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Trump’s travel ban impacts over 100 students By Nichole Harwood @Nolidoli1 At least 110 UNM students with visas who are currently citizens of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria or Yemen will be directly affected by the recent executive order signed by the Trump administration that temporarily bans all travel from these seven nations. Linda Melville, director for International Student and Scholar Services with the UNM Global Education Office, said these are foreign students currently studying at UNM. Both students who were directly affected and those who stand to experience visa delays were contacted directly on Sunday through email, while a message was also posted on the GEO spotlight main webpage, Melville said. The GEO office is planning an information session specifically for students from the seven affected countries on Friday with details being sent directly to students through email, she said. UNM administrators are also including information in their campus-wide communiques and will hold information sessions for other interested groups, such as faculty and staff, which will be

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Deena Aggad pulls out fresh olives for a customer Wednesday afternoon at her family’s market Cafe Istanbul. The Aggads are a Palestinian-Muslim family, one of many in the community attempting to acclimate to the current political climate.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Williams out with injury Homeless camp

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By Robert Maler @robert_maler

Injuries are part of the game, and the New Mexico basketball team has been hit with the injury bug on several occasions this season — but none bigger than the news that broke Tuesday. Head coach Craig Neal said the Lobos will be without senior forward Tim Williams for the foreseeable future, due to a foot injury sidelining the secondleading scorer on the team. “It’s with my great regret that I have to announce that Tim Williams is going to miss a substantial amount of time,” Neal said in a release. “We don’t know how long he will be out, but he has a stress reaction in his left foot.” Neal said the important thing was the overall health of his star forward, as they work to get him healthy. The news came just days after it was announced the sophomore Dane Kuiper was in the concussion protocol after he sustained a broken nose in the previous game

By Elizabeth Sanchez @Beth_A_Sanchez

Nick Fojud / Daily Lobo / @NFojud

Tim Williams, 32, tries to work his way through a pair of UNLV players in a February 2, 2016 matchup. Men’s basketball head coach Craig Neal said Williams will miss a “substantial” amount of time after suffering a stress reaction.

against Nevada. Kuiper will likely be out of action for a week as he waits to get medically cleared. There might also be another challenge, as he will probably have to get used to playing with a protective mask when he returns.

There is never a good time for an injury, but the pair of injuries arguably couldn’t have come at a worse time. The Lobos were already without junior guard Xavier Adams,

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Last month, UNMPD and the Physical Plant Department discovered that at least one homeless individual had been living in the tunnel system below Northrop Hall, according to a UNMPD report. It was apparent that multiple homeless people had entered and exited the tunnel system. Clothing, trash bags, partially eaten food, empty water bottles, empty suitcases and other property that did not belong to the tunnel utility area lined the tunnel walls. A living area with chairs, a space heater, a hammock system attached to piping, bedding and other personal property that did not belong to the area was placed near a few steam pipes toward the end of the system, according to the report. UNMPD ensures areas of campus are secure by completing

building checks, spokesman Lt. Tim Stump said. “PPD checks the locks on the tunnels periodically,” Stump said. “We also check the locks periodically. They realized something was wrong, because the lock was broken. There would have been no reason to go inside the tunnel otherwise.” Associate Director of Utilities at PPD Larry Schuster said his department “is responsible for the care and upkeep of the University’s built environment. Because of our role, we know our buildings and visit them regularly. This allows us to easily notice vandalism. In this case, a utilities staff member noticed a lock was repeatedly broken after fixing it and went into the crawlspace to investigate. This is when the ‘camp’ was found.” According to the report, on Jan. 19, an officer was sent to Northrop Hall to speak with an individual who said a tunnel entry

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