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feast!the food issue

pizza perfection P. 7

think organic P. 6

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is hosting an on-campus community service opportunity.

Stop by the office or visit our website to fill out a packet! asnmsu.com

First 400 participants will receivea free T-shirt!

Forms must be turned into theturned into theASNMSU office by Oct. 10, 2009

October 17th, 2009

NMSU to receive grant monies from the Department of Justice

By Jenna Candelaria|News Reporter

New Mexico State University will soon receive a $350,000 grant to combat domestic vio-lence, thanks to a New Mexico senator. The grant, from the Depart-ment of Justice, is an initiative of Senator Tom Udall, who is serving his first term in the U.S. Senate.

“Domestic violence remains a serious problem in New Mexico,” Udall said in a press release about the grant. “This new funding will help give vic-tims of these despicable acts the support they need and help keep New Mexico families safe.” The funds will be used to en-hance the safety of child, teen and adult victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking by support-ing projects that are uniquely designed to address and pre-

vent these crimes. Education major Maria Ra-tion said NMSU is lucky to have programs such as the Wellness, Alcohol and Violence Education program, which works to make students aware of such things as relationship violence. “This is not something stu-dents get a great deal of news on,” Ration said. WAVE Community Organizer John Rivers said domestic vio-lence is a big issue across the country. “Things that address domes-

tic violence, like Udall’s grant, are huge assets to community awareness,” Rivers said. One program that is expected to receive funding is the Take Back the Night rally usually held in April, which is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Riv-ers said WAVE will also host a White Ribbon Week in early November to raise awareness for personal violence. “These programs are about encouraging people to speak

NEWsEditor: Kristina Medley |[email protected]

sigNs of RElatioNship aBusE

4Does not let you hang out with your friends 4Calls or texts to find out where you are, who you are with and what you are doing 4Belittles you, both privately and publicly 4Extreme jealousy over friends, co-workers, class- mates, family members, etc.4threatens physical harm

source: www. nmsu.edu/~wave/

New Mexico senator champions bill for domestic violence victims

Defend YourselfHorticulture WHo Done it

Missing money prompts investigationBy Kristina Medley|News Editor

The alleged embezzlement of approximately $3,500 from a New Mexico State University club bank account by a student may lead to serious consequenc-es. According to the NMSU po-lice report, campus police were called to respond to a possible embezzlement incident at Skeen Hall on Sept. 30. According to the report, John Mexal, assistant department head of the Depart-ment of Plant and Environmen-tal Sciences, told campus police he had received information that money from the Horticulture Forum Club bank account was missing. Mexal told police that a plant and environmental sciences stu-dent held the position of vice president of the club from Janu-ary to June and that an amount of money had been taken from the club bank account during that time period, according to the report. According to the police report, bank record documents showed a balance of $3,606.17 in the club bank account as of Nov. 21, 2008. The reports show that $9.42 remained in the account as of August. According to the police report, Mexal said none of the withdrawals or drafts went to authorized expenses for the club, but almost all of the drafts were written by the student for cash. Scot Key, a senior trial pros-ecutor for the Las Cruces Dis-trict Attorney’s Office, said ac-cording to New Mexico law, a person who embezzles $2,500 and above is subject to a pos-

Students choose courage, learn helpful moves to protect themselves

WAVE, Office of Housing and Residential Life and NMSU Greek Life sponsored a self defense seminar Tuesday evening at the Crobett Cen-ter Ballroom. The seminar was led by a husband and wife who are both now retired police officers. The couple taught students how proper breathing techniques and throat attacks can be the best crime survival tactics. Frank De La O/the Round Up

Family defense seminar shows students how to defend themselves

By Jenna Candelaria|News Reporter

Thanks to Crime Survival presentation in Corbett Center on Tuesday, some New Mexico State University students now have the skills to defend them-selves against attacks. The “family defense” pre-sentation titled “Simply the BST Crime Survival: Choosing Courage” was hosted by Deb-bie and Mike Gardner, who both have experience in law-enforcement. “Only brave people acknowl-edge fear,” Debbie Gardner said. At the presentation, stu-dents, faculty and staff learned the Breathe/Space/Throat technique by learning how to breathe for self-control, utilize space for crime prevention and learning to strike an attacker’s throat for crime survival.

