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Inside the Daily Lobo Opinion: Taking action? Philippine flooding See page 4 See page 3 volume 114 issue 26 Today’s weather 79° / 54° D AILY L OBO new mexico Reality check see back page September 28, 2009 The Independent Voice of UNM since 1895 monday by Andrew Beale Daily Lobo Key members of the GPSA voted Saturday to follow the New Mexico Open Meetings Act to the letter. e Graduate and Professional Student Association, meeting as a committee-of-the-whole, voted in support of a constitutional clause that would require members to fol- low all provisions of the state law that requires legislative bodies to open their meetings to the public. “In recognition of the fact that a representative government is de- pendent upon an informed elec- torate, it is declared to be public policy of this state that all persons are entitled to the greatest possible information regarding the affairs of government and the official acts of those officers and employees who represent them,” the act reads. A committee-of-the-whole can- not make official changes to the GPSA constitution. However, most of the GPSA members who will be present at the Oct. 3 council meet- ing, where the changes can be made, were present at the com- mittee-of-the-whole meeting on Saturday. The committee-of-the-whole by Kallie Red-Horse Daily Lobo On top of preparing for the Rio Grande rivalry this weekend, the NMSU community had to deal with a bomb threat and a drive-by shooting. e drive-by shooting on Mon- day started near the Doña Ana branch of NMSU and moved on campus. No one was injured, and one man is in custody for the shoot- ing, said NMSU Police Department Deputy Chief Steven Lopez. Tuesday, the NMSU Police De- partment got a call at 8:30 a.m. from a student reporting a suspicious device. Whoever left the suspicious item attached a piece of paper that said “this is a bomb” to the cylindrical bottom of a bicycle U-lock. e sup- posed bomb was spotted in a plant- er in the main plaza on campus. Po- lice inspected it and said it wasn’t dangerous. Lopez said his squad effectively handled the bomb threat through the university’s emergency text- message system. “As we dispatched our officers, we also put out a warning to peo- ple in the area,” Lopez said. “When the officers got on scene, they were able determine safe distances and isolate the area without having to cancel any classes or evacuate the building.” NMSU student Brittney Martinez said the university handled the in- cident well and warned students of the potential danger. “ey did a pretty good job,” she said. “Pretty much everyone that I talked to that day had heard about it.” UNM Police Department Com- mander James T. Daniels wouldn’t give specifics about UNM’s bomb threat policy but said the depart- ment is more than adequately pre- pared for any situation. “We work hand-in-hand with APD, state and Bernalillo police,” Daniels said. “We can request assis- tance from their trained squads in any situation.” Freshman Kevin Hudson said UNMPD should defer to a more highly trained and experienced po- lice squad in bomb-threat situa- tions, rather than handle the situa- tion on its own. “I do not trust UNM police,” he said. “ey just don’t seem compe- tent to me.” Daniels said bomb-threat situ- ations tend to arise during finals week, because students call them in to avoid taking exams. “People don’t study for their tests, so they panic and call in a bomb threat,” he said. Lopez said both of the NMSU in- cidents are still under investigation. “ere is currently an investiga- tion in regard to both disturbances, but there is no information that we can release to the public,” he said. by Pat Lohmann Daily Lobo A small fire broke out in the basement laundry room of Hokona Hall late Friday morning, damaging at least one dryer and causing smoke to circulate throughout the building. Dorm residents and staff evacuated the building, and no one was injured, said Kerry Horton, Albuquerque Fire Department battalion commander. “It looks like (the dryer) probably just overheated,” he said. “e fire was confined to the dryer. It looks like a big smoke event, because the ventilation system took it everywhere.” Residents were not allowed back into the dorm until 2 p.m. because of the danger of smoke inhalation. All of the residents and staff members in the building were evacuated at the time of the fire, Horton said. “Personnel and property representatives were good about getting everybody evacuated and stuff like that,” he said. “at’s a big help for us.” Teresa Ortiz, a Residence Life coordinator, said Hoko- na Hall had a fire drill on Wednesday, which helped every- one exit the building safely. “We do train our staff the very best we can every year, and they followed the procedure like we wanted them to,” she said. “I’m glad it was during the day when a lot of kids were already in class, so it helped not being in the middle of the night.” Freshman Jocelyn Rowse had just stepped out of the building when the fire started. Her clothes were still in the washer. Zach Gould / Daily Lobo Firefighters carry their gear out of Hokona Hall after putting out a fire in the dorm’s basement laundry room Friday morning. Residents and staff evacuated, and no one was injured. Dryer fire smokes out students Zach Gould / Daily Lobo Fire-damaged dryers sit in the laundry room of Hokona Hall. Smoke from the fire, which started Friday morning, entered the building’s ventilation system and circulated throughout the dorm. Junfu Han / Daily Lobo NMSU’s Tony Glynn comforts Lobo wide receiver Daryl Jones after the Lobos’ disheartening 20-17 loss Saturday. UNM has yet to win a game this season. See the back page for more coverage. GPSA set to open council meetings see Open meetings page 3 see Hokona fire page 3 NMSU handles drive-by, bomb threat in one week “There was a layer of soot over everything...” ~Stephanie Hunter Football

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Page 1: New Mexico Daily Lobo 092809

Inside theDaily Lobo

Opinion: Taking action?

