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The Graduate and Professional Students Association will meet next week to discuss a no-confidence vote in Vice President of Athletics Paul Krebs. All graduate students are invited to attend the meeting in the SUB on Monday. On top of sending a message to the athletics administration, GPSA Council Chair Danny Hernandez said a noconfidence vote could influence the Student Fee Review Board to stop giving a portion of student fees to the athletics program. “I want to continue to send out a message that we have a serious problem here at UNM,” Hernandez said. “The problem has started with Schmidly and Krebs. These are our tax dollars and student dollars that are being spent on incompetence.” According to Debbie Morris, director of the Student Activities Center, the Student Fee Review Board allocates about $1.5 million to the Athletics Department — 16.5 percent of their $9.2 million budget. In a statement to the Daily Lobo, Krebs did not directly address the possibility of a no-confidence vote. “I stand behind the body of work and the accomplishments of the Athletics Department over the past three-plus years,” he said. In a press release, GPSA President Lissa Knudsen said recent acts of violence by people in the Athletics Department are indicative of deeper problems. Knudsen cited two
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Art students upset over studio hours by Tricia Remark Daily Lobo
Fine arts students say they aren’t getting enough studio hours to finish assignments now that security is closing the Art Building at 11 p.m. The building is officially open from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. every day, but student Katie Carillo said the Art Building hours weren’t enforced until last week, and she used to work on projects after closing. Carillo said she was working late with other students in a studio last Monday when a security guard told them they needed to leave. “We were kind of confused because there were a few of my other classmates in there, too, and we’ve worked after midnight quite a few times in the Art Building,” Carillo said. “We asked how long that rule has been in place. He said since the beginning of the year, but they’ve never told us that before.”
David Craven, chairman of the Art and Art History Department, said the hours haven’t changed in the 16 years he’s been at UNM, and the hours are being enforced because of safety complaints to security guards. Craven said the Art Building closes at night because of student safety and expense. As chairman of the department, Craven has the authority to decide how late the building is open. “We really are not going to change the hours,” he said. “We’ve done a study of it, and it’s not financially feasible at the moment. We’re also worried about the safety with homeless people coming in here, some of which are violent.” Carillo said students need later hours in the Art Building because it provides them with art materials they can’t access at home. She said tools for design classes and large spaces to paint aren’t readily available, especially in dorms. “I think a lot of people are upset
about it because they don’t really have the resources to do projects outside of campus,” she said. “You need the right ventilation and space to work in.” Craven said the Art Building’s official hours should give students enough time in the studio. “If people are organized, they should be able to do work between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m.,” he said. “We have to organize our time. It’s just one of those things.” However, graduate students in fine arts can access the Art Building after hours because they have keys to the building, Craven said. “Graduate students who are grading people, there are times when you have to come in and get your grade book. That’s different,” he said. By contrast, all architecture students have access to studios in the Architecture and Planning Building 24 hours a day, seven days a week, said Roger Schluntz, Architecture and Planning dean.
Junfu Han/ Daily Lobo Student Mario Villagomez works on his drawing project in the Art Building on Monday. The Art Building studios are open from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. every day, but security only began enforcing the closing policy a week ago. Some art students say the building should stay open so they can work later. The Art Building uses about $4.85 per square foot of energy per year compared to the Architecture Building, which uses $1.17, according to the UNM Physical Plant.
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Army mom without child care arrested after refusing deployment by Russ Bynum
The Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. — An Army cook and single mom may face criminal charges after she skipped her deployment flight to Afghanistan because, she said, no one was available to care for her infant son while she was overseas. Spc. Alexis Hutchinson, 21,
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claims she had no choice but to refuse deployment orders because the only family she had to care for her 10-month-old son — her mother — was overwhelmed by the task, already caring for three other relatives with health problems. Her civilian attorney, Rai Sue Sussman, said Monday that one of Hutchinson’s superiors told her
she would have to deploy anyway and place the child in foster care. “For her it was like, ‘I couldn’t abandon my child,’” Sussman said. “She was really afraid of what would happen, that if she showed up they would send her to Afghanistan anyway and put her son with child protective services.” Hutchinson, who is from Oakland, Calif., remained confined
Monday to the boundaries of Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, 10 days after military police arrested her for skipping her unit’s flight. No charges have been filed, but a spokesman for the Army post said commanders were investigating. Kevin Larson, a spokesman for Hunter Army Airfield, said he didn’t know what Hutchinson was
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told by her commanders, but he said the Army would not deploy a single parent who had nobody to care for his or her child. “I don’t know what transpired and the investigation will get to the bottom of it,” Larson said. “If she would have come to the deployment terminal with her child, there’s no question she would not have been deployed.”
