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Registration can be a stressful time, especially with � nals right around the corner. � ankfully, there are some things students can do to make the process less traumatic.

Students can check their own per-sonal registration date by signing into my.unm.edu. � rough LoboWeb, students can go to “Registration and Records,” and then “Check Your

Registration Appointment.”Academic Adviser Shannon

Saavedra said students should regis-ter for classes as soon as possible, and making a schedule a few days ahead is helpful. With a plan written down, students can stay up until midnight on their registration date and regis-ter for classes using the course record number, she said. � e CRN is the � ve digit number to the left of the class title.

Saavedra said students can also

get help deciding what classes to sign up for using their E-Progress report, which is under the “Registration and Records” link. � e report tells stu-dents what classes they’ve complet-ed and what they still need to take for graduation, she said.

Saavedra said some students are confused by the E-Progress report be-cause it can be hard to read.

“I tell students to skip the whole � rst part,” she said. “It doesn’t make sense to them. It’s not telling them

what classes they have to take.”Saavedra said students should

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by Kallie Red-HorseDaily Lobo

Recipients of honorary degrees from UNM no longer have to at-tend commencement to get their degrees, according to an agreement reached at the Board of Regents meeting Tuesday.

� e University awards honorary degrees to people who have made signi� cant contributions to a cer-tain � eld but don’t have the ulti-mate degree in that subject area. A University tradition required indi-viduals to be present at commence-ment to receive honorary degrees, but the Board of Regents and Pres-ident David Schmidly agreed that, should unforeseen circumstances prevent recipients from going to commencement, the University will still award them the degree.

Schmidly said that despite the

change, those who get honorary de-grees should still make time for the event.

“� e expectation is that the in-dividual will be there to accept the degree,” he said. “However, if you are approving something months in advance of an event, you can’t con-trol the fact that there may be illness or personal situations that may pre-vent them from being there.”

Regent Jamie Koch said manda-tory attendance became an issue in 2005 when Ricardo Montalban, who was awarded an Honorary Doctor-ate of Humane Letters, was unable to go to the ceremony.

“We had a problem a number of years ago regarding a candidate that was supposed to get an honor-ary degree. I think there was a big ill-ness that happened and he couldn’t show up,” Koch said. “It was not very pleasant. It was a real mess.”

Regents’ President Raymond

Sanchez said the board does not an-ticipate a similar incident this year.

“I’m not sure why it became an issue relevant to the fact that Mon-talban could not be there present to accept the degree,” he said. “I doubt very seriously that we are going to have that problem this time.”

� e controversy about Montal-ban’s degree eligibility was a fac-tor in the decision to change atten-dance practices, Koch said.

“When one of these people ac-cepts, they should know other stu� goes along with it,” he said. “� e question is if the person is on their dying bed and can’t come. Do we yank the promotion?”

Regent Don Chalmers said the degree will be given to the intended individual even if unforeseen cir-cumstances prevent attendance.

“Once they accept, they get

by Andrew BealeDaily Lobo

After months of negotiations, the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra Player’s Association has � nally rati-� ed a contract, but the musicians still might not be ready to play a happy tune.

“� e musicians don’t know how they will reconcile with management after months of heavy-handed nego-tiations tactics,” the Player’s Associa-tion said in a press release.

� e Player’s Association stated that the core musicians will each be taking a $4,682 pay cut, for a total salary of $16,269.67 per core musi-cian. � e press release stated that the NMSO administration makes “well over $100,000 per year.”

David Sherry, spokesman for the NMSO management, said in an e-mail that the combined salary and bene� ts for core musicians make their contracts worth more than $20,000 a year.

Sherry said the musicians’ press release exaggerated the salary of the NMSO administration, but he did not say how much NMSO administrators make in a year.

“� e claim about administration salary is completely bogus,” he said. “� e average salary is absolutely not over $100,000 per year.”

Denise Turner, the NMSO Play-er’s Association spokeswoman, said the musicians rati� ed this contract Monday after rejecting several oth-ers. � e accepted contract provides

Musicians accept contract, pay cut

Awardee changes rules 4 years later

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Joey Trisolini / Daily LoboCrystal Quiñonez, an undocumented student, studies at El Centro de la Raza on Tuesday. Check out Ryan Montaño’s special report, “Undocumented Students at UNM,” in the multimedia section at DailyLobo.com. The report is a three-part investigative series, which will be published through the end of the week.

Zach Gould / Daily LoboStudent Nicole Joe dances with falling leaves in front of Castetter Hall on Tuesday. Joe dove into the leaf pile after one of her classes ended.

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NEW YORK (AP) — A Guantan-amo detainee has asked that charg-es be dismissed in the 1998 bomb-ings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, citing a long wait for trial.

Lawyers for Ahmed Ghailani (guh-LAH’-nee) said their client’s case raised the question of wheth-er national security can trump an indicted defendant’s constitution-al right to a speedy trial. Papers filed in federal court in Manhattan seeking to have the indictment dis-missed were released Tuesday.

Authorities allege Ghailani was a bomb-maker, document forger and aide to Osama bin Laden. The attacks at embassies in Tanzania and Kenya killed 224 people, in-cluding 12 Americans.

Ghailani was brought to the United States earlier this year. The Tanzanian, captured in Pakistan in 2004, was held in Guantanamo since 2006.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Re-publican senator contended Tues-day during rancorous floor debate that President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul will shorten the lives of America’s seniors by cutting Medicare.

“I have a message for you: You’re going to die sooner,” said Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., an obstetrician-turned-lawmaker.

A senior Democrat decried such comments by Republicans as scare tactics designed to kill legislation that he said would improve some benefits for the elderly. As the Sen-ate pushed toward the first votes on the sweeping legislation, the de-bate recalled the raw charges and countercharges of the summer’s town hall meetings.