Debbi Gardner said remem-bering to breathe, making a fist to increase blood flow and vi-sualizing winning are the best defenses. “The days of the old fall-apart are over,” Debbie Gard-ner said. “If you have oxygen,

blood flow and love, you still have hope.” The Wellness, Alcohol and Violence Education program, the Office of Housing and Residential Life and NMSU Greek Life hosted the event. Panhellenic president Kaitlyn

Norman said students need to know about self-defense. “We decided to host this event to let students know that they can stand up for them-selves,” Norman said. “With vi-olence across campuses in the

See Grant pg. 5

See Embezzlement pg. 5 See WAVE pg. 5

sElf-DEfENsE tips

4Carry a highlighter pen or a Kubaton self-defense stick4When hiding behind a car, hide on the engine side with feet behind the tires4thick hardback textbooks can be as effective as bulletproof vests to stop bullets4Make eye contact and face the potential attacker4if someone is following you, confront them with loud, vulgar language to scare them

At a family defense seminar Tuesday evening, Debbie Gardner dem-onstrated how to use a simple object, such as a water bottle, to defend against an attacker. Frank De La O/the Round Up

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AGGIECALENDAR

American Indian Program to get a new and improved home

By Tom Sandford|News Reporter

Construction has begun near Corbett Center on what will be-come the dedicated home of the New Mexico State University American Indian Program, pre-viously housed in Garcia Annex. After its completion in April 2010, the Native American Cultural Center will serve as a beacon of guidance for Native American students who are in-tegrating into college life from their respective tribal commu-nities, said AIP Director Justin McHorse. “The purpose of the center is to provide a sense of commu-nity for students that come from tribal areas,” McHorse said. Although Native Americans make up approximately 10 per-

cent of the New Mexican popu-lation, approximately 3 percent of NMSU students are Native American, McHorse said. Retention is a very important factor, McHorse said. Of the Na-

tive American students who at-tend NMSU, approximately 29 percent obtain their bachelor’s degree within six years of col-lege attendance, compared to the overall student body with

43.9 percent, McHorse said. “What this says is that there are some factors that are making it challenging and diffi cult for American Indian [students],” McHorse said. “It’s a major cul-ture shock.” McHorse said many Native Americans go through diffi cult transitions when entering col-lege, including cultural, socio-economic and academic chang-es. Many students come from poverty and become the fi rst generation in their family to at-tend college, McHorse said. “Being able to socialize and feel comfortable with their non-Indian peers can be a chal-lenge,” McHorse said. The $3.5 million center was a project pursued by many tribal communities and will aid in the recruiting and retention of Native American Students,

Native American Cultural Center under construction

The space west of Corbett Center, near the outdoor stage, will be the new home of the American Indian Program. Construction for the building is underway and is expected to be completed by April 2010. Krista Avila/the Round Up

See Center pg. 5

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Cover photographer:Krista Avila

FRIDAY, OCT. 9

What: National Coming Out DayWho: The Sexual and Gender Diversity Resource Center Where: In front of Corbett Center near Corbett CornerTime: 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.Contact: Sharna Horn at646-7031.

SATURDAY, OCT. 10

What: Unravelers Knitting Guild tour to Natural Dye GardenWho: All knitters and lovers of yarn are welcomeWhere: Ric Rao’s gardensTime: 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.Contact: Diane Taylor at 552-0603

What: The Las Cruces Branch of the American Association of University Women meetingWho: Sister Donna Kustusch will talk about the women’s cooperative Centro Santa Catalina, which is a safe haven for women and children in Juarez.Where: Mountain View Hospital, Community Education Room. Time: 10 a.m.Contact: Kathy Mayer at 647-1939, or visit the association Web site www.aauw.org.

BRIEFS ...

Aggies for Christ invites all students to attend weekly meetings to play basketball, volleyball, meet new people, worship and attend a college Bible study. We meet in the gym of University Church of Christ on the corner of University Avenue and Jordan Street on Wednesday evenings at 7.

