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Hundreds burn away their worries at Zozobra By Justine Lopez @justiney_lopez95 Thousands of people packed into Fort Marcy Park on Friday for Santa Fe’s annual burning of Zozobra. This 94-year-old tradition is a time for the people of Santa Fe to let go of their worries and anxieties by writing them down on pieces of paper that are then packed into the 50-foot-tall marionette to be set ablaze. “It’s like our new year,” said Kiwanis Club Press Liaison, Lisa Jaramillo. The Kiwanis Club of Santa Fe has organized this event since 1964. Jaramillo described other “glooms” people have stuffed inside the Zozobra ranging from wedding dresses of failed marriages to pathology reports from disease diagnoses. UNM graduate student and Zozobra attendee Tyler Shelton said his gloom revolved around school. He is currently in his final year out of seven that he has spent at the university. “I just want to let go of school,” Shelton said. Santa Fe native and UNM freshman transfer student Kai Morgan shared a different sentiment for her gloom. She expressed wanting to release negativity from her life in order to think more positively about
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The 50-foot-tall Zozobra marionette is suspended midday on the first day of Fiestas De Santa Fe on Monday, Aug. 31, 2018.
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Former-Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs Chaouki Abdallah transferred to Georgia Tech. Until the long search to fill the position is complete, an interim will have to fill the role. On Aug. 20, President of the University of New Mexico Garnett Stokes announced over email her decision to name Richard Wood as interim provost and executive vice president of academic affairs. “I am confident that he will capably manage Academic Affairs and will keep the academic mission moving forward,” Stokes wrote. Wood, a professor in sociology and director of the Southwest Institute of Religion, Culture and Society, began his term last week on Sept. 1, while a UNM search committee headed by Dr. Barbara McCrady looks for a permanent EVP of Academic Affairs. Wood said in a University wide email from the Office of the Provost on Aug. 30 that he is “confident in where we are as a university, our capacity to address the challenges and our energy to build on the opportunities in ways that move us forward.” Wood told the Daily Lobo he will be working with all colleagues and departments as chief of academic
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affairs. He said he will share the responsibility of “teaching, service, community engagement, international work and personnel.” He said there are different components to the University, but is enthusiastic to work in the clocklike structure that is UNM. “It’s a wonderful opportunity to serve our students and collaborate with faculty and staff to advance our academic mission,” Wood said. Wood said he is not a stranger to the EVP of Academic Affairs, but said what surprised him the most about the job is “the sheer pace and volume of the work,” and finds it challenging and exciting. Wood said he wants to advance “excellence and equity” throughout the campus in the coming
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years. He also said he hopes to achieve it through a two-hit combo: holding UNM staff and faculty members to professional standards and committing to forming the next generation of effective leaders from all backgrounds. “If we can do that, we will get better at drawing on all the talent and insight available as New Mexico and the country strive to address our many challenges and opportunities — that’s a win for everybody,” Wood said, adding that the University should focus on what best serves students. Wood said that within five years, he hopes UNM will have the “broadest and deepest profile
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Being accessible to the University of New Mexico has always been a goal for UNM’s Police Department, but now the department wants to take it one step further and connect with college students through social media. Last month UNMPD launched a new initiative and hashtag called #UNMStrongerTogether. This initiative also kicked off the department’s new Twitter and Instagram social media accounts. The hashtag aims to make UNMPD more accessible to the University community and increase awareness of the importance of community policing. “The more person-to-person interaction we get the better, because we know there are times when we’re so busy we can’t do those types of interactions and through social media we’ll be able to maintain that contact with our community,” said UNMPD Officer Patricia Young. Last semester, UNMPD visited select residence halls to talk with residence advisors and residents about what safety concerns residents had about living on campus. Young said
one of the things UNMPD took away from those visits was that students wanted more accessibility to the department on social media. “We have been getting the same message over and over, that we need to get on social media,” Young said. “If we want to communicate with the younger generation we have to be on social media.” UNMPD received help from University Communication and Marketing (UCAM) over the summer in setting up social media accounts and promoting the #UNMStrongerTogether initiative. UCAM also released a promotional and educational video that is part of the new initiative. In addition to that initiative, Officer Young created a Safety Topic of the Month Page (STOMP) for the UNMPD website — this month’s topic is theft prevention. “We came up with the slogan, ‘There’s only glass between us, for auto burglaries.’ In that message, people can remember that when they leave their car and look back and see something they left in their car that might be valuable to them,” Young said. “So we’re hoping to create some good habits in people by sharing these slogans and safety
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