Going to the floor after Coburn had spoken, Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont.,

said the cuts would make Medicare a smarter buyer and would improve prescription coverage.

“I hate to say it ... these are scare tactics,” Baucus said. “Sometimes you’ve got to call a spade a spade.”

The Senate was debating an amendment by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., that would strip from the bill more than $400 billion in Medi-care cuts to home health providers, hospitals, hospices and others.

SEATTLE (AP) — The man sus-pected of gunning down four police officers in a suburban coffee shop was shot and killed by a lone pa-trolman investigating a stolen car early Tuesday. Four people were arrested for allegedly helping the suspect elude authorities during a massive two-day manhunt.

Maurice Clemmons was carry-ing a handgun he took from one of the dead officers when a Seattle

policeman recognized him near a stolen car in a working-class south Seattle neighborhood about 2:45 a.m., said Assistant Police Chief Jim Pugel.

The vehicle was running but un-occupied when the officer pulled up, radioed in the license plate number and realized the car was stolen, Pugel said.

The officer saw something mov-ing, got out of his car, saw Clem-mons and ordered him to show his hands and stop.

“He wouldn’t stop,” Pugel said. “The officer fired several rounds.”

LONDON (AP) — The chief of a prestigious British research cen-ter caught in a storm of controversy over claims that he and others sup-pressed data about climate change has stepped down pending an in-vestigation, the University of East Anglia said Tuesday.

The university said in a state-ment that Phil Jones, whose e-mails were among the thousands of pieces of correspondence leaked to the Internet late last month, would relinquish his position as direc-tor of Climatic Research Unit until the completion of an independent review.

The university’s Pro-Vice-Chan-cellor for Research Trevor Davies said the investigation would cover data security, whether the university responded properly to Freedom of Information requests, “and any other relevant issues.” The statement said the specific terms of the review will be announced later in the week.

Davies said there was nothing in the stolen material to suggest the peer-reviewed publications by the unit “are not of the highest-qual-ity of scientific investigation and interpretation.”

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In Tuesday’s “Popejoy’s doorless stalls less than discreet,” the bathrooms in question are actually just north of Popejoy Hall, in the Center for the Arts.

Contrary to what was printed in Wednesday’s article, “Free-range, organ-ic turkeys worth the cost,” co-president of Natural Grocers is Kemper Isely, not Isley.

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the degree one way or the other,” he said. “It is sent to them if they don’t show up, or after they die, if that is the case.”

Awardees of honorary degrees will have the same privilege as other grad-uates, Koch said, even though giving such lenience could backfire.

“(There are) 2,342 people that are going to get a degree at

commencement. How many of them are going to show up?” he said.

There are three candidates for honorary degrees, and their names will be released pending official ac-ceptance, Sanchez said.

“At this time we are not making it public until each of them accepts the honor,” he said. “They have to be avail-able for the commencement in 2010.”

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E-Progress that have a minus sym-bol on the right side. This indicates classes that aren’t completed, she said. The classes students can take to fulfill those requirements are listed underneath in red.

Students who are confused by the E-progress report should attend one of the quick E-progress semi-nars UNM offers, Saavedra said. At least 10 students attend each semi-nar, she said.

Saavedra said E-Progress re-ports aren’t perfect and students should visit their advisers if they still have questions.

“It’s a tool to help us assist stu-dents, but it can’t be the only thing that students use because sometimes it’s wrong,” she said.

“Sometimes honors classes get list-ed where they’re not supposed to.”

Carmen Brown, vice president of Enrollment Management, said a new degree audit report, Lobo Trax, will replace the E-Progress re-port in March.

Brown said Lobo Trax is much more student friendly. It has graphs that show areas such as core and group, which must be completed before graduation, she said.

Lobo Trax is an enhanced E-progress, Brown said in an e-mail.

“It is easier to read. It identifies for users their progress by utiliz-ing graphic designs and it will al-low students to identify courses they wish to take in future terms,” she said.

for creating of an Audience Associa-tion to oversee the orchestra budget, she said.

“The musicians, since the last time they voted on a contract for manage-ment, were able to successfully nego-tiate terms of accountability — also oversight, as well as transparency mechanisms — where progress re-ports will be released to the public,” she said.

Turner said the NMSO Player’s Association created the Audience Association through independent fundraising. She said the Audience Association raised enough funding to pay musicians to play in the New Mexico Ballet’s production of “The Nutcracker.”

“We’ve done concerts to help raise funds to start the Audience Associa-tion, and the Audience Association actually decided to donate funds to underwrite the orchestra for the bal-let,” she said. “So, they’re actually

contributing to New Mexico Ballet to ensure that we had a full orchestra.”

Turner said the musicians will also play a holiday concert on Dec. 12 as part of their Pops series. She said some NMSO musicians will perform with the ballet at Popejoy Hall this weekend.

“The musicians did, on their own, create a partnership with New Mexico Ballet,” Turner said. “The musicians haven’t received a paycheck in 15 weeks, so this work has really assisted the musicians.”

Thirteen members of the NMSO also teach in the UNM music department.

Terry Davis, a public relations spe-cialist for Popejoy Hall, said the or-chestra has six concerts listed as re-scheduled, but no dates have been set.

Davis said the ratification of the NMSO contract is an important cul-tural event for UNM.

“It’s good to have the symphony back and working. They are a cultur-al icon,” he said. “They’ve been per-forming on the University campus for probably 40 years, almost since Pope-joy began,” he said. “So there’s been a lot of history with the symphony here. We’re very glad that they worked things out between the musicians and the organization to be able to perform some more.”

Turner said the musicians are glad to go back to work providing music to Albuquerque.