Philippine flooding

See page 4 See page 3volume 114 issue 26

Today’s weather

79° / 54°

DAILY LOBOnew mexico

Reality checksee back page

September 28, 2009 The Independent Voice of UNM since 1895monday

by Andrew BealeDaily Lobo

Key members of the GPSA voted Saturday to follow the New Mexico Open Meetings Act to the letter.

� e Graduate and Professional Student Association, meeting as a committee-of-the-whole, voted in support of a constitutional clause that would require members to fol-low all provisions of the state law

that requires legislative bodies to open their meetings to the public.

“In recognition of the fact that a representative government is de-pendent upon an informed elec-torate, it is declared to be public policy of this state that all persons are entitled to the greatest possible information regarding the a� airs of government and the o� cial acts of those o� cers and employees who represent them,” the act reads.

A committee-of-the-whole can-not make o� cial changes to the GPSA constitution. However, most of the GPSA members who will be present at the Oct. 3 council meet-ing, where the changes can be made, were present at the com-mittee-of-the-whole meeting on Saturday.

The committee-of-the-whole

by Kallie Red-HorseDaily Lobo

On top of preparing for the Rio Grande rivalry this weekend, the NMSU community had to deal with a bomb threat and a drive-by shooting.

� e drive-by shooting on Mon-day started near the Doña Ana branch of NMSU and moved on campus. No one was injured, and one man is in custody for the shoot-ing, said NMSU Police Department Deputy Chief Steven Lopez.

Tuesday, the NMSU Police De-partment got a call at 8:30 a.m. from a student reporting a suspicious device.

Whoever left the suspicious item attached a piece of paper that said “this is a bomb” to the cylindrical bottom of a bicycle U-lock. � e sup-posed bomb was spotted in a plant-er in the main plaza on campus. Po-lice inspected it and said it wasn’t dangerous.

Lopez said his squad e� ectively handled the bomb threat through the university’s emergency text-message system.

“As we dispatched our o� cers, we also put out a warning to peo-ple in the area,” Lopez said. “When the o� cers got on scene, they were able determine safe distances and isolate the area without having to cancel any classes or evacuate the building.”

NMSU student Brittney Martinez

said the university handled the in-cident well and warned students of the potential danger.

“� ey did a pretty good job,” she said. “Pretty much everyone that I talked to that day had heard about it.”

UNM Police Department Com-mander James T. Daniels wouldn’t give speci� cs about UNM’s bomb threat policy but said the depart-ment is more than adequately pre-pared for any situation.

“We work hand-in-hand with APD, state and Bernalillo police,” Daniels said. “We can request assis-tance from their trained squads in any situation.”

Freshman Kevin Hudson said UNMPD should defer to a more highly trained and experienced po-lice squad in bomb-threat situa-tions, rather than handle the situa-tion on its own.

“I do not trust UNM police,” he said. “� ey just don’t seem compe-tent to me.”

Daniels said bomb-threat situ-ations tend to arise during � nals week, because students call them in to avoid taking exams.

“People don’t study for their tests, so they panic and call in a bomb threat,” he said.

Lopez said both of the NMSU in-cidents are still under investigation.

“� ere is currently an investiga-tion in regard to both disturbances, but there is no information that we can release to the public,” he said.

by Pat LohmannDaily Lobo

A small � re broke out in the basement laundry room of Hokona Hall late Friday morning, damaging at least one dryer and causing smoke to circulate throughout the building.

Dorm residents and sta� evacuated the building, and no one was injured, said Kerry Horton, Albuquerque Fire Department battalion commander.

“It looks like (the dryer) probably just overheated,” he said. “� e � re was con� ned to the dryer. It looks like a big smoke event, because the ventilation system took it everywhere.”

Residents were not allowed back into the dorm until 2 p.m. because of the danger of smoke inhalation.

All of the residents and sta� members in the building were evacuated at the time of the � re, Horton said.

“Personnel and property representatives were good about getting everybody evacuated and stu� like that,” he said. “� at’s a big help for us.”

Teresa Ortiz, a Residence Life coordinator, said Hoko-na Hall had a � re drill on Wednesday, which helped every-one exit the building safely.

“We do train our sta� the very best we can every year, and they followed the procedure like we wanted them to,” she said. “I’m glad it was during the day when a lot of kids were already in class, so it helped not being in the middle of the night.”

