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By Kristina Medley|News Editor

A 20-year-old female student living off campus was confirmed by medical personnel at the Stu-dent Health Center Thursday as having the first case of H1N1

influenza at New Mexico State University. Lori McKee, director of health and wellness at the Student Health Center, said H1N1 falls under Type A flu, and seasonal flu falls under Type B. “We received a positive Type A flu test. There’s an 80-per-cent chance that it’s H1N1,” Dr. Benjamin Diven, a physician at

the Student Health Center, said. “The patient was not severely ill. It’s just not a severe illness, and she was doing fine when she was [at the Health Center].” Diven said despite common misconceptions about H1N1, the virus is a mild illness and has not proven to be of much of a concern. Diven said H1N1 is safer com-

pared to the regular flu. Diven said there is not a specific list of symptoms associated with H1N1 and the symptoms can vary and are usually mild. “[Symptoms] are typically fe-ver, cough, body aches, maybe sore throat and congestion,” Di-ven said. “It seems to be the rap-id onset that’s the main thing.” McKee said the main symp-

tom that distinguishes the flu from a cold is how rapidly the patient feels ill. McKee said the regular flu lasts up to seven days, whereas medical person-nel have been seeing H1N1 last only three to five days. “Colds and influenza illness often mimic each other,” McKee said. “The difference is often

First case of H1N1 at NMSU, flu shots to be available

Career Expo on its way to campusCareer fair will give students a chance to network

By Jenna Candelaria|News Reporter

In the midst of an economic recession, New Mexico State University has found a way to give students an opportunity to network at the Career Expo which will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday. The 25th Annual Career Expo is coordinated by NMSU Career Services and cospon-sored by the College of Engi-neering. The expo will be held in the Ballrooms on the third floor of Corbett Center from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. “The expo offers students the opportunity to interact with recruiters who can share tips and recommendations on how to enter the world of work,” Career Expo Coordina-tor Roseanne Bensley said. The first day of the Career Expo is reserved for students majoring in business, agri-culture and liberal arts, while the second day is reserved for engineering, science and tech-nology majors, but Bensley said students are encouraged to attend both dates. “The Career Expo is the larg-est career fair of the year, and [it] would be advantageous for students to meet with employ-ers who are planning their hir-ing needs now for the remain-der of the year and beyond,” Bensley said. Sophomore family and con-sumer sciences major Erika Ortiz said the Career Expo can offer students contacts that are not readily available. “The Career Expo gives stu-dents a chance to make con-tact with potential employ-ers,” Ortiz said.

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MINERS WIN BATTLE OF I-10

NMSU defensive end Donte Savage, sophomore, was too late when he finally reached UTEP junior quarterback Trevor Vittatoe during Saturday’s game. The players and Aggie fans also had to battle the weather, and the game was delayed because of the rain. Krista Avila/the Round Up

By Korey Middleton|Sports Reporter

After nearly three hours of weather delay, New Mexico State University struggled to score points against the UTEP Miners in the annu-al Battle of I-10 and in the end, the Miners triumphed over the Aggies by a score of 38-12. For the Aggies, it certain-ly was a disappointing loss. “We hung in there with them,” football coach De-Wayne Walker said. “We turned the ball over and let the game get away from us.” Aggie quarterback Jeff Fleming struggled through-out the game, going six for 13 with two interceptions,

his third and fourth of the season. Redshirt freshman Trevor Walls scored the Aggies’ lone passing touch-down of the night with a five-yard pass to tight end Kyle Nelson.Fleming said a lack of exe-cution was the biggest prob-lem for the Aggies. “We shot ourselves in the foot,” Fleming said. Running back Marquell Colston scored the first points of the contest for the Aggies. Colston rushed for 42 yards on 12 carries. Seth Smith recorded his second straight 100-yard rushing game and had the Aggies’s longest run of the contest: a 53-yarder that set up the touchdown by Colston. The

