UNM has been hiring contact tracers and is still in the process of training them, which UL wants done before reopening. In addition, testing has become less available in New Mexico in recent weeks, and University Libraries wants rapid testing readily available to employees that are exhibiting signs of COVID-19 upon request.

UL is also requesting funding for an additional security guard that will enforce mask-wearing and social distancing, according to an email sent by Interim Dean of the College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences Fran Wilkinson on Aug. 11.

“Our goal throughout this is safety and to reduce the spread of the virus,” Emmons said.

In addition, work-study student employees are not permitted to start working until Aug. 17, giving UL time to train staff in health and safety before a public opening.

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However, not all academic employees are required to self-report.

“UNM HSC continues to have the majority of our workforce working from home,” Rudi said. “Those academic employees who work from home and contract COVID-19 are not required to report it, but can voluntarily report it.”

Rudi emphasized that all employees deemed essential and others

who have been coming to campus for work have been asked to fill out an online screening form, which is described as mandatory but currently has no avenue of enforcement.

“All employees are screened before they come to campus, we have stringent cleaning protocols, masks are required in all areas and our robust occupational health service helps

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Protesters decry APD killing of Ken Reiss

By Bella Davis @bladvs Protesters marched through the University area Saturday night in part as a response to the Albuquerque Police Department’s killing of 50-year-old Ken Reiss, a beloved community member who was fatally shot by police last week.

Family members, friends and patrons of Carraro’s and Joe’s Place — a local dive bar that Reiss co-owned — have since challenged the APD ac-

count of the shooting.

Early on Aug. 11, Reiss called the police to report multiple people breaking into his home. The department has alleged that when police arrived on scene Reiss shot at the responding officers before they fired back, but those closest to him have disputed that claim.

Joshua Rodgers, one of Reiss’ neighbors, told the Albuquerque Journal his doorbell camera recorded the incident. He said shortly before officers approached on foot, Reiss hid

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A child holds a Black Lives Matter sign among a group of fellow protesters at the Ceasefire Silent March on Aug. 15, 2020.

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implemented, UL will open to UNM staff, students and employees via appointment at a 25% capacity or less, according to Emmons and Wilkinson.

The entire lounging area has been rearranged to meet these needs, and group studying will be discouraged.

“The group aspect of study, which a lot of students have done over the years and which we’ve always encouraged in the past, will go away while the pandemic’s going on,” Emmons said.

In addition, the Starbucks in Zimmerman Library will reopen in the future with limited hours and personnel. All food and drinks will be carry-out only and will not be allowed in Zimmerman.

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employees with what to do if they do test positive for COVID-19,” Rudi said.

Meanwhile, main campus administrators are scrambling to hire contact tracers in an attempt to get ahead of the virus when it inevitably spreads on campus.

Associate Dean of Public Services Mark Emmons is leading the process to get five new state Department of Health contact tracers assigned to main campus.

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in-person component and the rest are expected to be provided entirely online, according to Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs James Holloway.

New Mexico has encouraged the state’s schools to move all classes online immediately but hasn’t required higher education institutions to go entirely virtual. Prior to the start of the semester, many faculty and staff were given the option to make their classes remote and have been instructed to follow the protocols outlined in

the University’s Bringing Back the Pack guidelines.

Despite large-scale and multiple efforts to contain the spread, tracking at UNM remains largely reliant on self-reported data. With a campus population of over 30,000 people, it’s a virtual certainty that there have been more than 35 COVID-19 cases among students, staff and faculty affiliated with the University since the pandemic started.

As of Aug. 15, the seven-day positive testing rate in New Mexico has

remained between 2.5-3% while case growth has stabilized following a spike in the end of July. Applied to the approximate main campus population of 30,000 people, that percentage would represent 750 to 900 people — which doesn’t take into account international students and those coming from out of state, where percentages of positive cases could be higher.

Right now, reliable COVID-19 figures on UNM’s main campus are elusive. With the University’s coronavirus tracking efforts rely-

ing primarily on self-reported data, there remains no way to truly know the number of positive cases in the campus community.

no food in the library,” Emmons said.

UL has been providing a carry-out service since May, where UNM-affiliated individuals as well as certain community members can request up to ten print items per week.

“We love to serve our students – and we really hate the fact that the coronavirus has limited us in how well we can serve students in person in our physical spaces – but our librarians and our staff have been doing their utmost to make sure that all the other services that don’t involve being physically in the library are as robust as possible,” Emmons said.

Continuing to provide the carryout service will prove vital to the Fine Arts and Design Library because of its location inside George Pearl Hall.