Freshman Jocelyn Rowse had just stepped out of the building when the � re started. Her clothes were still in the washer.

Zach Gould / Daily Lobo

Fire� ghters carry their gear out of Hokona Hall after putting out a � re in the dorm’s basement laundry room Friday morning. Residents and sta� evacuated, and no one was injured.

Dryer � re smokes out students

Zach Gould / Daily LoboFire-damaged dryers sit in the laundry room of Hokona Hall. Smoke from the � re, which started Friday morning, entered the building’s ventilation system and circulated throughout the dorm.

Junfu Han / Daily Lobo

NMSU’s Tony Glynn comforts Lobo wide receiver Daryl Jones after the Lobos’ disheartening 20-17 loss Saturday. UNM has yet to win a game this season. See the back page for more coverage.

GPSA set to open council meetings

see Open meetings page 3

see Hokona � re page 3

NMSU handles drive-by, bomb threat in one week

“There was a layer of soot over

everything...”~Stephanie Hunter

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Normandy, invades England and claims the English throne.

In 1850, flogging is abolished as a form of punishment in the U.S. Navy.

In 1920, a grand jury indicts eight members of the Chicago White Sox base-ball team, accused of throwing the 1919 World Series and dubbed the “Black Sox.”

In 1924, two U.S. Army planes land in Seattle, Wash., completing the first round-the-world flight in 175 days.

In 1941, Nazi German terror

campaign begins in Czechoslovakia.In 1965, a volcano 35 miles south of

Manila in the Philippines erupts, killing at least 184 people.

In 1977, Japanese terrorists hold 156 hostages on a hijacked Japanese airliner at Dhaka, Bangladesh.

In 1990, three Philippine military of-ficers and 13 soldiers are convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the 1983 murder of opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr.

In 1992, a Pakistani airliner crash-es into a hill as it tries to land in Nepal’s Katmandu Airport, killing all 167 people aboard.

In 1993, a natural gas pipeline explodes beneath a busy highway in the Venezue-lan capital of Caracas, killing 50 people.

In 1994, the ferry Estonia sinks in a storm in the Baltic Sea, killing more than 900 people.

In 1997, Swiss voters overwhelmingly approve their country’s liberal drug poli-cies, including the dispensation of heroin to addicts.

In 2000, thousands of angry students clash with security forces after a court dismisses charges of massive corruption against Indonesian ex-dictator Suharto because of failing health.

In 2005, the U.S. administration’s

public relations chief meets with Turkish women activists and stresses the need for better dialogue between the two coun-tries. The activists respond with a barrage of criticism of the U.S. war in Iraq.

In 2007, soldiers in Myanmar beat and drag activists away while firing tear gas and warning shots to break up dem-onstrations, and the government cuts In-ternet access, raising fears that a deadly crackdown will intensify.

In 2008, Austrian 16-year-olds vote for the first time in parliamentary elections under a new law.

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Sophomore Stephanie Hunt-er lived in the single room directly above the laundry room. She said she threw out her rug and chair because of smoke and soot damage, and she was moved to a single-occupancy room across the Hokona courtyard.

“There was a layer of soot over everything,” she said. “It was a really thin layer, and I didn’t really notice it until I sat down and tried to type on my computer … and I lifted my fin-gers up and my fingers were black.”

Hunter said a cleaning crew scrubbed the walls, and she took her wardrobe to a self-service laundry. She said she knows of at least two Hokona residents who lost loads of laundry in the fire.

“I know there were two girls on the first floor … they lost their clothes in the washers,” she said. “I don’t think they’re getting them back.”

Rowse said the equipment in the laundry room is often in disrepair.

“All year, half of (the washers) have been broken, and when they’re all working, the dryers don’t work,” she said. “I think that’s very irre-sponsible of the University to have things that are going to catch fire.”

Bobby Childers, Residence Life and Student Housing public affairs representative, said his department is going through the Risk Manage-ment Department to reimburse stu-dents for their losses.

He said RLSH doesn’t have an exact estimate of the losses, but he expects they were relatively small.

“Basically what happens in all in-stances of these kinds of emergen-cies is students are reimbursed for items that they lose,” he said. “We really don’t (have a number) at this time. We understand that it was very minimal.”

voted to comply with the New Mex-ico Open Meetings Act in coun-cil meetings but not in committee meetings. Also, it discussed posting videos of meetings online but de-cided not to.

GPSA Council Chair Danny Her-nandez said the act requires posting meeting times and locations at least 24 hours in advance. He said this is too much for an informal commit-tee of less than 10 people.

“I think the requirements of the open meetings act are too onerous for our small committees,” he said.

