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DLobos AILY LOBO fall to Harvard Crimson new mexico

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March 22, 2013

The Independent Student Voice of UNM since 1895

by J.R. Oppenheim

assistantsports@dailylobo.com @JROppenheim The NCAA West No. 3 seed New Mexico, Mountain West regular-season and tournament

champions, dropped out in the second round of the NCAA Men’s Division I National Championships Thursday night after a 68-62 loss to Harvard. The Crimson had never before won an NCAA tournament

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game. The win puts Harvard into Saturday’s third round against No. 6 seed Arizona, which captured an 81-64 win over No. 11 Belmont. Harvard’s hot shooting made the difference. The Crimson connected on 52 percent from the field for 22 of

George Frey / AP Photo New Mexico players react on the bench during the second half of a losing game against Harvard in the NCAA college basketball tournament in Salt Lake City Thursday. Harvard ultimately defeated New Mexico 68-62.

42 shooting. Despite 37 points from its two big men, UNM finished at 38 percent on 21 of 55 shots. Sophomore center Alex Kirk scored 22 points and pulled down 12 rebounds. Junior forward Cameron Bairstow added another 15 points. No other UNM player reached double-figure scoring. Four Harvard starters, meanwhile, were in double digits with guard Wesley Saunders on top netting 18 points. Guard Laurent Rivard had 17 points, followed by guard Christian Webster with 11 and guard Kenyatta Smith with 10. UNM missed eight of its first nine shots as Harvard built a 9-2 lead early. The Lobos then tied the game at 16 and at 18, but three straight Cameron Webster 3-pointers helped the Crimson to a 31-27 halftime advantage. After the first 20 minutes, UNM hit 35 percent of its field goal attempts (10 of 28) with many lowpost misses and five misses on six 3-point shots. Harvard fired 56 percent from the field (13 of 26), including five triples on 10 longrange shots. The Lobos did not get their first lead until the second half, scoring the first six points coming out of the locker room for a score of 33-31. Harvard soon regained the lead with its own 8-0 run. The teams remained close for

the rest of the half until Harvard rattled off an 11-2 run over five minutes for a 63-55 lead. The Crimson led for the remainder. Earlier, in Salt Lake City, Arizona guard Mark Lyons scored a gamehigh 23 points for the Wildcats’ 17-point victory over Belmont. Guard/forward Kevin Parrom and center Kaleb Tarczewski each had 12 points and eight rebounds, while guard Nick Johnson netted another 12 points. The Wildcats drained 56 percent from the field (29 of 51) and pulled down 42 rebounds. Belmont benefitted from guard Kerron Johnson’s 22 points, guard Ian Clark’s 21 and J.J. Mann’s 13, but no other Bruin scored more than six points. The team was 39 percent shooting (20 of 51) and had only 15 total rebounds. The Mountain West Conference has two teams left in the field after Colorado State beat Missouri 84-72, UNLV fell to California 6461, and Boise State lost to La Salle 80-71 Wednesday. San Diego State plays Oklahoma today in the South Region. Thursday’s winners were Michigan, Oregon, Louisville, Marquette, Saint Louis, Memphis, Butler, Michigan State, California, Virginia Commonwealth and Syracuse. The rest of the second round plays today.

Race for GPSA president touches on campus safety by John Tyczkowski news@dailylobo.com

GPSA presidential candidates Sharif Gias and Priscila Poliana discussed on Thursday how they would have responded to the recent incidents of sexual battery and racism on campus. At the second of a series of debates on Thursday both candidates made reference to the alleged Jan. 27, underclothes groping of a female student by two men at Johnson Field. They also referenced the Feb. 4 alleged groping of a female student over her clothes by a man near Castetter Hall. The candidates remarked as well on the March 1 incident in Coronado Hall in which black student Dominic Calhoun received a racist note on the door to his room. The note, which was drawn on his roommate’s dry-erase board, depicted an image of a stick figure man drawn in black ink with a noose leading from the figure’s neck to the word “N****r.” Gias, an international Bangladeshi student, said he is no stranger to discrimination. He had previously attended a historically Black college, Delaware State University; worked for an investment company in St. Louis, Miss., a “very white” area of the country; and taught for three years at the University of Wisconsin. “I have experienced racism,” he said. “Since I have faced racism before, I feel I don’t have to scream when it happens.” Instead, Gias said that such experiences made him focus on

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Garrett Goeckner / Daily Lobo Hasan Faisal (left) asks a question regarding campus security to GPSA candidates Sharif Gias and Priscila Poliana during Thursday public forum. This debate, the second in a series of four debates, featured heated discussions about campus diversity, discrimination and security. constructive responses to such incidents. At the University of Wisconsin, Gias worked with university administration to create a diversity team along those lines. “If something bad happens, I don’t want to just make a statement saying ‘I’m sorry,’” he said. “Instead I want to take action so that it doesn’t happen again.”

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Gias also said he has a plan for increasing diversity at UNM that is not necessarily based on demographics such as race. He said the plan must include faculty, not just students. “We need to make this University diverse in experiences, not just in color,” he said. Poliana, an international student from Brazil, after a review of her platform approached the topic of

diversity through the filter of campus safety. She cited the recent sexual batteries on campus as well as the incident of a female College of Education professor’s being attacked outside of Simpson Hall on Feb. 19. “Women are under attack on this campus,” she said. Poliana also discussed the recent racist incident in Coronado Hall. “I don’t take this lightly; this is not

just harassment,” she said. “This is an attack on students of color.” Poliana said campus safety would be one of her largest initiatives if elected, along with securing graduate student funding and bridging the historic divide between student bodies at main and North campuses. She also said that through her

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