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February 26, 2010
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ASUNM forum seeks input from students about Master Plan by Tricia Remark Daily Lobo
Emma Difani / Daily Lobo Corine Gonzales, left, and Tullivan Begay inspect lower Johnson Field during a campus safety walk Thursday. The Office of Student Affairs organized about 70 students, staff and faculty to break off into small groups and look for possible safety hazards in light of the Feb. 15 student stabbing near the anthropology building.
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In response to the Feb. 15 stabbing, about 70 students, faculty and staff traipsed about campus Thursday looking for safety hazards. The Office of Student Affairs and Student Affairs vice president Eliseo “Cheo” Torres organized a campus safety walk. “We have to realize we’re an urban campus,” Torres said. “Look at what happened — a student got
stabbed. We never want this to happen again.” The students paired off into groups to walk main campus. Each group was given a checklist describing what to look for. When students saw a problem with lights, emergency phone systems or general “safety conditions and upkeep,” they marked the form to indicate what and where the problem was. The checklists were collected by Safety and Risk Services Department to be reviewed and possibly
fixed. Before the walk, students gathered in the SUB for an introduction and orientation. Torres, ASUNM Vice President Mike Westervelt and UNM Police Chief Kathy Guimond spoke at the event. Westervelt told students that attending the walk is the best thing to do in response to the attack. “This is a very proactive stance you’re taking on the attacks,” he said. “This is the correct response. This is your campus.”
Students will soon have the chance to voice concerns to ASUNM senators about ASUNM town-hall meeting everything from campus lighting to new Monday dorms. Noon-1 p.m. The undergraduate student government SUB Atrium will host a town-hall meeting Monday in the SUB Atrium. The main discussion will be about the Master Plan, which is a docu- To find the Master Plan online, visit ment guiding UNM’s growth over the next Iss.unm.edu/PCD 10 years, Sen. Zoila Alvarez said. Alvarez said a major part of the plan is making UNM less of a commuter school by moving parking off campus and providing more on-campus housing. “As of right now, they want to make it a more community-based university,” she said. “That’s great, but I just don’t feel that with how much of a commuter campus we are, that’s going to be exactly what the student’s want.” Michael Hoodless, ASUNM senator, said the forum is an opportunity to talk about lack of parking, increased lighting around campus and printing charges. “This is to let students know, ‘Hey, the reason these things are being done is because students aren’t speaking up,’” he said. “If they know what’s going on, then they’ll speak up a little more.” Alvarez said students may not know the details of the plan and will miss the opportunity to give their input on it. She said ASUNM organized the forum to hear students’ ideas on these issues. “If nobody says anything, they’re going to continue with these plans,” she said. “They’re good in the larger scheme. I’m just not sure if they’re appropriate for the entire student body, and we’re here to represent everybody.” Mary Kenney, UNM planning officer, said she will be at the forum to answer students’ questions about the Master Plan. She said
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Acordando la historia de España by Kallie Red-Horse
For a schedule of events go to Unm.edu/~spanconf/
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Marking the 400th anniversary of the first major European ethnic cleansing, an international, bilingual conference speaks of cultural unity. The “Moros, Moriscos, Marranos y Mestizos: Alterity, Hybridity Identity in Diaspora” continues this celebration Friday and Saturday to remember Spanish history and learn from it. The issues addressed in the conference are still applicable in today’s world, said Enrique Lamadrid, the director of Chicano Hispano Mexicano Studies. “Things that happened 400 years ago are still very much with us,” he said. “We are sending soldiers to a lot of these places even now. Just because these things happened 400 years ago doesn’t mean they were resolved. It’s a very timely topic because here we are in the middle of two wars, and these wars are kind of a continuation of the wars that occurred back in history.” The three-day conference features presentations aimed at helping attendees understand the importance of learning from history’s past, Lamadrid said. “Becoming aware of this larger history can make us understand contemporary problems more profoundly,” he said. “There are issues of cultural heritage that
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understanding how deep our roots are will assist in resolving. We are having discussions on the centuries of cultural and political relations between Jews, Christians and Muslims.” Keynote speaker Anouar Majid from the University of England said the necessity of separate identities within a given culture are crucial to societal success. “When I talk about a nation-state, I am identifying a particular kind of entity that was developed at a particular historical period,” he said. “The thing is, I have never found a group of people who do not come together around some kind of principle ... We attach ourselves to an essence, an essence which excludes others which are not part of that group.” Harmonious living is a goal for today’s world, Lamadrid said. “The magic words ‘to live together’ is what we strive for,” he said. “Jews, Christians and Muslims were living together in the same society and were thriving together — that was Spain before 1492.” Presenter Ricardo Martinez, who focused his lecture on the community’s role in Chicano literature, said
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Kyle Morgan / Daily Lobo Student Daniel Park fiddles at the SUB. Park uses a loop to stack the sound of different instruments while on stage. This enables him to have multiple instruments playing at once. See the video of Park’s performance on the Daily Lobo’s multimedia page online.
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