“Everybody is really hoping for a successful turnout for ‘The Nutcrack-er’ ballet,” she said. “They’re bringing in dancers from major dance compa-nies. It’s quite a production.”

Father claims insanity for shooting sonby David N. Goodman

The Associated Press

HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. — A 15-year-old Michigan boy admit-ted having sex with a 3-year-old girl, so enraging his father that the man pulled a gun, marched the teen to an empty lot and shot him through the head, the father’s defense attor-ney said Tuesday.

The lawyer for Jamar Pinkney Sr., 37, said he will pursue an insan-ity defense as a judge in the Detroit enclave of Highland Park ruled that Pinkney should stand trial on first-degree murder, assault and firearms charges in his son’s Nov. 16 death.

Defense attorney Corbett

O’Meara said Pinkney’s son’s con-fession would have driven anyone crazy.

“There is no rational response to the rape of a child,” O’Meara said af-ter the hearing. “He was immediate-ly remorseful and didn’t seek to hide. He turned himself in to the police.”

Authorities haven’t said if they believe the teen raped the girl and police have said the matter is not part of their investigation. Wayne County prosecutor’s office spokeswoman Maria Miller declined to comment Tuesday on the nature of the sexual contact.

Pinkney’s confrontation with his son came a day after the 3-year-old underwent an examination at

Children’s Hospital of Michigan. Re-sults of the exam haven’t been re-leased, but the teen’s mother said they indicated her son “had molest-ed” the girl. The Associated Press is not naming the girl or detailing her relationship to the teen to avoid iden-tifying a victim of sexual assault.

Lazette Cherry testified Tuesday that her son told her about his con-tact with the girl in a conversation that stretched long into the night. She said her son called his father about 3 a.m.

“Daddy, can you please forgive me in your heart, forgive what I did?” she quoted Jamar Pinkney Jr. as

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Editor,It has always been clear to the nonpar-

tisan critics of Barack Obama, even before his ascension to the American presidency, that he won’t solve this country’s funda-mental problems. His embrace and farewell kiss to President Bush during the inaugura-tion was indicative of the ensuing betrayal of the American people. The hope for a clear and decisive break with the lies, crimes and murderous wars of the past eight years has evaporated.

Hundreds of innocent people still linger in detention and torture centers like Bagram Airfield and Guantanamo Bay. Unknown numbers are either dead or suffer the horrible consequences of torture. Instead of ending Bush’s wars, Obama now says he has to “finish the job.” It’s unclear why he thinks he has to continue the murderous “job” of a criminal. One wonders who in fact controls his presi-dency and calls the shots. Why would anyone

decide to continue known crimes instead of disowning them and prosecuting the culprits?

The people’s right to universal health care too has been sacrificed. Any new health care bill will ensure that insurance companies continue to enrich themselves at the cost of the health of the people. Sickness and death will remain profitable — in more than one way, as long as corporate welfare encour-ages the industry to exploit labor and to poi-son nature with the latent approval of gov-ernmental agencies such as the EPA. For the same reasons of greed and profit, the U.S. won’t lead the world out of the climate crisis, but it will prolong and worsen it.

The tragic irony of American history con-tinues under Obama. It is tragic because it deliberately ignores and repeats the ironic mistakes of a failed and deadly past under the guise of a greater good. Obama will go to Scandinavia to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize bestowed upon him out of a sheer sense of relief over the end of Bush’s terror regime only to undercut the world’s efforts to con-tain catastrophic carbon emissions with weak and empty promises.

This happens as he rejects the treaty to ban land mines, although proponents of the Land Mine Treaty won the same Nobel Peace Prize 12 years ago.

Obama would do well to recover the spiri-tual heritage of those whose memory he has repeatedly invoked. As long as Obama is con-fined by the strings of his corporate donors he is bound to act, as Malcolm X put it, like a “(White) House Negro,” an “Uncle Tom serv-ing Uncle Sam,” unfree to follow the advice of Martin Luther King, Jr. against escalating the war in Afghanistan to do the political repen-tance necessary to win the trust of the Islam-ic world and pay reparations to the countless victims of Bush’s warfare policies.

Thousands of lives and billions of dol-lars wasted for war could then be directed to those destroyed by war, who lack the basic resources to shelter, feed and educate their children. Schools, hospitals and basic indus-trial and agricultural projects are the simple means to a just peace. Withdrawal from war paves this path of peace.

Joachim L. OberstUNM faculty

In Isaac Avilucea’s article, “Garbiso: Col-league fabricated claims,” published Mon-day, Athletics Department employee Shan-non Garbiso made a statement against Maria Garcia’s claims that Garbiso felt too scared to speak out against the Athletics Department. Garcia stood her ground. Readers responded at Dailylobo.com:

by ‘lazo’ Posted Tuesday“Something is rotten here at UNM.”

by ‘Another Garbiso Co-Worker2’ Posted Tuesday“This article creates more questions than

answers. Where was all this denial by you, Shannon, when Garcia went before the Board of Regents on Nov. 10 (the day after you spoke with her by phone) protesting the administra-tion’s depiction of you at their media confer-ence as being incapable of conducting valid and credible interviews with regards to your notes that they produced to the media? … Just silence is what you contributed then. Oh, I for-got — this is the first you’ve heard of it? I’m sure.”

by ‘Faith’ Posted Tuesday“Everyone is always lying on the UNM

administrators, yeah right. Garbiso said she feared losing her job, that is what keeps peo-ple from telling the truth about this manipula-tive, corrupt administration.”

