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Employee remains silent out of fear by Isaac Avilucea Daily Lobo
A former colleague of Shannon Garbiso is speaking out about what she says her friend feels she cannot. Maria Garcia, a former Human Resources consultant, attended the Nov. 10 Board of Regents meeting to advocate launching an independent investigation into the actions of UNM administrators regarding the Sept. 20 altercation between first-year head football coach Mike Locksley and former wide receivers coach J.B. Gerald.
What’s most disconcerting, Garcia said, is how the University has launched an internal smear campaign aimed at discrediting members of its own staff, specifically Garbiso — the Athletics representative who conducted the initial inquiry into the altercation and whose notes have been scrutinized by University officials. Garcia said she is defending Garbiso, a decade-long friend and UNM colleague of four years, who has been forced to “backpedal” on her side of the story. “I think it just rolls into a huge
snowball of collusion,” Garcia said. “They are consistently not giving information that is true.” Garcia said that Garbiso told her that she didn’t destroy the original copies of her notes, but instead turned the notes over to Helen Gonzales, vice president for Human Resources. A University spokesperson said Gonzales was not available for comment on Sunday. Garbiso did not respond to e-mails over the weekend, and she has not spoken publicly about the Locksley incident despite numerous
media requests. Garcia said she knows why: Garbiso fears for her job. “She’s been called by a lot of media entities,” Garcia said. “(Garbiso) said, ‘I’ve had plenty of opportunities, but if I did go in front of the media, I’d lose my job.’ Basically, what you’re told as an HR representative is that you’re not supposed to speak to the media at all. It would be insubordination if you went in front of the media. I think they’ve convinced her that what they’re doing is best for Athletics, best for the University. She was quite upset
when I spoke to her.” Citing four phone conversations she had with Garbiso — two on Nov. 9 and two on Nov. 10 — Garcia jotted down notes of what the two discussed. Those notes, which were provided to the Daily Lobo, along with Garcia’s first-hand account, indicate that Garbiso was “angry” with the way she was portrayed at a Nov. 3 news conference about the Locksley altercation. Chief among Garbiso’s concerns, Garcia said, was how Gonzales said
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Julie Jacobson / AP Photo The Kermit the Frog balloon makes a turn at the corner of 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday in New York City. The first Kermit the Frog balloon debuted in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1977. The balloon was 63 feet tall and 24 feet wide, and took four hours and 5,220 cubic feet of helium to reach its full size.
Vigil demonstrates urgent need for health reform by Tim Mousseau Daily Lobo
What starts as a candlelight vigil might become a public debate about health care. On Thursday, Democrats from the Albuquerque area are gathering at Nob Hill to honor Americans who have passed away because they didn’t have health care. The event will begin at 6 p.m. on the corner of Carlisle and Central Avenues. The event, hosted by Democrats for Change, will bring light to the issue of health care reform, said
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Arman Salehian, president of UNM College Democrats. “The goal of this event is to raise awareness for health care reform … but we are not taking sides on the debate,” he said. Salehian said the vigil will encourage thought about the health care issue instead of anger. However, Eric McInteer, College Republicans spokesman, said the vigil will likely spark an argument despite its amicable intentions. “Health care has become a political lightning rod in this country,” McInteer said. “I have been at
different rallies for various issues and they always get nasty, unfortunately.” McInteer said he acknowledged that Democrats for Change are hosting the vigil with noble purposes, but they are failing to address other issues at hand. “They should also give thought to the fact that what they are pushing could bankrupt this country,” he said. “It could also cause more harm than good.” Salehian said the event should remain peaceful, though it will draw scrutiny from the media and public.