It is recommended that adults in the United States get tested for HIV at least once a year. At NMSU, this testing is free every Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Corbett Center in the San Juan Room 206. This excludes the dates of Nov. 11, 18 and 25.

United States, students should be ready for anything.” Debbie Gardner said to stop an attacker before they strike, create an L shape with the hand and press it to the throat of the attacker just under the jaw, or press a cell phone or water bot-

tle against the attacker’s neck. “You have the right to physi-cally protect your body and your life,” Debbie Gardner said. Norman said control is a great thing for students to learn about in the presentation. “Self-defense isn’t about vio-lence. It is about learning how to control yourself and your ac-tions so you can respond to the situation around you,” Norman said.

As far as previous self-defense lessons, Debbie Gardner said the old teachings are usually not helpful. “You don’t need 10 ways to de-fend yourself against an attack, you only need one defense that works,” Debbie Gardner said. For more information, visit www.surviveinstitute.com.

Jenna Candelaria is a news reporter and can be reached at [email protected]

By Dalal Boresli|Contributing Writer

The Organization of Aggie Students Inspiring Sustainabili-ty will hold its annual fi lm series beginning Thursday at the New Mexico State University Science Hall. This free admission fi lm series will focus on topics such as eco-nomic and social sustainability, gender equality and peak oil and water conservation, among oth-er critical environmental issues. Oscar Zamora, vice president of OASIS, said he hopes to see full attendance during this sev-en-week fi lm series. “As a college student, I think this is a very big subject, and it needs to be shown to light espe-cially with these fi lms.” Zamora said. “People need to know about the future of food because it’s really important to know the truth about how food is done now.” “Fresh”, the fi rst fi lm on the list, illustrates the changes in the way food is made today and

the people involved in making transformations in the food sys-tem. At the end of every fi lm, stu-dents, professors and outside speakers will hold a discussion to further criticize and analyze the topics. Everyone is encour-aged to participate in these discussions and to share their opinions, Zamora said. OASIS members said there was a great audience turnout in the previous year, and the fi lm series was a success. Admission is free, along with popcorn. OASIS asked every-one to bring their own bowls for popcorn. Films will be showing every Thursday at 7 p.m. until Nov. 19 in Science Hall Room 102. OASIS will be hosting many more events this semester, in-cluding the Harvest Festival on Oct 31. For more information, please e-mail [email protected].

Dalal Boresl is a contributing writer

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out and give them a voice on the issue,” Rivers said. Rivers said legislation ad-dressing domestic violence should be more focused on col-lege students. “People think of college stu-dents and may not think of po-tentially abusive relationships,” Rivers said. “But it can happen

at any age.” Approximately two out of ev-ery 100,000 women are killed yearly in New Mexico, ranking the state seventh in the nation in number of women killed by men each year according to a report by the Violence Policy Center in Washington D.C. The national average is about one woman killed per 100,000. Any student interested in vol-unteering with WAVE may con-tact 646-2813.

GrantContinued from pg. 3

McHorse said. McHorse, a Native American from Taos Pueblo and Purdue graduate, said he is able to em-pathize with students who come from a similar ethnic and cul-tural background. “Coming to NMSU is a big transition to go through, being away from home can be a de-

terrent to retention,” McHorse said. “[The center] will be a home away from home [for them].” Michael Ray, a senior in eco-nomics and former resident of the Laguna Reservation, said he is excited about the center. “With the new center, we will be able to bond better,” Ray said.

Tom Sandford is a news reporter and can be reached at [email protected]

CenterContinued from pg. 4

Annual fi lm series to educate, entertain campus community sible penalty of three years in

jail and a $5,000 fi ne. Key said this crime classifi es as a third degree felony. “The person is subject to the possibility of probation or up to three years’ incarceration,” Key

said. Mexal said the case is under investigation, and members of the Horticulture Forum Club and the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences were advised not to comment on the case itself until it is re-solved. “We’re really disappointed that this happened,” Mexal said. “It belies the underlying

trust we have in the Plant and Environmental Sciences De-partment.” According to the police re-port, campus police have tried to contact the student in ques-tion but have been unable to.

