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Noteworthy Student Fee Review Board requests by Elizabeth Cleary and Luke Holmen news@dailylobo.com
Language Learning Center Requests Requested 2012: $0.00 Received 2012: $0.00 Requested 2013: $196,817.50
Hazardous electrical work, dangerous projection equipment and outdated furniture are among the problems Pam Castaldi, director of the Language Learning Center, said could be fixed with student fee money. Castaldi said tombstone electrical outlets, raised, steel outlets implanted in the floor, present a tripping hazard for students who come to study and do lab work at the center. The center has six computer pods that teachers can rent out for classes and that students can use to do individual or small group work. The projection equipment in the pods has a manual pull-down screen that Castaldi said once fell on her when she was trying to operate it. She said a flat-screen television on a rolling stand could eliminate the need to use the dangerous projection equipment so often. The center recently added a lounge area with a flat screen TV and an Xbox, which students can use to immerse themselves in different languages. Yet Castaldi said the lounge is too small to fit entire classes in it. The Language Learning Center is requesting $196,817.50 in student fees, $8.42 per student, to update the center’s furniture and equipment. Castaldi said that, to her knowledge, this is the first time the center has requested student fees in the more than 40 years that the center has existed. Course fees from language classes, $10 per student, fund much of the center’s operating budget, and I&G money funds its administrative salaries. Castaldi said only some of the language classes, mainly the lower division ones, pay course fees, but student in any of the language classes UNM offers are welcome
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to use the center. All but one of the pods has stationary tables and chairs. Castaldi said she’d like to update the furniture on two more of the pods because movable furniture is more conducive to group work. She said she would also like to turn the central hub, around which all of the pods are located, into a lounge area for students to come practice language. “The center does not have to be a quiet place,” she said. “Language is something that needs to be practiced. We just want to make this a comfortable place. Right now it really isn’t.”
African American Student Services Requests Requested 2012: $72,800.00 Received 2012: $72,800.00 Requested for 2013: $72,696.25
Despite the fact that African American Student Services lost more than $130,000 in state- and University-supported funding over the last six years, the organization is requesting less money from the Student Fee Review Board for fiscal year 2013 than it received in 2012. Scott Carreathers, director of AASS, said the organization has learned to be frugal over the years. He said the organization plans to hire two new students this year without an increase in funding requests. “We’ve been good stewards of the money you gave us,” he said. During the presentation, Carreathers said the organization provides counseling and advisement services for students, hosts educational and cultural events, and awards scholarships to students in an effort to create an inclusive environment for students of all ethnicities. D’Andre Q. Curtis, president of the Black Student Union, said AASS is vital to the support of diversity on campus. “We preach diversity, but if African American Student Services loses funding, we will lose part of that diversity.”
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American Campus Communities is in the process of building four dorms to house 1,028 students by August 2012. The Casas Del Rio project will cost an estimated $39.4 million. ACC is footing the building costs and paying rent to UNM for the use of the land. ACC representatives were unavailable to comment on the progress of the construction despite multiple calls last week.
Community honors valued professor, donor by Nicole Perez
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Longtime UNM community member Richard E. Greenleaf died Nov. 8, 2011 after a three-year battle with Parkinson’s disease, and he was commemorated in a ceremony Friday in the Alumni Memorial Chapel. About 30 people came to pay their respects. He taught Latin American History at UNM, created a scholarship program and donated almost $1.2 million to the University, according to a UNM Today press release. Greenleaf earned an undergraduate and two graduate degrees from UNM while studying under Frances V. Scholes, the professor for whom Scholes Hall is named. Greenleaf eventually taught a few courses in the History Department after his official retirement from Tulane in 1998. He wrote 11 books and co-authored or contributed to 17 others, published almost four dozen
articles, primarily about Spanish colonialism, and was a frequent contributor to the New Mexico Historical Review. Director of the Latin American and Iberian Institute Susan Tiano said Greenleaf ’s contribution to the University and Latin American history was groundbreaking. “He shifted established paradigms,” Tiano said. “He’s opened up critically important points of scholarly inquiry — the field will never be the same as it was since he’s impacted it so deeply.” Greenleaf won numerous awards, including the Academy of American Franciscan History’s Serra Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Colonial Latin American History, and the New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities Award. “His life illuminates the highest standards of what a scholarly legacy can mean to the academic world,” Tiano said. “This is because his contributions have been so consistently exceptional and because
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they’ve been in so many diverse areas.” Greenleaf was born May 6, 1930, in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and taught at numerous institutions, including Tulane University, where he served as the History Department chair for 20 years. He consistently donated to UNM, and started the Greenleaf Visiting Library Scholar Program, which allows graduate students to visit UNM for up to ten weeks to use the University’s research and library facilities. Stanley Hordes, adjunct research professor at the Latin American and Iberian Institute, said Greenleaf’s contributions to the University extended beyond pure academics. “We all are so appreciative for all he did for us,” Hordes said. “I take comfort in my belief that he will live on, not only through his outstanding works of scholarship, but also in the memories of the countless students, colleagues and friends whose lives he so profoundly touched.”
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