Health Care Candlelight Vigil Hosted by Democrats for Change 5:30 p.m. Carlisle and Central Avenues “With health care there are such strong opinions on both sides of the aisle,” he said. “If there are arguments we will try to make sure it doesn’t misconstrue the meaning of the event.” Salehian said the event provides room for civil debate and that
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Two armed security guards greeted UNM students as they walked into their Peace Studies class on Tuesday. Although the scene was unfamiliar to students, it has been all too familiar for the guest lecturer, Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. “We had two death threats before coming in,” Weinstein said. “But somebody has to stand up and do something. We cannot be a bystander.” According to the group’s Web site, the Foundation “is dedicated to ensuring that all members of the United States Armed Forces fully receive the Constitutional guarantees of religious freedom which they and all Americans are entitled by the First Amendment.” Weinstein, a Jewish Republican, is an Air Force Academy graduate, was a White House aid during the Reagan administration and was nominated for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. Weinstein told the Peace Studies class that every mandatory military formation has forced Christian undertones. “Whether it’s a staff meeting, a combat briefing, a promotion ceremony, a retirement ceremony — there is always a prayer, and it’s always in Jesus’ name,” he said. In an e-mail, the Peace Studies instructor Desi Brown said Weinstein received angry e-mails from the UNM Campus Crusade for Christ. “Mr. Weinstein has already received a number of threatening phone calls and e-mails from the on campus group ‘Campus Crusade for Christ’ and members of the
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Daily Lobo: What is the Institute of Meteoritics? Steve Elardo: The Institute of Meteoritics is a research institution that focuses on the study of extraterrestrial materials. The IOM was founded in 1944 to study primarily meteorites. The research scientists and grad students now focus on a wide range of samples, including Martian and lunar meteorites, primitive meteorites, terrestrial samples and Apollo samples, but also on high-temperature/highpressure experiments (and) computer modeling, as well as involvement in NASA mission work. DL: What is the purpose of the research? SE: To better understand early solar system history and the evolution of the terrestrial planets. The geology of the terrestrial planets is incredibly diverse, but, in general, the geologic processes we see at work here on Earth are the same ones that have shaped Mars or Venus or the Moon. The research scientists and grad students in the IOM aim to apply our knowledge of geology, as well as our arsenal of state-of-the-art instruments, to other planets.
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PARKLAND, Wash.— A gunman burst into a coffeehouse Sunday and opened fire on four police officers as they sat working on their laptops, killing the three men and one woman in what an official described as a targeted ambush. Pierce County Sheriff ’s spokesman Ed Troyer said officers were looking for one male suspect who fled the scene and haven’t ruled out an accomplice, possibly a getaway driver. It wasn’t clear whether the officers even had time to draw their weapons to return fire, Troyer said.
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“This was more of an execution. Walk in with the specific mindset to shoot police officers,� Troyer said. Troyer said the officers — all from the Lakewood Police Department — were catching up on paperwork at the beginning of their shifts when they were attacked at 8:15 a.m. Sunday. WASHINGTON — The leading Senate Democrat on military matters said Sunday that President Barack Obama’s anticipated plan for significantly expanding U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan must show how Editor-in-Chief Rachel Hill Managing Editor Abigail Ramirez News Editor Pat Lohmann Assistant News Editor Tricia Remark Staff Reporters Andrew Beale Kallie Red-Horse Ryan Tomari Online Editor Junfu Han Photo Editor Vanessa Sanchez Assistant Photo Editor Gabbi Campos Staff Photographer Zach Gould Culture Editor Hunter Riley
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those reinforcements will help increase the size of the Afghan security forces. Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that more Afghan army and police are central to succeeding in the 8-year-old war and more U.S. trainers and equipment can help meet that goal. But it’s unclear, Levin said, what role tens of thousands of additional combat troops will play and Obama has to make a compelling case during a national address he’s scheduled to give Tuesday night from the U.S. Mili-
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geosciences is igneous petrology and geochemistry, especially in planetary settings — meaning I study the chemistry and other features of igneous rocks ‌ to learn what it is that they can tell us about how they form and where they came from.
