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GPSA votes in favor of funding gay center

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by Tricia Remark Daily Lobo

The Queer Resource Center is one step closer to becoming a reality at UNM. The Graduate and Professional Student Association unanimously passed a resolution Saturday in support of the center.

Jeffrey Waldo, a Queer Straight Alliance representative, said UNM is behind its peer institutions — many of which already have a Queer Resource Center. The universities of Virginia, Utah, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas and Kentucky all have resource centers, he said.

“Many, many other schools have them, and we don’t,” Waldo said.

“Twelve out of our 16 peer institutions have a Queer Resource Center or something like it. It seems pretty necessary to support the (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning) community.”

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Long Nguyen / Daily Lobo Electronic arts student Paul Anglada draws with two LED lights on glow-in-the-dark panels while images are projected onto him. Two electronic arts students, Seth Grant and Dylan Stevens-Sheriff, created the art piece at the Black Market Goods Gallery on Saturday evening.

Special election boasts record graduate turnout

by Pat Lohmann Daily Lobo

GPSA’s special election about the UNM Athletics Administration saw a record turnout, and all four questions on the ballot passed by margins of at least 30 percent.

“This is an unprecedented number,” said GPSA President Lissa Knudsen. “It is our belief that GPSA has never had this turnout.”

As for the results, 1,163 students voted in the online election, which is more than twice the turnout of the April GPSA presidential election.

Students could select “no opinion” on each question. There are roughly 5,500 graduate students at UNM. More than 1,000 students voted to urge the Board of Regents to divert student fees from Athletics. Of those who had an opinion, more than 85 percent of students voted to urge the administration to divert student fees away from the Athletics Department to academic programs.

Also, 81 percent of students who voted said they have no confidence in Athletics Director Paul Krebs’ handling of the Sept. 20 altercation between head football coach Mike Locksley and assistant coach J.B. Gerald.

Roughly two-thirds of graduate and professional students with an opinion voted no confidence in

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Krebs’ overall performance as Athletics Director. However, only half of the voters selected “yes” or “no” to this question.

Athletics spokesman Greg Remington said Krebs had no comment on the results of the two votes. Krebs issued a statement to the Albuquerque Journal touting his accomplishments as Athletics Director.

“It is unfortunate that in this time of unprecedented success for UNM student athletes and the UNM Athletics Department, the GPSA chooses to focus on one isolated occurrence,” Krebs told the Journal on Friday. “For example, a record four teams participated in their respective NCAA tournaments in the fall; the UNM ski team is currently ranked No. 1 in the country; our men’s basketball team is experiencing great success.”

Sixty-five percent of students voted to ask the Board of Regents to launch an independent investigation into the Locksley/Gerald incident.

In addition to sharing the results of this election with legislators, Knudsen said she would distribute them to the Board of Regents.

GPSA Council Chair Danny Hernandez said he hopes undergraduate student government will pose similar questions to its constituents.

Results from GPSA special online election *Percentages are generated from the number of students who participated in the election and selected “yes” or “no,” as students had the option of selecting “no opinion.

Question 2:

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Encourage the Student Fee Review Board to divert funds from Athletics to academic programs

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Confidence in Krebs’ handling of the Sept. 20 incident between Locksley and Gerald

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Confidence in Krebs’ leadership of UNM Athletics Department

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Today in History

On Feb. 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia broke up during re-entry, killing all seven of its crew members.

In 1861, Texas voted to secede from the Union.

In 1920, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police came into existence, merging the Royal North West Mounted Police and the Dominion Police.

In 1943, one of America’s most highly decorated military units of World War II, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, made up almost exclusively of Japanese-Americans, was authorized.

In 1946, Norwegian statesman Trygve Lie was chosen to

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be the first secretary-general of the United Nations.

In 1958, the United Arab Republic, a union of Egypt and Syria, was established. Syria withdrew from the union in 1961.

In 1959, men in Switzerland rejected giving women the right to vote by a more than 2-1 referendum margin. Swiss women gained the right to vote in 1971.