by ‘AthleticsAdminemployee’ Posted Tuesday“The University should rename our de-

partment ‘damage control operations.’ Why is the administration now allowing Shannon to send an e-mail response to the Lobo that is highly suspect in it’s content like ‘I am not, nor was I, angry with Helen Gonzales or Paul Krebs’ and ‘They were not sworn statements,’ and especially ‘I’ve shared every detail of what I’ve heard and understood to have happened with Paul Krebs and the University’s human resources’ … You haven’t shared squat. None of us have, but we know the assistant coaches that are going to resign at the end of their con-tracts next month will. I will state that I fear losing my job, at least my position within this department, if I even so much as lightly wince in pain to the media.”

by ‘LoboLouie’ Posted Tuesday“I’m not really Lobo Louie but, what the

hey, everyone else is lying at UNM. I wish all of these supposed UNM employ-

ees posting comments on here would grow a pair and really come forward instead of hiding behind their posted comments.”

by ‘Jerry’ Posted Tuesday“‘Faith’ is right — lying for the administra-

tion is required in our job descriptions.”

by ‘Karen’ Posted Tuesday“At what training seminar do they teach

human resources employees to effectively and efficiently destroy documents? How were these notes destroyed? Paper shredder?”

Join the discussion at DailyLobo.comEditor,

Sadly, the vast majority of the people with whom I have tried to engage in a dialogue at protests against what Barack Obama is do-ing, are either not willing to engage in dia-logue or simply do not know how to do that. Instead, it seems that they just want to voice their anger about something.

When pressed, they are not able to tell me exactly what Obama has done that they are angry about. Instead, they tell me how

Obama has evil intentions and will destroy the principles the Founding Fathers found-ed this country on by imposing socialism, or communism, on us all. They look at me with a blank stare on their faces when I reply: “If we assume that that is true, how will that af-fect your life in a negative way?” If pressed, it soon becomes evident that they have no idea what effect living in a socialist state, or a communist state, has on the common peo-ple. Also, they are not aware that the Soviet Communist state was not, in any way, abid-ing by the basic principle of communism. And, it also becomes apparent that they falsely believe that all the common people living in socialist states are miserable.

Their focus seems to be entirely on mak-ing noise and attracting attention to their cause — a cause that has no substance. My review of the history of our species informs me that such protests have always been part of the problem and have never contributed anything to the solution. What has contrib-uted to solutions are people willing to en-gage in dialogues which have as their pur-pose cooperatively, compassionately and peacefully arriving at resolutions to diver-gent perspectives that are of benefit for all.

Robert Gardiner Daily Lobo reader

Obama’s efforts, decisions have only worsened US problems

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by Judy LinThe Associated Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Till death do us part? The vow would re-ally hold true in California if a Sacra-mento Web designer gets his way.

In a movement that seems ripped from the pages of Comedy Channel writers, John Marcotte wants to put a measure on the ballot next year to ban divorce in California.

The effort is meant to be a satiri-cal statement after California vot-ers outlawed gay marriage in 2008, largely on the argument that a ban is needed to protect the sanctity of tra-ditional marriage. If that’s the case, then Marcotte reasons voters should have no problem banning divorce.

“Since California has decided to protect traditional marriage, I think it would be hypocritical of us not to sacrifice some of our own rights to protect traditional marriage even more,” the 38-year-old married fa-ther of two said.

Marcotte said he has collected dozens of signatures, including one from his wife of seven years. The ini-tiative’s Facebook fans have swelled to more than 11,000. Volunteers

that include gay activists and mem-bers of a local comedy troupe have signed on to help.

Marcotte is looking into whether he can gather signatures online, as proponents are doing for another proposed 2010 initiative to repeal the gay marriage ban. But the odds are stacked against a campaign funded primarily by the sale of $12 T-shirts featuring bride and groom stick figures chained at the wrists.

Marcotte needs 694,354 valid signatures by March 22, a high hur-dle in a state where the typical pe-tition drive costs millions of dollars. Even if his proposed constitutional amendment made next year’s bal-lot, it’s not clear how voters would react.

Nationwide, about half of all marriages end in divorce.

Not surprisingly, Marcotte’s cam-paign to make divorce in California illegal has divided those involved in last year’s campaign for and against Proposition 8.

As much as everyone would like to see fewer divorces, making it ille-gal would be “impractical,” said Ron

Rich Pedroncelli / AP PhotoIn this photo taken Nov. 21, John Marcotte discusses his proposed initiative to ban divorce as Ryan Platt, left, signs the petition to get the measure on the ballot in Sacramento, Calif. Marcotte is using the state’s voter initiative process to make a satirical statement about the fight over gay marriage and voter-approved 2008 Proposition 8 that banned gay marriage.

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Prentice, the executive director of the California Family Council who led a coalition of religious and con-servative groups to qualify Proposi-tion 8.

No other state bans divorce, and only a few countries, including the Philippines and Malta, do. The Ro-man Catholic Church also prohibits divorce but allows annulments. The California proposal would amend the state constitution to eliminate the ability of married couples to get divorced while allowing married couples to seek an annulment.

Prentice said proponents of traditional marriage only seek to strengthen the one man-one wom-an union.

“That’s where our intention be-gins and ends,” he said.

Jeffrey Taylor, a spokesman for Restore Equality 2010, a coalition of same-sex marriage activists seeking to repeal Proposition 8, said the co-alition supports Marcotte’s message but has no plans to join forces with him.

“We find it quite hilarious,” Tay-lor said of the initiative.

Marcotte, who runs the comedy site BadMouth.net in his spare time, said he has received support from across the political spectrum. In ad-dition to encouragement from gay

marriage advocates, he has been in-terviewed by American Family As-sociation, a Mississippi-based or-ganization that contributed to last year’s Yes on 8 campaign.

He was mentioned by Keith Ol-bermann on MSNBC’s “Count-down” during his “World’s Best Per-sons” segment for giving supporters of Proposition 8 their “comeup-pance in California.”

