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monday November 26, 2012

Double-overtime loss ends men’s soccer season Huskies defeat Lobos 2-1 in Sunday’s match

end the season, but we lost to a good team.” UNM senior forward Devon Sandoval scored the first goal of the game after UConn

sophomore goalie Andre Blake saved a shot by junior midfielder Michael Calderon. The ball then bounced to Sandoval, and he put it into the back of the net for his

15th goal of the season. UConn junior forward Mamadou Doudou Diouf tied the game at 1-1 in the 76th minute when he received a deep

cross from senior defender Max Wasserman. Wasserman headed the ball to Diouf, who headed it past Lobo senior goalie Victor Rodriguez. UNM freshman midfielder Ben McKendry almost hit a lastminute goal when he missed a cross pass in front of the goal in the 88th minute. At the end of regulation, UNM had a 13-12 shot lead, and both teams had attempted three corner kicks. Sophomore forward James Rogers took UNM’s only shot in overtime, taking a chance at the top of the box that sailed right above the crossbar. And then just five minutes into double overtime, Zuniga hit the gamewinning goal. The Lobos finish with a 17-4-1 record and tie a program record for 35 wins in a two-season span. Fishbein said that after Sunday’s game, the Huskies deserve to be recognized as one of the top programs in the country. “It’s always difficult to end your season and to do so in that fashion. I am really appreciative of our team and our seniors … It was a tough way to lose, but there’s the utmost respect for this program,” he said, referring to UConn. “The UConn players were class act and so was the coaching staff, and that’s all you can really ask for.”

a portion of the amendment that deals with government hiring. The decision is limited to states in the 6th Circuit, which includes Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee. But it also raises the odds that the U.S. Supreme Court may get involved. A very similar law in California was upheld by a San Francisco-based appeals court, and the Supreme Court could choose to resolve the conflicting decisions of the 9th Circuit and the 6th Circuit on voter-approved bans. Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, a supporter of the ban, said he will ask the nation’s highest court to take the case. “Entrance to our great universities must be based upon merit,” he said. George Washington, a Detroit attorney for the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, said the ruling is a “tremendous victory.” He predicted the case will move to the Supreme Court. “What this really means is thousands of blacks and Latinos who would not have had a chance to go to our most selective universities will have the chance to become lawyers, doctors and leaders of all fields,” Washington said. As the college admissions process for 2013 heats up, it

wasn’t immediately clear what campuses would do in light of the ruling. Officials at the University of Michigan and Michigan State University said they were reading the decision.

decided to take a fresh look at the matter, with new filings and arguments leading to the new ruling Thursday. In a 32-page opinion, the court’s majority explained the difficulties that it sees for students under the constitutional amendment. For example, there’s nothing barring someone from citing family alumni connections when applying to a college. But the court said a student seeking to use race to influence the admissions process now is shut out unless the constitution is changed again. “Michigan cannot force those advocating for consideration of racial factors to traverse a more arduous road without violating the Fourteenth Amendment,” the court said. “We thus conclude that Proposal 2 reorders the political process in Michigan to place special burdens on minority interests.” In dissent, Judge Danny Boggs said the majority relied on an “extreme extension” of two Supreme Court cases to justify its decision, one in 1969 involving the repeal of a fair housing law in Akron, Ohio, and the other in 1982 involving an effort to stop racial integration in Seattle schools. “We have the citizens of

the entire state establishing a principle that would in general have seemed laudable,” Boggs said of Michigan. Another dissenter, Judge Julia Smith Gibbons, said the will of 58 percent of voters in 2006 has been shredded. “Michigan has chosen to structure its university system such that politics plays no part in university admissions at all levels. … The Michigan voters have therefore not restructured the political process in their state by amending their state constitution; they have merely employed it,” Gibbons said. Besides Michigan, six states have banned racial preferences in admissions: Washington, Nebraska, Arizona, New Hampshire, California and Florida. In Texas and Georgia, leading public universities use a raceneutral system, though the University of Texas has maintained some use of affirmative action. Since a 2003 Supreme Court decision, universities have been allowed to use racial preferences if they choose, though they are not compelled to do so. The court last month heard arguments in a case that could change that precedent. Abigail Fisher, a rejected white applicant, is suing the University of Texas.

by Thomas Romero-Salas sports@dailylobo.com @ThomasRomeroS

Early leads for the UNM men’s soccer team have been the norm; unfortunately, strong finishes haven’t. UConn freshman forward Nicholas Zuniga struck the game-winning goal — the first of his career — after taking a pass on a breakaway and shot the ball into the lower left corner of the net to give the University of Connecticut a 2-1 doubleovertime victory over UNM. “At the moment, what was going through my mind was to just put it in the goal, because I had enough opportunities that game. I’m just glad I got that one,” Zuniga said. “My heart is still pounding right now.” UNM head coach Jeremy Fishbein attributed the Lobos’ loss to their inability to take advantage of opportunities. “We knew it was going to be a game with two good teams that are committed to playing soccer with quality players, special attacking players and good defenses. It was going to be a matter of taking chances and limiting mistakes,” he said. “We had a lot of chances to win the game, so it was a tough way to

Courtesy of New Mexico Athletics James Rogers goes for a sliding shot against UConn in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament. The Lobos lost 2-1 in double overtime.

Court axes Michigan ban on affirmative action by Ed White

The Associated Press DETROIT — Michigan’s ban on affirmative action in college admissions was declared unconstitutional Nov. 15 by a deeply divided federal appeals court, six years after state voters said race could not be an issue in choosing students. In an 8-7 decision, the court said the 2006 amendment to the Michigan Constitution is illegal because it presents an extraordinary burden to opponents who would have to mount their own long, expensive campaign through the ballot box to protect affirmative action. That burden “undermines the Equal Protection Clause’s guarantee that all citizens ought to have equal access to the tools of political change,” said Judge R. Guy Cole Jr., writing for the majority at the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. The court said having supporters and opponents debate affirmative action through the governing boards of each public university would be much fairer than cementing a ban in the constitution, which it referred to as home of “the highest level” of public policy. The court did not comment on

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~Bill Schuette Michigan attorney general At the University of Michigan, 8 percent of undergraduates this fall are black or Hispanic, compared to almost 11 percent in 2008. The number of black female undergraduates is down 27 percent compared to 2008, according to university data. This is the second time that the appeals court has examined Michigan’s affirmative action issue. A three-judge panel last year also found the ban unconstitutional for similar reasons. But after a plea from Schuette, the entire court

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