The committee also discussed holding meetings electronically by using Skype, the Internet telephone service, to post video on the GPSA

Web site.GPSA President Lissa Knuds-

en said that holding meetings over Skype would provide the public with greater access to the meetings.

“It’s a way to fairly have every-one represented,” she said.

Hernandez said the cost of put-ting the video option on the GPSA Web site outweighed the benefits of having every meeting broadcast.

“I’ll be honest, I’m extremely wary with electronic meetings for a variety of reasons,” he said.

Council member Dean Palacios also voiced opposition to the elec-tronic meetings. He said the tech-nology would be too difficult for the public to use.

Eighty die in Manila’s worst flood in 42 years

by Jim Gomez The Associated Press

MANILA, Philippines — Many Filipino villagers managed to save only the clothes on their backs but began to rebuild Sunday as the flood waters receded from a tropical storm that set off the worst flooding in the Philippine capital in 42 years and left about 80 dead.

Army troops, police and civil-ian volunteers plucked dead bod-ies from muddy flood waters and rescued drenched survivors from rooftops after Tropical Storm Ket-sana tore through the northern Phil-ippines a day earlier, leaving at least 106 people dead and missing.

Some residents began to clean up as the flood waters receded. Still, many parts of the capital remained flooded. A brief period of sunshine showed the extent of the devasta-tion in many neighborhoods — de-stroyed houses, overturned vehi-cles, and roads covered in debris and mud.

Ketsana dumped more than a month’s worth of rain in just 12 hours, causing the government to declare a “state of calamity” in met-ropolitan Manila and 25 storm-hit provinces. The declaration allowed officials to use emergency funds for relief and rescue.

The rains swamped entire towns

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[email protected] / Ext. 133Opinion editor / Eva Dameron The Independent Voice of UNM since 1895LoboOpinionLoboOpinion Monday

September 28, 2009

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Editor, Our anguish began when we left Afghani-

stan to fend for itself after the expulsion of the Red Army in 1989. � e U.S. abandonment caused a power struggle, and ultimately the country’s authority was left in the hands of the most revolting tyrants in Afghanistan.

So, I must say with great honor that it is an incredible sight, perhaps overdue but nevertheless incredible, to watch our armies � ght against right-wing religious fanatics af-ter the 1980s debacle. We should be proud that America has the opportunity to play a role in this � ght against totalitarianism.It was correctly stated in Muhajir Salam’s letter on Friday that the number of troops makes no di� erence in the success of coali-tion forces in Afghanistan, just as it made no di� erence in Iraq. � e real problem is our strategy. One failed strategy is the fact that we burned and destroyed the only crop produced in that country (opium), when we should be buying it in order to

produce pain medicine. It is easy to see that these economic woes are directly connect-ed to the success of the war in Afghanistan.It was a shame to see Salam try to cite polls and use populism to defend his position af-ter stating that the U.S. is a “so-called democ-racy.” If we are not a democracy, why raise the point of consensus? � e cited poll num-bers that Salam used in his letter, released by CNN, came after the two deadliest months for U.S. troops since the liberation com-menced, and the major slip in support was amongst Republican voters.

Using polls that re� ect a nation mourning for the loss of 48 servicemen is nasty and a repulsive attack, no matter how you look at it. And it is interesting to see a paci� st, as Salam apparently is, agreeing with the chauvinist, isolationist tenets of the Republican Party.� e use of the term “games of death” is an-other cheap and disgusting example of slander for those � ghting against a cul-ture of death imposed by the Taliban and

al-Qaida forces. While Salam humiliates and disgraces himself in that manner, the real leftist revolutionaries in Afghanistan (i.e. workers unions, women � ghting for univer-sal su� rage, the people � ghting for free and fair elections) put their lives on the line every day against the disgusting religious right that wants nothing more than to impose a failed theocratic state and blame all the problems that it causes on outside forces.

Salam may be proud to hold his sadomas-ochistic position, and that’s � ne, but don’t say, “Nothing short of an act of God will help us now.” You would sound a bit more intel-ligent saying, “Help me now.” Please don’t pervert terms of solidarity like “us” the way you pervert the � ght against barbarism. As far as hoping for an act of God, wasn’t it God who placed the Taliban and al-Qaida there in the � rst place?

Jose L. FloresUNM student

Editor,I was not surprised at the tastelessness

of the Lobo Louie ad described in the Sept. 25 article, and the lack of judgment shown by the Athletics Department. But I was sur-prised by the failure of the article to ques-tion why any athletic program should have any form of a� liation with a casino.Certainly, if the function of an Athletics De-partment is to build character and train young people, a relationship with “an exclusive gam-ing sponsor” hardly supports those objec-tives. Unless, of course, marketing to alumni trumps all other worthy goals of the Univer-sity, and no one need be concerned with the e� ects of gambling on sports in America.As an aside, gaming is worse than gam-bling, because the odds are stacked in the casino’s favor. Surely, the University and the Athletics Department can � nd other af-� liations and forms of entertainment suit-able for students — a� liations that are healthier, that build character and that con-tribute to the well-being of the society.