tary Academy at West Point, N.Y. “The key here is an Afghan surge, not an American surge,� said Levin, D-Mich. “We cannot, by ourselves, win (the) war.� RALEIGH, N.C. — Students aren’t the only ones benefiting from the billions of new dollars Washington is spending on college aid for the poor. An Associated Press analysis shows surging proportions of both low-income students and the recently boosted government money that follows them are ending up at for-profit
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Group helps children wear their best smiles Members of UNM Operation Smile host event to raise awareness about children with cleft palates and lips by Tricia Remark Daily Lobo
UNM students are aligning with a national organization to correct a minor deformity that plagues children worldwide. Students organized the UNM chapter of Operation Smile, a national non-profit organization that helps kids with cleft palates and lips get corrective surgery. Sara Kirkpatrick, founder of UNM’s Operation Smile, said the UNM group started in October and already has at least 30 members. Children with cleft palates or lips often have holes in the roof of their mouths because the bones don’t fuse correctly, Kirkpatrick said. UNM Operation Smile member Megan Lloyd said complications from cleft lips and palates can be fatal. According to the Operation Smile Web site, this problem is widespread in developing countries because many pregnant women suffer from malnutrition or illness. This, in turn, causes malnutrition
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in infants. “When a child is a newborn and they’re nursing, they’re not able to latch on or suck on anything, so they’re not able to get the nourishment they need to survive,” Kirkpatrick said. “Oftentimes they die just because they can’t get that medical care.” Kirkpatrick said corrective surgery only costs $240 and takes 40 minutes. Teams of doctors, nurses and anesthesiologists volunteer to travel to developing countries where the surgeries are most needed, she said. The UNM Operation Smile group hopes to raise at least $1,000 this year and send UNM students on an Operation Smile mission in the future. “It’s something that doesn’t seem like a big deal to a lot of people because we don’t really see that kind of deformity here,” Kirkpatrick said. “This way, they can have a normal childhood where before they didn’t have much hope for that.” Student John Dominguez, member of UNM’s Operation Smile, said the group is hosting an event called “What Makes Me Smile” on Wednesday in Smith Plaza.
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DL: What interested you about this type of research? SE: Planetary science was particularly appealing to me because I had always been naturally fascinated with space and the planets. While I enjoy doing Earth-based geology as well, Earth has given up many of her secrets to us already. This is not so with the other planets. Studying the Moon or Mars means you can make very basic, fundamental observations and discoveries about these whole other worlds which we know so little about. DL: How long have you been doing research for IOM? SE: I’ve been at the IOM working in the high-pressure lab since August 2008. My interest in the Moon has piqued since I started here. The IOM has a number of research sci-
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entists that are known the world over in planetary science and who continue to lead the charge in understanding the terrestrial planets and asteroids. So, with my research interests, this is a great place to be. DL: What kind of careers will be open to you because of your degree and research? SE: Once I finish up with my Masters and Ph.D., I’ll be looking to become a professional research scientist. That may take the form of a faculty position at a university, where I would both teach and do research, or it may be at a national research lab like NASA Johnson Space Center or Los Alamos where I could devote all of my time to planetary science research. ~Patricia Castle
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“What Makes Me Smile” Wednesday, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Smith Plaza He said the group will provide paper for students to write down things that make them smile. Group members will take pictures of students holding their paper and then make the pictures into a banner to hang in the SUB. Lloyd said the event will raise awareness about this issue and get information on Operation Smile out to the UNM community. “College students definitely have an interest in helping people by doing community service and getting involved,” she said. “Operation Smile is such an accessible thing. Just raising awareness and doing simple fundraisers can add up and really affect people globally.” Kirkpatrick said students can also get information on the Operation Smile campaign at Wednesday’s event. “I thought it would be really cool to start a branch on campus because it’s a really neat organization. I think it would be really great if everyone knew about it,” she said. “We can help out a lot of people.”
