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College ‘Strengths that come with disabilities’ of Ed seeks new dean Disability Awareness Day promotes campus accessibility by Chloe Henson
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Going into college, UNM alumna Amira Rasheed wished
to pursue a double major in the sciences. As a student with cerebral palsy, she said she didn’t let her condition keep her away from her goals. “It was a big change, to take what (my family) taught me and kind of build my advocacy skills, where I can advocate for services for things I needed and wanted,”
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Awareness Day. The discussion panel, which featured UNM students and alumni with disabilities, was the first part featured in the daylong event. The group talked about accessibility on campus, barriers to achieving accessibility and opening up to students and staff about
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RUN, DON’T WALK
by Ardee Napolitano
After getting a new building this semester, UNM’s College of Education is expecting a new leader, as the University has begun a national search for the college’s dean. Amy Wohlert, interim director of the School of Public Administration, has been appointed by Provost Chaouki Abdallah to head the national search committee. Wohlert said she has been planning the search with the provost since August, and the committee has been meeting since mid-September. She said the University has been advertising the position online for national academic institutions. “We’re now in the phase of accepting nominations and applications,” she said. “The best consideration date is Nov. 15. Of course, it will be open until filled.” Although the University has received applications nationally for the position, Wohlert said her committee expects to receive more applications as the deadline approaches. She said UNM would also consider applications from inside the campus. Wohlert said people could also nominate qualified candidates for the position by submitting a name and contact information to the committee.
she said. “I wanted to be treated with dignity and respect like everyone else.” In 2009, Rasheed graduated with a double major in chemistry and psychology. Rasheed was one of the speakers in a discussion panel Monday at the Student Union Building as part of the campus Disability
William Aranda/ @_WilliamAranda / Daily Lobo Zombified students Dario Ibarra, left, and Howard Cramer run outside Dane Smith to tag a human Monday afternoon during the weeklong Humans vs. Zombies game. A total of 122 participants signed up for this year’s zombie game. See Page 5 for full story.
Parking and Transportation office relocates by Ardee Napolitano news@dailylobo.com @ArdeeTheJourno
Arsenii Morin/ Daily Lobo The Parking and Transportation Services office moved to a new location and officially opened Monday, near the Cornell Parking Structure and across from the Bookstore.
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UNM’s Parking and Transportation Services has found a new home on campus. PATS’s office, which was previously located on the intersection of Central Avenue and University Boulevard, has moved to the space beside the Cornell Parking Structure across from the UNM Bookstore. The new office officially opened Monday. PATS Interim Director Barbara Morck said the department has been planning the move since last school year. “At the end of May, that’s when it started to accelerate,” she said. “The Physical Plant Department got involved on how the floor plan was going to look like.” She said the move arrived naturally when University Communications and Marketing vacated the space to move to the Bursar’s Office this semester. “We’re next to the Cornell Parking Structure, which belongs to us, but is not a building that we’ve ever occupied,”
she said. “When they decided that UCAM should be in another location … this is the logical spot.” Morck said PATS had a budget of about $50,000 for renovations to the new office, which included new carpeting, computer wirings and moving help. The department vacated its old location because the building was rundown, Morck said. But she said the University plans to retain ownership of the old building and to develop it into a commercial space. “That is planned for development of some sort, probably for commercial or retail,” she said. “The University will continue to own the property, but they want to develop it as a revenue source.” Morck said PATS’s new office will advantage students. “This location is a lot more convenient for the students, as well as faculty and staff,” she said. “We’ve created parking spaces at the A Lot specifically for people coming to the Parking and Transportation office … It’s much more accessible.” Meena Lee, program manager of
PATS, said the move will also be beneficial for the department’s staff. “We’re on campus, so we’re more centrally located,” she said. “It’s easier now that we have operation team and we’re here, so we’re all closer together. Hopefully, this will make our operations and the administrative side work easier and closer together.” Lee said PATS’s new office will also serve as UNM’s new Welcome Center, where employees will distribute brochures and direct visitors to locations on campus. Despite the extra duty, Lee said the department did not hire additional employees. She said that although the move might be tedious for PATS staff at first, she is optimistic that operations would continue to run smoothly. “I believe it will take some work at first just to transition into that,” she said. “Change always takes work … I think this move is a great change for us.”
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