In 1960, four black college students began a sit-in protest at a whites-only Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., which refused to serve them; similar protests sprang up across the South.

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Legislators shoot hoops for cancer

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SANTA FE  Legislative bragging rights were center stage via the hardwood on Friday in a fight against cancer.

The New Mexico House of Representatives hooped it up against the New Mexico Senate to benefit the UNM Cancer Center. The charity basketball game was held at St. Michael’s High School Gym in Santa Fe on Friday.

State representatives wore New Mexico State Aggie jerseys, while the senators dressed in UNM’s cherry red jerseys.

“Hoops 4 Hope” has raised over $35,000 since the game turned into a charity event in 2004, said Cheryl Willman, director and chief executive officer of the UNM Cancer Center. This year’s game added to that total by more than $10,000.

Willman said the game became a fundraiser after the death of State Representative Raymond Ruiz, who died from lung cancer.

“The game has really grown since then and it has kind of turned into a big fundraiser every year,” Willman said.

Cheerleading squads and mascots from both schools rooted for their respective teams.

The game also included two

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well-known coaches — legendary NMSU coach Lou Henson coached the House Aggies, while UNM head football coach Mike Locksley led the Senate Lobos.

Locksley said he enjoys being involved in events like “Hoops 4 Hope,” because his mother, Venita Locksley, is a breast cancer survivor.

“It’s always something that is, obviously, important for me to be a part of,” Locksley said. “It’s all for a great cause. When it’s all said and done, the winner is the UNM Cancer Center, and I am happy I am involved.”

Billy Gupton, a former UNM student and former intern for the New Mexico State Legislature, is responsible for putting the charity game together and getting sponsorship.

“After I graduated from UNM, I started working up in Santa Fe and there was nobody to organize the event,” Gupton said. “I was asked if I would be willing to and so I started to. However, I moved on and got a job at Merrill Lynch back in Albuquerque, and I was asked if I would keep doing it.”

Although it’s Gupton’s fourth year in charge of the game, the game itself is 15 years old.

This year’s game featured a crowd of more than 100 people including Albuquerque Mayor

Richard Berry, Chief Public Safety Officer of Albuquerque Darren White and UNM President David Schmidly.

As for the game itself, it lived up to whatever hype it may have generated.

Howie Morales from the Senate Lobos hit two go-ahead free throws with 39 seconds left in the final quarter to give the Senate a 43-42 lead.

The Morales free throws won the game and bragging rights, at least for the next year, for the New Mexico Senate.

“You know there is so much excitement here. Everybody gets into the spirit for this great cause,” Morales said. “It gives us an opportunity to break away from the tension that surrounds the Roundhouse at times, and it shows we are all united for New Mexico. I don’t think you could ask for a better ending, though. I don’t think the Senate has won the game in 11 years. But I was glad I was able to hit those free throws and really blessed to be out there.”

holding a similar special election.

Knudsen and Hernandez announced the results early Friday morning to allow Knudsen to present the election results to the Senate Rules Committee hearing in Santa Fe. The hearing is regarding a joint memorial sponsored by State Sen. Eric Griego that asks the Board of Regents to cut UNM administrative

salaries. Griego’s memorial passed and will go before the Senate Education Committee.

“One of the things that’s critical is that the State Legislature is in session,” Knudsen said. “This is one more piece that shows that … the University’s governance does not reflect its constituents.”

To donate to the UNM Cancer center, visit cancer.unm.edu and click on “Ways to Give.”

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“It’s about time for the undergrads to chime in as well,” Hernandez said. “I’ve heard from about as many undergrads as graduates, and I think it’s time for ASUNM to chime in.”

ASUNM Vice President Mike Westervelt said there’s no talk among members of the undergraduate student governing body about

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news in brief TUCUMCARI, N.M. — Tracks in the snow leading from a crashed car to the nearby bridge overpass on New Mexico’s I-40 just didn’t look right to officers.