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FROM THE WEB Tuesday’s article “GPSA to hold vote on Krebs question” reported that the Graduate and Professional Student Association will hold an online election to give graduate students a chance to vote no-confidence in Athletics Director Paul Krebs and Vice President of Human Resources Helen Gonzales, as well as to voice their opinions about the amount of student fees allocated to the Athletics Department. Readers at Dailylobo.com responded: by ‘Daniele Miesem’ Posted Tuesday “The only thing we really need to deliberate is whether it’s appropriate to give graduate students a voice via the online election regarding our monetary investment in athletics, Krebs and Gonzales. Do graduate students feel strongly about how their money is being spent? As a body, are they as upset about what’s been going on as the graduate students who have approached Knudsen and Hernandez? I don’t think there’s much to debate. The election will be in accordance with the GPSA constitution and bylaws, and the results of the election will not directly result in drastic action being taken. It will simply be an opportunity for graduate students to voice their opinions about how their money is spent, and for those opinions to be taken into account in regards to the distribution of student fees. At the end of the day, if graduate students vote to withdraw all funding from athletics and voice no-confidence in Krebs and Gonzales — what difference does that actually make? We have no ability to decide how our money is spent. Krebs and Gonzales won’t be fired on the spot. This election is just and only a way to voice an opinion. So why do we need four hours to deliberate whether graduate students can do so?” by ‘Wes Henderson’ Posted Tuesday “Why is this even a story? Go ahead and vote. It is not like the GPSA even gets a final say in what happens to Krebs or the Athletics Department. It seems like a moot point; this feels like the President Schmidly situation from last year. It is getting old, and the Daily Lobo and the GPSA need to let it go like everyone outside the fishbowl of Albuquerque. It is time to move on and talk about the positive things going on in the Athletics Department, like the great job both men’s and women’s basketball and cross country teams are doing. Oh wait, that cannot happen — the Daily Lobo loves to drag out the negative just like its big brother, the Journal.” by ‘Concerned grad student’ Posted Tuesday “As a graduate student, I wish the GPSA would stop and think about how voting no-confidence in Gonzales will seriously hurt us when it comes to issues that actually concern graduate students, like our health insurance and benefits. I doubt we’ll have her support after this…” Join the discussion at DailyLobo.com
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LETTERS PIRG has leftist agenda, should not be allocated fees Editor, I am writing to express my strong objection to UNM-PIRG receiving student fees to hire PIRG employees. The Public Interest Research Group is publicized as an advocacy group for students and the public interest. However, its public positions show it clearly has liberal/ leftist agenda. I site here two examples: 1) Its members hold a fixed belief that the world is experiencing man-made global warming that can only be alleviated by
Messy democratic process needed to voice discontent Editor, We appreciate the attention the UNM Graduate and Professional Student Association Council is getting as we deliberate on what message to send UNM administration on its handling of the Locksley incident. But we would like to point out that democracy isn’t neat and clean. The frustration expressed in Friday’s Daily Lobo editorial mirrors ours, but we all need to understand that the process in place is there to ensure that minority positions are also heard. After all, checks and balances and no tyranny by the majority are fundamental tenets of democracy.
massive international intervention. 2) They are convinced that the United States is experiencing health care problems so critical that wide scale “reform,” including a public option, is required. These two contentions have been challenged by many responsible individuals. The PIRG position on climate is disputed by over 650 scientists, as reported by Senator James Inhofe in the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Minority Report of Dec. 11, 2008. The debate about health care rages today. The country is divided on this issue, and many polls show more people oppose rather than favor the proposed changes. PIRG is not a dispassionate advocate or
science-centered proponent, but a biased participant promoting a particular view. Were this not bad enough, UNM-PIRG has become active on at least one foreign policy issue. It has provided meeting space in its on-campus office for an anti-Israel group. Nothing in the PIRG mission statement allows such action. The University of New Mexico has many chartered clubs. They have a wide range of interests and activities. They advocate myriad positions on a host of issues. Why then should UNM-PIRG be given a special role and student fees to promote biased, doctrinaire views?
Those of us in leadership positions constantly hear frustrated fellow graduate students voice concerns that the reputation of the school at which we chose to get our masters and doctorate degrees is eroding, and with it the value of our educations. We are also concerned about our money and student fees going to the very institutions that are eroding UNM’s reputation. We desire to have our voices heard, but we need to realize it’s rarely those on top who will most be affected by our actions. It is certainly not the intent of the GPSA to hurt our good student-athletes or sports administration students whose educations are funded through the Athletics Department general fund. Our intent is to send a clear message to the administration that we are not happy with what it is doing to our University. At the Dec. 5 regular GPSA council meeting
(at which everyone is welcome), we will be discussing how to best send a message of discontent without hurting other graduate students and student-athletes. Our goal is to best represent the views of our constituents and create a referendum that will go to every UNM graduate student for a vote in the latter part of January. In the meantime, we would appreciate the input of every graduate student. Our Dec. 5 GPSA council meeting agenda and the language for the proposed ballot measures can be found on the GPSA Web site at: Unm.edu/~GPSA/council_schedule.shtml.