Bob PoyourowUNM faculty

Strategy for Afghan war needs improvement

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Governor Joselito Mendoza of Bulacan province, north of the capital, said it was tragic that “peo-ple drowned in their own houses” as the storm raged.

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generator. Doomed by geography and hobbled by poverty, the Phil-ippines has long tried to minimize the damage caused by the 20-or-so typhoons that hit the sprawling archipelago every year. Despite a combination of preparation and mitigation measures, high death tolls and destruction persist.

“We’re back to zero,” said Ronald Manlangit, a resident of Marikina city, a suburb of the capital, Manila. Floodwaters en-gulfed the ground floor of his home and drowned his TV set and other prized belongings. Still, he

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President Gloria Macapagal Ar-royo toured the devastated areas and prodded villagers to move on. She said the storm and the flood-ing were “an extreme event” that “strained our response capabili-ties to the limit but ultimately did not break us.”

Mike Alquinto / AP PhotoPeople wade in chest-deep floodwater Sunday in suburban Cainta, east of Manila, Philippines. Rescuers plucked bodies from muddy floodwaters and scrambled to save drenched survivors on rooftops after a tropical storm tore through the northern Philippines and left 106 people dead or missing.

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If this weekend’s fall invitation-al was a quiz for the UNM women’s tennis team, then the Lobos need to study more.

Even though UNM combined for a 1-41 record this weekend, head coach Roy Cañada said this year the Lobos are a strong young team.

“If I were to compare this to ac-ademic terms, I approached this weekend as a quiz for us,” he said. “It’s not the final exam. The good thing about a quiz is that it is a great way to prepare for the final. It lets us know what things we need to work on to improve.”

The Lobos will need to gain some experience in the near fu-ture, but they got a whole heap of it by hosting their fall invitational this weekend at the Lobo Tennis Club.

The bright spots were few and far between: Laura Richardson captured the Lobos’ lone win, de-feating Jane Huh of the University of Arizona 6-3, 6-1. Anya Villanue-va-Forte stood toe-to-toe with the No. 29 player in the country, but fell 6-0, 6-3 to Arizona’s Natasha Marks.

As a whole, UNM was test-ed, facing nationally ranked opponents, including No. 34

Boise State, No. 39 Denver and Texas Tech.

“We don’t have any seniors on our roster, and our two juniors are the only players with real col-legiate experience,” he said. “We had four players who were making their collegiate debuts this week-end, and two others who didn’t see a lot of time in the lineup last year.”

UNM lost seniors Ola Abou-Ze-kry, Mackenzie White and Maria Sotirchos when they graduated in May; sophomore Emma Hayman transferred to a different school and sophomore Victoria Tessmar returned to Sweden.

That left juniors Ashley Bon-ner and Anya Villanueva-Forte and sophomores Manumea Durie and Eliane Bourdages as the lone returners this season. “Anya and Ashley were kind of thrust into the leadership role,” Ca-ñada said. “They went from com-peting for a spot on the team last year to the No. 1 and No. 2 spots this season.”

The Lobos picked up new-comers Kristin Eggleston of Palm Desert, Calif., Michaela Oldani of Scottsdale, Ariz., Laura Rich-ardson of St. Louis, Mo., and Amy Shipperd of Melbourne, Australia.

“The freshmen bring a lot of energy and excitement to the team,”

by Damian GardeDaily Lobo

Tim Tebow is a remarkably de-testable football player.

There’s the endless media fawning, the squeaky-clean im-age, the dumbfounding Heisman acceptance speech and, of course, the God complex.

Tebow, the bruising, gee-golly face of college football, is the am-bassador from a world of early bedtimes and rubber wristbands. After winning two national titles quarterbacking the Florida Gators, Tebow became the proselytizing poster child for everything annoy-ing about his sport.

On the field, he’s a bizarrely up-right, unstoppable rusher, and he’s averaged 31 touchdowns through the air in the past two seasons. He’s equal parts Joe Namath, Joe Jonas and Jimmy Swaggart.

In short, he’s the bro messiah.So, on Saturday, when the Cho-

sen One took a nasty shot, clanked his head on the way down and lay motionless on the field, I should have felt some tinge of schaden-freude. But I didn’t.

Hard as I try, I just can’t bring myself to hate Tim Tebow.

On the one hand, listening to

Tebow is a bit like driving behind a Hummer: maddening, uncomfort-able and ideologically offensive in a way you can’t quite put your fin-ger on. But on the other hand, you can’t blame the sun for rising.

