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October 30, 2009
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Joey Trisolini / Daily Lobo Designer Gabriel Mendez works on his latest clothing creation. Mendez incorporates old-fashioned style with his personal taste. Check out his latest clothing pieces on the Multimedia page at DailyLobo.com to watch ‘Thread,’ the third episode in the ‘Shop talk’ series by Joey Trisolini.
Candy swap carnival to educate community by Kallie Red-Horse Daily Lobo
The American Medical Student Association is trading candy bars for fruits and veggies during their Healthy Halloween Carnival to benefit the Children’s Miracle Network. The carnival is taking place in the Honors Forum, on the ground level of the Student Health Center, on Friday and will include a silent auction, live music and painting and games for children. Also, health care professionals will attend the carnival to provide information for parents with pediatric health questions, said AMSA codirector Anna Vestling. “We wanted to create an event that would promote awareness of pediatric health,” she said. “We decided to take advantage of Halloween, which is an event in which health is typically overlooked.” Vestling said health education, started at a young age, establishes lifelong healthy habits that affect an individual’s health. “The two greatest contributing factors to illness are age, which you can’t do anything about, and diet, which you can,” she said. “The sooner you start making informed decisions about your life, the healthier you will be. We are trying to inform as many people as possible about this.” Caitlin Berger, AMSA’s Health Awareness and Education Action Committee co-chairwoman, said the carnival should also increase community support of the UNM
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Children’s Hospital. “UNM, as a campus, really needs to get involved in the surrounding community,” she said. “A good way to do that is by helping the children in the hospital see that even though they’re sick right now and can’t come out and celebrate, there are people that care about them. It helps them realize that they are not alone and that the community really does care about them.” Daniel Jaecks, development specialist for the Children’s Hospital, said he appreciates the volunteers’ time as well as the financial donations from events like the carnival. “The fact that the students are busy studying and working (and) they still take time to do something for someone else is fantastic,” Jaecks said. “I think it’s important, not only for the community but for the students who get involved to show that they care. If more people gave a little, it adds up to a lot and this is a great start.” Vestling said AMSA started planning the event in August, and it took them time to have pediatric health care professionals agree to participate. “We are going to be having ophthalmologists, dentists and all sorts of different professionals that focus on children’s health,” she said. “We are trying to reach out to adults to promote improvement for their children’s health and diet, especially for the holiday season. It’s an effort to promote a lot of health information for parents and
Healthy Halloween Carnival Saturday 5 p.m. – 8 p.m. Honors Forum ground level of the Student Health Center
students alike.” Vestling said AMSA is planning more events than in previous years because they want to increase the organization’s presence on campus and provide health information. “We now have four action committees headed by three chairs, with each action committee holding one event per semester, adding up to eight to 12 events every semester,” she said. “This week we have actually had three events, next week we have one, and two more over the course of the next semester.” Jaecks said the hospital benefits from the community interaction that comes from AMSA’s events. The community’s response to AMSA’s events show the need for it, too. “It’s always nice to know that the community is out there and they do care and they want the hospital to provide the best care, which we are able to do because of the funding that comes in,” he said. “Just because you are sick doesn’t mean you are done being a kid.”
Funds for another parking structure on campus may go toward projects at the UNM Health Sciences Center instead. At their meeting yesterday, the Board of Regents’ Finance and Facilities Committee decided to support $12 million in HSC projects instead of the proposed C Lot parking structure at Redondo Drive and Las Lomas Road. The parking structure under construction at Lomas and Yale boulevards won’t be affected. The Board of Regents will decide the final fate of the funds at their meeting Nov. 10. University spokeswoman Susan McKinsey said the UNM administration proposed the change in project funding because HSC projects will bring more money back to UNM than a parking structure. “There are a number of needs on campus and people say, ‘Well, why do they pick those projects and not something that could have been on main campus?’” McKinsey said. “Well, the issue is that these projects can earn
money and can pay off a debt service. That’s why they went with these.” Projects that might receive funding include the Dental Residency Clinic, Neurosurgery and Spine Center, regenerative medicine, the Domenici Center for Health Sciences Education and the Clinical and Translational Science Center. The $12 million needed to fund the projects will come out of UNM’s 2007 bond issue proceeds. HSC spokesman William Sparks said the HSC received $137.5 million in grant money last year. In a letter to the Finance and Facilities Committee, Andrew Cullen, associate vice president of Planning, Budget and Analysis, said building another parking structure would raise parking fees at a time when people might not be willing to pay them. “Given the prospect of flat salaries in the near future for faculty and staff, it is recommended that the University attempt to hold parking fees as flat as possible,” Cullen said in the letter. “The postponement of the construction of the C Lot parking structure will
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Zionists say protective state for Jews is essential by Andrew Beale Daily Lobo
Noel Pugach, professor of foreign relations and Jewish studies, gave an in-depth history of Zionism in the SUB on Thursday. About 15 students attended the event, which was sponsored by the UNM Israel Alliance. Zionism is the belief that a Jewish state, represented today by Israel, should exist to support the security of the Jewish people, Pugach said. Pugach said Zionism is based on thinking of Jews as a people rather than a religious group. “Jews are different than Christians or Muslims because not only are they a faith, but they are bound as a people, and they are tied emotionally and physically to a piece of land — the land of Israel,” he said. “Modern Zionism is largely a secular movement.” Pugach said anti-Semitism played an important role in uniting Jewish people around the idea of creating a Jewish state. “The anti-Semitic outburst in Germany and Central Europe in the late 19th century combined with the worsening persecution in Eastern Europe … led to the conclusion that Jews would be safe only when they had a state, only when they controlled their destiny,” he said.
The Holocaust cemented the idea that a Jewish state was necessary, Pugach said, and acted as a catalyst for the creation of Israel. “This movement to return to the land of Israel came before the Holocaust. What the Holocaust did was to confirm it,” he said. “Had there been a Jewish state in 1934 when Hitler came to power … then millions of Jews would have been saved.”
“I think Zionism in itself is a positive thing because it has given the Jewish people a homeland.” ~Student Natti Willcoxon Pugach said worldwide nationalist movements and the Enlightenment also played pivotal roles in creating the ideology of Zionism. Donald Gluck, president of the UNM Israel Alliance, said that as European nationalist movements developed, the Zionist movement grew. “It was a movement as the Italians
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