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GPSA from page 1 incidents: head football coach Mike Locksley’s physical altercation with assistant coach J.B. Gerald and women’s soccer player Elizabeth Lambert’s punching and hair pulling in a game against BYU earlier this month. “The recent cover-up of the Locksley-Gerald incident coupled with the egregious lack of sportsmanship displayed by Lambert exemplifies a lack of leadership within the UNM Athletics Department,” Knudsen said. “An effective leader is transparent with information and thoughtful in their actions to protect the institution and the people in that institution. It’s time for the students to weigh in on this.” Knudsen said student fees should be diverted from athletics and all Athletics Department search committees should have a GPSA-appointed voting member. The GPSA passed a resolution in early October urging the University not to fire Locksley after the Sept. 20 altercation, which occurred during a coaches’ meeting. The resolution said Locksley should get a second chance and go to anger management. Hernandez said the subsequent
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Art from page 1 at the doors. Craven said an ID swiping system could be used for the Art Building, but authorization would probably only be granted to graduate students. Schluntz said the cost of keeping the Architecture building open all night doesn’t come from student fees. He said the University pays for it. He said students haven’t had safety issues when coming and going from the building late at night and escort services are available for students who feel uncomfortable. Architecture student Chad GriffinLucero said he spends the majority of his time in the Architecture Building studio, especially after 11 p.m. “Eleven is around the time that you’re working the most,” he said. “With the building being open 24 hours for us, it’s definitely an attribute that we love. You can come in any time in the evening or early in the morning.”
Griffin-Lucero said he’s not unsafe when leaving the building late at night. He said he uses the architectures studios at least 72 hours per week. “We usually try to leave in groups and it’s pretty well lit,” he said. “It’s not too bad being near Central Avenue because people are more than happy to walk you out if you’re too afraid to do it on your own. I’ve never felt uncomfortable at night.” Art Studio major Lily Robles said the Art Building studio should be open later than 11 p.m. She said working late hours at the studio doesn’t make her nervous because students usually travel in groups. “If the studio closes at 11 p.m., there are classes there until around 8:30 or 9 at night, so that only gives the rest of us open studio for two hours, and then we have to go,” she said. “We always come in little groups, so if we are walking places and it’s late, we have each other to walk with.”
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Letters Abortion kills, ends destinies of people who could change world Editor, Do you believe in destiny? Do you believe in fate? Everyone has heard, “He was destined to be a (blank). It was his fate.” Is what you are studying today leading to your destiny? When a young boy or girl dies, their parents say, “He/ she wanted to be a (blank). That’s all he/she thought about.” That child had a destiny but, unfortunately for the world, their life was cut short. The suspense is never over as we’ll always wonder who they were to become. Does a fetus or “it” have a destiny? Maybe “it” is, or was, to be the first woman president, the first person on Mars, the inventor of the cure for breast cancer or AIDS, or another Elvis. How do we know that someone somewhere didn’t just abort an Einstein, a Rembrandt or a Plato? Some people say President Barack Obama is living his destiny. Luckily his mother didn’t abort him, right? But what if the real “first black president” was aborted years ago? Is the only reason “it” is conceived and then aborted so there could be a pro/anti debate? No matter what side of the abortion issue you are on, don’t you ever wonder who “it” was or is? Steve Chavez UNM alumnus
Lobo’s reporting on risque ads at odds with the ads it runs Editor, I cannot believe the overt hypocrisy that lies within the pages of the Daily Lobo. While a valid news source is fact driven, the Daily Lobo shames itself with articles that often have a skewed point of view. Take Lobo Louie’s tryst with the Route 66 Casino Hotel girl for instance. Some journalists that reported on this event showed an obvious disdain toward the whole idea of feminine promiscuity in advertisements. However, the blatant two-facedness surfaces when such articles are published right next to a large ad that stars a scantily clad bottle blonde who appears to be ready to jump into bed with the first thing with a penis. Either lose the trashy ads, or cut the feature articles that suggest that women are more than sex toys. You can’t have both. Kathleen Martin UNM student
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Letters Faculty wait with bated breath for Schmidly to follow through Editor, The title of surrealist sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick’s novel, Now Wait For Last Year, may adequately express the anxieties and disquiet of the arts and sciences faculty following their recent meeting with UNM President David Schmidly and the other members of Schmidly’s “executive cabinet.” Imagine our surprise as we listened to President Schmidly appear to cave on almost all of the demands the faculty have been making these past two years. President Schmidly could not say enough about his desire to hire more faculty — as many as possible, he noted, what with the astonishing increase in enrollment. He admitted the regents’ “harvest” of A&S funds, which had occurred more than once (and this is always important to remember) well before the economic crisis, had not been a good idea at all. He told us that he was in favor of letting