Aggie ground game proved to be the only deterrent to the UTEP defense, contrib-uting 187 of the team’s 284 total yards on offense. The Aggies turned the ball over three times and the Miners were able to capital-ize on all three turnovers, scoring 21 points following the miscues. NMSU also had eight penalties for 70 yards. “That’s just football,” linebacker Jason Scott said. “We had to get out there and do our jobs and we all made mistakes that led to scores, myself included.” The Aggie defense strug-gled as well, allowing over 330 total yards of offense and five rushing touch-

downs. Linebacker Ross Conner led the Aggie defen-sive effort with nine tackles. The Aggies now trek north to Albuquerque to face In-terstate 25 rival University of New Mexico, Saturday, Sept. 26 at 8:00 p.m. Walk-er said it is a critical game. “This is a big one for us. We’re 1-2 and if we can find a way to pull that one out, we’re back at .500 and we’re just going to keep going one game at a time,” Walker said.

Korey Middleton is a sports reporter and can be reached at trusports@nmsu.edu

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Left: Representative of Signature World Services Jennifer Ward explained the travel opportunities available through SWS to NMSU students at the Study Abroad Fair Wednesday afternoon at Corbett Center Student Union.

Right: Karla Maya, a representative for TEC de Monterrey Chihuahua, Mexico, talk-ed to students about the language programs and exchange opportunities offered by TEC during the Study Abroad Fair. Krista Avila/the Round Up

Annual fundraising breakfast cancelled

By Jenna Candelaria|News Reporter

The Danny Villanueva Schol-arship Endowment has reached the goal of $500,000 set by its founder, and as a result, the an-nual October fundraising break-fast has been cancelled indefi-nitely. The scholarship, established in 1991 by New Mexico State Uni-versity alumnus Danny Villan-ueva, was created to recognize NMSU students who excel in leadership and community in-volvement. The NMSU founda-tion has funded 38 scholarships thus far. “We have reached our half-a-million-dollar-goal, so this is a good time to put a close to the breakfast event,” Villanueva said. “There will be a steady stream of potential leaders who will benefit from this legacy.” One student benefiting from the scholarship this semester is Elizabeth Fernandez, who is pur-suing a master’s degree in social work at NMSU. Fernandez said the scholarship has made a big impact on her ability to pursue her graduate education. “I was really nervous about how to pay for graduate school, but when I learned that I had

received the scholarship, it was such an amazing feeling know-ing I would not have to worry so much,” Fernandez said. The fundraising breakfast was created in 2002 based on a sug-gestion from NMSU Chicano Programs and has had guest speakers, such as journalist Guy Garcia, politician Anna Cabral and former U.S. Cabinet Mem-ber Henry Cisneros. Villanueva credited the success of the breakfast to Chicano Pro-grams Director Laura Gutierrez Spencer and Christina Chavez Kelley, a university administra-tor. “This breakfast would not have

Villanueva scholarship reaches half-a-million-dollar goal

ABout DANNy VillANueVA

4Native of tucumcari, N.M. 4Attended NMSu on a football scholarship4Graduated from NMSu in 19614Played professional football with the los Angeles Rams and the Dallas Cowboys4Co-founded investment firm Bastion Capital in 19924Was given an honorary doctorate from NMSu in 1999

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Ortiz said the expo is a great way to network in different career fields as well as explore the op-tion of higher education. “The Career Expo is a great idea because you can talk to people that already work in the field that you’re interested in,” Ortiz said. Businesses at the Career Expo may discuss professional em-ployment, internships or coop-erative education positions. Bensley had several tips for students planning to attend the Career Expo. Students should bring plenty of copies of their résumé and a small notebook

to take notes, Bensley said. She also said students should dress in proper business attire. “Professional business attire places the candidate at an ad-vantage,” Bensley said. Bensley said students should send a follow-up resume and cover letter to further express their interest in a business. In light of the current econ-omy, Bensley said the Career Expo will help students make the best impression on future employers. “There are many ways to in-teract with employers, but noth-ing beats the ability to talk face to face with someone,” Bensley said. For more information, visit www.careerservices.nmsu.edu or contact Roseanne Bensley,

Career Expo coordinator, at rbensley@nmsu.edu.