To most people, a postgame in-terview might not seem like the proper place to explain that God has a plan for everyone and that your motivation in throwing foot-balls at people is to get to heav-en. But for Tebow, a man who was raised by missionaries and spends his spring breaks spreading the Gospel to Third-World kids, a ca-reer in football is just an extension of the family business.

Furthermore, the guy’s entire bi-ography reads like a parable. While his mother was pregnant with him, she came down with amoebic dys-entery while out building mud huts in the Philippines. Her doctor recommended she terminate the pregnancy, because having a child would put her life at risk. But she, of course, refused, bringing into the world a brutal football force, smashing fellow human beings on Saturday and getting up for church on Sunday.

That story, along with other tearful testimonials of Tebow’s general blessedness, is just a glimpse at the culture in which he

was raised. If you were told your entire life that you were a walking miracle, wouldn’t you start to be-lieve it at some point?

And as much as Tebow rarely passes up an opportunity to plug the Book of John, it’s hard to tell which came first: Tebow’s post-game preaching or the sports world’s fascination with his divinity.

Would a reporter ask Colt Mc-Coy if he was saving himself for marriage? Would ESPN speculate that Jacory Harris asked Jesus for some downfield blocking? Tebow fields all manners of nonsensi-cal questions and, in a sense, his willingness to bind faith and foot-ball for his interviewers is kind of endearing.

As tempting as it is to snick-er when Tebow explains that Je-sus “already tweeted enough; we just have to look at it,” there’s no pretense to his madcap preach-ing. The guy’s just doing what he knows: saving souls and winning football games. You can’t hate an athlete for being honest with himself.

So, when Tebow gets to the NFL and turns every postgame press-er into a revival, it won’t bother me. Unless he gets drafted by the Cowboys.

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NMSU’s first-year head coach DeWayne Walker said the Aggies wanted to leave the Lobos with the least amount of time possible for a comeback.

“I said, ‘We are just going to keep the ball and burn up all this time and make this our last running drive,’” he said.

But there were still 39 seconds left for the Lobos.

After the touchdown, the Lobos operated in their two-minute drill, coming out at their own 20-yard line.

The Lobos had already attempt-ed the hurry-up offense in their fi-nal drive of the first half, but they had failed to push the ball efficiently, with Porterie dumping to his check-down receivers for minimal gains.

But Porterie was another man in the fourth quarter. He was 3-of-6 on the final drive, totaling 50 yards and pushing the Lobos to the Aggies’ 30-yard line, which set up Aho’s field-goal attempt.

“We have two-minute drills all the time and similar situations,” Porterie said. “It was the first time this sea-son that we actually had to do it to try and stay in the game. All the receiv-ers were on point. … We set the team up to tie the game, so I can’t ask for more from our receivers.”

The Lobos nearly scored on one of Porterie’s incompletes. Lobo receiv-er Daryl Jones left the Aggies’ corner burned with a double move, leaving

nothing between him and the end zone. But Jones stumbled on the run, letting the pass sail out of his reach.

Throughout the game, the two teams had drastically different offen-sive plans.

The Aggies chewed the clock on their possessions. They had two scor-ing drives of more than seven min-utes and 70 yards and one four-min-ute field-goal drive.

The Lobos, on the other hand, either punted in a hurry or scored quickly off big plays. UNM’s longest drive took about three minutes.

A 62-yard touchdown dash by tailback Demond Dennis put the Lobos up 7-3 before linebacker Car-men Messina’s interception gave UNM the ball on the Aggies’ 44-yard line. James Wright rushed 39 yards to set up Porterie’s short touchdown pass to fullback Chris Biren. Porte-rie completed 16 of 28 passes for 206 yards.

“For this offense to be the type of offense that I am accustomed to it being, we need to be able to run the ball and pass the ball when neces-sary,” Locksley said. “It is still a work in progress.”

However, the running game re-mains a cornerstone of the Lobo of-fense. After Wright’s two long touch-down runs last week, he was moved up in the rotation and gained 47 yards while splitting time with Den-nis. But Wright injured himself after a 39-yard run in the second quarter.

Locksley said he has a strained ham-string and is day-to-day.

Dennis, who had just 102 total rushing yards in three games, near-ly matched his season total, running for 98 yards on 16 carries. Fumbles have plagued him throughout the season, but he held onto the ball on Saturday.

But the Lobos had other miscues. UNM had six penalties for 54

yards, including two personal-foul calls that extended a critical Aggie drive, which led to a second-quarter touchdown that gave NMSU a 10-7 lead. The Lobos had a punt blocked, a muffed kickoff return and a muffed punt return. The Lobos’ looming schedule gets tougher.

UNM will head south to face Tex-as Tech next week, and fans are left wondering: When will the Lobos get their first win?

“There is still a few things that we can work on,” Porterie said. “I wouldn’t say (we are) nervous, but we have to have a short-term mem-ory and get ready for next week.”