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Terrorists suspected in train bombing by Steve Gutterman The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Russians mourned at religious services and soccer stadiums Sunday after a deadly train wreck that authorities blamed on a terrorist bomb. The leader of the Russian Orthodox Church urged the nation not to give in to fear. Relatives identified loved ones killed in the wreck of the express train. If confirmed as caused by a bombing, the wreck would be
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challenged. A crime of which any one of us could have been a victim has been committed for effect,” Kirill said in a statement on the church’s Web site. “They want to frighten everybody who lives in Russia.” The rear three cars of the Nevsky Express, one of Russia’s fastest trains, derailed on a remote stretch of track late Friday as it sped from Moscow to St. Petersburg, killing some passengers and trapping others in the jumbled wreckage.
conversation on Nov. 10. At the Nov. 3 news conference, UNM President David Schmidly said the original copies of Garbiso’s notes were destroyed, though he didn’t clarify how such important documents were tossed aside. At the news conference, Vice President of Human Resources Helen Gonzales said the only explanation as to why the original copies of Garbiso’s notes weren’t preserved was that Garbiso had disposed of them herself. “Ms. Garbiso informed me yesterday, when she said that she hadn’t kept the notes, that she never thought that those were official University documents, that those were only her own notes as a result of an informal inquiry she was doing in the department,” Gonzales said. Garcia said that isn’t the case, even though Garbiso isn’t likely to come forward and say anything to the contrary. Describing Garbiso as “meticulous” and “detail-oriented,” Garcia said her former colleague wouldn’t have destroyed the notes. In fact, Garcia said Garbiso told her she didn’t destroy the notes. “I made a comment of, ‘I know you, Shannon. You’re not going to go and destroy documents. That’s something that all HR representatives, employees, know that you don’t do, especially when you’ve done a form
of investigation.’ She kind of laughed and said, ‘No, you’re right. You don’t just destroy documents,’” Garcia said. However, later that evening, in a phone conversation with Garcia at 5:21 p.m., Garbiso recanted her previous story, admitting that she had indeed destroyed the documents. Basing her assumptions on previous statements Garbiso made to her over the phone, Garcia said Garbiso’s retraction raised red flags and led Garcia to suppose that Garbiso was being blackballed and feared losing her job. “She actually said that (she was afraid of being fired),” Garcia said. “I think on the inside they are convincing her, ‘Well, OK, you say that you destroyed the documents — that way there’s no more questions about documents.’”
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that Garbiso wasn’t a consummate professional trained to conduct an investigation into such matters and that her notes were not accurate but were paraphrased recollections of the coaches’ answers. “She told me that she was angry with Helen and Paul Krebs for inferring that her investigation was not done correctly and that she ‘boggled’ the process,” Garcia wrote in her notes on the phone conversation, dated Nov. 9. Garcia said it would be difficult to get the level of detail Garbiso’s interview notes contained if she had simply jotted down buzzwords of what the coaches told her. “They used her notes from the investigation to give to the media,” Garcia said. “So they obviously have credence.” Knowing this, Garcia said she made it a point of emphasis to ask Garbiso if she had summarized any of the coaches’ responses, to which Garcia said she responded, “No, I did not paraphrase.” In her notes, Garcia also wrote that Garbiso felt like she was the “scapegoat.” That being the case, Garcia advised her to file a formal complaint to Human Resources and Office of Equal Opportunity, regarding her concerns. Garcia said Garbiso was initially receptive to the idea, but later grew weary of the suggestion and lost contact with Garcia after their
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public off campus,” Brown said in the e-mail. “Some have threatened to call UNM President Schmidly’s office to try to shut down the lecture, and others have said they will protest the event.” Representatives from the Campus Crusade for Christ have not returned phone calls since Wednesday, but a representative told the New Mexico Independent that the group was not responsible for the e-mails. “No one has been authorized on our behalf to say anything regarding Mr. Weinstein,” the representative told the Independent. “To my knowledge, no one involved with Campus Crusade for Christ in New Mexico, officially or unofficially, has contacted him in any way, threatening or not.” While at the Air Force Academy, Weinstein said he faced constant discrimination and heard repeated derogatory remarks from his superiors about his religion. “I was beaten unconscious by my two Christian roommates,” Weinstein said. “We are facing a national security threat of fundamentalist Christianity awash like a tsunami in the military, or what I refer to as technologically, the most lethal organization created by mankind.” Weinstein’s stance on the separation of church and state has drawn
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Russia’s deadliest terrorist attack outside the violence-plagued North Caucasus provinces in five years. Television networks took entertainment programs off the air and moments of silence were observed before matches on the final Sunday of the Russian football league. Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the country’s dominant church, led a service for the victims at Christ the Savior Cathedral near the Kremlin. “We will remember their sacred names,” he said. “Our people have been
numerous attacks from his opponents. His home was marked with swastikas and his family has endured ruthless threats. Weinstein’s daughter Amber is a UNM senior. She is active with her father’s organization and said she faced religious discrimination while enrolled at UNM’s Air Force ROTC. “I sleep with a gun under my pillow,” Amber said. “I was not feeling good about being involved with the program. I told a friend and she said, ‘It’s probably because you’re Jewish.’ I was shocked.” Before his UNM appearance Weinstein said he received a familiar call. “I’ve been receiving this message for years,” he said, “It’s a child talking on the phone chanting, ‘Now we lay you in your grave, there was no way you could be saved, you hate our lord Jesus and he can tell, which is why you will burn in hell.’ They called again after Thanksgiving.” Despite the problems that surround it, the lecture provided students the opportunity to see a real local activist, Brown said. “I hope that it motivates them to really get active in something that they’re passionate about,” Brown said. “Peace Studies is not a practice of passivity. It’s active work.”
