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November 25, 2009
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Lobos cut Lumberjacks no slack to ensure victory by Isaac Avilucea Daily Lobo
Zach Gould / Daily Lobo Kathy Sotelo, right, talks with head chef of Standard Diner, Andrew Bustos, about the abundance of meals served at Joy Junction on Monday night. Sotelo has been working for Joy Junction as the outreach representative. Go to page 10 for the full story.
Distributing scarce H1N1 vaccine by Tricia Remark Daily Lobo
If you weren’t one of the 350 people who heard about the free H1N1 vaccines, take it up with the Student Health and Counseling Center. SHAC did not advertise — except on Cornell Mall — that the vaccines would be available on Friday and Monday for anyone under the age of 24, said SHAC Director Beverly Kloeppel. “Widely publicizing would probably do more harm than good,” Kloeppel said. “Then you’d have a large volume of students for a small amount of vaccine. We actually wanted to try to get students who have more underlying chronic illnesses.” UNM Hospital gave the Student Health and Counseling Center 500 doses of the H1N1 vaccine, Kloeppel said. She said Friday was the first day the vaccine was available to
students not at highest risk. She said 250 H1N1 vaccines were distributed on Friday and 100 were given on Monday. SHAC has only 50 vaccines left, Kloeppel said, and these will be saved for high priority groups: pregnant women, students under 18 with chronic health issues and health care workers. One hundred vaccines have already been handed out to high priority groups, Kloeppel said. Robert Bailey, director of UNM’s H1N1 response, said the vaccines were only available to all students 24 and under for two days because the vaccine is still scarce. “Basically what we do is look at how much vaccine we get — which is still pretty small shipments to this point — and look at what the priority groups are for receiving that vaccine,” he said. “The production of the vaccine just hasn’t been what was anticipated.”
Bailey said UNMH receives approximately 3,000 H1N1 vaccines every week. He said these vaccines are for patients and workers at UNMH and outpatient centers. However, he said that shipment only goes so far. “For example, when we did our seasonal flu vaccine, we gave out almost 3,000 doses in one day,” he said. Kloeppel said the clinic might open again for students 24 and under when another shipment of vaccines arrives. “I’m really hoping as more and more of it gets released, then we’ll be able to offer it to anyone who wants it,” she said. Kloeppel said the SHAC advertised vaccine availability with signs outside and inside the building. The SHAC Web site is updated daily with information on when the
Essentially, it was the run that never ended. Northern Arizona tumbled from the get-go as the UNM women’s basketball team just kept going and going and going, easily holding the Lumberjacks to their lowest point output of the season. The Lobos (3-1 overall) motored to a 72-40 win on Tuesday at The Pit, dropping the Lumberjacks to 0-5 in the season. The Lobos roared to the early firsthalf lead, earmarked by two threepoint plays, which gave UNM a 12-0 cushion with 15:44 left to go in the half. The remaining 34:16 was a statpadding session for the Lobos. “We started out really fast,” said head coach Don Flanagan. “If you’ve got a 20-point lead at halftime, a lot of times they’ll come back. I’m worried that in the second half, it’s going to be even. If you’re up by 20 in the first half, you’re probably not going to win the second half by 20, but you don’t want to have it even.” No worries. Be happy, coach. The Lobos continued to bully the Lumberjacks in the second half, outscoring them 32-22. Most importantly, UNM straitjacketed NAU’s leading scorer Amy Patton, while holding NAU’s secondleading scorer Lauren Hoisington to six points.
“We pretty much chased (Patton) all over the place and made life difficult for her,” Flanagan said. “She’s a nice player. She just never got off.” Credit forward Amanda Best for putting together a stalwart effort on the Lumberjacks’ guard. Best flanked Patton every square inch of the way, holding her to just six points, about 14 points under her season average of 20.8. “(It was about) getting over the screens — you’re battling this person,” said Best, who added 12 points, three rebounds and two assists in the game. “People are coming after you. I liked it a lot. I took the initiative to do well on her tonight.” Despite having a pillowy cushion, guard Amy Beggin said it wasn’t difficult to maintain the level of energy UNM came out with initially. “You only have 20 or 30 games in a season. You want to take advantage of every opportunity you can,” she said. “We wanted to jump the gun today, and we got a good start. There’s the game within the game. You’re not necessarily thinking about the final score but the little things you want to do in between.” That “game within the game” included the Lobos homing in on other elements to keep them semi-interested. Flanagan said the team set a goal to keep the Lumberjacks to 51 points or less. Check. UNM also wanted to limit NAU to 10 offensive rebounds.
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Officials debate governor’s future Jim Davenport
The Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. — A cool-headed legal debate has replaced the oncepassionate calls to oust Gov. Mark Sanford that began after his tearful summertime admission that he disappeared from the state to pursue an extramarital affair in Argentina. A panel on Tuesday began debating whether his failure to inform his staff of his whereabouts and put anyone in charge rise to the high standard of impeachment, usually reserved for office-holders who break the law. Two proponents of a measure to remove Sanford likened his five-day absence to a soldier leaving his post.
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But others on a seven-member legislative panel questioned whether the two-term Republican’s actions rose to a high enough level to warrant removal. “To speak about dereliction of duty, absence without leave, abandoning one’s post are terms that ordinarily are reserved for those who are in uniform and who are not civilian citizens of our state and nation,” said Rep. Walt McLeod, D-Prosperity. “It may constitute something. But it doesn’t constitute dereliction of duty because those are military terms.” Sanford returned in June to confess to an affair that shattered his marriage and dimmed a once-bright political future. He told reporters in Charleston on Tuesday that it’s
obvious he wanted to keep the affair secret. “Yes, I had a moral failing. I was gone for five days. I failed my marriage on a number of fronts. I mean, we’ve been through all of that. I don’t know how many times one apologizes for that,” he said. “How many times do we want to say the obvious? The nature of having an affair is you want to hide it.” Later investigations found the governor may have violated state ethics laws for travel and campaign finances, and he faces 37 civil charges that he used his office to personally benefit himself. Those charges weren’t discussed Tuesday, but they’ll be added to the panel’s debate at later hearings.
Junfu Han / Daily Lobo Lobo Nikki Nelson fires a basket during Tuesday’s game against Northern Arizona at The Pit. The Lobos won 72-40.
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