TRU Issue 17.Indd

1 The independent student voice of NMSU since 1907. Volume. 118 Issue 17. Monday, February 20, 2017 Photos by: David Mares contributors & Staff Corey Stevens Albert Luna Executive Director Editor-in-Chief [email protected] [email protected] (575) 646-3743 (575) 646-5434 Rush Allen Katie Kilbane Vanessa Chavez Kelsey Gentile Lead Designer Marketing Director Advertising Director Graphic Designer [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (575) 642-5140 (575) 646-7680 Cover Photo by: Bryan Chavez Contents Derek Gonzales David Mares Jianna Vasquez Isaiah Silva Sports Editor Photo Editor Cultural Editor Academic Editor [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Donovan Duran Joseph Fullbright Luis "Luigi" Finston Comptroller Staff Writer Staff Writer [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Armando Arellano Nick Arias Bryan Chavez Larry Jackson Carlos Trujillo President Vice President Photography Photography Fundraising Chair 2 Larkins Legacy Larkins Legacy Intern Intern Larkin's Legacy Photos by: David Mares Best FROYO in Las Cruces!!! 16 Flavors to choose Las Cruces 15% off with 2750 Mall Drive NMSU ID in Las Cruces 575-806-7365 Please present this coupon for discount. Valid at Las Cruces only. Valid one per person. Cannot be combined with any Find us on Facebook: other offers. Offer expires 03/12/17. Orange leaf Las Cruces Cover Photo by: Bryan Chavez Contents In this issue Legal By: Albert Luna 'Love Trumps Hate' rally . 4 Don’t look now, but Spring is getting closer. If the past Academic Life few weekends worth of seventy-degree weather has not remind- Geology Rocks . 6 ed you, we are slowly coming into a new season. NMSU sports, by the same token, is no exception when it comes to ushering Survival Tips to Get to Spring Break . 8 in a new season as well. This comes in the form of the baseball team, which had one of the best turnarounds in the nation just Culture a year ago. America’s pastime is still alive and well here in the Southwestern part of the country, and with NMSU being the No Glove No Love . 9 only Division I Baseball program in the local region, it can safe- Delta Gamma Presenter Slam . .10 ly be assumed that expectations may be justifi ed to start rising this year for the team. In this issue, we will take a closer look at Sports the upcoming season for the Aggies as well as catch up with the Softball team after their fi rst successful weekend of their young Aggies Softball Takes Two of Three . 11 season. For all the non-sports readers, we have you covered with stories regarding social justice protests, club features, and of Baseball; The Time is Now . .12 course, Dixie and Dusty’s take on some topics (which has been Men's Basketball . 14 getting rapidly popular lately). All of this and more are in the next few pages of TRU as we submit to you are seventeenth TRU Opinion . 16 issue of the school year as we present “The Baseball Issue.” I hope you enjoy, give us feedback, and as always, keep your ears Dixie & Dusty . 17 to the ground and continue to write your own story. 3 TRU legal 'Love Trumps Hate' Rally Held on Campus By: Albert Luna Valentine’s Day at New Mexico State University “I don’t support [President] Donald Trump, I don’t featured a group of students and community members think he has the best interest of our country in mind” Ash- partaking in a protest march across campus. lerose Francia, a Government and Criminal Justice Major who was at the rally, said. “I think he is going to roll back a The ‘Love Trumps Hate’ march, started around lot of regulations, which will be very dangerous for a lot of one o’clock near Corbett Center Student Union, where the people, even the people who voted for him.” sizable group of students initially met, and proceeded down International Mall before holding a rally on the horseshoe President Trump recently drew criticism from grass. many liberals after issuing a temporary travel ban for nations primarily in the middle east. The White House has Similar protests have taken place across the na- said this is mainly to allow more time for a vetting process tion’s campuses in the past few weeks, mainly as a conten- of potential people trying to enter the United States, while tion of some key statements, remarks, and executive orders some contend that it was a ban based solely on race or by President Donald Trump in his first few weeks in office. religion. 