State police say that officers patrolling the stretch near Tucumcari Saturday found that 40-year-old Henry Alan Lowe of El Paso, Texas, had lost control of his sedan and crashed into a snow pile.

Then they noticed tracks leading back and forth from the trunk to the bridge.

They allege that partially hidden under the overpass were large plastic wrapped bundles containing about 238 pounds of raw marijuana with an estimated street value of more than $642,000.

Police say Lowe was arrested after treated for a gash to his head.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A group of 10 American Baptists were being held in the Haitian capital Sunday after trying take 33 children out of Haiti.

The church group, most of them from Idaho, allegedly lacked the proper documents when they were arrested Friday night in a bus along with children from 2 months to 12 years old who had survived the

catastrophic earthquake.

The group say they were setting up an orphanage across the border in the Dominican Republic.

“In this chaos the government is in right now, we were just trying to do the right thing,” the group’s spokeswoman, Laura Silsby, told The Associated Press at the judicial police headquarters in the capital, where the Americans were being held pending a Monday hearing before a judge.

The Baptists’ “Haitian Orphan Rescue Mission” was described as an effort to save abandoned, traumatized children.

Their plan was to scoop up 100 kids and take them by bus to a 45room hotel at Cabarete, a beach resort in the Dominican Republic, that they were converting into an orphanage, Silsby told the AP. Whether they realized it or not, these Americans — the first known to be taken into custody since the Jan. 12 quake — put themselves in the middle of a firestorm in Haiti, where government leaders have suspended adoptions amid fears that parentless or lost children are more vulnerable than ever to child trafficking.

correction Contrary to what was printed in Friday’s article, “Senator: Cut top 20 highest salaries,” the data being presented to the Senate Rules Committee was not exclusively

about faculty and administrative salaries. Instead, all data presented at the legislative session about UNM is part of the Fiscal Impact Report.

The Daily Lobo is committed to providing you with factually accurate information, and we are eager to correct any error as soon as it is discovered. If you have any information regarding a mistake in the newspaper or online, please contact editorinchief@dailylobo.com.

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LAST WEEK’S POLL RESULTS: Thursday marked a significant change in American politics when the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that government officials may not ban political spending by corporations and unions in candidate elections. Do you think corporations should have limits on their political spending capabilities?

Out of 82 total responses

Yes, corporate political spending will let special interest groups have a much 44% larger influence on political figures.

Yes, corporations do not deserve the same rights as individuals.

35% No, free political spending will ultimately aid in the preservation of our 16% democratic society.

No, their spending practices will never change the way our elections or gov5% ernment functions.

THIS WEEK’S POLL: Last Friday a new drug law in Mexico came into effect, wherein small amounts of cocaine, heroine, LSD, marijuana and methamphetamine are now legally permitted. The law was enacted to lessen the amount of energy that police spend on personal drug users. Do you think this new law will effect the current drug situation in Mexico?

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Yes, the stigma of using drugs will go away, making them less “cool” and less desirable.

Yes, it will lesson instances of police extracting bribes from people for small amounts of drugs..

No, legalization still does nothing to address the problem of addiction.

No, the drug cartels have never focused on Mexican citizens. Their business has always been in the United States.

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LETTERS Former student ponders the origin of Mitchell Hall Editor, Many years ago, I was a student at UNM and had many classes at Mitchell Hall. I had fond and not so fond memories, the degree of fondness being directly related to how often I attended class in any given course.

For some years I have wondered, who was

the “Mitchell” in Mitchell Hall? I have asked a number of in-the-know UNM officials and my question has always been met with the response, “I don’t know.”

Perhaps there is an easy answer and it may be that the history of Mitchell Hall has been the subject of a Lobo article. I only see the Daily Lobo if I happen to be strolling through campus and pick up an edition. If so, please ignore this letter. But if not, it would be an interesting assignment for someone at the

paper.

This evening, I did walk through campus and admired the renovation to the building.