Emmons said this is just one of many

buildings on campus that will require proxy access, or key card access, for entry.

UNM student Isabel Figueroa mentioned being a regular at the Fine Arts and Design Library for lounging and studying, which will be limited this year due to the proxy access requirement.

The Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections (CSWR) department offers applications for in-person appointments to view specific works in the Anderson Reading Room, with a time limit of either an hour or an hour and 45 minutes so that employees can clean the space between patrons. Two patrons are allowed in at once.

“Everything we have is open to the public; it’s just limited by time right

now,” Tomas Jaehn, the director of CSWR, said.

UL has close to two million books available to preview online, but Emmons said that number is nowhere near the actual selection of books, which is one of the downsides of the carry-out service.

“I do know that we can do interlibrary loans, but it’s really not the same as going to the library and finding what you need,” Figueroa said via Twitter direct message.

Jaehn has contemplated uploading materials from CSWR online but said he was lacking in warm bodies to help expand the library’s online presence.

“We simply do not have the staff, and COVID is not helping to do any specific uploading,” Jaehn said.

He said CSWR will prepare plans

for students that cannot physically come into the building because of circumstances created by the pandemic.

“We in special collections are prepared to go the extra mile for students knowing that some can’t come in,” Jaehn said.

The Parish Memorial Library Services Building is permanently closed to the public, according to marketing manager Patricia Campbell.

“Ultimately, there’s going to be restrictions like all parts of life because of the pandemic, but we’re going to get through them the best we can,” Emmons said.

to pour.

After getting through a police barricade that was attempting to divert traffic from the protest route, a man in a car drove towards the crowd, stopping just short of hitting anyone.

He got out and confronted protesters, yelling that he was frustrated about the street being blocked. Minutes later, he got back in his car and left as the crowd regrouped.

Car attacks on demonstrators have been a common occurrence in the past two and a half months. From May 27 to July 6, there were at least 66 incidents of people driving their cars into protesters, USA Today reported.

Protesters rallied at Carraro’s and

Joe’s Place and observed a moment of silence, during which the rain stopped. Ken Reiss’ 21-year-old son Devon Reiss was present and stood with organizers, holding a sign with a drawing of his father and “Justice 4 Ken” written at the top.

After the barside vigil, the march continued through the University area without chants — the Facebook event page promoted it as a “ceasefire silent march” — but with music blaring from a stereo organizers tugged along in a wagon. After reaching the Smith’s on Yale Boulevard, where the demonstration first gathered, protesters dispersed at around 8 p.m.

Earlier in the day, Reiss’ family and

friends held a private vigil outside of Joe’s. Attendees, of which there were hundreds, shared fond memories of Reiss.

“He knew a lot: He was always telling stories, and he was always happy to see anybody no matter who they were,” Devon Reiss said. “You walked in and you talked to my dad, he was happy to see you.”

Others voiced their belief that the police are lying about what actually transpired in the early morning hours of Aug. 11.

“We all know that what the cops are saying is bullshit,” one demonstrator said. “We want that body camera footage released as soon as possible,

and we need some accountability.”

Saturday night’s protest was the second held in protest of recent police killings. Five hours before fatally shooting Reiss, APD shot and killed 48-year-old Jose Vallejos. The night after the two shootings, protesters gathered at the downtown police precinct, where organizers with the Red Nation honored Reiss and Vallejos and spoke about the need for police abolition rather than reform.

Joe Rull contributed reporting to this article.

Cameron Ward is a freelance reporter at the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at culture@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @xx_cameo_xx

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Megan Gleason is the culture editor at the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at culture@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @fabflutist2716

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behind a vehicle.

“He wasn’t being aggressive, he was just cowering,” Rodgers said. “I don’t fully believe he knew they were cops. I think he was just confused.”

“I’ve never known him to carry a gun,” Kat Schroeder, a longtime friend of Reiss, told the Albuquerque Journal. “We had lengthy conversations about violence and society and police — he was not a violent person and would not jump to violence in any situation. I watched him handle violent situations with a cool head.”

Protesters at Saturday’s demonstration, organized by Black New Mexico Movement, marched on Central Avenue as heavy rain started

Bella Davis is a senior reporter at the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at news@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @bladvs

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MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 2020 / PAGE 3

Professors adapt to online classes with mixed results UNM students express grievances, optimism as classes resume largely online

By Rosanna Samudio @RosiePollie3 Online school has become the new norm in 2020, and the University of New Mexico is no exception. Students coming into the fall semester at UNM are preparing to maintain their education virtually amidst the scare and unpredictability of a pandemic.

