Daily Lobo new mexico
The Independent Student Voice of UNM since 1895
summer June 23-29, 2014 | Volume 118 | Issue 158
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New Mexico guard Kendall Williams, 10, calls on forward Cameron Bairstow, 41, and center Alex Kirk, 53, to review a play during a Feb. 22 game against San Diego State. The trio are among the potential picks in the 2014 NBA Draft on June 26.
Former Lobos hopeful for this year’s NBA draft by J.R. Oppenheim Three former New Mexico men’s basketball players are about to discover the next phase in their playing careers. Ex-Lobos Cameron Bairstow, Alex Kirk and Kendall Williams are available in this year’s NBA draft, scheduled for 5:00 p.m. MT Thursday in Brooklyn, New York.
As of Sunday afternoon, mock drafts for NBC Sports, CBS Sports, Fox Sports and drafting news site draftexpress.com do not list Bairstow, Kirk or Williams among the players predicted to be taken in either the first or second rounds. Several other mock drafts, like one from ESPN’s Chad Ford, only offer a projected first round and do not include any of the Lobo trio.
However, CBSSports.com college basketball insider Gary Parrish does list the three among his top 100 NBA draft prospects. Parrish placed center Kirk at No. 86, power forward Bairstow at 91 and point guard Williams at 94. And anything can happen in the draft. Last year the Cleveland Cavaliers shocked pundits by selecting UNLV’s Anthony Bennett with the No. 1 overall pick. Former
Lobo Tony Snell, who some projected as a second-round pick, went to the Chicago Bulls as the 20th selection. “Who knows at this stage?” Bairstow said in a phone interview. “It’s something where I’ve gotten a lot of good feedback from a lot of teams. It’s just a case of seeing what happens on draft night.” Bairstow said Friday that he
worked out with 11 different NBA clubs, while Williams told the Daily Lobo on Thursday he participated in 10 workouts prior to the weekend, capped by stops in Memphis and Minnesota. The Daily Lobo was unable to reach Kirk through his agents or social media.
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Crown still humble after National Academy honor by Zach Pavlik
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Patricia Crown, a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, discusses her archaeological research on Thursday. Crown was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences in April.
Anthropology professor Patricia Crown has enjoyed numerous accomplishments and recognitions in the field of archaeology, and uses her passion for the field to instruct her students. One of Crown’s more recent accomplishments is her election to membership in the National Academy of Sciences as one of its 2013-14 inductees, she said. The call was unexpected – and early. “They called me at seven in the morning, and their tradition is that everybody in the anthropology section of the Academy lines up and talks to you on the phone and congratulates you,” Crown said. “So there were many famous people who, you know, I’ve read their work, read their research, but have never met before, (were) congratulating me at seven in the morning when I was just barely awake.”
She had no idea that she had been nominated, so it came as a huge surprise, she said. However, this award will not change her position or goals at the University. “I’m still teaching the same classes, doing the same research and still doing the same writing,” she said. “I don’t think people would show me any special favors because of the reward that I know of – at least, I hope not.” Crown is a Distinguished Professor in UNM’s anthropology department whose research focuses on Southwestern archaeology, ceramic analysis and archaeology of childhood and gender. Her father played a huge role, though indirectly, in her choice to pursue archaeology as a career, Crown said. “(My father) was a landscape artist. Growing up, he would take my sisters and me out painting with him,” Crown said. “While he painted, my sisters also painted, but I had
no talent for painting so I wandered around looking at the ground instead. Over the years that and the fact that every summer we spent in the Southwest … I had decided that I wanted to be an archaeologist since age 12.” Her parents were supportive of her choice – something for which she said she feels very lucky. Many young people, especially those interested in less mainstream career paths, turn away from the field in pursuit of more lucrative jobs, she said. Crown has been a part of countless research projects and held positions in many different organizations, but she said the accomplishment she is most proud of is the discovery that the indigenous people of Chaco Canyon used ceramic vessels to drink chocolate. “I think one of the most exciting, fun things I’ve discovered was finding chocolate in
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