The University and Regents deserve “high marks” for this project. It is quite wonderful and I am sure whoever Ms., Mrs. or Mr. Mitchell was, he or she would be very proud and pleased.

to get compliance to the policy, while at the same time allowing smokers to enjoy nicotine. Here we should note that, one does not need to “smoke” tobacco to get the effects of nicotine. In fact, nicotine can be delivered into the blood stream in a multitude of ways without involving the act of smoking. So how, you might ask, can we do this?

The answer is really simple, and actually was inspired by the Jan. 21 Daily Lobo column, “Doing it in the Duke city” entitled “Clean and painless anal sex — no butts about it” by Miss Hunter Riley. The unexplored, fun and pleasurable route for compliance to the tobacco policy is, of course, the anus. There are multitudes of capillaries and a rich blood supply in the lower small intestine near the anus. Nicotine could be easily and quickly absorbed into the bloodstream through this

entry point. Therefore, as the primary method in gaining compliance to the university tobacco policy, I suggest nicotine suppositories and enemas.

Imagine, as a nicotine user you could insert a suppository before class and ride calming nicotine-induced waves without disturbing others. Just think: No smoke, no cigarette butts, no smell, the possibility of an orgasm, and you could do it anywhere. This is the perfect solution. In fact, if the Daily Lobo prints this submission, perhaps they would let me have my own column. I would call it “Burning it in Burque” with my next feature article giving the merits of smoking while menstruating.

for transparency of UNM Athletics and recommend that funding should be reprioritized to academic programs that are consistent with the mission of the University? Do you recommend that the specific use of SFRB money be clearly defined in all future Athletics Department budgets?

—Yes, the SFRB should call for transparency of UNM Athletics and recommend that funding should be reprioritized to academic programs that are consistent with the mission of the university. I recommend that the specific use of SFRB money be clearly defined in all future

athletics department budgets.

—No, the SFRB should not call for transparency of UNM Athletics and recommend that funding should not be reprioritized to academic programs that are consistent with the mission of the university. I do not recommend that the specific use of SFRB money be clearly defined in all future athletics department budgets.

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solution for UNM smokers Editor, Supposedly, this is a smoke-free campus, and allegedly one is only allowed to use tobacco in designated areas. However, one quick stroll across campus indicates otherwise. Students, faculty and staff smoke whenever and wherever they please. When this policy was put into place, no method of enforcement was stipulated and no punishment for violating the policy was put into place. Compliance of the new rules are voluntary. Since no one feels like complying, no one does. And why should they?

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Wording in GPSA election could be misleading to voters Editor, Below is an election question, word for word, from the GPSA. Does this look like a fair election question? Is it misleading? They hid their real question by placing it after the first question, connected with “and.”

GPSA Special Election 2010 “1. Should the Student Fee Review Board call

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Spike in violence and bloodshed in Mexico The Associated Press CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Armed men stormed a party in this violent Mexican border city, killing 13 high school and college students in what witnesses said they thought was an attack prompted by false information.

About two dozen teens and young adults were hospitalized after the late Saturday assault in Ciudad Juarez, a drug cartel-plagued city which is one of the deadliest in the world.

Grieving witnesses and family members told The Associated Press on Sunday they thought the victims, mostly residents of the housing complex where the attack occurred, had no ties to drug traffickers.

“It must have been a huge mistake,” said Martha Lujan, who lives at the housing complex.

The young adults had gathered to watch a boxing match, Lujan said, when two trucks pulled up loaded with armed men who opened fire.

Ten people were killed at the scene and other three died at local hospitals, Chihuahua State Attorney Patricia Gonzales said.

The bodies of the victims, whose ages ranged from 15 to 20, lay scattered around the house where the attack happened.

A witness to the attacks said he was just outside when the gunfire broke out. Hector, who only gave his first

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name because he feared retaliation, said the party was an innocuous gathering of friends who must have been targeted incorrectly.

“I think there was some confusion,” he said. “We’re seeking justice.”