Jenna Candelaria is a news reporter and can be reached at jennacan@nmsu.edu.

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how it comes on.” Diven said the patient di-agnosed with H1N1 was sent home, and was encouraged to stay home for five days to a week before resuming social or educa-tional routines. “The Center for Disease Con-trol says one day after fever breaks,” Diven said. McKee said the H1N1 vaccine was approved for distribution on Tuesday and will be available at the health center in late Oc-tober to mid-November. McKee said the regular flu shot will be available beginning Oct. 1. “People are encouraged to get a regular flu shot, and the H1N1 shot when it becomes available,” Diven said. Diven said the health center is always busy during the fall semester. Diven said a majority of the patients have severe cold symptoms. “Mostly what we’re seeing is a really nasty cold going around,” Diven said. “It’s worse than the flu.” Diven said the health center

has put a triage plan in place for members of the campus com-munity to call in and get in-formation to help them decide whether or not they should get medical help for the symptoms they have. McKee said everyone should be careful not to spread his or her germs, and people should take simple precautions, such as washing their hands often, and to be prepared for the onset of sickness. McKee said everyone should keep a flu kit on hand containing items such as non-aspirin fever-reducers, over the counter cough medicines and nasal decongestants, throat loz-

enges, plenty of liquids and tis-sues. “If you come into the health center with [flu-like] symptoms, we’re going to ask you to put on a mask to keep from spreading it,” McKee said. “It is also im-portant that people dispose of their own tissues in the trash so the people who pick up behind them [will not be exposed].” For more information or to contact the triage nurse, call the Student Health Center at 646-2172.

Kristina Medley is news editor and can be reached at trunews@nmsu.edu

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happened each year without the total commitment and dedica-tion of Laura and Christina,” Villanueva said. “They have been the heart and soul of this breakfast.” Spencer said the many sup-porters of the breakfast also helped to make it a success.

“Due to the Villanuevas’ gen-erosity and the hard work of several individuals, many more students will be able to enjoy the benefits of this endowed schol-arship in the future,” Spencer said. Spencer said the fundraising breakfast was a great oppor-tunity to work with Villanueva and she looks forward to work-ing with him again in the future.

Jenna Candelaria is a news reporter and can be reached at trunews@nmsu.edu

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By Andi Murphy|news Reporter

Rally ‘Round the Arts, an informative event, will begin with dancing, music, demos and some hands-on activities on Wednesday to spark excite-ment for the new Center for the Arts complex, slated for construction in 2010. The New Mexico State Uni-versity Pride Band will provide music along with local bands, such as the Desert Harmony Singers and other student mu-sicians. Activities will include face painting, guest speakers, a wheel-throwing ceramics dem-onstration and a do-it-your-self-instruments-from-house-hold -bjects-gig. The event will be held at the intersection of University Avenue and Espina Street, the future site of the

new arts center. “You’ll have to come see what it [the event] is,” said Barbara Wise, a gift officer for the Center for the Arts project. “I think it will be a great state-ment promoting the arts at New Mexico State University.” Wise said the Center for the Arts will bring together the scattered arts sections in-cluding visual, music, theater and dance into one state-of-the-art complex complete with a 500-seat auditorium, studio and gallery space, classrooms and a grand performance hall that will seat about 1,200 peo-ple. The center will be construct-ed in three phases beginning in 2010. The first phase will cost about $37.5 million, Wise said. “I think it’s really one of the most important things that

New Mexico State has done in terms of bringing arts togeth-er,” said Tom Smith, theater department head. “The new arts complex will dramatically change what we can do in this town.” It doesn’t matter how the outside of the building will look, as long as arts students have more room, said Vince T. Tsosie, a junior in studio arts. “The building we’re in now is pretty small and everyone is cramped in these small class-es,” Tsosie said. Although Tsosie may not have a class in the new arts center, he said the center will spark more interest in the arts because the fresh building will appeal to new students.