Kristina Medley is the news editor and can be reached at [email protected]

EmbezzlementContinued from pg. 3

WAVEContinued from pg. 3

the art of eatingARtsEditor: Tiffany Carpenter |[email protected]

hether it’s eaten to avoid chemicals and pollution, to support fam-

ily farms, or simply because of the taste, the popularity of an organic lifestyle has grown sig-nificantly in the last 10 years. So what is a student raised in Albuquerque on the organ-ic brands available at Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods to do when they move south for the winter? Don’t worry troubled, lost,

organic student, the Mountain View Market Co-op, located at the intersection of Idaho Av-enue and El Paseo Road, has all the brands available at big- chain organic stores with all the charm of a locally-owned small business. “We have a wide selection of certified organic food, options for vegetarians and vegans and people with other special di-etary needs,” Jason Joachim, assistant store manager said. “It started out as a natural foods co-op, so we concentrate

on that, products that are min-imally processed and safe for the environment.” As opposed to stores such as Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods, Mountain View Market purchases locally grown food items and sponsors a farmers market every Sunday. “One of the missions of the co-op is to provide local food to the community, and we found that it was easier, as part of our outreach, to have a farm-ers market outside,” Joachim said. “It basically eliminates

us as the middle man and al-lows the farmer to make more money and the consumer to spend less.” Leftover produce from the farmers market is often pur-chased by the co-op and sold in the store. It’s generally or-ganic, as well, Joachim said. “My produce department is the only one in town that is 99 percent certified organic, and the only exception is if it’s been locally grown without synthet-ic chemicals,” Joachim said.

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Think Las Cruces grocery stores are entirely inorganic? Think again. Katy Barnitz reports. Photographs by Krista Avila.

See Food pg. 7

Farmers market FarmersandcraftersfilltheDown-town Mall with produce, herbs, food and crafts every Wednesday and Sat-urday mornings for the Las Cruces Farmers Market. The Market is open to the public and features various local farmers selling crops.

Left: With Halloween just around the corner, pumpkins are bound to be a popular sale at the Farmers Market, along with squash and melon. Marcos Bernal of Apodaca Farms in Las Cru-ces stays busy Wednesday morning with a large crowd at the market buy-ing the new seasonal crop.

Right: Elizabeth Walsh of Las Cruces enjoys visiting the Farmers Market to see the new seasonal crop. Larry Lo-pez of Farm and Fiddle makes many sales on Wednesday with his crop of lemon cucumbers, squash, and mel-ons.

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Out of the ovenSimple ingredients conspire to

recreate a college staple

By Carlos A. LopezPhotographed by Krista Avila

Pizza Margherita

416 ounces store-bought pizza dough, room temperature42 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil43/4 cup homemade mari- nara sauce, or store bought44 ounces grated mozzarella or cheddar, or combination42 ounces freshly grated parmesan 4toppings such as: pepperoni, mushrooms, olives, green chile

Method:

Preheat the oven 500ºF.

Roll or pat the dough into rough circle, no thicker than a 1/4 inch. Place on a pizza pan that has been dusted with flour.

Drizzle the dough with olive oil. Evenly, spoon the marinara sauce over the top, leav-ing a one-inch border all around. Sprinkle the cheeses on top and toppings.

Bake for 12 minutes, or until the crust has browned thoroughly.

The co-op began in the 1970s after a group of New Mexico State University students de-cided to purchase natural foods in bulk and divide it between them. It moved a few times, but has been in its current location for seven years. Customers have the option to become a member of the co-op, which entitles them to yearly rebate checks, a 5 percent dis-count on bulk orders and a $5 gift card for each hour of volun-teering they do at the market. The market also has special dis-counts on member appreciation days, according to the market’s Web site. “The co-op is an economic model which provides autono-my for the members and demo-cratic participation,” Joachim said. “We don’t have an owner, we’re a not for profit organi-zation, and members elect a general manager and he is in charge of the operations of the store.” Though some students may worry that an organic diet is expensive, or that shopping at larger, box stores is cheaper, Joachim said purchasing bulk items at the co-op is really very economical. “You can actually eat very in-expensively and get high qual-ity food,” Joachim said. “We also have free range meat and eggs and local cheese; you get to support the local economy and support causes that are im-portant to the community and the environment.” Organic foods aren’t treated with pesticides, herbicides, and are not genetically modified or irradiated, which means they are more sustainable and leave lower impact on the environ-ment, Joachim said. “We’re an organization that’s really about community and community involvement and empowering people through

our processes,” he said. For more information about Mountain View Market visit www.mountainviewmarket.com or visit the store at 1300 El Paseo Road.