Ciudad Juarez, a city of 1.3 million people just across the border from El Paso, Texas, is home to several drug cartel bosses who are battling for turf as thousands of troops and federal police try to stop them.

More than 2,250 people were killed there last year alone.

Violence also rocked the oceanside Mexican community of Lazaro Cardenas overnight. Police in the southwestern city said that just after midnight Saturday, about 20 heavily armed gunmen riding in trucks with tinted windows attacked a police station with grenades and assault rifles, killing a police officer and two civilians — a mother and her son who had come to pay a fine.

Also early Sunday morning, three women and two men, all identified as Mexican citizens, were murdered while driving in their van with California license plates near the western Mexican city of Navolato.

The bodies of the five victims, including a 16-year-old girl, were found riddled with bullets, said Martin Gastelum, attorney general for the state of Sinaloa, where Navolato is located.

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He said LGBTQ students don’t have enough resources on campus.

The Queer Straight Alliance only meets once a week and their SUB office — operated by student volunteers — is hardly ever open, Waldo said. Other resource centers, such as El Centro de la Raza and the Women’s Resource Center, are located in Mesa Vista Hall.

“You have to walk through loads of students to get there, so if you’re not out of the closet its just like, ‘Oh my gosh, what am I doing? Do I know these people?’” Waldo said.

“LGBTQ students need more protection and privacy and support until they’re ready to come out.”

Danny Hernandez, GPSA Council Chair, said the resolution includes the formation of a task force of students, staff and community members who will work to create the resource center. He said the task force will decide on the center’s name as well. He said the word “queer” may be upsetting to some people.

“My generation has a problem with the term, because there are lots of negative connotations,” he said.

Waldo said the queer resource center asked for $80,000 from the Student Fee Review Board for a computer pod, full time staff, lounge and library. And he said the full-time staff would require only $30,000 per year, and most of the other fees are start-up costs.

Student Evan Bracken, who is openly gay, said the center might be more appealing if it was called the LGBTQ center.

“I don’t personally have a problem with it, but I can see people kind of feeling weird about it, especially if it’s a place where you would want to go,” he said. “I think that calling it the queer center would kind of turn some people off to that.”

Waldo said he hasn’t heard any student concerns about the proposed center’s name.

The SFRB is scheduled to decide if it will allocate the funding on Feb. 5 and 6.

Bracken said free HIV testing and condoms would also be a good service for the center to have. He also said counseling is especially important for some LGBTQ students.

“It can be really hard for certain people, especially people who aren’t really out in their communities or to their friends,” he said. “I think it would really be good to have someone to talk to.”

He said the center would be well worth the money to students.

“There is a huge LGBTQ population, which is very diverse, and they need all the support services and resources they can get,” he said.

“They’re still one of the few groups who face open hostility from public officials and don’t have the same legal rights.”

Hernandez said the center would be open to all students, not just LGBTQ students. He said even if the center doesn’t get full funding from SFRB, a good space and volunteers are all that’s needed to start the center and help students.

“When you’re coming to grips with being attracted to people of your same sex, it’s got to be a lot harder because it’s not accepted in society — at least not yet it isn’t,” he said. “This center will help people out in that way as well.”

25 percent tax proposed for medical marijuana

by Barry Massey

The Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. — A proposal to tax medical marijuana in New Mexico ran into strong opposition on Friday and a House committee shelved the measure.

The proposal would impose a 25 percent tax on the value of marijuana grown for medical purposes.

A 2007 law allows people with certain medical conditions to get relief by using marijuana. About 1,000 patients are registered with the state.

One of those patients, Paul Culkin of Albuquerque, told lawmakers he spent $800 a month for two ounces of medical marijuana. The 30-year-old Army veteran suffers from post traumatic stress disorder.

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Culkin said, and “this would cause me to go out on the street” to buy cheaper marijuana.

“We don’t want to drive patients to the black market,” said Reena Szczepanski of Drug Policy Alliance New Mexico, who lobbied for the medical marijuana law.