Andi Murphy is a news reporter and can be reached at trunews@nmsu.edu

Rally ‘Round the Arts to spark interest in new facility

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The Greek reponse

Your remarks about Greeks in the most recent publishing of the Roundup [are] a com-plete fallacy. Your negative portrayal of Greeks makes it very evident that your re-search was simple and juve-nile, and is a lead to believe that you have a one track mind. The only reason that this is a big deal is because it involved a Greek organization. To argue that Greeks allow underage drinking at parties is a horrible point, because every party consists of under-age drinking. You undermine your own intelligence by making such a point, and [it is assumed] that you have nothing else to write about. Fulfilling your quota does not have to consist of slandering a whole community of people. Also, your “Voices of NMSU” article is absolutely horrible, and completely elementary. The points of view the people speak out with are narrow-minded and one sided. I do believe what happened was wrong, but there were plenty of things that went left unsaid in that article that leads people who are uninformed and unknowing of the Greek community (such asyourself) that we aim to fulfill our so-cially constructed stereotype.

[Remarks in the “Voices of NMSU” segment] about going to Mexico [to drink legally] leads me to develop a stereo-type that the general popula-tion of the university is simple and stupid. Assassinations in Mexico happen everyday, so to say they should have gone to Mexico implies that getting an MIP is far more dangerous than going to Mexico. If you wanted to be a one sided re-porter you should have...well never gone into journalism.

--Kayl M., a member of the Greek community

Greeks: ‘just like you’

In the last issue of The Round Up, it was written that members of the fraternity SAE were pulled over and mul-tiple MIPs were handed out. Later in the issue, it goes on to interview a few select students on whether or not the SAE members were treated fairly. For the most part, everyone said that underage drinking is wrong and the members got what they deserved. Also, the events of that night prompted the staff of The Round Up to write a small editorial asking “Who are the Greeks?” The editorial claimed that the parties thrown by people involved in the Greek lifestyle

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are “more than a stereotype”. That they are “full of under-age co-eds”. While this is true, for the most part, I challenge you to go to any party that is hosted by New Mexico State University students. Look at the IDs of everyone present and I can promise you that very few will be over the age of 21. The fact is, only a por-tion of underage drinkers are Greek. Out of all of these underage drinkers, how many of them are responsible enough to acquire a designated driver? Not many, according to a May 2006 issue of The Round Up. In an article written by Claire D’Mura, it is stated that New Mexico State students rank above the national aver-age as far as reported DWI arrests. The amount of NMSU students that reported a DWI/DUI arrest in the past year (at the time) was 4.1 percent, compared to the national rate of 2 percent. Everywhere in the media and on campus are signs saying “drink responsibly.” Programs tell us that if we are going to drink, to at least be smart about it. That is exactly what these students were do-ing. Being smart. They hired a designated driver. They made sure that they acted respon-sibly, instead of endangering themselves and others by driving. They were pulled over for a mistake made by their sober driver, and they all got in trouble for it. There is no way to stop un-derage drinking; it is a prob-lem around the country. Not only is it a problem in colleges and universities, but also in high school. Many freshmen enter college already knowing what it is like to be part of the

party atmosphere, how can the Greek system be blamed for a problem that it didn’t create? If we punish those that be-have responsibly with alcohol, what is the incentive for stu-dents? If you will get the same punishment either way, why go to the trouble of getting a designated driver and being safe? The editorial asks the ques-tion, “Who are the Greeks?” The Greeks are students, just like the rest of us. The only difference is that they have a name for their band of friends that doubles as a new found family. They do good for the community, more than the average student in fact. I, my-self, am not involved in Greek life. In the two years I have been in college, I have never once volunteered to help my school or my community, like many other regular students. Take a look at the community service records of any frater-nity or sorority, and you will find that they have done more for our school and community than they are given credit for. So yes, they fit the stereo-type. But they also shatter it at the same time. They are not all brainless drinking machines or wealthy divas. They are leaders. They are people with strong opinions about what is right and wrong, about what a college student’s life should be like. They are leaders to some, family to many, and friends to all. So I say to you, think about who you are pointing your fin-gers at. They are just like you. They do more for this school than you know. And to those whose voices were raised the loudest against underage drinking, I’ll see you at the party this weekend.