As drastic changes from the realities of COVID-19 arose during the spring semester, professors and students scattered to adapt to new adjustments. Many students were already familiar

with online classes, but others were forced to adapt to a surplus of unexpected changes.

Business major Stephanie Gonzales graduated from the Anderson School of Management last semester under anomalous circumstances.

“The in-person classes I took were never meant to be online, which made adjusting to those last few weeks difficult,” Gonzales said. “It was a trying time for professors and students alike. I felt that I was cheated out of my last semester at UNM as I had to adjust to such a trying period. I lost out on valuable in-person time with my professors and peers.”

Rebecca Hobart, a UNM student studying environmental science, was living in Casas del Rio at the start of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States.

Hobart was forced to move back to her hometown in North Carolina and finish classes in a completely different time zone.

“It was bizarre to teach myself,” Hobart said. “The environmental science faculty, however, have done an exceptional job of incorporating software — such as ArcGIS — into our program, which definitely helped the transition to remote learning in the spring.”

One of the classes Hobart took during the spring was an

environmental science lab with professors Paula Watt and Grant Meyers. Hobart said her instructors incorporated the use of CalTopo, an online mapping program, in place of tangible labs that had originally focused on mineral identification.

“I really appreciated that professors Watt and Meyers found a way to continue strengthening our education in environmental science,” Hobart said.

Hobart will continue working with ArcGIS software in another environmental lab with professor Gary Weismann this fall.

“Though it’s a super complex program, professor Weismann is already taking initiatives for us to be successful this upcoming term with established office hours and connections to our TA Sebastian Los,” Hobart said.

Other students, such as liberal arts major Anna Perez, acknowledged the benefits of the communication medium that online classes provide.

“I find that online classes are a better way to communicate since technology is used for everything now,” Perez said. “Classmates have video calls and send messages with each other if we need help. Online is just a better way to communicate with everyone.”

The College of Fine Arts is another department that had a particularly difficult transition into an online environment due to the hands-on nature of its various disciplines. Theater professor Erik Ehn was teaching several playwriting classes last

spring when COVID-19 erupted.

“We all jumped into a cold lake together last semester,” Ehn said.

“The strangeness made for both confusion and focus, eagerness and resistance.”

Ehn said online classes are doable — but certainly not preferable.

“I feel about online school a little like I feel about online food: You can look at it and remember eating, but it’s different from eating. Theater is all about the convivium,” Ehn said. “This is more of an emotional response than a reality.”

Ehn said deep learning and a sense of community can occur online, and he will most likely try to sustain and develop online systems after the pandemic is over. However, he misses the live interaction and yearns for an inperson reunion.

Ehn provided words of encouragement for himself and everyone that is trying their best to embrace the new norm.

“So much has migrated to digitality: shopping, socializing, co-thinking ... Muscles have developed,” Ehn said. “The waves of complaints I had against Zoom have subsided — thank goodness that we have this miraculous means of staying connected. At this point, I’m really looking forward to it.”

Rosanna Samudio is a freelance reporter at the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at culture@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @RosiePollie3

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NEW MEXICO DAILY LOBO Moreover,

With Lobos returning to campus, a brief look at COVID-19 in NM

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cases in New Mexico — in other words, those not designated as dead or recovered — has begun for the first time to slow significantly and even decrease in recent

By Joe Rull @rulljoe

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saw through much of the summer.

After seeing a disconcerting spike in case growth through the end of July, the New Mexico Department of Health has reported a steadily decreasing COVID-19 case trend in the state.

In many ways, the numbers are promising. While New

Here in New Mexico, as around the world, the vi-

on older demographics, as the large majority of the

rus can affect people of all ages. Despite this, much

state’s 714 deaths through Aug. 16 were individuals

like everywhere else, the virus is taking its greatest toll

age 60 and above.

Mexico’s testing rate remains one of the best in the country, a marked decrease in new cases and a gradual slowing of hospitalizations show hope for the first time since UNM students last saw campus in March.

Throughout the course of the outbreak, New Mexico has been fortunate to report a remarkably low positive testing rate. Compared to the national aver-

age over the same time, New Mexico’s positive test rate remains one of the lowest in the country.

Joe Rull is the data and sports editor at the Daily Lobo. He can be contacted at data@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @rulljoe

Musa elevated to ASUNM third to command

By Kyalynn Moore-Wilson @KyalynnW The Associated Students of the University of New Mexico Senate came together for its first full meeting to elect Suha Musa president pro tempore on Saturday, Aug. 15 in an otherwise uneventful session.

Musa is a sophomore majoring in international studies and was a co-sponsor of the ASUNM Black Lives Matter resolution that was passed over the summer.

