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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
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Team fails to deliver in game’s second half
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The UNM women’s basketball team didn’t have enough speed or force to stop Oklahoma State on Wednesday. The Cowgirls tired out the Lobos in the semifinals of the preseason Women’s National Invitational Tournament at The Pit, 70-56, putting the Lobos 2-1 in the season. “We played a good first half, but in the second half we couldn’t shoot,” said head coach Don Flanagan. “We solved their zone in the second half and they went back to man (defense) and all of the sudden we can’t shoot. We were 2-17 from 3-point range and 25 percent from the two and that is not going to win you games.” Flanagan was mistaken about his team’s 3-point shooting abilities against the Cowgirls. The Lobos finished hitting only six 3-pointers of the 27 attempted. The 3-point shots missed wouldn’t have mattered down the final stretch of the game. The Lobos converted only two field goals in the final five minutes. Guard Andrea Riley was an honorable mention All-American at OSU last season. She shot poorly herself, but it was enough to keep the Cowgirls undefeated at 3-0 on the season. Riley made only 6-of-22 field goals but finished the night with 22
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Students, enjoy the unlimited free printing in campus IT pods while you can. Starting in the spring, Information Technologies is imposing a limit on the number of sheets of paper students can print. The printing quota restriction is an effort to reduce waste on campus and discourage students from excessive printing, said IT Director Moira Gerety. She said the printing limit should compel teachers to re-evaluate their printing requirements and alter their teaching habits so students will not be affected academically by the printing costs. “We very much hope that faculty will look at what they are requiring kids to print,” Gerety said. “It becomes a cost shift from academic departments to IT, because it’s not fair to IT to assume that we can just continue to absorb the impact of professors deferring printing responsibilities to their students, who in turn use an IT lab.” The new restrictions will replace the policy in campus libraries, where students have to pay to print. ~ Moira Gerety, IT director She said each student will get $10 of Lobo Cash that can only be used for printing. Students can print 250 pages for free, but after that printing a single-sided sheet will cost $0.05, and a double-sided sheet will cost $0.08. ASUNM Senator Laz Cardenas said he supports the concept of sustainability but is concerned about the academic effects of the printing policy change. “I don’t think the idea itself is bad. We do need to conserve paper,” he said. “But for the students that need to print out those papers because the teachers require them
“Most students won’t even notice the change”
Junfu Han / Daily Lobo Forward Amanda Best shoots a basket while Oklahoma State’s Heather Howard blocks the ball during Wednesday’s game at The Pit. The Lobos lost 70-56.
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Lobo balloon found on Virginia farm by Pat Lohmann Daily Lobo
Courtesy of Naomi Grove Farmer Naomi Grove holds up a Lobo Homecoming helium balloon that she found in her field in McKinley, Virginia on Nov. 7. The balloon, launched some time between Oct. 20 and 24 traveled over 1,500 miles before landing in the field.
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The University might have to send a custodian across the country to pick up the last bit of Homecoming trash. Naomi Grove, a rancher, stumbled upon a Mylar balloon in her field Nov. 7. The balloon was red, metallic and bore the Lobo Knights Homecoming 2009 insignia. Grove’s ranch is in McKinley, Virginia, near the Allegheny Mountains. “I was out walking across my property, doing what I call ‘bush goating’ — my goats and I clear bushes — when the reflection of the inside of the balloon caught my eye,” Grove said in an e-mail to the Daily Lobo. “It took me a little thinking time to figure out the significance of the balloon. I did not know ‘Lobo Knights.’”
The distance from Albuquerque to McKinley is approximately 1,529 miles, according to Google Maps. And Dave Gutzler, earth and planetary sciences professor, said such a long trip for a small helium balloon is unusual. “It’s very surprising that that would last all the way across the country,” he said. “Weather balloons get launched twice a day at the airport and they rarely make it out of the state … What makes it unusual here is that the balloon didn’t simply pop and fall out of the sky before it went all the way — before it made it across the country.” Gutzler said the balloon got trapped in an air current that propelled it east and, ultimately, to Grove’s ranch. “That balloon must have ascended into the sky over Albuquerque and got caught up in what are called the Mid-Latitude Westerlies, which
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are winds that blow from west to east across the continent,” he said. Grove said another balloon appeared in her field in 2008 from Jackson, Ohio. Gutzler said the MidLatitude Westerlies probably propelled that one, too. The Alumni Association bought at least 200 of the homecoming balloons at $1.30 each, said Sue MacEachen, senior program manager of Alumni Relations. She said the balloon could have been launched at any time during Homecoming weekend last month. “We used the balloons for a few events,” she said. “At the end of the events sometimes we’ll just tie them up and give them to little kids, so it’s apparent something got away.” MacEachen said the balloons are handed out to kids because they would otherwise be popped and thrown away.
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