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you have to put away your chances early,” she said. “If we don’t, then we’re going to be in a dogfight every game.”

In its three games, which have resulted in two ties and a loss for the Lobos, UNM has outshot its oppo-nents 72-15 and has taken 16 more shots on goal. Despite UNM’s offen-sive prowess, the team continues to struggle to maximize its potential on the offensive end of the ball.

Up 1-0 at the half Friday, the

Lobos looked to extend their unde-feated streak, but the Lumberjacks had other ideas.

In the 59th minute, NAU’s Corie McGuire converted a one-on-one op-portunity, depositing it into the left side of the net, past the outstretched arms of Lobo goalkeeper Kelli Cornell.

McGuire again got into the box in the 72nd minute and drew a foul from Cornell when the Lobos’ goal-keeper dove for the ball and knocked

McGuire to the ground. McGuire con-verted the game-winning penalty kick.

“It gets frustrating, because on de-fense you want to be the one getting it done,” Quador said. “It’s disappoint-ing that one call can make or break a game like that. It’s unfortunate that we couldn’t put the ball in the back of the net, but it just happens sometimes.”

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who made 75 percent of his field goals last year. But the kick went wide right, and the Lobos’ tomb was sealed.

NMSU head coach DeWayne Walker, who is also in his first year at the post, said he feels for Locksley.

“Even your worst enemy, you don’t want them to go through what he’s going through right now,” he said.

An exasperated Locksley, eyes gleaming, couldn’t even praise Porterie’s poise on the last drive.

“We had some guys make plays,” Locksley said. “We put ourselves in position to tie the ball game and go into overtime. But the bottom line is we didn’t get the job done, so it’s a moot point.”

Other than a regrettably mem-orable third-quarter drop by tight end Lucas Reed that essentially was the difference in the game, there wasn’t much to fault the Lobos for, nothing to point to in ef-forts to rationalize this defeat.

UNM netted more offensive yards than the Aggies (356 to 218). The Lobos won the turnover bat-tle. Donovan Porterie outplayed Trevor Walls, throwing his first touchdown pass of the season. Demond Dennis wasn’t a menace to his team, but rather for the Ag-gies, basically matching NMSU’s tailback Seth Smith yard-for-yard

— 98 yards on 16 carries to 113 on 31.

Still, Reed’s miscue was unmis-takably painful to watch — even for an objective person. If Dwight Clark had “The Catch,” Reed had “The Drop.”

Locksley called a slip screen. Porterie faked to the flats while Reed ducked behind the coverage undetected. Porterie lofted him the ball, but Reed completely muffed the reception, and the Lobos had to settle for a field goal. But Aho’s 44-yard attempt darted wide right, and instead of having a 4-point lead, the score remained 14-13.

“You can’t dwell on the loss too long,” Porterie said. “Coach Locks has a 48-hour rule — we’ll dwell on it a little bit tonight, tomorrow. But Monday we got to come back to work.”

But they’ve been working on the same kinks for weeks now.

In life, there are certain things that are unavoidable: death, pay-ing taxes, and perhaps a winless season for the Lobos.

Stubbornly, Locksley continues to call this a remodeling project.

But it might be time for him to concede that, like it or not, this isn’t a renovation project: It’s a re-building job.

“Sometimes before things get good things get pretty bad,” Porte-rie said.

Remodel from page 12

Tennis from page 8Bonner said. “The cool thing is that they were already e-mailing each other before they all came here. So now, instead of having to meet each other, they can fo-cus on adjusting to Albuquer-que and networking and meeting

other people.”Hopefully, Cañada said, this is

just the beginning for the Lobos.“We play these teams again in

the spring when it counts,” he said. “Having already played them, we’ll be ready for them next time.”

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Athletes of the week

Ashley RhoadesVolleyball

Rhoades totaled a career-high 12 kills in a win over Mountain West Conference opponent Wyoming, accumulating a team-high 16.5 points. She helped lead her team to a 3-1 (25-15, 25-15, 20-25, 25-17) win in Laramie Saturday, its fi rst MWC win this season.

Ryan Farquharson Men’s soccer

Farquharson scored in the fi nal 1:30, boosting the Lobos to a 2-1 victory over the No. 4 California Golden Bears in Stanford, Calif., on Friday. Farquharson’s second career goal was his fi rst game-winner.

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by Mario TrujilloDaily Lobo

Lobo kicker James Aho crouched on the 37-yard line with his hands on his head as the Aggies’ bench rushed the � eld and the clock showed double zeros.