--Devin J., sophomore History

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Article: Stance against sex ed: Womanhood is natural, period The columnist calls on readers to take a stance on the way the sexual educa-tion is talked about in the public school system. Her take: more openness, less embarrassment. The column was published in the Sept. 3 issue.

“The point is valid, but the article reads more like a blog than a story and the argu-ment isn’t well supported. The idea behind the secre-tive nature of those early meetings is to keep girls feeling comfortable. Besides, [it’s] never appropriate to walk around in stinky blood stained pants just like it’s not appropriate to [walk] around in pee-soaked pant-ies. Also, don’t they take the boys to a separate room to tell them about wet dreams? Not something I would have wanted to be a part of in fifth grade. There is a dif-ference between shame and age appropriateness. Girls are scared and embarrassed enough at the smells and the feelings without adding terminology that little boys can use on the playground as ammunition.”

--Christina, Sept. 3 “There’s a balance. At some point, it feels like bad man-

ners to carry on about one’s bowel movements, back-aches, overgrown toenails, and armpit sweat. On the other hand, who wants to be forced not to speak by social pressures brought by people whose sensibilities are just too delicate in the first place? “Say no to shame, but remember politeness. Simple answers are seldom correct.”

--“Joe Thyroid,” Sept. 3

Article: Who are the Greeks? A staff editorial discusses the portrayal of Greeks on campus. “Greek life cannot be judged be the actions of a few individuals. These types of incidents are always blown out of proportion just be-cause it has ‘Frat’ in it. The media has always looked for things that make the news, and always make it worse than it is. Most people judge off the bat, but will never

know what it really is like to be Greek. As for underage drinking, who hasn’t done it? You don’t have to be at a Greek party or tailgate to find underage students drinking. I think its funny how Greeks can give so much to the community, but one incident, and they are the worst people ever.”

--Alex, Sept. 19 “Dear Round Up Editorial Board, “You ask the question, ‘Who are the Greeks?’ This question can be likened to ones such as, ‘Who are the Aggies?’ or, ‘Who are Americans?’ Questions that beg stereotypical answers are exactly how the Greek community acquired such a bad reputation. Yes, things do happen to members that are not exactly noble, but the only reason attention is drawn to the occasion is because we belong to an organization. Shame on you,

Round Up Editorial Board, for falling victim to these biases. Please know that we Greeks are a diverse crowd, and pride ourselves in be-ing part of such an amazing thing as Greek life.”

--Jessie, Sept. 17 Article: The good, bad and ugly of a new semes-ter A columnist discusses the ups and downs of a fresh se-mester at New Mexico State University. “One thing that I’ve en-joyed about the new semester is that there seem to be more options for students to get involved in a group. “But I do not like the pe-destrian traffic. It seems to have increased since spring semester, and most people don’t watch where they’re going. The other day I almost hit a girl coming from the Horseshoe parking lot.”--Gabriella Brillante, Aug. 31

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Looking ahead: Rio Grande Rivalry

David Chavez | Sports editor

As the New Mexico State Uni-versity football team licks its wounds after a devastating loss to the UTEP Miners, the team is already looking ahead to an-other intense rivalry game.

NMSU is in the unique and unfortunate position of having two rivalry games every year, usually back-to-back, and, as the latest Round Up poll re-vealed, NMSU students are split down the middle in who they think is the bigger rival.

Whichever team students view as the bigger threat, the UTEP game is in the past, and this week, it’s all about the Lo-bos.

To say this is an old, heated rivalry is an understatement. The two schools competed on a football field for the first time in 1894 and had already competed in six football games prior to the entrance of New Mexico into the Union in 1912.