According to the ASUNM Constitution, “a president pro tempore shall be elected from the membership of the Senate by plurality. The president pro tempore of the Senate shall preside over the Senate in the absence of the vice-president.”

President Mia Amin started the meeting by addressing the reduction in the undergraduate governing body’s student staff.

“Given that a lot of our events are going to be virtual this year, we decided to hire limited staff for the agencies given that there are a lot

of concerns from students that feel their fees are not being properly allocated,” Amin said.

ASUNM saw an increase in applicants for various staff positions, but ultimately only 37 people were appointed, according to Amin.

“We did three different rounds of interviews, but for the second round — for the executive directors — we did panel-style interviews and found it to be very successful,” Amin said.

Prior to presiding over the pro tempore election, Vice President Ana Milan asked the Campus Representative Ellie Aikman

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assembled legislators if they wanted to postpone the vote because three senators were absent from the full meeting. After considering her suggestion, the Senate voted to proceed with the election.

Senator Ryan Regalado initiated the process by nominating thenSenator Musa to serve as president pro tempore.

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pore. Sens. Regalado, Raina Harper and Daniella Rodriguez spoke on behalf of Musa.

After deliberations, the votes were sent to director of Student Activities Ryan Lindquist, the staff member paid by the University to support ASUNM and other student activities. Lindquist compiled the votes and announced that Musa was elected president pro tempore.

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MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 2020 / PAGE 5

Student Family Housing resident condemns deterioration of housing complex

By Gabriel Biadora @gabrielbiadora

Anne Turner is afraid her children will step on used hypodermic needles when they play in the grass outside their home at the University of New Mexico’s Student Family Housing (SFH). The housing complex, which is set to close on May 31 of next year, has been no stranger to complaints of unsafe and untenable conditions.

Notice of the residences’ permanent closure came in an email on June 29, marking the climactic end to the tumultu-

ous relationship between SFH and its residents. For Turner, the final straw came a few days later on July 4 when she witnessed police officers arrest two individuals for solicitation, one of whom allegedly had an outstanding warrant.

“After seeing that happen, I was done,” Turner told the Daily Lobo. “I was like, ‘We have to move out of here as soon as possible.’”

But when Turner — now in her third year of pursuing a doctorate in English from UNM — and her family first moved in from Utah to continue her education, SFH offered a better, safer and more affordable alter-

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A hypodermic needle lies on the ground inside the Student Family Housing area.

native to the numerous housing units around the University.

As the months went by, however, SFH’s years of neglect and inadequate infrastructure manifested itself in oft-dangerous ways to Turner and her family.

“They have endangered my children on a number of levels, beginning with issues of safety,” Turner said.

She found numerous safety hazards, from holes in balconies and the fences surrounding SFH to flooding in the laundry room. There is also a “refrigerator graveyard,” where dozens of refrigerators and used appliances are dumped next to the playground.

One incident with Turner’s child included a fall on the playground into hardened soil that ended in them needing immediate medical attention.

Despite this catalog of haphazards that have been present for an extended period of time, SFH’s deterioration has continued into the present.

“In the recent months since (the administration) decided to shut down SFH, they have completely neglected the place,” Turner said. “They’re still not taking it seriously. The only way they’ve taken it seriously is if we’ve gotten them in trouble with some other organization on campus.”

Turner also highlighted the mental taxation the current situation is inducing on her children, not only with the myriad concerns of a global pandemic but with the generally poor conditions of the facilities.

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Anne Turner, a resident at UNM Student Family Housing.

Turner and her partner, Adam Turner, have spent much of their time invested in researching, filing complaints and organizing outside resources to get something done about the problems at SFH. “I’ve probably spent as many hours on dealing with SFH and their issues and digging and researching and trying to make things safe and listening to neighbors and holding meetings.

I’ve probably spent as much on that as I have on my teaching. It’s another job,” Anne Turner said.

Adam Turner would take his two children to UNM’s office of Safety and Risk Services to resolve unanswered issues with Student Family Housing.

And both found their persistent struggle for decent housing as an unusual form of bonding with their neighbors.

Anne Turner said one of the worst things about SFH closing is the loss of “a very diverse, tightknit community.”

“I have never felt like I’ve been in a more welcoming neighborhood,” she said. “It has become a family in a lot of respects, a lot of which we owe to our fight with the University to take care of (SFH’s issues).”