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everyone’s voice will be heard if they choose to discuss the issue. He said that attendees will be able to honor the dead in the vigil, and he is working with College Democrats to host similar events concerning the issue. “We will be sending members (to the event) to show them we believe in the cause and show our support,”
Salehian said. “But one of the things we do want to do at UNM campus is a health care forum. We would like to hold this media event next semester.” Salehian said that plans are being made with College Republicans concerning these forums and that political candidates will be invited.
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You may have heard of Brandon Jennings. He was a standout high school point guard from Compton, Calif., averaging more than 30 points and seven assists his senior year and winning a truckload of awards along the way. Then came the time for a new rite of passage for prodigious young ballplayers: Picking a college at which to waste a year before entering the NBA. Thanks to commissioner David Stern’s age rule, high school players must be one year removed from secondary school before joining the league. But that wasn’t the path for Jennings. Instead, he signed a one-year deal with a professional team in Italy, becoming the first American
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player to pick an overseas team over college. Reactions were mixed, as always, with a few hack sportswriters claiming that Jennings had subverted the do-gooder nature of the age rule, and others pointing to his mediocre stats on his Roman squad as proof that the young point was a prima donna all along. And then, this month, in his first season in the NBA, Jennings dropped 55 points on the Warriors and led the once-lowly Bucks to an 8-7 start. While 15 games doesn’t make a season, let alone a career, it’s now indisputable that Jennings is NBAready, and that’s without spending a year in the NCAA, getting barked at by some overheated old man on Maggie’s Farm. Hopefully, this leads to a revolution of sorts among
elite young players. Proponents of the nonsensical spend-a-year-in-college method claim: 1) that it allows players to hone their skills in a competitive environment, and, 2) that it gives often underprivileged youth a shot at an education. Well, let’s address those idiocies sequentially. First, the college game usually relies on adherence to a system — whether the triangle, the Princeton offense, or whatever — that masks the deficiencies of mediocre players and subdues the brilliance of the more talented ones, all in the name of a regimented way to keep overpaid, cantankerous autocrats like Rick Pitino in business. This process often leads to exaggerated résumés for middle-of-the-road players who
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Lobo runner Jacob Kirwa started off lost in a sea of 209 runners at the NCAA Cross Country Championship in Terre Haute, Ind., last Monday. By the end of the race, he outperformed 198 of them, climbing to the 11th spot and finishing with a career best in the 10,000-meter run (29:46.1). “When we started I just hoped I could go fast at the beginning, but I ended up in like the 100th position, so I had to fight back,” he said. “Although the pace was really high, I kept trying to struggle to get up there.” That is the story of both the men’s and women’s cross country teams this season — overperformance. Both teams finished with a combination of 16 spots higher than their rankings predicted. The men finished eighth after being ranked No. 12., and the women finished 13th after being ranked No. 25. The women’s
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come to UNM. “I think it is (the athletes) wanting to compete very well,” he said. “It is kids that want to come to a wonderful university and compete at the highest level athletically. And those students are proving themselves daily.” Cross country running is a hybrid of a team sport and an individual competition, and Kirwa said a nice balance between the two has evolved at UNM this year. “It is that motivation that you are given and that pressure from the team that makes you think you have to do something,” he said. “If we have a team common (goal), we are trying to fight for it and make the best.” Kirwa said he uses some inventive methods of training to make sure that he is the best runner he can be for his team. “You have to use imagination,” he said. “You already know that there are other people training like you, but you have to imagine that they are training more than you. So you train harder and think, ‘Maybe they are training better.’ So that will keep driving you.”
out-rebounded 43-35 and netted just eight second-chance points, the crux of UNM’s problems rested on its inability to hit open, uncontested 3-pointers. Settling for 33 3-point shots, UNM hit just nine — Beggin and Sara Halasz combining to shoot 17 of those 3s. “You just got to focus and look
for the holes — that’s what we weren’t doing tonight,” said Halasz, who finished with 11 points. “We weren’t looking for the holes, looking for the cutters when we went motion. That’s what I settled for, because I felt when I came in the game, my shot was falling.”