Katy Barnitz is an arts reporter and can be reached at [email protected].

FoodContinued from pg. 6

iF YoU go

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4hoUrS:Monday through Saturday 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

4Where: 1300 el Paseo road

4PhoNe: 575-523-0436

By Laura Mazar | The Undercurrent

The state of California has lost more than 90 emergency rooms since 1990 — and with them, the ability to treat hundreds of thousands of patients. In New York City, eight hospitals have shut down since 2003 after facing a financial crisis. And in Atlanta, Grady Memorial Hospital is threatening to join their ranks. Grady is the only level 1 trauma center in the area, and if it closes, it will mean the loss of almost 1,000 beds, nine community health centers and the training facilities for two medical schools.

The cause of these and other failures throughout the country is obvious. Hospitals are providing care without receiving payment. Like any other business, hospitals have a constant list of bills to pay every month, from diagnostic tests and drugs, to basic supplies and the salaries of sometimes thou-sands of people. And all too often, they receive no compensation in return.

What drives the nation’s hospi-tals to operate at an obvious deficit, giving away for free a service that is neither cheap nor easy to produce? They do it in part because they are legally required to do so. In 1986, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act made it il-legal for a hospital to refuse care in an emergency setting, regardless of ability to pay. The Act essentially transformed emergency rooms into primary care facilities for the uninsured.

In other industries, services provided for free are consid-

ered voluntary charity. They are provided only as far as they can be supported by the business’s other income, and they are neither legally nor morally required. But in healthcare, any suggestion that a hospital accept only the patients it can afford to treat is greeted with moral outrage.

Hospitals respond to this combination of legal requirements and community expectations by accepting an unsustainable patient mix that inevitably ends in crush-ing debt. Health care has become a multi-billion dollar industry inca-pable of demonstrating the kind of economic common sense a child with a lemonade stand instinc-tively displays.

Bankrupt hospitals are serving as eloquent testimony that the basic principles of economics are just as viable for health care as for any other industry. So why is it that fiscally responsible hospitals are considered immoral, and pros-ecuted as illegal? What is it that makes medicine unique?

The answer can be found in the consumer advocacy groups and professional societies that advocate for socialized medicine. In 2001, a task force assembled by the American Academy of Family Phy-sicians proposed a system of ‘free’ healthcare for all Americans — to be paid for by Americans, with a payroll tax. They declared, “There are a set of basic services that most people are expected to utilize in their lifetime, and there should be no financial barrier to these.”

This is the justification offered by all advocates of socialized medicine, in its various forms.

Healthcare is required. It is a basic service. It is necessary for life. How can ability to pay determine access to a requirement for life? In a civilized, industrialized coun-try, the argument goes, it is the government’s duty to provide basic necessities to its citizens.

This argument relies on the assumption that healthcare is uniquely important for human survival, that while most industries provide optional goods — items that improve life, perhaps, but are not required for it — health care is not optional. To live, you must have access to life-saving or life-prolonging therapies.

It is true that healthcare is, in certain circumstances, required for life. A patient in renal failure will die without dialysis every week. A child with a bacterial infection needs antibiotics. But reformers forget that a lack of dialysis is not the only thing that can kill the kid-ney patient. A lack of food, clean water, shelter, or clothing in the winter will be as deadly to the child

as a lack of antibiotics.Medicine often focuses only on

the physical act of living — breath-ing in and out, keeping the heart beating. But human life is more than the functioning of the moving parts. Although healthcare may be the only requirement for a brain-dead accident victim on life support, it is not the only require-ment for the rest of us. To live, we need food, we need shelter, we need companionship, and work, and hundreds of other material and spiritual requirements. Health care is a necessity — and after a car accident, or during a flu infection, it may be the most important necessity. But it is not the only requirement for life.

