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February 25, 2010
First-half follies almost foil Beggin’s return by Isaac Avilucea Daily Lobo
Trudgingly, the UNM women’s basketball team trekked to a 65-50 victory over downtrodden Colorado State. For the greater part of 30 minutes, the Lobos (16-10, 8-6 UNM 65 Mountain West Conference) 50 CSU slogged toward the finish line — but they did finish, stringing together enough effort in a concentrated four-minute period to open the second half, in which Eileen Weissmann had four points, one coming off a 3-pointer. “Every time we come out after halftime, we always say we have to win the first four minutes,” Weissmann said. “That’s what our strength has been in the games we’ve won, because we come out and really attack. Whereas I feel in some of the games that were close that we lost we didn’t come out with the intensity that we showed tonight.” A spirited endeavor, plus a 3-point parade from Colorado State’s Kim Mestdagh and Chatilla Van Grinsven, kept the Rams within
striking distance — and initially put Flanagan in a scowling mood. “Everybody in the building knows (Mestdagh’s) a 3-point shooter,” the Lobos’ head coach said. “Yet we don’t get out and put enough pressure on her.” All the same, Flanagan said the Lobos were intent upon taking 3-pointers in the first half. Though they only shot nine, Flanagan said they were, at times, ill-advised. “I thought we were looking to shoot the 3 instead of letting the 3 shot come to them,” he said. “What they were doing was, ‘It might be out of my range, but I’ll shoot a 3.’” However, the Lobos quickened their pace in the opening minutes of the second half. In that stretch, the beleaguered Lobos turned up the intensity. Back came the Rams, though — Bonnie Barbee draining a trey ball. Still, after missing the last three games with a head injury, Amy Beggin wasn’t to be denied. She hardly showed signs of rust, swishing a 3-pointer to pull the Lobos within one point, before Weissmann belted up another dagger to reclaim the lead for UNM, 39-37. Beggin led the Lobos with a
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Junfu Han/ Daily Lobo Sara Halasz and Amy Beggin embrace after the Lobos defeated Colorado State 65-50 inside The Pit on Wednesday. Beggin had a team-high 16 points in her first game back since sustaining a head injury against UNLV.
Potential Engineering deans visit UNM by Kallie Red-Horse Daily Lobo
The search for the next School of Engineering dean has narrowed to three final candidates, each of whom will visit campus over the next two weeks. Daniel Fleetwood, Patrick O’Shea and Gregory Washington will each have the opportunity to present and conduct an open forum with students, faculty and the community before the Provost makes a final decision. Fleetwood, chair of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Vanderbilt University, was the first of the three to visit UNM. He said Wednesday that his main focus as dean would be to raise the
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department’s national ranking in the U.S. News and World Report. “If you are on the top 50, you get different kinds of students applying both at the undergraduate and graduate levels than if you are not,” he said. “Things like trying to recruit students with stronger records and trying to improve the reputation of the school among other universities and in the industry are essential. It is also important to try to have the more accomplished faculty become members of the National Academy of Engineering and also to build research funding.” Those attending the forums have the ability to participate in the dean selection by filling out evaluation forms, said John Pieper, dean of the UNM School of Pharmacy and head of the selection committee.
“The purpose of the sheet is to allow us to collect standardized information on each of our three candidates that are coming,” he said. “We wanted a process where we could get a broad base of input from students, faculty, staff (and) alumni. The main reason is so that we can get as much information from a broad base of people as we can.” John Farris, a graduate of UNM’s Engineering department said he was concerned about the University not receiving due credit for its accomplishments. “One of my points of distress about UNM Engineering is the fact that they do a lot of neat things and get very little publicity,” he said. “I have been on some committees
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The Arts and Sciences Advisement Center is moving to a bigger and better location this week. The center will be closed until Tuesday to complete the move from Ortega Hall to the Student Services Building, according to an e-mail sent to all Arts and Sciences students on Tuesday. Brenda Claiborne, Arts and Sciences Dean, said students were informed about the closure only two days ahead of time because of the remodeling process in Student Services. “The Advising center sent an e-mail out to students as soon as we were notified of the definite move dates,” she said in an e-mail to the Daily Lobo. “As the remodeling process can be unpredictable, we did not want to send vague or confusing information to our student body before we knew the exact dates of the move.” The Advisement Center’s new space was recently re-modeled to provide waiting-room space for up to 30 students and space for three new advisers. The Student Services Center is currently home to University College Advisement, One-Stop and Bursar’s Office. Moving Arts and Sciences
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Advisement to Student Services will help streamline the advisement process, Claiborne said. She said the number of students in the College of Arts and Sciences has grown 40 percent in the last eight years. But the Advisement Center hasn’t been able to expand as well. “The University agreed that to better serve our growing population of students, the Advising Center of the College needed more space,” she said. The e-mail sent to all Arts and Sciences students said that Advisement will probably need more time to process paperwork during the move. “If you need paperwork processed, it may take longer than the usual week turnaround,” the e-mail said. “We appreciate your patience during our move.”
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