The state doesn’t tax prescription medicines and opponents said the medical marijuana tax would hurt patients with serious illnesses, including cancer, multiple sclerosis, Lou Gehrig’s disease, HIV-AIDS and certain spinal cord injuries.

“Most of the patients are on fixed income,” said Szczepanski.

Len Goodman runs a nonprofit that is one of five licensed by the state to produce and distribute medical marijuana. He sells marijuana for $280 or $360 an ounce.

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Two time zones, two days and two athletes making statements.

The UNM track and field team is a force to reckon with, especially runners Lee Emanuel and Rory Fraser, who broke UNM records over the weekend.

Fraser’s altitude-adjusted time beat Emanuel’s old record in the 3,000-meter run.

Emanuel, the reigning NCAA indoor mile champion, posted his second career sub-four minute while competing at the Indiana Relays Invitational on Friday. He shaved .29 seconds off his previous personal best, clocking in at 3:57.62.

Emanuel, who admitted he might have only one more opportunity to break the NCAA record held in the mile, said everything has to come together to trim seconds off a time.

“It’s all about getting in the right race at the right time,” Emanuel said.

“We thought this race would be a lot quicker. It was meant to be paced through 1,200 meters. I did a lot of leading. I wasn’t planning on running from the front this week. That takes a lot out of you.”

Lobo coach Joe Franklin said Emanuel’s less-than-sparkling performance last week is an afterthought.

“The 800-meter is an off event for

Vanessa Sanchez / Daily Lobo Rory Fraser hovers in second place, while a pack of runners vie for position during the 3,000-meter run. Fraser closed quickly in the last 60 meters of the race and won Saturday at the Albuquerque Convention Center. him,” Franklin said. “He runs the mile and 3K, but you have to do those races to work on different aspects, and I think it was completely irrelevant for him after his (third-place) finish a week ago.”

Even though he thrived on Friday, Franklin said Emanuel isn’t favored to repeat as NCAA mile champion this year.

“The NCAA favorite right now is a guy named Dorian Ulrey from

Arkansas that ran in the world championships,” Franklin said. “I think it’s a good position for (Emanuel) to go in as the underdog.”

In Albuquerque, though, Fraser was playing top dog.

Fraser claimed the facility record on Saturday in the 3,000-meter run, clocking a time of 8:08.29. His altitude adjusted time of 7:56.31 eclipsed teammate Emanuel’s 2009 school record in the event by four-hundredths

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of a second.

Fraser said the heavy competition brought out the best in him.

“If it wasn’t for that guy, I wouldn’t have done that well,” Fraser said, who roared past Team USA Minnesota’s Patrick Smyth in the final 60 meters of the race. “Once I passed him, it was the first time I felt confident I could beat someone on a sprint finish. And the crowd was great. It felt like everyone was cheering for me.”

This was the final time Fraser planned on competing in the 3,000meter run, since he was running it to prepare for the 5,000-meter run he’ll compete in Seattle during the next two weeks.

In all, Saturday’s meet was marked with widespread improvement, Franklin said.

Transfer Alex Darling returned this season after a year removed from

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this year’s race will come down to a photo finish.

If it’s going to happen, the Lobos will need their jockey — Flanagan — to guide them to the rail. UNM can run from the outside, but as Saturday proved, when the Lobos can start on the perimeter and work toward the inside, they’re that much deadlier.

Finishing down the stretch will be equally important. UNM went 4-4 in its final eight conference

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games last season.

And at this point, Flanagan said, he’s not even sure how to gauge the quality of Saturday’s win.

“I think (TCU) is the best team in the conference,” he said. “But I don’t know that for sure right now because everybody seems to be able to beat everybody else.”

Suffice it to say, the Lobos will play until the whistle blows. Here’s to hoping they come out looking better than Pardue.

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it opens it back up for the 3,” Beggin said.

Again, when TCU closed off the interior, the Lobos went out. They scored their next 12 points from beyond the arc, giving them their largest lead, 53-44, with four minutes left.

