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October 4, 2012
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“NO SOMOS CRIMINALES”
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a maximum rise of 1 inch. In March 2012, the act mandated that ramps built prior to 2010 should have a Although the University will maximum steepness ratio of 1:8. “The ramp is too steep by code improve accessibility for disabled students, some feel that the standards,” Connors said. “I need University’s response to necessary help to go up it, and I’m a pretty campus improvements has not strong person. If you have (cerebral palsy) or (multiple sclerosis), that happened quickly enough. University Planning Officer Mary particular ramp is not really conduKenney said the Facility Access Com- cive. We pay to be here. If we can’t get mittee will install automatic doors in to class, then what’s the point?” Connors said she has concerns academic buildings around campus within the next month. She said the about the S-shaped ramp near the project cost $75,000 and was funded Cornell Mall, which attracts a number of cyclists and skateboarders, esby the University’s Budget Office. Kenney said the FAC voted in pecially during afternoons. She said November 2011 to address as many she blames the University and secudoors that need automatic door rity officers for not monitoring the openers as was financially pos- ramps keenly. “They don’t enforce the ‘no bikes, sible. She said that so far, about 25 buildings, such as the Anthropology no skateboards’ rule. There are some Building and Mesa Vista Hall, have times when I think a bicycle is going to come down been identified to that ramp and flip be replaced with auover me,” she said. tomatic doors and “It seems like they appropriate signage. don’t really care. I Kenney said that think they still think until 2008, UNM of us as outsiders, received general and we don’t need obligations bonds help and accomamounting bemodations, but we tween $350,000 and ~Mary Connors do.” $600,000 from the UNM student Kenney, who state’s Higher Edudid not confirm cation Department every other year. But she said that in whether the ramp is up to ADA stan2009, funding stopped and the FAC dards, said that the FAC has received multiple complaints about the ramp budget was limited to only $75,000. Kenney said the project is proof and plans to address students’ issues that UNM is concerned with accom- with the S-ramp as soon as possible, although it will take longer to repair modating students with disabilities. “UNM is constantly engaged in a the ramp permanently. She said the proactive evaluation of our facilities, ramp doesn’t work efficiently for our financial resources and our im- anyone who uses it and that a perplementation process to ensure full manent solution would require sigaccessibility on all UNM campuses,” nificant redesign, which would be complex, long-term and expensive. she said. Kenney said that within the next But UNM student Mary Connors, who uses a wheelchair, said the 10 years, the FAC plans to improve University’s efforts to improve the pathway from Roma Way to the campus accessibility are still not Cornell Mall by removing the Educasufficient. Connors said that although tion Classrooms building. She said the buildings are accessible enough, removing the building is the only students with disabilities often find way to alter the sloped terrain of the area that makes the ramps so steep. problems with ramps. Kenney said the FAC will ad“There’s a ramp across from the SUB by the Education Building, and dress other accessibility issues, such it has this really ridiculously high as clearer signage and the lack of wall,” she said. “It clearly says no handicapped bathrooms and elevabikes and no skateboards, but (peo- tor panels, in the future. But she said ple) just don’t care. You can’t see budget constraints greatly affect the anybody around the corner, and one FAC plans for remodeling and that the committee can only resolve probtime I’ve almost gotten hit.” Connors said the ramp does not lems that have available funding. “There is a significant need for adhere to building codes because some ramps are steeper than what is adequate funding to address accesallowed by the Americans with Dis- sibility issues throughout campus,” abilities Act, a law that prohibits dis- she said. “But the budget office is crimination against people who have generously funding another $75,000 disabilities. She said that because the for this year, and strongly recomramps are hard to climb, it’s difficult mended that the FAC prepare a capfor her to get to various parts of cam- ital outlay request for the next GO pus and arrive at her classes on time. Bond cycle in 2014.” Connors said she hopes the UniAccording to the 2010 Americans with Disabilities Act Standards for versity will listen to students with Accessible Design, ramps built after disabilities and fix the ramps as soon 2010 should have a maximum steep- as possible. She said the University ness ratio of 1:12, which means that see Accessibilty PAGE 5 every 12 inches of a ramp can have
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Juan Labreche / Daily Lobo Junior education major Eunice Tagle sits in promotion of the DREAM Act with a group of about 15 students, many of Mexican descent, at Cornell Drive and Central Avenue on Wednesday. The group could be heard chanting “no somos criminales, ni tampoco ilegales,” and wore bandanas over their faces as a “silent statement.” Other supporters said,“La migra, la policía, la misma porqueria,” which was described by one supporter as a statement to represent the fear that immigrant families face because they are, “scared to call the police because they perform the same job as immigration.”