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was we didn’t get second shots. We didn’t go aggressive enough against their zone. I think it was a good zone. It was hard to break. Anytime you drove, they really did a nice job of pinching drives. And then they hit the boards really hard.” Not only were the Lobos
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then make for disappointing pros — like, say, Adam Morrison. So how, then, would Jennings’ absurd talents be better spent: embarrassing collegiate defenders to the chagrin of his howling coach, or competing for minutes among hardened, professional ballplayers? And then comes the uglier fallacy: Forcing players to spend at least a year in college grants them a chance at a good education and a better life. To retain NCAA eligibility, most colleges only require athletes to complete six hours per semester. So, had Jennings spent a year in school, would that 12 hours of class-taking have bettered his life in any conceivable fashion? Furthermore, in the recruiting blitzkrieg that precedes signing bigtime high school players like Jennings, colleges often throw their own academic standards under the bus. Derrick Rose, the last inner-city point guard phenomenon, found himself at the center of a scandal when someone at Memphis took his SAT for him, allowing him to join the Tigers and lead them to the NCAA Championship game in his lone college season. Thus, if a player is clearly ready to play professional basketball and
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has already drawn interest from the NBA, why do we delude ourselves into thinking that forcing him to sit through remedial math courses will better his life? Well, because there’s money to be made. I have no idea who pioneered the modern NCAA system, but I assume he died a rich man. There are tickets to be sold, jerseys to put on the racks and TV rights to sell, and here’s the best part: The labor is free. College basketball players fight tooth and nail for victories without compensation, all the while risking injury and earning potential. That serves only to line the pockets of university coaches, athletics directors and presidents. And we allow this exploitation to take place under the guise of providing kids with an approximation of an education. So, back to Jennings. He skipped over the vampiric collegiate system, signed for guaranteed money overseas, then came to the league and is now the leading Rookie of the Year candidate. He’s provided an equitable path to the pros for hot-commodity high school players, and until the NCAA and NBA reform their policies, here’s hoping that his method becomes the norm.
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Solid zone defense locks in win for Toledo by Isaac Avilucea Daily Lobo
Unfortunately, at the conclusion of Saturday’s Thanksgiving Midtown Tournament, the UNM women’s basketball team (4-2) wasn’t able to say “Winner, winner — turkey dinner!” University of Toledo’s (5-2) menacing zone was the brainteaser UT 62 the Lobos could never decipher, UNM 56 especially at the tail end of the game, resulting in a 62-56 loss for UNM. Trailing 57-53, UNM needed a crucial basket to cut the margin to a single-possession deficit. Instead, the Lobos searched hopelessly for a way to navigate the Rockets’ zone, nonchalantly passing the ball around while the shot clock sounded with 1:10 left to go in the game. Amy Beggin, who scored a gamehigh 18 points and was named to the all-tourney team, drained a 3-pointer basket with 43 seconds left to pull UNM within two points, but by that time the damage was done. Naama Shafir netted three free throws to secure the tournament title for Toledo. Head coach Don Flanagan was peeved at his Lobos’ lack of urgency. “We ran 30 seconds off (the clock) at a time we should’ve have been managing clock,” he said. “We should’ve been much more aggressive at that point.” Flanagan, however, got introspective during his post-game conference and second-guessed his decision to foul the Rockets in the