It seemed Flanagan was always a step ahead of Mittie.

Nonetheless, TCU hung around, never trailing by more than nine points and pulling to within four late in the game.

With 10 seconds left, the Lobos leading by four and TCU running out of chances, the Horned Frogs needed a quick foul.

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stretches all the way to 1936, Federer became the first dad to win a major singles title since 2003. He also now can aim at a true, calendar-year Grand Slam, something no man has accomplished since 1969.

“I’m over the moon winning this again,” the 28-year-old Swiss star said. “I played some of my best tennis in my life these last two weeks.

It’s also very special — the first Grand Slam as a father.”

Federer had only recently discovered he was to become the father of twins when he lost the Australian Open final in five wrenching sets against rival Rafael Nadal last year, then broke down during the presentation.

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Off the inbound, Kielpinski — who finished the game with 9 rebounds, six assists and five points — flopped to the hard wood off a Horned Frog foul, enticing the official into calling an intentional foul.

Mittie was unhappy with the call and gave the Lobos two more free throws after receiving a technical foul.

Dodging talk of the officiating, Mittie said The Pit gave the Lobos added energy.

“I think this crowd gives them energy — the players, not the officials,” Mittie said. “How we handle those things — that is up to us.”

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competition. She said she moved back to New Mexico from Colorado to run under Franklin. Saturday, Darling finished third in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:12.88. She also put up a career-best in the mile, coming in at 4:58.

“I just need to get in a lot of races again,” Darling said. “I’m just setting myself up for bigger races and big-

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Franklin said all his athletes are fine-tuning as the season progresses.

“We’ve done great lately, and when you’re very fit you’re on a fine line between greatness and injury,” he said.

“And it’s that fine line that we have to make sure they do everything right and control what you can.”

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At least UNM women’s head basketball coach Don Flanagan doesn’t.

Had Flanagan not mentioned it, no one would have known, watching the Lobos freeze out No. 20 TCU, 60UNM 60 53.

The UNM de53 TCU fense held the Horned Frogs to their season-low field-goal percentage (29.8) and scoring output of the season, pulling the Lobos (13-7, 5-3 MWC) within a half game of first place in the Mountain West Conference.

“We mixed up our defenses,” Flanagan said. “We went a zone press and had a man-to-man. There at the end we were in a zone-press on a make and a man-to-man on a miss. Sometimes they weren’t sure what we were in. So that was pretty successful.”

From the start, it appeared it would be a defensive struggle.

Both teams showed a zone look, each forcing the other into two shotclock violations in the first half.

When the offenses did score, it was in streaks.

“I was going to stay with a zone this time because of their personnel,” Flanagan said “They just have a lot of talented kids that are difficult to guard.”

The Lobos darted to a quick 11-6 lead in the first seven minutes. The Horned Frogs countered with an 11-2 run of their own, until Lobo forward Eileen Weissmann, who finished with a career-high 17 points, converted a three-point play off a foul on a layup.

From there, the Lobos went on a 9-2 run to end the first half with the Lobos leading 21-19.

In the first half, TCU (15-5, 5-3 MWC) held the Lobos to a 20.7

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percent field-goal range and a 12.5 percent 3-point percentage.

Credit Amanda Best, Jessica Kielpinski and Sara Halasz, who combined to go 5-of-25, throughout the game.

Point guard Amy Beggin helped offset Best, Kielpinski and Halasz’s shooting woes. Beggin finished with 19 points, most off of four 3-pointers. “(On offense), I think we just needed to calm down a little bit,” Beggin said. “We were going too fast, making some mistakes that we really didn’t need to make and just not making our shots.”

Flanagan cited some wild 3-pointers, but also gave credit to TCU’s zone defense. TCU abandoned the zone early in the second half.

“They helped us by changing defense by going from a zone to a man (in the second half),” Flanagan said.

“One of the things with a zone — with a coach — is coaches don’t really like zones. And as soon as (the offense) hits a 3, that is usually, ‘I’m out of it.’”