When people talk about a ‘right’ to healthcare, they mean an entitlement to health care. They mean that unlike other goods and services that must be earned through individual work or trade, healthcare should be provided for free.

Medicine is not the only indus-

try that fulfills a necessity for life, so what entitles us to the products of this particular industry, and not others? Why not food or clothes? And why not those products that provide a good life — feather beds or paintings or tickets to the mov-ies? Or are we entitled to those as well?

The issue goes far beyond health care. It is a question of what the government’s role should be in providing for its citizens. Should the government collect taxes to provide citizens with whatever goods and services they deem ‘necessary?’ Or is it the responsibil-ity of individual citizens to work for whichever products and services they can independently earn — with the government existing to secure their freedom to pursue these ends?

opinionEditor: Dustin Edwards |[email protected]

Their view The Business of

Health Care

nicoLe FrieTze, FreshManLingUisTics

“We do need structure, but I think everyone

should have a say in what’s going on because complete

government control just gets out of hand

sometimes.”

aLex BryLev, gradUaTe sTUdenTMaTheMaTics

“I think medical care should be controlled by the

government, or at least part of it. In my country, Russia, for example, we

have social benefits for dif-ferent categories of people.

For example, seniors can get medical care for

cheap.”

BriTTni BeechLer, sophoMore physics

“I disagree with [univer-sal healthcare]. I think you need to purchase

your own insurance to pay for your own health-care. We don’t need to be

like Canada.”

Traci BrUndage, sophoMorephoTography

“I think you should get your own insurance

because otherwise any random person can walk into a hospital

and get ‘fixed.”

voices of NMsU

do yoU Think heaLTh care reForM is necessary?

JULie FiTzsiMMons arT hisTory insTrUcTor

“I think it’s necessary. Every-one should have affordable health care. It shouldn’t cost

your life savings or your house if you have catastrophic illness. I come from Australia, where it’s more socialized. There are

a lot of mistruths put out about universal healthcare. I’ve

experienced it first-hand, and it works.”

For an opposing view on U.S. health care reform, visit roundupnews.com/opinion.

By Sarah Ferrales | Media Intern

A list of all New Mexico State University employees’ salaries is published for public view at Zuhl Library. After giving it a look, it was almost shocking to see how much – and how little – some professors and other employees make at NMSU each year.

Professors of fishery and wildlife sciences make $134,000;

however, art teachers make less than half of that figure, at $50,000. This disparity has to get students, and other teachers thinking.

An average of the salaries of all NMSU professors is about $85,000. But keep in mind that many make less and others make much, much more.

Not only are professors’ salaries posted, but so are the

salaries of all of the athletic coaches and even the NMSU interim president. Men’s bas-ketball coach Marvin Menzies makes a surprising $280,000, which is more than double what women’s basketball coach Darin Spence makes. Dewayne Walker, NMSU football coach, almost makes more than the basketball coaches combined at $363,000. Even Interim President Manuel

Pacheco’s salary of $325,000 falls short.

With the agricultural college professors and sports coaches making more than any other members of the NMSU staff, it is easy to see where the priorities of the university lie.

Students curious to learn NMSU faculty and staff salaries can head over to Zuhl Library to view the salary book.

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Over or underpaid: NMSU faculty salaries indicate vast disparities

$85,000BY THE NUMBERS

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Average of the salaries of all NMSU professors

Professors of fishery and wildlife sciences

Art teachers

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Dewayne Walker, NMSU head football coach

Manuel Pacheco, interim president

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coach Tyler Homes said. One of the more interesting as-pects of the NMSU rugby teams is their history. The program was founded in 1976 by Joel Di-emer and has been active ever since. Diemer grew up in Australia, and eventually refereed rugby at a national level. After founding a rugby program at Iowa State, Diemer moved to NMSU and ended up doing the same thing. “I put an ad in the paper, ad-vertising for both men and wom-en to join the club,” Diemer said. In the early 1980s, the NMSU men’s team reached the Final Four of the national colligate rugby championship system. The women’s team was ranked in the top 16 at the turn of the millennium. NMSU rugby won

about 70 percent of its games in the fi rst 15 years of its existence. Since 1976, there have been eight Aggies who have received the honor of being named to the All-American Rugby Team. Diemer

said one Aggie rugby alumnus played for the U.S. 7-aside team. The rugby team is back in ac-tion against the Albuquerque Brujos, at 1 p.m. Saturday at the NMSU Rugby pitch.