Amateur graffitists at UNM only playing a pathetic part Editor, This is an open letter to UNM’s amateur graffitists. We have all seen your recent work on the pavements and walls around campus, the anarchy symbols coupled with what I’m sure you think is witty profanity-laden discourse on religion and politics. Well, I have a message for all of you: You are not Che Guevara. You are not Banksy nor Karl Marx nor Kurt Vonnegut. You are not
U.S. empire building neglects needs of Americans at home Editor, Billions and billions of dollars of taxpayer money are being used overseas every day. Empire building is not something that can be
A&S benefit from the money generated by our summer school, and he used the “e” word (“entrepreneurialism”) repeatedly to encourage the idea that he was ready to reward anything we did to teach, research and serve the University. Only last spring this was the very same faculty at the forefront of the resoundingly massive no-confidence votes directed at former Regents President Jamie Koch, University Chief Financial Officer David Harris, and Schmidly himself. Truly things must be ugly elsewhere in the Schmidly-verse for him to seem to love us A&S faculty so much. After all, we don’t punch people, we are amazingly productive and successful with few (indeed ever-shrinking) resources, and whatever we have done to embarrass him has never even come close to hitting the national media. In the days that have followed, faculty remember that it is very easy to make promises when the money is very far from being there to comply with them. While Jamie Koch is no longer president of the Board of Regents, he is still on the board, and still making fatuous statements (about co-governance most recently)
and ready to tell whatever lies about the faculty he can get published. We still don’t know enough about how Schmidly’s administration diverted University resources away from its teaching and research mission toward the current bloated bureaucracy. That bureaucracy has not been dismantled by the current economic crisis. Meanwhile, A&S departments continue to lose faculty without replacements and whole programs deteriorate beyond repair. The students need to know the promises Schmidly made to the A&S faculty: They are above all about the shape of their educational future here at UNM. When and if there are resources available to this University, we will all remember the promises and look for results. We must be vigilant about what occurs — next year or the year after or the year after that — and whether it isn’t just like what we’ve witnessed so far. Otherwise, we will all be waiting for last year.
having an impact on anyone or saying anything meaningful whatsoever. You are not a radical fringe, or a warrior for the counter-culture. Instead, you are a woefully natural part of our culture: the lazy, unqualified critic. Frankly, what you are is counter-productive to your own vague cause — irritating and feebleminded. It’s not your message or your ideology that is the problem. You think marijuana should be legalized? That’s a reasonable claim. You think Christianity is having a negative cultural impact? Many people would argue with you, but it’s a valid opinion, and one you are entitled to. However, when you think you are fighting tyranny or accomplishing anything
positive at all by scrawling obscenities on school buildings, then there is a problem. This graffiti is not a statement; you are just acting like a stoned seventh grader. If you want to make a difference, you should do something or say something, anything at all. You think you’re an anarchist? That’s great, but you’re behaving like a spiteful child. You think you’re an activist? Well, to be an activist you have to actually do something, and you’re not. You’re acting, playing a part — and it is a pretty pathetic one.
done on the cheap. This is unfortunate, because we the people are left to foot the bill. And whenever the news mentions that the national deficit is increasing, we the people are passing on the bill to future generations. Yet, poverty and unemployment are both on the rise in the U.S. Citizens of the greatest superpower in the world cannot find work. Citizens of the greatest superpower in the world
cannot pay their medical bills. Citizens of the greatest superpower in the world cannot afford a college education. Where did we the people go wrong? As a friend of mine put it, “You can’t go and feed your neighbor if your children are starving.”
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Romero sat down to talk with the Daily Lobo about the importance of his time overseas, why he loves fiction and the necessity of Red Bulls and cigars while writing. Daily Lobo: You’re a little bit older for a college student. What’s it like being in a class filled with younger students? John Romero: I think it’s great. Being older, it just gives you a different perspective on things. You have
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There’s an animal-friendly way to get rid of the fur coat your grandmother gave you: donate it to Coats for Cubs. Coats for Cubs is an annual program started by the Humane Society of the United States in 1995. In 2006, it extended its partnership to the 36 Buffalo Exchange stores around the country. According to the Coats for Cubs Web site, the fur is cut into pieces to act as a surrogate mother to help calm orphaned and abandoned animals. Senior Eliana Enriquez said the program is a great solution for conscientious consumers who see that fur in fashion is cruel. “I definitely don’t contribute to fur wearing,” she said. “So I think you can take a bad thing and make something positive out of it, and that’s pretty awesome.” Freshman Amanda Johnson said she doesn’t wear fur because humans don’t need it as much as animals do.
