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October 4, 2011
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Japanese-American Goat head found on FIJI stoop literature displaced by Charlie Shipley
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news@dailylobo.com When Jennifer Yazawa, a board member of the New Mexico Japanese American Citizens League, went to what was once UNM College of Education’s Tireman Library two weeks ago, she said she was surprised to find that the library no longer existed and the NM-JACL’s materials housed there were gone. In a letter to Richard Howell, dean of the College of Education, Yazawa said the NM-JACL began developing its collection of educational materials pertaining to civil and human rights for Asian-Americans in 1985. The league has invested hundreds of dollars to build the resource library over the years, she said. “I was aghast when I discovered the space that Tireman Library once occupied was completely empty and unused,” Yazawa said. Yazawa said teachers at both UNM and Albuquerque Public Schools, as well as NM-JACL’s members used the collections of books. “Chapter members have used the materials for their reading, viewing, and listening pleasure as well as for the presentations they are frequently asked to make,” she said. “The key to the materials being useful was public access, and Tireman provided that.” The College of Education closed Tireman Library on July 30, 2010, with the intent of “repurposing
some space,” Zimmerman Library spokeswoman Nancy Dennis said. Howell was not available for comment, and the college’s academic operations officer, Diane Gwinn, referred the Daily Lobo to a FAQ page on Zimmerman’s website. The FAQ page said some materials from Tireman were moved to Zimmerman, including children’s and young adults’ literature collections and Native American literature collections. Other materials stayed in the College of Education. “The long-term goal is to consolidate all of the children’s- and young adult-level materials currently spread among four libraries into a single collection in a dedicated space,” the website said. “Plans are to provide comfortable study space near the collection.” Yazawa said no one informed the NM-JACL that Tireman would be closing or that their collections would be moved. She said nobody at the College of Education could tell her where the collection went. “I was told that some was given away, some was trashed and some were saved, possibly at Zimmerman Library,” she said. Dennis said she doesn’t know what happened to some of collections, including the NM-JACL’s collection. “I’m not real sure what they did with some of them,” she said. “It’s not a collection I’m familiar with, but if it was part of the children’s literature collection it would have come over.”
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Juan Labreche / Daily Lobo A severed goat head was left on the front porch of Phi Gamma Delta, otherwise known as FIJI house. All that remains is the faded bloodstain shown here. Fraternity president Javier Manriquez said he doesn’t have any idea who might be angry with the fraternity.
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Isabel Hees / Daily Lobo Domino Martinez, Sol Acuña and Bianca Rodriguez (left to right) dance in the show FLAMENC@s in Santa Fe on Friday night. The show was created by Antonio Granjero and EntreFlamenco Company.
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Phi Gamma Delta’s porch is still stained with goat blood. A severed goat’s head was left on the front porch of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house last Wednesday, according to a police report. The report said a note was accompanying the head, and read, “Done,” with a small heart drawn over the “o.” Javier Manriquez-Ortiz, the fraternity’s president, said he has been a member of the fraternity, known as “FIJI,” for three-and-a-half years, and to his knowledge an incident such as this hasn’t occurred before. “This was an isolated event,” Manriquez-Ortiz said. “I don’t have any ideas on who might have done this.” Manriquez-Ortiz said Greek Life coordinators advised the fraternity to file a police report. “As far as I’m concerned, the police are investigating,” he said. Greek Life adviser Jon Gayer said fraternity pranks are common, but he has never seen anything this extreme. “With the animal head, this is like a scene out of ‘The Godfather,’” Gayer said. “We don’t even know if it was another fraternity that did it. The animal doesn’t match the mascot of any organizations.” Gayer said standard operating procedures exist when it comes to dealing with frat life incidents, but pranks aren’t normally so serious. “Every now and then, there’s (toilet papering) of a house,” he said. “They’ll borrow something that belongs to the organization and bring it back a year later.”
The Gateway program helps incoming freshman who don’t quite meet minimum college requirements to prepare for UNM’s classes. Gateway allows UNM to partner with Central New Mexico Community College, Santa Fe Community College, NM Junior College, San Juan College and all of the UNM branch campuses, where students in the program can take classes. Students who complete 24 hours in the program at any of the available campuses are guaranteed admission to UNM. Terry Babbitt, vice president for general admission at UNM, said the program is used to encourage students who don’t initially meet admission requirements. “Instead of rejecting students who apply for admission and don’t meet the requirements, we can accept them into the Gateway program,” he said. Though they are not officially UNM students, gateway participants have access to UNM’s advisement center, Johnson Center, UNM libraries and can live
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on campus if dorms are available after UNM students have had the first pick. CNM President Kathie Winograd said the Gateway program signals a collaboration between New Mexico’s flagship research university and community colleges in the state.
“This is an important and groundbreaking agreement between a university and a community college. This agreement is focused directly on student success.” ~KathieWinograd CNM president “It’s about students and improving the likelihood of their success by providing better educational opportunities with fewer barriers,” she said.
UNM President David Schmidly agreed. “Our bottom line is student success,” he said in 2007 after approving the program. “Working with CNM, we can provide for the varied needs of New Mexico students while keeping focused on the ultimate goal of seeing (that) they earn a degree.” This year the UNM Gateway program has 229 students, up 123 from last year. According to the UNM-CNM Gateway Program Agreement, students eligible for the program must agree to meet with their advisers at least once per semester, maintain continuous full-time enrollment during fall and spring semesters, maintain at least a 2.0 GPA, complete at least 24 credit hours of specified coursework in a general studies degree program and limit participation in the program to no more than two academic years. “For the state of New Mexico, this is an important and groundbreaking agreement between a university and a community college,” Winograd said. “This agreement is focused directly on student success, and it will help move higher education in New Mexico in a more progressive and effective direction.”
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