Marcotte, who is Catholic and voted against Proposition 8, views himself as an accidental activist. A registered Democrat, he led a “ban divorce” rally recently at the state Capitol in Sacramento to launch his effort and was pleasantly surprised at the turnout. About 50 people showed up, some holding signs that read, “You too can vote to take away civil rights from someone.”

Marcotte stopped dozens of peo-ple during another signature drive in downtown Sacramento. Among them was Ryan Platt, 32, who said he signed the petition in support of his lesbian sister, even though he thinks it would be overturned if vot-ers approved it.

“Even if by some miracle this did pass, it would never stand up to the federal government,” Platt said. “And if it did, there’s something re-ally wrong with America.”

Eduardo Verdugo / AP PhotoA supporter of Honduras’ ousted President Manuel Zelaya shows her hands with a sign written in Spanish that says “Don’t vote” in Tegucigalpa on Monday. Many Western Hemisphere countries are refusing to recognize Honduras’ newly elected President Porfirio Lobo because of a coup earlier this year.

US backs Honduran president-electby Alexandra Olson


EGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Hon-duras’ president-elect is not worried that many countries do not recog-nize his election. Washington sup-ports Porfirio Lobo, and that’s what matters most to this Central Ameri-can nation.

Lobo, 61, lit up in public appear-ances Monday with his trademark toothy grin as he assured Hondurans that the crisis over the June 28 coup that overthrew leftist-allied Presi-dent Manuel Zelaya would soon be history.

“It’s difficult not to recognize an electoral process in a democratic country,” Lobo said at a news confer-ence with foreign reporters. “This is how the crisis ends.”

That is what coup supporters have hoped all along, and why they resist-ed reinstating Zelaya before Sunday’s vote despite intense international pressure.

Leaders in many Latin American countries, particularly those on the left, are standing firm in refusing to recognize the election, saying it sets a dangerous precedent for a region that has been vulnerable to coups.

But those nations are unlikely to influence Honduras, a very poor country that sends the bulk of its ex-ports to the United States and relies heavily on money sent home from the 1 million Hondurans who live in the U.S.

Washington’s position also is like-ly to influence other countries, and some have already followed its lead in accepting the vote, including Co-lombia, Panama, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Peru.

Brazil, the most influential coun-try to reject the election, is Latin America’s largest economy but it has minimal trade relations with Honduras.

Venezuela’s leftist president,

Hugo Chavez, tried to increase his influence in Honduras under Zela-ya, sending oil exports in exchange for long-term payment at a very low interest rate. But Honduras still got most of its oil from the U.S. and other countries, so it made little difference when Chavez stopped fuel ship-ments to protest the coup.

Politically, however, Lobo could suffer. Brazil and Venezuela have enough clout to keep the Organiza-tion of American States from reinstat-ing Honduras, which could bar the Lobo government from diplomatic summits — a sanction that commu-nist Cuba faced for five decades.

Heather Berkman, a Honduran expert with the New York-based Eurasia group, predicts most coun-tries will re-establish ties and multi-lateral groups are likely to follow.

“There’s a new president, from peaceful elections that were largely seen as legitimate and transparent,” she said. “It’s going to be hard, I think, for countries to ignore anoth-er country in the region for the next five years.”

Many Hondurans just want to be rid of crippling isolation, including the suspension of U.S. development aid and anti-narcotics cooperation in a country suffering from stagger-ing drug gang violence.

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agreed to come to the house later to talk further. Cherry’s sister, Yolanda Cherry, testified that Jamar Pinkney Sr. arrived about 10 a.m.

Yolanda Cherry said she and her sister talked about getting help for the teen, while Pinkney Sr. said he spoke with the 3-year-old’s mother and she wanted to press charges.

“Jamar, is there something you want to tell me?” Yolanda Cherry quoted Pinkney Sr. as asking his son.

“He got on his knees in front of his dad and said, ‘I’m sorry,’” the aunt said.

“What did you do?” she quoted the father as asking.

“I humped (the girl),” the teen re-plied. “I need counseling.”

Pinkney Sr. didn’t immediately respond, Yolanda Cherry said, and she left to visit her mother’s upstairs apartment. She later heard screaming and banging and rushed down to find Pinkney Sr. holding a handgun and beating his son.

Both sisters testified Pinkney Sr. ordered his son to undress and marched him outside. The teen’s mother said Pinkney Sr. ordered the boy to kneel in the grass, ignoring his pleas for mercy.

“I said, ‘Jamar, stop. Don’t do this. Think about what you’re doing,’” La-zette Cherry testified.

She said Pinkney Sr. stood behind the boy and shot him in the head, then walked around still grasping the gun.

“He didn’t want anybody to go back and help him,” the mother said. After Pinkney Sr. left, she rushed to her son’s side.

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Chris Jenkins, the aunt of Jamal Pinkney Jr., sobs as she sits in the courtroom listening to testimony regarding the execution-style murder of her nephew by his father Jamar Pinkney Sr. in Highland Park, Mich. on Tuesday. Jenkins and other family members wore t-shirts bearing the boy’s picture and the message “R.I.P. Jamar Pinkney, Jr. We Love You.”

Obama: Afghanistan will be in chargeHeidi Vogt


KABUL — The top U.S. com-mander in Afghanistan said Wednesday that NATO and U.S. forces will hand over responsibility for securing the country to its own security forces “as rapidly as con-ditions allow” — welcome news for war-weary American troops trying to hold back insurgents.

“The more the merrier, but it de-pends on what the mission will be,” said Spc. Stephen Ayala from San Antonio, Texas, with the 425th Field Artillery battalion. “If they come to train the Afghans, that’s good for us. If they are going to do some dam-age, so much the better. But for us, we just want to go home.”