In a rivalry older and, in many ways, bigger than the State of New Mexico, the Lobos have an authoritative 66-28-5 all-time advantage over the Aggies and currently hold a six game win-streak. The most recent NMSU victory in the series came in 2002 when the Aggies won 24-13 in Las Cruces.

The Lobos defeated the Ag-gies in Las Cruces with a 35-24 come-from-behind victory last year.

This year, the Lobos are off to a slow start and are as thirsty for a win as the Aggies. The Lo-bos are sitting at 0-3, but have faced formidable foes including Texas A&M, The University of Tulsa and the Air Force Acad-emy.

In its most recent game against Air Force, the Lobos team lost 37-13, but found some redemption in sophomore running back James Wright. Wright had 126 yards on five carries and set a UNM school record with a 25.2 yard per-carry average in the loss to Air Force.

Like the Aggies, the Lobos have a new coach roaming the sidelines. Mike Locksley was named the UNM head foot-ball coach last December, after spending four seasons as the offensive coordinator at the University of Illinois, where he spent his final three years as the quarterback coach.

According to Albuquerque Journal reports, Locksley’s ca-reer at UNM is off to a rough start, as he was accused of age discrimination by a 54-year old employee in May. Locksley filed a libel suit in August refuting the allegations.

The Rio Grande Rivalry game

will be played Saturday in Albu-querque at 8 p.m.

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said Bob Provencio, an El Paso native and UTEP fan.

“Look around, look at all the mixtures of people from El Paso and Las Cruces, I know in my own tent that we have five El Paso guys and four Las Cruces guys,” Provencio said.

Five NMSU students chanting “UTEP sucks” up and down the tailgate aisles returned to their tent, where 15 others sat around eating and drinking and talk-ing about the game. Eight were UTEP fans.

“Yeah we have a few of our friends here from El Paso. Me and my high school buddies al-ways make sure we get together for the NMSU-UTEP games,” said Aaron Richman, an NMSU agricultural student and gradu-ate of Franklin High School in El Paso. “I try to stir up some [expletive], but I’d do that at any

heated sporting event, a lot of these people that get mad about [UTEP sucks] don’t realize that I’m from El Paso, that I have friends from UTEP, even though I hate to admit it.”

Everyone in Richman’s tent said they agreed that the Inter-state 10 rivalry is more about the experience and the coming together of friends than the ac-tual game. However, most add-ed that the year long bragging rights were also a plus.

Richman said he and his high school friends do not come to-gether over rivalry basketball games because they can’t tail-gate all day for basketball.

Although heated physical and verbal clashes between Aggie and Miner fans could be viewed throughout the day, the scores of fans simply chatting over a cold beer overshadowed the confrontations.

As an altercation raged in the distance, Richman, wearing a crimson “[expletive] UTEP” shirt, sat in his tent next to his best friend from high school,

Jesse Lucero, who was wear-ing an orange UTEP shirt. Both friends sat, reminiscing of their days at Franklin with a beer in one had and a burger in the other.

“Most of the time those fights

are alcohol related more than school pride related. Yeah a ri-valry can be heated, but at the same time there can be respect for one another in the process,” said Lucero, a UTEP alumnus. “Believe it or not we [UTEP and

NMSU fans] do have things in common: we all hate the [Uni-versity of New Mexico] Lobos.”

Chris Billings is a sports reporter and can be reached at trusports@nmsu.edu

Sport BriefSWomen’s Tennis

Sophia Marks and Aleksa Costa of the women’s tennis team advanced to the finals in doubles play after sailing to an 8-2 victory over UTEP in the second day of the Miner Fall Invitational on Saturday.

On Sunday, the duo domi-nated UTEP’s Martina Trier-weiler and Alexander Glebova 8-1 in the tournament’s dou-bles championship.

“The two seniors came away with a big win,” assistant coach Ivan Fernandez said.

Cross CounTryThe cross country team fin-

ished strong Saturday at the Annual Kachina Classic in Las Cruces.

