DAILY LOBO new mexico
Religious crossroad see page 15
thursday The Independent Voice of UNM since 1895
August 26, 2010
HSC records lost in June fire
FIRE ON BROADWAY
by Shaun Griswold shaun24@unm.edu
The UNM Health Sciences Center lost about 90 percent of its patient medical records created before 2005, after a fire burned through an industrial warehouse in downtown Albuquerque this summer, said Catherine Porto, executive director of health information and incident commander. On June 23, a catastrophic fire broke out at a records storage warehouse at 1301 Broadway Blvd. N.E., north of Mountain Road N.E. and west of the University. The exact cause of the fire is undetermined, but the investigation is focusing on the roof top air conditioner where the fire may have begun and spread rapidly. Temperatures are believed to have reached well over 2,000 degrees, according to the Albuquerque Fire Department. Most of the contents were
Junfu Han / Daily Lobo Construction workers began cleaning the remnants of the charred warehouse once home to UNM Hospital’s medical records. The structure suffered devastating damage from a fire this summer.
see Fire page 6
Proposed regent-choosing method clears hurdle by Chelsea Erven cerven@unm.edu
The Faculty Senate approved a resolution Tuesday that it hopes could radically change the way university regents are chosen at New Mexico institutions. For the last year, a faculty task force under the Senate Operations Committee developed a new process for the selecting
regents. Faculty Senate President Richard Wood said faculty’s input on regent selection is invaluable. “The regents need to understand the internal realities of the University, and the faculty needs to insist on academically driven decision making with faculty input,” Wood said. As proposed, the University would form a committee on regent appointments when the UNM
The Afro American Experience by Eva Dameron
eva.incognito@gmail.com Editor’s note: This semester, the Daily Lobo will feature semi-monthly interviews with African American students. D’Andre Quinn Curtis, who goes by “Dre,” is the incoming president of Men of Color in Motion, which he changed from the previously titled Black Men in Motion. He doesn’t like the word black. “I think the word black objectifies a person,” he said. “I like to call people by their race. If a person is Caucasian, they’re not white. I just feel like people should be identified for what they are.”
Inside the
Daily Lobo volume 115
issue 5
Board of Regents has a vacancy. The committee will then identify eight to 10 exemplary faculty and community members who represent diverse ethnic/racial, socio-economic, political and academic backgrounds. The selection process must be approved by the faculty senates at all three New Mexico universities before it can be adopted by the governor, but UNM’s senate was the
Curtis goes to school for architecture and is a fashion designer at home. He lends his goodwill expertise at the African American Student Services building. He moved to Arizona from Detroit, Mich., in seventh grade, and he attended a Mormon high school. He said his AfricanAmerican experience really began in African American Student Services. “The Afro provided me with leadership, “he said. “Scott Carreathers has been a great father figure, a great advocate for African-American students. If I didn’t have the Afro as a resource, I wouldn’t be as developed as I am today.” He said he is disappointed the youth are going down the drain, the flip side of holding his own behavior to high standards. “I hear so much profanity nowadays,” Curtis said. “And it’s from the older generations that passed it to the younger generations,” Curtis said. “People are OK with being rude to each other. I feel like there’s no courtesy. … People need to respect their elders some more. I don’t like people calling me “bro.” … I want to see college students work harder. … I don’t want to see mediocrity no more in this world. …
first to endorse it. Wood said during Tuesday’s meeting, which was the Faculty Senate’s first meeting of the semester, that the regent selection process in place now doesn’t take into consideration the administration and faculty’s concerns, since the governor nominates all regent candidates. “That sounds like an awesome power, but the trouble is if you’re
I feel like we should excel as a culture, a civilization, as a nation, as a whole. I want to see my African-American people step up to the plate, be more unified. We’re not as strong as we used to be during the civil rights days, during the movement.” He said it can be overwhelming to worry about everyone else’s inactions and personal flaws, but he still feels a calling to help humanity in a big way. “I want to be that hero. I want to be that guy, ‘When we were down, he got us out of that situation,’ just that one person who doesn’t give up and is trying to put a smile on everybody’s face,” Curtis said. “… Everybody needs to take responsibility for their actions. To always have to take responsibility is overwhelming at times, but that’s what drives (me). Some people don’t care. And I can be someone who does care. My instructor said, ‘We need more people in the world like you.’ It felt nice to hear that.” He said he is one of three African-American students in the architecture school, which seems to be growing in a promising direction, although there are cultural insensitivities he can’t help but notice.
Borderline hateful
Caught reading
See page 10
See page 2
the new governor, it leaves you completely exposed to whoever has power over you and wants to be a regent,” he said. “We think a research university needs a more careful decision making process. … This institution needs a different direction, and we as a faculty need a different kind of engagement with the univer-
see Regents page 7
In an instance where he felt he hadn’t been graded fairly on an assignment, his teacher asked, ‘Well, why do you care about your grade so much?’ … DL: Is that what they said, why do you care about your grade so much? DQC: Yeah, those exact words. I mean, those are the type of things that need to be in the paper. DL: So, you think they’re saying because you’re not white, you shouldn’t be worrying about your grades because it’s not going to matter anyway or something? DQC: In a sense, that’s how I feel. What the teacher told me is they only gave me an A-minus because they didn’t want me to feel left out of the group. DL: That’s like a backwards A. Like, here’s an A, but not really. But here it is anyway. DQC: That’s where I’m coming from. I’m trying to generally help the architecture program because we don’t have a lot of African-American students, so I don’t feel like I should be getting hit with that nonsense. I’m not trying to harp on “we’re
see African American page 6
TODAY
88 | 60