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Buckner said Borel is one of the more electrifying quarterbacks the Aggies will face all season. “[Borel] is going to have the people in the stands holding their breath,” Buckner said. “He’s probably a bigger threat running the ball, but he can throw really

well too. He’s an all-around good quarterback.” So far this season, the Aggie defense has given up 731 yards on the ground and 846 yards through the air in fi ve games. “This is a game where we all need to be very sound on de-fense,” Buckner said. “We all have to do our jobs this week.”

David Chavez is sports editor and can be reached at [email protected]

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Walker said. “We are going to have to get Marquel [Colston] and Tonny [Glynn] going more and manage Seth [Smith] so we can have him healthy the whole year.” Colston said he is not con-

cerned about not getting carries and it is all about winning foot-ball games. “Right now, Seth is play-ing ball,” Colston said. “When coach calls on either me or Ton-ny Glynn, we’ll be ready. It’s all about winning right now. We need to win because we have not done that in years.”

David Chavez is sports editor and can be reached at [email protected]

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and fi nishing tied for 21st overall. Freshman Justin Shin was just one stroke behind De La Torre, scoring a 3-over par and fi nishing tied for 28th. Lieberwirth said the youth of his team doesn’t speak to their talents. “We only have one senior and one junior this year,” Lieberwirth said. “The younger players are ex-perienced on the junior circuit and the amateur circuit.” Lieberwirth said the upperclass-men on the golf team have helped the younger players adapt to Divi-sion I golf, but more importantly, are teaching the younger players how to handle situations off the golf course. “They’ve been able to impart wisdom to the younger guys,” Li-eberwirth said. “But they’ve also talked to them about being student athletes. That’s really hard and not everyone is capable of doing it. But I think they’re going to be success-ful students.”

For the young team, Lieberwirth said being competitive in tourna-ments is instrumental for future success. The Aggies logged a ninth place fi nish recently at the William H. Tucker Invitational in Albu-querque, N.M. Sept. 11 through 12. Lieberwirth said that while NMSU fi nished ninth, they are still re-spected in their conference, which the Aggies have managed to win three consecutive years. Although the team is struggling now, Lieberwirth did not deny that being competitive in the WAC was a possibility for his young team. “Anything’s possible,” Lieber-wirth said. “Right now we’re build-ing a foundation and getting the younger guys some experience. We’re trying to get them geared up and peaking at the right time. It’s too early to say anything about the conference right now.” The Aggies will be back on their home course for the Herb Wimber-ly Intercollegiate tournament at the NMSU Golf Course, Oct. 26-27.

Korey Middleton is a sports reporter and can be reached at [email protected]

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NMSU Rugby: A Diamond in the RoughBy Cody Johnson |Media Intern The players and coaches of the New Mexico State University Rugby team do not need to be the center of local news to know they have a purpose and the Rugby Aggies have more to brag about than people know. Already two games into their season, the Aggies are trying to build an identity with new coach Mickey Shannon. “It has been a bit of a slow start,” President of the NMSU Men’s Rugby Club Lute Stierman said. Despite a slow start, the Aggies recently beat Santa Fe 64-5. The Aggies’ next game comes against the New Mexico Brujos in Albuquerque on Saturday. “It should be a really tough game,” Stierman said. “They have a lot of good players.

