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November 4, 2010
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Start exploring career options at today’s career fair hosted by the UNM Office of Career Services. Jenna Crabb, Career Services director, said fewer r cruiters will attend this year’s fair, because employers must now pay registration fees. During the past four years, the United States Office of Personnel Management covered costs, she said. Crabb couldn’t say how many fewer recruiters will be at this year’s fair, but that shouldn’t discourage students from attending the Public Service Career Showcase. “We have some great companies that are coming,” she said. “There are great opportunities that exist within these sectors for students.” Thirty-one employers will be on hand, including representatives from Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, Drug Enforcement Agency, the National Security Administration, the American Red Cross and many others. To help students prepare for the career fair, the UNM Office of Career Services hosted workshops designed to improve students’ resumes and interviewing skills. Crabb said many of the companies attending today’s fair will conduct interviews Friday at the Career Services offices in the Student Services Center. “What’s neat about that is that the students know where career services are, and they are used to coming here, so it is familiar and comfortable,” she said. “Obviously, they will do better in their interview. It’s their turf.” Student Andrew Walker said he plans to visit career services, but he has not given the fair much thought. “I’ve been trying to get with career services and everything, but just haven’t made the time to do it yet,” he said. Crabb said the fair is an opportunity for underclassmen to learn about federal government summer internships. “Start looking into these companies, and see what opportunities are available,” she said. “Ask them, ‘What majors are they looking for? What does it take to become asset for their operation?’” Albuquerque resident Stephen Tomasella said hehas watched and read about gainful private-sector employment opportunities decreasing the past 20 years. “My sister worked for the feds and retired at 45 years old,” he said. “If there is reincarnation and I get to come back and choose my career, I am going to follow in my sister’s footsteps and work for the feds and retire at 45 years old.”
A rumor that has plagued Coronado Hall for years is just that — a rumor, according to UNM officials. Coronado Hall residents claim that the dorm used to be a hospital, but a look through the Southwest Center for Research’s UNM archives proves the claim is false. “I’ve heard that it was a hospital, and to me it seems like a hospital because of its location and the room layout,” student Derric Romero said. “That’s kind of scary because people die in hospitals, and the dead tend to stick around, if you know what I mean.” The story has existed for years, and student Patrick Arite said he heard the tale from his dad’s friends who are UNM alumni. Even a YouTube video tour of the dorm garnered comments about its speculated morbid past. “It was a hospital before it became a residence hall,” one comment says. Another says, “I’m assigned this dorm for the fall semester, and I have to say ... This is the creepiest looking dorm ... It looks like a crazy hospital.” Terry Gugliotta, an archivist for the Center for Southwest Research, said she doesn’t know how the rumor got started, but she doesn’t want it perpetuated. “I was alarmed to hear the infirmary story attributed to Coronado because it isn’t correct,” she said. “Once something (like that) is written, researchers in five, 10, 20 years will pick it up and write it as fact and forever change our history.” A book by Van Dorn Hooker, Only In New Mexico: An Architectural History of the University of New Mexico, chronicles Coronado Hall’s early planning and construction. It was originally a men’s dormitory. “In September 1955, UNM President Popejoy said within three to five years there would be a new 400man dorm ...,” Hooker writes. University architects began plans for the dorm right away, and by 1957, they were ready to begin building. “Robert E. Merrel and Warren F. Pendleton, representing the architectural firm of Shaefer, Merrel and Associates from Clovis, presented preliminary plans for the proposed men’s dormitory to the Board of Regents Feb. 1, 1957. There would be 379 beds in mostly double rooms,” Hooker writes. An Albuquerque Journal article, “New Dorm Plans OK’d by Regents,” published Jan. 25, 1958, said the Board of Regents approved President Popejoy’s building plans and construction on the
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The snapshots on the left of Coronado Hall were taken in 1959. The building originally served as a men’s dormitory in 1957 and housed 379 students. Coronado Hall is now a co-ed dormitory housing 432 students. dorm would soon begin. Two years later, in 1959, Coronado dorm was completed for a little more than $1 million. Men occupied the dorm until the late 1970s, Gugliotta said, which is when it became a co-ed dorm. Today, Coronado Hall is “a co-ed hall with 432 students, known for its active community association that organizes many fun events throughout the year,” according the UNM housing website.
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The dorm was also known for its alleged creepy past, though it was built with the intent to house students. Though the story persists, student Kenndra Gatzke said she didn’t believe the rumor. “You know, you hear a lot of things,” she said. “I’d heard the hospital story around, but I also heard that Alvarado dorm was built on a graveyard. You just never know.”
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