Both the men’s and women’s teams placed third on their home course and had runners in the top-10 this weekend. Sophomore Ian Ruybalid on the men’s team and sopho-more Courtney Schultz both placed eighth overall.

The Aggies next race is at the Cowboy Jamboree in Still-water, Okla., Saturday, Oct.3.

soCCerThe women’s soccer team

won its first home match in program history 3-0 against Texas-Permian Basin, Wednesday, Sept. 16. The Ag-gies recorded their first shut-out and tied a season high with three goals.

The Aggies are back in ac-tion today against West Texas A&M at Aggie Memorial sta-dium. The match begins at 6 p.m.

VolleyballThe volleyball team had the

weekend off as it prepares for UTEP on Tuesday, followed by a six-game WAC stretch in which it will play top-raked Hawaii.

The UTEP match is at 7 p.m. Tuesday in El Paso.

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Chris Billings | Sports Reporter

Before the rain and lightning forced many to shelter, more than 20,000 crimson and or-ange clad fans celebrated a sto-ried rivalry Saturday, each with his or her own reasons for par-taking in the annual battle of In-terstate 10.

For many New Mexico State

University and University of Texas-El Paso students, alumni and fans, game day started be-fore noon. The pregame tailgate stretched from the North side of the Pan American Center to the South side of Aggie Memorial Stadium.

Aside from the always appeal-ing barbecues, tailgate games and ice chests full of beer, many had very different reasons for

showing up to the Miner-Aggie game.

“Yes, I know you get the fights and all the other confrontations at the rivalry games, but I think it’s one of the few times that both the El Paso and Las Cru-ces communities can come to-gether for common ground, that ground being college football,”

Korey Middleton|Sports Reporter

The 87th meeting between the UTEP Miners and New Mexico State University Aggies was un-derway and ready to go – until Mother Nature showed up.

Two minutes into the game, officials suspended play due to thunderstorms with lightning flashes, leaving many fans to seek shelter as rain drenched Aggie Memorial Stadium.

While many fans ran to the exits, some were not deterred by the showers.

“It’s not that big of a deal,” NMSU alumnus Randi Zents said, “as long as the rain stops.”

Other fans were not as com-placent about the weather.

“It’s horrible. I hate it,” Deavyion Sanchez, a young Ag-gie fan said. “This is my second time coming to a game. I love coming to the games. The ex-

citement brings me here.”Before the game was sus-

pended, UTEP was already on the board after a one-yard run by tailback Donald Buckram. The score came after a tipped pass from Aggie quarterback Jeff Fleming resulted in an in-terception. The interception was Fleming’s second of the season.

While fans left the stadium, Aggie Memorial stadium staff worked to get fans to safe places in the complex. Special Events Director Scott Breckner said patron safety is the number one priority of his staff.

“We’re trying to get them under cover,” Breckner said. “We’re monitoring the storm on radar and the game can con-tinue 30 minutes after the last lightning strike, but it’s up to the officials.”

For fans who weathered the storm, the draw of the rivalry

between the two teams was enough to brave the showers.

“I’ve been a Miner fan all my life,” Da-vid Vasquez said. “The rivalry has been this way for years. We’re die-hard so a lit-tle rain won’t hurt.”

Vasquez said he wouldn’t need a refund.

“Maybe a rain check,” Vasquez said.

The game resumed at 9:10 p.m. after a two hour and 55 minute delay and several fans made their way back into the stands. The night ultimately ended up falling in the Miners’

favor. The team bested the Ag-gies by a score of 38-12.

Korey Middleton is a sports reporter and can be reached at trusports@nmsu.edu.

Fans put aside differences to enjoy burgers and football

After one storm began to subside over the NMSU stadium, another lurked behind with severe lightning storms, postponing the game for another two hours on Saturday night at the NMSU-UTEP game. The game finally resumed at 9:10 p.m. UTEP beat NMSU 38-12. Krista Avila/ the Round Up

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Thunderstorms delay Battle of I-10 for

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