The Brujos recently received a few players from the Albuquerque Ardvarks, which placed second in the nation in the division. The Aggies will have a high-intensity, talented team on the other side of the field come Saturday. The NMSU women’s rugby team is not without bragging rights either. The women’s team recently

placed third in a tournament held in Santa Fe. The women will com-pete next at a tournament held in Albuquerque on Oct. 17. A note-worthy highlight of the women’s schedule is a match against Texas Tech on Nov. 7. “If we stay conditioned and focused, we will do fine [in the tournament],” women’s assistant

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theRound Up SPORTSUtah State two-headed monster a concern for Aggie defense David Chavez|Sports Editor

In sports, great things come in twos: Montana and Rice, Venus and Serena, Jordan and Pippen and Utah State’s quarterback- running back duo. Together, Utah State quarter-back Diondre Borel and running back Robert Turbin have com-bined for more than 1,550 yards of offense and 12 touchdowns in their first four games of the season. The dual run-and-pass threat has New Mexico State Uni-versity football coach DeWayne Walker concerned. “They’ve got two big threats on offense,” Walker said. “I’m sure they have other guys that can hurt us, but those are the guys that make the offense go.” Walker said Utah State, sche-matically, is the toughest team the Aggies have faced all season. “They got a lot of [plays], they do everything,” Walker said. “Plus, with the two exceptional players they have, it will be a challenge.” Borel has proved to be as big a threat running the ball as he has throwing. Borel is currently third on the team in rushing yards with 149 yards and has four rushing touchdowns. NMSU defensive back Chris

Offense trying to find stability against Utah StateDavid Chavez|Sports Editor

At first glance, the New Mex-ico State University football depth chart looks much like any other depth chart in the WAC, except for one little word: “or.” Heading into week six, Jeff Fleming “or” Trevor Walls will be the starting quarterback against the Utah State Aggies Saturday at Aggie Memorial Stadium. Despite inconsistency at the quarterback position, players on offense said this is a non-issue. “It’s no biggie,” running back Marquel Colston said. “They’re great quarterbacks and we trust them both. Jeff can run and throw, Trevor can run and throw. The only difference be-tween them is Jeff is 6-foot-4 and Trevor is 6-foot-6.” In the mean time, as the quar-terback situation works itself out, running back Seth Smith has carried the load for the Ag-gie offense. In five games, Smith has carried the ball 104 times, more than 20 times a game, Walker said he is concerned about the heavy work load Smith has had. “Him carrying the ball 30 times a game for us, we really need to keep on eye on that,”

Men’s Golf still in stages of development after Wolf Pack By Korey Middleton|Sports Reporter

The men’s golf team came away from the Wolf Pack Classic in Reno, Nev., Monday and Tuesday with an eighth place finish and more experience. The team shot 6-over par in the final round Tuesday and recorded an overall score of 9-over par as a team. Golf coach Scott Lieber-wirth said the youth of his team is one of the largest contributing fac-tors to the team’s finishes in recent tournaments. “We’ve got a good team,” Li-eberwirth said. “We’re young and we make a lot of mistakes, but you are going to have that with a young team.” Lieberwirth added poor playing conditions and a slow start in the first round Monday were a prob-lem for his team. “We played poorly,” Lieber-wirth said. “But we rebounded in the afternoon. The conditions were tough.”

After the first two rounds, the Aggies sat in seventh place with an overall score of 3-over par. Sopho-more Miko Alejandro shot a career best 4-under par in the second round after a shaky start in the first round, shooting for a 6-over. Fellow sophomore Gaston De La Torre was a force for the Aggies in the first two rounds, shooting even and finishing tied for 15th. De La Torre proved to be instru-mental to the effort overall, scor-ing a 2-over par in the final round

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4Coach: Scott Lieberwerth4Last Year Finish in the waC: 1st 4who to watch: Sophomore Gaston De La torre, junior tim Madigan, and freshman Justin Shin

Quarterback Diondre Borel4Passing yards — 9844Rushing yards — 1494total yards — 1,1334Passing TDs — 54Rushing TDs — 44Total TDs — 9

Running back Robert turbin 4Rushing yards — 4204Rushing TDs — 34Long — 964avg. per carry — 7.04avg. per game — 105.04Total TDs — 6

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Daniel Duarte (maroon shirt) spends his Tuesday and Thursday evenings practicing with the rugby team. The team, which consists of mostly NMSU students and some alumni, is one of the first in the Las Cruces area. Frank De La O/the Round Up

Offense and defense go head-to-head at practice on Tuesday. Both offense and defense will have thier hands full against Utah State Saturday at Aggie Memorial Stadium. Photo Credit Frank De La O/the Round Up