4 'Love Trumps Hate' Rally Held on Campus Photo's by: David Mares “There are so many minority groups that are movement had an estimated 40 people attend with a sub- being oppressed right now with the Muslim ban, the stantial amount of media attention as well. The rally held immigration [policy], and women’s rights” Sammy Luna, on the horseshoe lasted over an hour with the respective a Geography major at the rally, said. “If you look at these groups and speakers as well as musicians addressing the parallels, we cannot stand for this hate that dehumanizes crowd. these people. We have to show support so that we are The student speaking on condition of anonym- here for them and with love” ity, who addressed the crowd at one point, says that he believes the power of the protest is still very much alive. The protest was put on mainly by student groups “I think it is important because it is an outlet for a lot of such as Young Berniecrats, AgGays, and Aggie Solidarity, fears and indifferences that we are feeling, but also when as well as local community groups that were advocating you see the [U.S.] government making fun of people pro- for social justice. testing, I think it’s not because they do not like it, I think it is because they see the power in this.” For many at the protest, these issues can be more significant in their day-to-day life than others. To view a full list of pictures of the protest, click the mulit- media tab on TRU's wesbite- www.nmsuroundup.net “I’m from Mexico, I’m an immigrant. Right now I am standing here with fear because I am not a U.S. citizen” a Cultural Editor Jianna Vasquez contributed to this report. male NMSU student speaking on condition of anonymity said. The student, who is a completing his masters through the Health and Social Services College says that the recent election has made him very uneasy on a number of levels. “We [him and his family] came to this country looking for freedom and peace because we did not get that there in Mexico, we were persecuted for speaking up over there and now it feels we are being persecuted here” he said. Many protestors came equipped with signs, custom shirts, and different props to convey their message. The 5 TRU academic Constructing Geology Rocks By: Isaiah Silva A majority of faculty in the Geo- in the 1950s to “promote the progress of uplift over millions of years.” logical Sciences Department at NMSU has science to advance national health, pros- been awarded National Science Foundation perity, and welfare; as well as to secure the Amato will use the “presence Futures grants within the last year and a half, which national defense." of small amounts of radioactively derived adds up to more than $250,000. helium in the mineral zircon” to determine The NSF has an annual budget of when the rock rose up and fi nd the age of Four out of the six faculty mem- $7.2 billion and help fund nearly 24 percent the rocks that formed the mountain range. bers in the department have secured of research in American universities. They grants from the NSF. According to the NSF also support other fi elds such as mathemat- “The mineral zircon is amazing website, the grants go to people whose ics and computer science. because it can be used to determine the age “research proposals have been judged the of the rocks as well as the time when the most promising by a rigorous and objective The research that is taking place rocks were uplifted to form the mountains.” merit-review system.” at NMSU is truly global. Researchers are Amato said. studying origins of minerals that were found “The typical success rate for NSF in Antarctica, to magma that erupted in These grants will help each of the geology awards is about 15 percent so we’ve Oregon, and back to the Organ Mountains researchers in their quest of knowledge been quite successful in securing these and fi nding out how they were formed. about our planet. Not only will they help the grants. Every member of the geology faculty researchers, it will also help future students is actively involved in national or interna- “We are lucky to have spectacular who want to study geology. tional research,” Nancy McMillan, Geology mountain ranges in southern New Mexico,” Department Head said. Jeff Amato, NMSU professor of structural Let these faculty members be geology, tectonics, and geochronology said, examples that education and a thirst for The National Science Foundation is an in- “These mountains formed through tectonic knowledge can take a student wherever he dependent federal agency that was created forces that resulted in earthquakes and or she may want to go. 䄀瘀漀椀搀吀愀砀䤀搀攀渀琀椀琀礀攀攀㄀⸀ 䘀椀氀攀礀漀甀爀琀愀砀攀猀攀愀爀氀礀㈀⸀ 唀猀攀愀猀攀挀甀爀攀椀渀琀攀爀渀攀琀挀漀渀渀攀挀琀椀漀渀㨀䄀最最椀攀䄀椀爀ⴀ圀倀䄀㈀ ⠀䜀漀琀漀栀攀氀瀀⸀渀洀猀甀⸀攀搀甀㸀䌀氀椀挀欀漀渀䤀渀猀琀爀甀挀琀椀漀渀猀 ☀ 䜀甀椀搀攀猀 ⤀ ㌀⸀ 䌀栀攀挀欀礀漀甀爀挀爀攀搀椀琀爀攀瀀漀爀琀愀渀渀甀愀氀氀礀⸀ 吀栀攀䤀刀匀眀椀氀氀渀漀琀挀漀渀琀愀挀琀礀漀甀戀礀攀洀愀椀氀Ⰰ 琀攀砀琀Ⰰ 漀爀猀漀挀椀愀氀洀攀搀椀愀⸀ 伀渀氀礀戀礀洀愀椀氀⸀ 6 TRU academic Constructing culture Futures By: Isaiah Silva The Las Cruces Rotary Club recently gave NM- A rotary club is a group of volunteers that want SU’s College of Engineering a gift of nearly $128,000.

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