waning seconds of the game. After Beggin pulled the Lobos within a 3-pointer of knotting the game, Flanagan opted to foul the Rockets instead of gambling on Toledo missing a shot. It didn’t work — and Shafir, who finished with 13 points, dashed the Lobos’ hopes. “A better decision, as I look back at it, might have been to defend, see if they miss, and then get the rebound and then we got one shot to win,” Flanagan said. “I think that would’ve been a better decision, but we went to the foul after trying to trap. If I had to do it in retrospect, I think I would’ve seen if our defense could’ve held them. I think it was a poor decision on my part that we didn’t play defense for 30 seconds and see what happened and then hopefully block out.” The problem was that UNM failed to keep Toledo off the boards all night, Flanagan said. “Now, we didn’t do a good job blocking out all game, and I wasn’t really sure I trusted our ability to block them off the glass on a missed shot,” he said. “If they got a second opportunity, then the game’s over.” After possessing an eight-point lead at one point in the game, the frazzled Lobos frayed, leaving Flanagan repeatedly scowling on the sidelines. There were two reasons the Lobos had trouble with Toledo’s zone. Shooting 37 percent from the field, Flanagan said, didn’t help. “One, we didn’t hit shots,” Flanagan said. “I thought we had pretty much open shots from time to time. We didn’t knock them down. That was one reason. Second reason
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Tom Pennington / AP Photo TCU cornerback Rafael Priest celebrates in the end zone after intercepting a UNM pass and scoring in the second half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, in Fort Worth, Texas. TCU beat New Mexico 51-10 to finish out the regular season, giving UNM 1-11 record overall
Last game ends in crushing defeat by Ryan Tomari Daily Lobo
Opposites might attract, but it was fatal attraction for the UNM football team and head coach Mike Locksley when the Lobos faced TCU on Saturday. The Horned Frogs (12-0 overall, 8-0 in the MWC), at the other end of the spectrum record-wise, trounced the Lobos (1-11 overall, 1-7 in the MWC), 51-10, in Fort Worth, Texas, capturing the Mountain West Conference championship outright and getting a bid for a Bowl Championship Series game. The Horned Frogs are a legitimate top five team, Locksley said. “When you have the weapons that they have in all three phases of their team, they are very deserving of their ranking,” he said. “I hope that they’re able to reap the rewards of going through a season undefeated, beating some BCS teams and going undefeated through a tough conference, like the Mountain West.” While TCU finished with its best record in 71 years, the Lobos finished the 2009 season with its worst finish since an 0-11 record in 1987. TCU quarterback Andy Dalton threw four touchdown passes, which
matched a career-high. Two of Dalton’s scoring tosses came within a 12-second span in the second quarter to wide receiver Antoine Hicks. Hicks’ touchdown receptions gave the Horned Frogs a 30-0 lead early in the quarter, and TCU never looked back. In possibly his last game as a Lobo, UNM quarterback Donovan Porterie threw 43 passes and completed only 20 for 162 yards, no touchdowns and four interceptions. Porterie, who applied to the NCAA for a sixth year of eligibility, is awaiting the NCAA’s ruling, but Locksley said he doesn’t believe it will be approved. Two of Porterie’s interceptions were returned for Horned Frog touchdowns in the fourth quarter, a run of 21 unanswered points by TCU in the final 15 minutes of play. TCU’s swift dispatching of the Lobos is the Horned Frogs seventh straight win of 27 points or more. Unfortunately for the Lobos, it was the seventh loss of the season by at least 20 points. Locksley said he and his coaching staff are looking toward the 2010 football season. “The 2009 season is officially over,” Locksley said. “We are back
to a zero-and-zero record, and anything we do now will be to improve our program and move forward. We will get the program into the direction it needs to go as far as winning conference championships.” Locksley and the coaching staff will go back to looking at everything from start to finish over the course of the season, he said. “I had a vision and plan for this program,” Locksley said. “Though we won one, I have seen improvement toward the vision, but I would have loved more victories out of this year. But I have seen enough of this team’s improvement throughout the course of the season, even through some tough and adverse times, where they have continued to improve. If we can take the character of the 2009 team and bottle it up, there is a bright future for the Lobos in the near future.” It’s still up in the air, but Locksley said he knows members of his coaching staff could potentially depart from UNM. “That’s typically what happens this time of year in the coaching profession,” Locksley said. “But I don’t have any expectations, as of right now, that I am going to lose anybody.”
Junfu Han / Daily Lobo Amy Beggin lofts up a floater in UNM’s 77-55 win over North Carolina A&T on Friday at The Pit. The Lobos defeated North Carolina A&T to get to the finals of the Midtown Thanksgiving Tournament, where UNM lost to Toledo on Saturday, 62-56