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“Fur is a luxury I don’t think I’ll ever get into,” she said. “Animals were born with that fur, and now they need that fur more than I need that fur. I think it’s a good thing to give it back to those who were born with it.” Jessica Leising, an employee at the Buffalo Exchange in Albuquerque, said people should tell the store’s staff when they come in that they want to donate their fur clothing to Coats for Cubs. Donations can also be mailed directly to the Humane Society in Washington, D.C. “We normally get a lot of coats that are in bad condition that aren’t really re-sellable for us,” Leising said. “We’ll donate them, and then little animals get to play with them. People are really excited to have something to do with their fur coats.” Sophomore Ryan Sciarrotta said donating fur coats is a better alternative than selling them back into the market. “I think that’s a great program,” he said. “Instead of giving it to Savers or something it goes back to
the animals.” Amanda Balamenti, an administrative assistant at Buffalo Exchange, said the program began Nov. 15 and is scheduled to end on Earth Day, April 22. “They’ve had a lot of luck with it and it’s really grown a lot,” Balamenti said. “We have had about 3,800 (coats) since 2006, so we’ve had a pretty good result so far.” Balamenti said Denver collected the most coats last year with 73 donations.
DL: How does that add to your writing? JR: It keeps me free. That’s the place that I release my stress so I can focus on my writing. It helps me maintain a well-balanced life. DL: Do you draw most of your inspiration from your time overseas? JR: Well not all of it, but that’s just such a big experience in my life, that’s what is coming out. DL: Besides the themes, how else has being overseas affected your style of writing? JR: It has definitely increased my awareness of setting and character. Meeting all these various people has taken my writing to a whole new level. It has allowed me to see deeper than just the visual points. I look deeper. It helps my writing in that aspect. Also, the setting, being in these different places and seeing the various different types and ways people live. It can be something as simple as seeing the sand in Iraq versus the sand here, and trying to describe the differences. DL: What’s it like winning a prestigious award? JR: It’s recognition. People see what you have done, and see the authenticity behind your work, and they acknowledge that. It’s a great thing to see that. That inspires you even more to write more. I found myself the next night at my computer writing. When they honor you like that, it shows you what you are doing is real, and people see and read it and you have an influence in some way. It inspires you to want to influence through your writing. DL: So how much do you write then in the average day? JR: I say I write 16 hours every two weeks. DL: And what’s the process like? JR: I am locked down in my house. The girlfriend gets kicked out. I get a 12-pack of Red Bull and a box of cigars, and I write. And that’s my environment, that’s where I feel
comfortable writing. Break time goes from Red Bull to bathroom to smoke a cigar and then back to writing. Me, I flow, I can go. So my writing is in five-, six-, seven- and eighthour spurts that I’ll write nonstop. DL: Is that exhausting?™ JR: It’s not. It’s two days every two weeks. I don’t feel myself feeling burned out at all. DL: So which days do you write? JR: It’s just a spur of the moment thing. No one will be home and I’ll be watching SportsCenter or Discovery Channel, and then all of sudden something will just click. I’ll sit down just writing an essay, and it turns into my creative writing. That gets pushed aside and I start writing. DL: So does the writing process stop when you’re away from home? JR: Throughout the day I will get thoughts and just jot them down. That way when I get back and actually sit at my desktop I can always look back and say ‘OK that was a great idea. Let’s go from there.’ DL: Have you experimented with other genres of creative writing, such as nonfiction or poetry? JR: A lot of the stories that I write are nonfiction tales. They are actual events of what went down, whether it was when in Iraq or when I was a kid. I dabble in that. I have also messed around with some poetry, and I mess around with playwriting. I like that stuff. DL: So why fiction? JR: A story can be huge, and depending on how well you can tell this story depends on the impact that it’ll have. And although it’s not true, it inspires imagination. It inspires creativity. Nonfiction, that’s the story and that’s it. It doesn’t let you elaborate on any of it. That’s what it was. With fiction, it’s not. You can go and blow things up. The things you could only imagine.
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your life? JR: It’s tough some days. Some days you will write for eight hours on casualties and war and for two weeks you won’t stop thinking about it. It stays lingering on your mind. It’s tough sometimes. Sometimes it’s easy. You can talk about, you know, these people got killed, or you had to do this, or you had to kill these people, and it doesn’t bother you, but sometimes it does. And sometimes you have to spend just two weeks relaxing, put the book aside. It’s just balance I guess, balancing your work versus the rest of your life. DL: Outside of your writer life, what else do you do? JR: I spend a lot of time in the mountains. I am an avid fisherman (and) hunter, and I just love being in the mountains.
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