Aho had just pushed a 47-yard game-tying � eld goal wide right that otherwise would have sent the Rio Grande rivalry into

overtime. � e Lobos fell 20-17. While Aho knelt, other UNM

players lay facedown on the � eld.“Losing hurts,” said head coach

Mike Locksley. “We had opportu-nities to send the second-straight class through here never losing to the Aggies. We had a chance to win seven in a row. We had the oppor-tunity to win the ball game, and we didn’t take care of it.”

For the � rst time this season, the Lobos entered the fourth quarter with the lead, 17-13.

UNM’s o� ense showed signs of progress, totaling a season-high 356 yards. Quarterback Donovan Por-terie � nally got on track, tossing a touchdown for the � rst time in two years. It was the Lobos’ � rst touch-down pass in eight games.

But the Aggies (1-2) had winning

by Loretta CardenasDaily Lobo

Long stockings couldn’t cover up the UNM women’s soccer team’s Achilles’ heel Friday.

� e Lobos’ weakness — an in-ability to capitalize on o� ensive

opportunities — had gone un-exposed until Northern Ari-zona Univer-sity entered the

UNM Soccer Complex.� e Lumberjacks became the

second team this season to score twice on the Lobos — and the � rst to hand them a loss, 2-1.

On paper, UNM held the advan-tage in nearly every category against

E� ort falls just short in Rio Grande rivalry game

Vanessa Sanchez / Daily LoboNMSU cornerback Chris Buckner runs across University Stadium, proudly waving the Aggies’ � ag. NMSU snapped a six-game losing streak to the Lobos, beating them 20-17.

LOBO FOOTBALL

on their minds as well. NMSU’s only win — a narrow one at that — had come over Prairie View A&M, a Di-vision II team. On Saturday, the Ag-gies looked to steal their � rst Divi-sion I win.

With 7:39 left in the game, Ag-gie quarterback Je� Fleming, who entered Saturday’s game as NM-SU’s backup, orchestrated a 17-play, 59-yard drive, which chewed sev-en minutes o� the clock. � e drive

ended with a four-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Marcus An-derson, pushing the Aggies ahead, 20-17.

� e Aggies crept down the � eld, rushing on 15 of those 17 plays. � ey

converted three third downs and two fourth downs against a Lobo defense that stayed on the � eld for 38 minutes.

LOBO WOMEN’S SOCCER

Scorers need to capitalize on chances

Junfu Han / Daily LoboForward Jennifer Williams gets ready to kick the ball during Saturday’s 2-1 loss to Northern Arizona at the UNM Soccer Complex. It was the Lobos’ � rst loss of the season.

NAU. � e Lobos outshot the Lum-berjacks 28-5, including a 15-1 ad-vantage heading into halftime, and had six more corner kicks and four more shots on goal. UNM was � rst to get on the board, too.

In the 23rd minute, defender Zaneta Wyne received a pass from Jael Fanning and blasted a � ve-yard shot into the back of the net, but that was the only opportunity UNM

would take advantage of.“Once you get that � rst goal it’s a

settling factor,” Wyne said. “I think that’s the thing that got to us.”

Senior defender Jess Quador said UNM will continue to struggle if the Lobos don’t put points on the board.

“What came out of this is that

COLUMN

by Isaac AviluceaDaily Lobo

Boy oh boy — this year’s version of the UNM football team makes the lottery seem predictable.

� row out little things like logic. Discard sensibility. And statistical trends? Well, those are irrelevant.

It didn’t matter that, heading into Saturday’s game with NMSU, the Lobos had won the last six matchups with the longtime rival. It was irrelevant that since 1998, when possessing a lead at halftime, UNM was 45-18 (now 45-19). Or that a lead heading into the fourth quar-ter, where they were 50-11, all but insured the Lobos’ victory.

� e Lobos played uncharacter-istically well, but they quite charac-teristically lost, dropping a 20-17 de-cision to the Aggies.

After idling for three games, the Lobos’ o� ense � nally dumped the clutch and compensated for the de-fense’s lack of execution at the end

of the game.Twice on NMSU’s last drive, the

defense failed to stop the Aggies from converting on fourth down, the last one coming on fourth-and-goal.

What’s more, I would’ve wagered the house that UNM’s defense was going to hold up. In the last two home games, the Lobos, with their backs against the wall, fended o� opponents in their territory and held them to � eld goals.

But that’s the Lobos for you.Instead it was the o� ense — and

of all people, Donovan Porterie — to the rescue.

With just 37 seconds to work with, the Lobos marched to NM-SU’s 30-yard line, and Porterie hit wide receiver Ty Kirk twice, sand-wiched around a 17-yard recep-tion by Chris Hernandez, to set up a 47-yard, game-tying � eld goal. � e Lobos’ fate rested on the foot of an All-American kicker, James Aho,

NMSU 20

17UNM

NAU 2

1UNM

Locksley’s ‘remodeling’project needs revision

see Rivalry page 9

see Remodel page 9see Opportunities page 9