Frontier study policy ‘hit or miss’ by Nicole Storey
news@dailylobo.com Although new signs displayed at the Frontier Restaurant in September prohibit study groups, the policy has been in effect for the past 30 years. Larry Rainosek and his wife Dorothy Rainosek opened Frontier in 1971 and have lightly enforced the no-study-groups rule ever since. Larry Rainosek said that for the past 30 years, the restaurant has maintained policies about study groups during peak business hours, which are between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. But he said that the policies aren’t strictly enforced and that new signage is displayed when the old signs fall down. “It’s kind of a hit or miss. We have put up the signs and then they might come down just because they get worn down and then we put them up fresh again,” he said. “It’s just a reminder … we don’t have to use it often, but every so often we have to do it, so when we ask someone to take their group somewhere else we have something to refer to.”
Larry Rainosek said that he and his wife have been lax about the policy and that restaurant managers are not overly vigilant about enforcing the rule. He said it’s often difficult to confront study groups because some people who study at the restaurant are also customers. “Obviously we always want to keep as many people happy as we can,” he said. “So that gets to be a little bit sensitive that you have to identify just how long they’ve been here and, if somebody’s walked up and they’re studying and they’re eating, obviously that’s not considered a study group.” Frontier cashier Megan Horowitse said she hasn’t noticed that the policy has ever upset anyone but the policy is relevant to customers. “I didn’t realize the sign bugged people,” she said. “If I was asked to leave I would be like, ‘What’s the difference between being here alone or with my family?’ I would just casually come in with my group, but I’m the kind of person who thinks I can get away with anything.” Larry Rainosek said that students greatly impact his business. He attributes his success to the fact that his
business has been a part of the Albuquerque community for so long and has become a place that people want to return to. “We are surprisingly well balanced. During the Christmas holidays, a lot of these people that have been coming to Frontier and have relocated, they come back to see family, they come back to the University and we stay very busy during the holidays,” he said. “During the summer, we don’t drop near as much as you would expect.” Larry Rainosek said students and other groups are respectful of the rule and that although the policy is in place, it is usually enforced on a case-by-case basis. He said that the policy is only necessary if the restaurant is too full. “If it happens to be a weekend that’s not really busy and someone is studying, a lot of times students will have their computers set up,” he said. “But when we start running out of seats is when we will come out and ask the people to take their studying to the library or wherever, and we have almost 100 percent cooperation.”
Quotes from the first debate The Associated Press President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney sparred aggressively over taxes, deficits and health care Wednesday night in their first debate of the presidential campaign. A look at what they said:
Taxes Obama: “Gov. Romney and I
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do share a deep interest in encouraging small-business growth. So at the same time that my tax plan has already lowered taxes for 98 percent of families, I also lowered taxes for small businesses 18 times. And what I want to do is continue the tax rates, the tax cuts that we put into place for small businesses and families. But I have said that for incomes over $250,000 a year,
that we should go back to the rates that we had when Bill Clinton was president, when we created 23 million new jobs, went from deficit to surplus, and created a whole lot of millionaires to boot.” Romney: “I want to bring the rates down, at the same time lower deductions and exemptions and
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