The Turner’s neighbors and

many residents of Student Family Housing are international students who now find themselves caught between global forces like the pandemic, fluctuating legislation regarding visas for international students and the impending closure of SFH. Anne Turner frequented culture-themed parties and dinners during her family’s tenure as SFH residents, celebrating a family’s country of origin with customary regalia. She said she wanted her children “growing up next to children who have heritage from India or from Thailand, Nigeria, China…”

But the Turners are concerned that international students won’t be given the adequate resources to continue studying at UNM upon SFH’s closure.

“I call on the University to find those creative solutions and to find them quickly to care for the international students so they don’t lose them,” Turner said.

Gabriel Biadora is a freelance reporter at the Daily Lobo. He can be contacted at culture@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @gabrielbiadora

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Student sit-in denounces tuition increase outside Stokes’ house

By Spencer Butler & Kyalynn Moore-Wilson @SpencerButler48 @KyalynnW Around 50 people came to University House northeast of the duck pond — the residence of University of New Mexico President Garnett Stokes — to protest the rise in tuition costs on Thursday, Aug. 13.

UNM undergraduate student and protest co-organizer Ava Yelton created a petition last month calling on the Board of Regents to reverse the tuition increase for the 2020-21 school year.

The rationale behind the calls against the tuition rise involved the increasing financial hardships and a perceived diminish in quality of online instruction wrought by the pandemic.

Yelton co-organized the protest with the UNM Students for Socialism club, an organization whose mission is to “fight for a socialist future that works for all people, not just the wealthy.”

“I have a lot of close friends who are having to drop out of school because of the tuition raise,” Yelton said.

The protest, which was promoted through social media channels, called for the University to suspend

all tuition and fee hikes for the 202021 academic year.

“Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and related economic depression, students and their families are suffering financially in an unprecedented way,” read the Facebook description of the sit-in, which Yelton later posted on Twitter. “Even so, the University of New Mexico has decided to move forward with planned tuition increases on students!”

Many who attended the protest voiced their frustrations with what they see as a lack of empathy from the University.

Other concerns, including what student fees will fund in light of the indefinite postponement of the UNM football season, were aired during the sit-in.

“On Aug. 11, the (Mountain West Conference) ended up deciding to no longer hold fall sports, but if you look at our fees that we are paying this year, we're still paying an athletic fee,” Yelton said. “So that really begs the question: What are we paying for?”

Another point of contention among protesters was what they described as the rise in tuition forcing some students to choose between school or basic necessities.

Others took aim at a perceived dysfunctionality of higher education in

dailylobo.com the United States.

“The United States of America has enough money to put hundreds of thousands of cops in the streets, they have enough money to give militarygrade tanks to cops, they have enough money to go invade poor countries like Afghanistan and Syria, but they don’t have enough money to give you a fucking education?” one protester said.

There are over 800,000 sworn law enforcement officers in the United States, according to the latest figures from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.

Many also expressed that if people want to affect change outside of the scope of the sit-in’s demands, they should join groups that look to challenge the status quo. “(There are) so many organizations that are fighting for human rights.

I want you to join one of these — I want you to keep fighting,” the same protester said. “Just going to the polls every four years and voting red or blue isn’t going to cure everything, because this year we have the architect of mass incarceration and a fucking idiot as your choices.”

Protester Esperanza Wells said she went to the sit-in as an incoming freshman to be exposed to groups on campus.

When asked what she imagined the outcome of the protest would look like, Ella said the student-led movement would need to attract the attention of people with

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“I feel like because we're still such a small group — because no one is really out here that is within a higher authority position — it’s going to take a long time for a change to start, and we need other people who have higher connections to also advocate for tuition being lowered,” Ella said.

The UNM Police Department had officers stationed in the area, with a patrol car idling close by the protest.

An Albuquerque Police Department helicopter also flew over the protest, but it wasn’t immediately clear if the chopper was called in to monitor the protest, as it only made one loop before departing.

The primary goal of sit-in organizers was for Associated Students of the University of New Mexico and other campus leaders to listen to stu-

dents’ fiduciary and educational concerns and decrease tuition.

“A lot of people — including myself — have been unemployed or struggled with unemployment since March, and the fact that we’re having to put our tuition on hold just because of a tuition raise is kind of infuriating,” Yelton said.

While no future sit-ins or protests concerning student tuition are currently planned, a protest over eviction moratoria is scheduled for Aug. 29.

Spencer Butler is a beat reporter at the Daily Lobo. He can be contacted at news@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @SpencerButler48 Kyalynn Moore-Wilson is a reporter at the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at news@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @KyalynnW

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Ava Yelton (left) and Nick Cole (right) hold signs outside of University of New Mexico President Garnett S. Stokes’ house during a protest against the tuition increase in Albuquerque on Aug. 13, 2020.

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