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Coach: Women go to Vegas refreshed, recovered by Nathan Farmer
sports@dailylobo.com The women’s basketball team has a chance to add to its record five MWC tournament titles tonight. The Lobos (9-19, 3-11) are the seven seed and take on No. 2 UNLV (22-8, 10-4) in the first round of the MWC tournament at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nev. UNM has had a difficult season, but head coach Yvonne Sanchez said that during the tournament it doesn’t matter what the record was throughout the regular season. “We’ve had some injuries, we have had some mistakes, but it’s a whole new season,” she said. “The knowledge of UNLV and some different things we have adjusted that we’re going to run against them. We feel good about it.” UNM hasn’t won the conference tournament since 2008 and failed to beat UNLV in both meetings this year. The Lobos lost on the road 6560 and at home 64-50. Sanchez has had as little as seven healthy players for games this season, and the team has had a weeklong break after playing its last game against Air Force a week ago. Sanchez said the break helped the team get back to almost full strength. “They have had a lot of days off, so the nice thing is they have had chance to heal up and energize,” Sanchez said. Lobos were in a similar situation in last year’s tournament when they were also the seven seed. They went on to beat San Diego State and Wyoming, but fell to TCU in the semifinal. Sanchez said the team is confident they can have a repeat performance of last year. “This first one I think we can get and we are preparing for them (UNLV),” Sanchez said. “I think they (the team) feel they can get this win.” The game is technically a home game for UNLV, but in years past the Lobo fans have come out in large numbers to support the team.
Adria Malcolm / Daily Lobo Junior guard Caroline Durbin tries to pass Air Force’s Dymond James at a game against Air Force Jan. 31, in The Pit. No. 7 seed UNM is going to face No. 2 seed UNLV in the Thomas Mack Center on Las Vegas, Nev. tonight.
Senior guard Porche Torrance said she expects more Lobo fans to be in attendance than UNLV fans. “I think we will have a bigger crowd,” she said. “Our fans normally always come down and support us if we are winning or losing.” Torrance was named the defensive player of the year in the MWC after recording 68 blocks this season and is averaging 12.2 points per game. She has 145 blocks in
her career and is second all-time blocker at UNM. Torrance said if the Lobos limit their mistakes, they have a good chance of winning the game. “We just have to come out and set the tone early,” she said. “If we do that, I think everything else will just fall into place.” Junior guard Caroline Durbin was named to the first team AllMWC yesterday after averaging
16.1 points per game this conference season. She said only losing by five to UNLV the last time the teams played gives the Lobos hope of a victory, even though they are on the road. “We could have played a lot better,” Durbin said. “We had some foul trouble, so I think we are really confident and I don’t think it will matter too much — it’s on their floor.”
Women’s Basketball vs. UNLV Tonight, 7 p.m. Thomas and Mack Center See full tournament bracket page 3
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Administration: Online salary book in development by Svetlana Ozden sozden@unm.edu
A year and a half after the Daily Lobo requested that a version of UNM’s Salary Book be made available online, it is still only available in hard copy at Zimmerman Library. The book, which is only available two hours at a time, cannot be physically removed from the library. GPSA has passed three resolutions in the last three years, calling on the administration to post the data online, but the administration has yet to post an electronic copy. “In the course of a short afternoon, the entire book could be uploaded (online),” GPSA President Katie Richardson said. “I see no reason to delay putting up information that is
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already available.” Richardson said because the information in the salary book is so inaccessible, the administration has not made the information truly public. “Students and tax payers deserve to know what UNM employees are being paid; this information is available in the least convenient form possible, in a dusty book in Zimmerman Library, but it needs to be accessible in an easy format online,” Richardson said. In fall 2010, GPSA passed a resolution sponsored by former Daily Lobo Editor-in-Chief Pat Lohmann, “encourage(ing) the Human Resources Department, the UNM administration and University Counsel to create and update a digital spreadsheet document of
the UNM Salary Book,” but the resolution was struck down by the administration. In 2011, GPSA passed a second resolution requesting an online salary book. But the administration approved the development of an online salary database that did not include student employees or graduate assistantships in order to comply with the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), a federal law intended to protect student information. Cinnamon Blair, director of University Communication and Marketing, said UNM began the Sunshine Portal project in fall 2011 to make the salary book available online. The Sunshine Portal is a project headed by Executive Vice President David
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Harris that will offer UNM’s salary information online, including budget, contracted vendors and financial information, Blair said. The portal is under development by UNM Human Resources, Information Technologies and Finance departments. GPSA submitted a third resolution in February, requesting that the database include student employees’ and graduate assistantships’ salaries, but the administration has yet to decide whether students will be added to the Sunshine Portal. The database is still being developed. Blair said the portal is expected to be available by May of this year. “This is a reasonable amount of time for this to take,” she said.
“Trying to convert the existing book into another electronic format would require programming changes and (instead) we are trying to build a comprehensive searchable sustainable model that will be updated automatically.” Blair said the final database will include not just salaries, but also budget information and contracts for the entire University. Blair said the cost of the project cannot be calculated because it is being uploaded by employees who are already on payroll. “The costs are all internal, five people are building the system that can be uploaded and updated monthly,” she said. “It’s a collaborative effort between (Information Technologies,) Budget and Finance.”
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