Gen. Stanley McChrystal, in a statement issued in Kabul just be-fore President Barack Obama for-mally announced he was sending 30,000 more U.S. troops to the war, said his main focus will be to de-velop the capacity of the police and army in Afghanistan, where the president said the security situation had deteriorated.

“We will work toward improved security for Afghanistan and the transfer of responsibility to Afghan security forces as rapidly as condi-tions allow,” McChrystal said.

“In the meantime, our Afghan partners need the support of coali-tion forces while we grow and devel-op the capacity of the Afghan army and police. That will be the main fo-cus of our campaign in the months ahead.”

Ayala and other U.S. service members deployed 22 miles (35 ki-lometers) west of Kabul in Wardak province learned of Obama’s de-cision to send more troops while watching clips of the president’s speech broadcast during their breakfast of sausage, eggs, hash browns, fruit and cereal at Forward Operating Base Airborne.

Cpl. Joshua McClellan, from Fos-toria, Ohio, is on his third tour in Afghanistan.

“We’re just interested in whether

Obama was going to say whether he would extend us a while over here,” McClellan said. “A lot of us are ready to push out and get back home.”

Obama said that increasing the capacity of Afghan security forc-es will allow international forces to start transferring out of Afghanistan in July 2011 — depending on condi-tions on the ground.

Spc. Ty Hooks, a combat engineer from Vidalia, Ga., cheered any accel-erated training for the Afghan Nation-al Army and Afghan National Police.

“That’s a good thing,” Hooks said. “Maybe the ANA and ANP can stand up and do their jobs.”

In his speech at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, Obama said that while the U.S. and international community will contin-ue to advise and assist Afghanistan, “It will be clear to the Afghan govern-ment — and more importantly, to the Afghan people — that they will ulti-mately be responsible for their own country.”

Both Obama and McChrystal cau-tioned that success in Afghanistan will be achieved only through efforts that match military and security force training with governance and eco-nomic development aid that can sus-tain long-term stability.

“The concerted commitment of the international community will prevail in bringing real change to Af-ghanistan — a secure and stable en-vironment that allows for effective governance, improved economic op-portunity and the freedom of every Afghan to choose how they live,” Mc-Chrystal said.

Karl Eikenberry, the U.S. ambas-sador to Afghanistan, who has ques-tioned the wisdom of adding U.S. forc-es when the Afghan political situation is unstable and uncertain, said in a statement that he strongly supported Obama’s announcement. He said it would “provide clarity and focus” to the U.S. mission in Afghanistan. “My team and I will energetically imple-ment this strategy in closest possible partnership” with the Afghan peo-ple, the Afghan government, the in-ternational community and the U.N.

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All the players are the same — it’s only the minutes that will change.

The Lobo lineup will remain in-tact when the UNM women’s bas-ketball team (4-2) travels to NMSU on Wednesday, but point guard Amy Beggin will see diminished minutes due to a fatigued ankle — the same ankle she had minor surgery on in the offseason, said head coach Don Flanagan.

Beggin, who played nearly 40 minutes per game last year, start-ed off the season in similar fashion, playing all but two minutes through UNM’s first three games. She took it easy over the break, playing 24 min-utes in wins against Northern Arizo-na and North Carolina A&T.

Yet, in a back-and-forth, narrow loss to Toledo on Saturday, Flanagan left Beggin in for the whole game, a decision he said he regrets.

“We are thankful now that (Beg-gin’s ankle) is improving,” Flanagan said. “We see an improvement even though she went 40 minutes the oth-er day. I’ll do my best to not let her go 40 minutes again. I made a mis-take in that game.”

This week, Beggin has not been going full speed in practice, and if it wasn’t for such a full schedule, Flanagan said he would like her to rest.

“If I was a doctor, they would probably say, ‘Try not to play in games and rest as much as possible,’” Flanagan said. “That would probably do her good. Unfortunately, we have

a lot of games going on.”Though clearly not 100 percent

evidenced by her diminished prac-tice habits, Beggin downplayed the severity of her ankle injury and said she would be ready for the Aggies.

“When you put the uniform on, the adrenaline kind of kicks in. You don’t really feel anything,” Beggin said. “So, I will be 100 percent for Wednesday. When it is game time, I will be ready.”

The Lobos aren’t used to having a five-man lineup that does not in-clude the senior point guard.

Flanagan said the transition game will be hit the hardest with her hav-ing a diminished role.

“In half court, we will be just fine,” Flanagan said. “But I think transi-tion-wise she seems to spot the open player pretty well and get things run-ning, and also her transition — get-ting a steal and taking off.”

Seven games into the sea-son, guard Sara Halasz, who aver-ages 9.7 points and 5.3 rebounds per game, said it’s better to have Beggin rest now, rather than during

Lobos transition without point guard’s play time

In this file photo, Amy Beggin slices between multiple Florida Gulf Coast defenders on the way to the basket. UNM travels to Las Cruces to face the Aggies today.

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Ask UNM men’s head basket-ball coach Steve Alford about his Lobos’ undefeated start, and he’ll say he is “pleasantly pleased.”

But an Alford mood swing might be forthcoming on Wednesday when No. 25 California walks down The Pit ramp to give UNM its first real challenge of the year.

The Lobos understand the task ahead of them, Alford said.

“We’re talking about a top 25 team,” he said. “Their only losses are Ohio State, who is obviously an outstanding basketball team, and Syracuse. So, we understand the job at hand. They have a lot of se-niors and experience on this team. They can really shoot the basketball and it presents a lot of challenges.”

This is the first time a ranked team has visited The Pit in near-ly three years. The last time the Lobos faced a top 25 team was Jan. 9, 2007, when No. 15 Air Force beat UNM by eight points.

