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tuesday October 22, 2013

Charter proposed for Green Fund

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Fund would be governed by 6 students, 2 faculty by Benjamin Covey news@dailylobo.com @BC_runner

Aaron Sweet / Daily Lobo A replica of Walter White’s meth-lab RV participates in the procession during the Walter White Funeral at Albuquerque’s Sunset Memorial Park cemetery on Saturday. More than 200 fans participated in giving “Breaking Bad’s” fictional character a final sendoff. See full story Page 8.

The Associated Students of the University New Mexico moves one step closer to establishing a fund to fuel sustainability initiatives on campus. In a meeting held Friday, representatives from ASUNM, UNM’s Office of Sustainability, Lobo Energy, Residence Life and Student Housing, and the Sustainability Studies Program discussed the proposed establishment of a Green Fund at UNM. ASUNM Sen. Earl Shank, who is also the sustainability coordinator for the Office of Sustainability, said the key to the success of a

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UNM, NMSU win grant for bilingual program NM in ‘desperate’ need of bilingual speech-language pathologists by Chloe Henson

news@dailylobo.com @ChloeHenson5 New Mexico’s two biggest universities are teaming up to develop a unique program for bilingual students. Barbara Rodriguez, a UNM chairperson for the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, and Deborah Rhein, an associate professor for Communication Disorders Program at New Mexico State University, will share a $1.25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to establish a bilingual speech-language pathology program. The universities received the grant in August, Rodriguez said. The grant program would provide specialized speech-language pathology training to bilingual students, Rodriguez said. In order for students to participate in this program, they would need to take the graduate program in speech-language pathology with additional coursework requirements. “They will need to take three additional graduate level courses that focus on bilingual issues, and then our students need to take nearly 400 hours of patient-contact time as part of the graduate program,” she said. “These students will have 100 of those hours devoted to working with speakers from another language.” Rodriguez explained speech-language pathology as practice in which specialists help people of all ages deal with communication difficulty. She said the difficulty could be caused by any number of issues, such as a voice disorder, a swallowing disorder, hearing loss or a mental disorder.

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Courtesy Photo According to a press release, the three additional courses are in second-language acquisition, bilingual assessment and Spanish linguistics. Rodriguez said the students would also need to have near-native proficiency

in a second language, such as Spanish or Navajo, in order to participate in the program. “When you work with folks in a clinical setting who are not bilingual, who are monolingual Spanish-speaking, you have

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to have some good proficiency to know what’s a disorder and what’s not, what might be a difference as opposed to a difficulty,” she said. “So it takes proficiency

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