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Senator endorsements given green light By Alyssa Martinez @amart4447
Student government senators and officials alike can now personally endorse candidates running for any Associated Students of the University of New Mexico position after the passage of Bill 3S on Feb. 12. Whether it be through social media posts or on-campus canvassing, student government officials can publicly support candidates as long as they keep in accordance with the University’s policy on political activity. Policy 2060 dictates that University employees cannot use UNM resources — such as logos or office supplies — to engage in any political activity without University approval. Steering and Rules chair Ryan Regalado co-authored Bill 3S. Regalado said the bill was necessary because ASUNM’s policy on endorsements was ambiguous prior to the legislation. “It just needed to be specifically defined,” Regalado said. “First Amendment-wise, it needs to be defined if we can’t or can (endorse candidates).” Regalado said the bill doesn’t allow ASUNM officials to discuss
who they endorse during work hours — as it would violate University policy — but said that was already an unwritten policy within ASUNM at the behest of several previous undergraduate student government presidents. Although the written policy cleared up the confusion surrounding the admissibility of endorsements, Regalado said enforcement of the bill is not as spelled out. “(Consequences) would really be up to the Elections Commission or Student Court for them to determine how severe the penalty is,” Regalado said. “It’s kind of up to their discretion and could go up to campaign finance to disqualification. It just depends on how severe it is.” Despite Bill 3S’s passage with a senatorial majority, Elections Commission Executive Director Todd Moe aired criticisms of the legislation during public comment at Wednesday’s Full Senate meeting. Moe contended it could cause a divide within ASUNM and lead to a disproportionate ASUNM impact in elections. Moe did not respond to the Daily Lobo’s requests for further comment on his stance. Senator Timothy Mondloch, who voted in favor of Bill 3S, as-
@alexkmccausland The Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering might not be the first place you’d expect to find English professor Catherine Hubka. Since the fall of 2017, Hubka has helped engineering students improve their writing and communication skills inside and outside the classroom.
Hubka’s presence in the department is thanks to a program called Formation of Accomplished Chemical Engineers for Transforming Society (FACETS) that brought her on as part of its writing program initiative. UNM faculty created FACETS in 2016 to promote chemical and biological engineering students and increase student inclusivity and diversity. Past projects have ranged from acid-mine pollution
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Displayed outside of English instructor Catherine Hubka’s office is a poster for FACETS, the program responsible for initiatives designed to enhance education for engineering students.
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Forward Makuach Maluach searches for a teammate to pass to during Wednesday’s game against UNLV on Saturday. The Lobos lost the match 78-73. serted the possibility of having ASUNM influence in elections was not borne from this bill. “Influencing individuals to run is not something new (for ASUNM),” Mondloch said. Mondloch went on to describe the unwritten influence of current and past ASUNM people that
English integrated into engineering curriculum By Alex McCausland
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clean up to creating cost-effective aid for Puerto Rico. Hubka serves as a co-instructor for lab courses within the chemical and biological engineering curriculum and helps students strengthen their technical writing skills. In addition, Hubka helps professors develop assignment plans that include more writing and peer reviews. “I think engineering students get the impression that they won’t have to write after they finish taking English 219. And that’s not true,” Hubka said. “They will write throughout their career — that’s part of their profession.” Hubka deals with the writing issues of chemical and biological engineering students that instructors saw firsthand. “The biggest problem that I have in the lab class I teach is that I feel like the writing skills for technical reports are not where I would like them to be,” chemical and biological engineering professor Eva Chi said. In order to address this problem, Chi needed to get to the heart of the issue — that lowerlevel English courses were not teaching her students the writing skills they needed to continue
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is entangled in the system. Mondloch said this influence can lead to similar people running for ASUNM positions due to disproportionate access. “The criticism was moot in the face of the fact that there are many voiceless populations on campus who don’t have as many connec-
tions to be able to run, and our voices as senators can help give them that connection,” Mondloch said. Mondloch said he drew this conclusion based on his experience running for ASUNM Senate and the experiences of other members
By Amanda Britt
Library — one with informational pamphlets and organizers giving information, the other with volunteers holding television screens depicting the horrors of animal cruelty, such as decapitating and skinning live chickens. “If I had known sooner what happens I would have gone vegan a lot earlier, but I wasn’t exposed to this kind of footage,” said Camille Severson, a recent graduate
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Vegans advocate for more vegans @AmandaBritt__ Students don’t often expect to see dead animals on campus sidewalks, but animal rights activists shocked passersby by displaying graphic footage of animals in the food industry last Thursday at the University of New Mexico. A vegan advocacy chapter, Anonymous for the Voiceless, set up two tents outside of Zimmerman
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Amanda Britt / @AmandaBritt__ / Daily Lobo An Anonymous for the Voiceless volunteer holds a truth as a part of the Cube of Truth outside of Zimmerman Library on Feb. 13, 2020.
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