Cal began the season ranked No. 13 and is picked to win the Pac-10 title. The Bears are 4-2 after a 21-point thumping over Princeton on Sunday, 81-60.

The two losses for Cal came in the 2K Sports Classic, which ben-efitted Coaches vs. Cancer at Madi-son Square Garden on Nov. 19-20.

“They have won two games at home since,” Alford said. “They got beat twice up in New York. So their confidence is back. They are extremely well-coached, and it will

be a great game for us.”For UNM senior Roman Marti-

nez, the Bears are a familiar foe.Two years ago, when Martinez

was a sophomore, the J.R. Giddens-led Lobos lost at Cal by two points in the first round of the NIT.

Martinez said it is a huge game for the Lobos to play a ranked team at home, and it will benefit the young players on the team.

“All the guys on the team are ex-cited,” he said. “We have to under-stand, at the same time, we’re not just going to go out there and beat a top 25 team. We have to defend like always, and it’s going to take a little bit more with them being so good and playing tough teams.”

What has helped the Lobos get off to a quick start, Martinez said, is the team’s attention to detail.

“Well, I think we are doing the little things,” Martinez said. “I think we are getting focused be-fore games and we are doing great on scout (team). The guys are re-sponding and I am proud of what

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While Irish fans hoped to hear word that Swarbrick was spotted in Gainesville, Fla., going after Urban Meyer or in Norman, Okla., for a talk with Bob Stoops, Swarbrick re-mained on campus Tuesday laying the groundwork for his search.

He spent part of the day talking

with Notre Dame assistant coaches about the football program before seven of them fanned out across the country Tuesday afternoon to try to reassure the 18 high school seniors who already have committed to at-tend the school next season.

But at least one of the 18 high school seniors who verbally com-mitted to Notre Dame said Tuesday he is looking elsewhere. Defensive end Chris Martin of Aurora, Colo., the highest rated player among those who committed to Notre Dame, confirmed in a text message to The Associated Press on Tuesday that he has decommitted.

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“I’ve said this time and time again, the coach isn’t guaranteed; but the school is. That’s why I picked Notre Dame,” he said. “Nothing has changed with my commitment.”

Receiver Tai-ler Jones from Gainesville, Ga., whose father, An-dre, was a defensive end on Notre Dame’s last national championship team in 1988, said the school has no need to worry about him changing his mind because Weis was fired.

“It was sad to see him go. I want-ed to get the chance to play under coach Weis, but now I’m just look-ing to see who the new coach is they hire,” he said.

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conference play.“We all go in working hard,”

Halasz said. “Amy is a powerhouse on this team, but, then again, we do have other people who can score and other people can contribute, and we need Amy to rest up. These games are just to build up our con-fidence and our momentum for conference.”

The Aggies (4-2) have losses against North Dakota and Cal Poly. Yet, NMSU is coming off a narrow

five-point victory over Michigan, in which the Aggies shot more than 50 percent from the field.

The Aggies are led by guards Madison Spence and Danisha Cor-bett. Both average over 12 points per game.

But the Lobos have a nearly im-peccable record against NMSU. They’ve won 25 of the last 26 match-ups against the Aggies.

Still, Flanagan said the Lobos can’t take the Aggies lightly, since

the Lobos’ lone loss to the Aggies came just two years ago at the Pan American Center in Las Cruces.

“I don’t think we are going to be overconfident with them,” he said. “When you look at them on tape, you can see that they give great ef-fort and play tough, hard-nosed defense, and they have the ability to score. They’ll scrap. They are the type of team that is tough to play against, because they don’t give an inch.”

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we have done and I am sure Coach (Alford) is, too. But it’s not over. The toughness factor has to kick in for a team. Just from here on out we have some real tough games.”

The Cal game is the first of what

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“We have had some really good competition,” he said. “So we are very pleased that this is will be our most demanding week from a team standpoint of who we have to play.”

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BEAUTIFUL 3BDRM, 1BA in great NE Heights neighborhood. $850/mo +utilities. 275-7550.

UNM NORTH CAMPUS 2BDRM at 1919 Girard NE. D/W, W/D, fierplace, car- port, storage. $900/mo. 620-4648.

SV GUEST HOUSE on 3/4 acre. Rent for yard work. References required 873- 1282.

Houses For SaleINTEREST RATES ARE LOW - Tax Credit’s have been extended. Great Time to buy a home!Call John - 697.2673

Rooms For RentROOMMATE WANTED TO share 3BDRM home near UNM. 1 block from UNM shuttle $400/mo including utilities and wireless internet. Call 850-2806.

2 ROOMS TO rent in a 4 BDRM house 1 block north of campus. $400 month, includes utlities. 505-908-0488

ROOMMATE WANTED TO share 3BDRM house furnished W/D 2mi from campus near Coronado/ Uptown. Grad. student prefered $450/mo includes utilities. 463-4536.

TWO ROOMMATES WANTED, Grad students, upperclassmen. Nice house near Hyder Park, available now. Two bathroom, nice kitchen, garage. No pet- s/smoking Call Jay 235-8980

NOB HILL QUIET bedroom, bathroom with private entrance, $450, includes utilities, 255-7874

For SaleBRADLEY’S BOOKS- MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY.

FULL KITCHEN SET- Great condition/almost brand new. GE Microwave, Black dish plates: bowls, plates, and coffee cups, glass cups: small and tall, silver where, and pots & pans for sale $85. 505-506-2255 or xmark3dx@yahoo. com.

Vehicles For SaleBLUE 1994 TOYOTA Tercel. 37MPG, Brand New Tires, Wheels, Paint, Bat- tery. Great Condition. 160k miles. Was asking $2,500, now asking $1,600obo. 604-1440.