TCU head coach Jeff Mittie said some mistakes and a few key Lobo shots coaxed him out of a defense that worked well in the first half.

“They had trouble with our zone in the first half,” Mittie said. “We mixed up a couple things in the first half. I think if you look back, we made the switch after we made some mistakes, when we trapped and didn’t rotate to Beggin. She made us pay in the corner.”

Alternately, the Lobos befuddled TCU from the perimeter and inside the paint.

When TCU closed off the outside, the Lobos went in. They scored 14 of their next 15 points inside the lane, but led only 39-37 with 8:57 to go in the game.

“Once we get those easy baskets, they have to sag in a little bit, so

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Daniel Hulsbos / Daily Lobo Members of the Lobo women’s basketball team scurry up The Pit ramp while slapping fans’ hands at the conclusion of Saturday’s 60-53 win over No. 20 TCU.

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Clear MWC champ too close to call

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Daniel Hulsbos / Daily Lobo Lobo head coach Don Flanagan shouts at his players from the sidelines during the Lobos’ 6053 win over the Horned Frogs. Flanagan said the MWC is ripe with parity this season.

TCU couldn’t — and didn’t — invoke whistle-blower status at The Pit on Saturday.

It would be easy — and dull-witted — to attribute the UNM women’s basketball team’s 60-53 marquee victory over No. 20 TCU to favorable officiating.

It wouldn’t even be a point of contention had referee Connie Pardue not allowed the crowd to influence her whistle.

She did.

Pardue’s intentional foul call on TCU’s Brandy “Starr” Crawford was subjective — as is almost all officiating.

The call sent TCU coach Jeff Mittie into a frenzied rage. Mittie stomped his foot. The nest of Pit fans swarmed, and Pardue stung Mittie with a technical foul.

Do credit the Lobos, though.

They overcame several setbacks and trumped the Horned Frogs, tightening the Mountain West Conference standings.

In lieu of baskets, the Lobos hit free throws, propelling them to a 21-19 halftime lead. UNM was 7-of-7 from the line in the first half compared to

TCU’s 1-of-6. Eileen Weissmann put up a career-high 17 points.

The Lobos played hounding defense, forcing the Horned Frogs into 17 turnovers and holding them 20 points under their season average in points.

Still, the inconsistency in Pardue’s whistle on Saturday just reflects and enduring pattern of parity in the larger Mountain West Conference this year.

Unlike the 2008-09 season, this year’s MWC regular-season title push isn’t a three-pony race. Last year there was a clear division of power.

The MWC was top-heavy, with San Diego State and Utah finishing at 13-3 in the MWC, followed by TCU (12-4), which finished a half game back in the standings.

In the middle rested UNM (9-7), BYU (8-8) and Wyoming (8-8), while bootlickers UNLV, Colorado State and Air Force drowned below MWC sea level, finishing seventh, eight and ninth, respectively.

Halfway through this year’s conference season, there exists no such concentration of power.

Discounting UNLV and Air Force, the seven other teams in the MWC are just 1½ games back of TCU. Two wins for the Lobos have

propelled them to within a half game of TCU, which still lead the conference despite Saturday’s setback.

BYU, also 5-2, and San Diego State (5-2) are nipping at the Horned Frogs’ heels.

But head coach Don Flanagan said handicapping this race is nearly impossible.

“We have some really good teams in this conference from top to bottom,” he said. “Parity is here and that’s why you see the top team right now has two losses. Last year, the top team was undefeated throughout the whole season. We’re just halfway through right now and the two best teams, or the two top teams, have two losses. It’s a much better conference this year, much more competitive conference this year.”

Can you peg one team or another to fall out of contention? Not at this point.

However, in officiating terms, UNM is the Pardue of the MWC — consistently inconsistent. One minute they’re losing to Colorado State, an improved but youthful conference foe. Next minute they’re beating the front-runners in the league — BYU and TCU — and making fans think

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