Child CareNANNY(S) WANTED for lovable 4-year old boy who uses a walker and sweet 7- year old girl, MWF 12:30-6pm and TTh 8:30am-6pm. Hours flexible. Near UNM, 256-7330.

CAREGIVERS FOR TOP-quality after- school child care program. Play sports, take field trips, make crafts, be goofy, have fun and be a good role model. Learn, play, and get paid for doing both! $9/hr plus paid holidays, paid planning time, paid preparation time, and great training with pay raises. Must be able to work Wednesdays 12PM – 5PM. Ap- ply at 6501 Lomas Blvd NE, 9:30 – 2:30 M-F. Call 296-2880 or visit www.chil drens-choice.org Work-study encour- aged to apply.

RELIABLE NANNY WANTED! Looking for in-home child care for 12-week old girl in late January. Experience/ references preferred. Please call 553-6710 if interested.

PT/ FT HELP needed at Kid’s World (Coors/ I-40). Salary dependent on experience. 839-8200.

Jobs Off CampusSECURITY/ DRIVER PTCurrently seeking a Security Officer/ Driver PT (7am-12pm shift, possible afternoon shift) to provide security and transportation for Center students, facili- ties, and property. Prepare incident and accident reports, document logs and records. Maintains property accountability. Requirements: High school diploma or GED. Must have NM driver’s license and a good driving record. Job Code: 09-015. To apply, submit resume & copy of High School or GED diploma to Del-Jen, Inc./Albuquerque Job Corps, 1500 Indian School Rd NW, Albu- querque, NM 87104, Attn: Human Re- sources, or (505) 346-2769 (fax) or e- mail: [email protected] EEO/AA. Al- buquerque Job Corps requires successful completion of pre-employment drug screen and background check.

RUNNER/ FILING CLERK- Small but busy law firm needs a motivated student. Opportunity to learn while you work. Flexible hours. $8.25/hr E-mail resume to [email protected], or fax 254-9366.

TEACH ENGLISH IN Korea!

2010 Teach and Learn in Korea (TaLK) sponsored by Korean government●$1,200/month (15hrs/week) plus air- fares, housing, medical insuranceMust have completed two years of un- dergraduateLast day to apply: 12/10/09Please visit our website www.talk.go.kr

2010 English Program In Korea (EPIK)●$1,200-2,300/month plus housing, air- fare, medical insurance, paid vacation Must have BA degreeLast day to apply: 12/15/09Please visit our website www.epik.go.kr

Jai - (213)386-3112 [email protected]

DIRECT CARE STAFF needed to work with developmentally disabled clients. FT/ PT positions available, paid training. Fax resume to 821-1850 or e-mail to [email protected].

RECREATION ASSISTANT PTAssists the Recreation Supervisor in planning and conducting, evening and weekend avocation programs for students 16-24 years old. Organizes and supervises student field trips for sports, recreation, cultural and community activities. Supervises students on Center- sponsored activities. Encourages student participation, sportsmanship, and positive attitudes in cultural and recre- ational activities. Assists with new student orientation and promotes student accountability and healthy lifestyle choices. Requirements: High school diploma or GED valid Class “D” drivers license and good driving record. Previ- ous refereeing, umpiring or lifeguard skills desired. Job Code: 09-031. To apply, submit resume & copy of High School or GED diploma to DEL-JEN, Inc./Albuquerque Job Corps, 1500 In- dian School Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104, Job Code (see ad), Attn: Human Resources, or (505) 346-2769 (fax) or email: [email protected] EEO/AA Albuquerque Job Corps requires successful completion of pre-employment drug screen and background check.

HOLIDAY HELP AND BEYOND!

$15 Base /Appt. Flex Schedule, Schol- arships Possible! Customer Sales/ Ser- vice, No Exp. Nec., Cond. Apply. Call now, All ages 18+, ABQ 243-3081, NW/Rio Rancho: 891-0559.

TERRIFIC INCOME OPPORTUNITY with Chopra Center endorsed product. Call 803-1425.

!BARTENDER TRAINING! Bartending Academy, 3724 Eubank NE, www. newmexicobartending.com 292-4180.

20 HRS/WK MOTHERS Helper for Twin Babies and three year old. 280-9443.

!!!BARTENDING!!!: UP TO $300/day. No experience necessary, training provided. 1-800-965-6520ext.100.

WANTED: EGG DONORS, Would you be interested in giving the Gift of Life to an Infertile couple? We are a local Infer- tility Clinic looking for healthy women between the ages of 21-33 who are non- smoking and have a normal BMI, and are interested in anonymous egg donation. The experience is emotionally re- warding and you will be financially compensated for your time. All donations are strictly confidential. Interested candidates please contact Myra at The Cen- ter for Reproductive Medicine of NM at 505-224-7429.

EXOTIC DANCERS, GREAT pay. Par- ties, private dances, body rubs. No exp req’d. (505)489-8066. privatedancer snm.com

VolunteersDO YOU HAVE Type 1 Diabetes? You may qualify to participate in an important research study. To qualify you must have type 1 diabetes for more than one year, be 18-70 years old, and be willing to participate in 8 clinic visits. You will be paid $50 for each clinic visit. If interested, please contact Elizabeth at 272-5454 or by email at evaldez@salud. unm.edu

HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS AND subjects with and without asthma are needed for a new research study looking at the effects of fat and physical activity on the breathing tubes. If you qualify, compen- sation will be provided for your time and inconvenience upon study completion. If you are healthy or have asthma, over the age of 18, and are interested in find- ing out more about this study, please contact or leave a message for Teresa at (505)269-1074 or e-mail [email protected].

COLLEGE STUDENTS DRINKERS WANTED to evaluate a new software program. Participation is confidential and you will be reimbursed for your time in this federally funded study. More information is available at behav iortherapy.com/collegedrinkers.htm.

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