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Blood drive rivalry continues School earns success with little resources Architecture dean bridges communities By Lena Guidi
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Ben Studer, a senior in Family Studies, donates blood for the Battle I-25 Blood Drive vs NMSU at the SUB Ballroom on Monday. The blood drive event is in its second year and runs through this week inside the SUB and at bloodmobiles around campus.
As one of the smallest academic programs at UNM, the School of Architecture and Planning always finds a way to make its limited resources go far in the community. Through projects such as CityLab, Innovate ABQ and the Design and Planning Assistance Center, SAAP’s faculty and students are able to work directly with the city to improve the built environment. SAAP has maintained a relationship with communities throughout New Mexico for 45 years, and Geraldine Forbes Isais, dean of the institution, said she is working to strengthen that relationship. Isais is responsible for setting a course for the school’s academics as well as overseeing projects such as CityLab.
UNM and NMSU battle it out for good cause By Sayyed Shah The second annual Battle of I-25 Blood Drive between UNM and NMSU has begun. During the week-long event UNM will try to defend its title. Last year UNM defeated NMSU by donating 402 units of blood compared to 283 donated by NMSU. Abraham Chacon, a regional donor recruitment manager for the United Blood Services, a non-profit community blood center, said the event will create awareness among faculty, staff and students of UNM and NMSU. “After this week we will have enough blood donations that will
help the local patients and hospitals,” Chacon said. “It is a fun event. This is our second annual event and so far it has been really positive.” Chacon thinks that NMSU will try harder this year to beat UNM to settle the scores, he said. “NMSU community heard about the news that they got beat so they are trying to come back this year and get more donations than UNM,” he said. However, Chacon said beating UNM will be a difficult task. “UNM has the right people and hopefully they will be able to overcome NMSU,” he said. “People can come out save a life and at the
same time get a nice T-shirt and take pride in knowing that they are donating on behalf of UNM to beat NMSU,” he said. This year United Blood Services officials are expecting to get at least 600 bags of blood from UNM, he said. “I know we can do it. We are asking all Lobos to come out and support this cause. We are located here at the SUB. We want to beat NMSU,” he said. As part of the competition United Blood Services will setup another blood donation camp at NMSU after two weeks, he said.
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Geraldine Forbes Isais
“We do a lot of work with the city, so I am out a great deal,” she said. “There’s a lot of fundraising and ‘friend-raising’ as they call it. But it’s really just connecting the school to the community.” Isais said that while architecture is her passion, she didn’t al-
ways plan to pursue it as a career. In fact, she said she had never even heard the word until she finished high school. “I went to high school in a place and time where female students did not take classes that had to do with drafting, or anything related to that,” she said. She said that she became seriously interested in the field when she met an architect while living in San Francisco. “He was kind enough to show me some of his sketchbooks, we talked about architecture, and I got interested,” Isais said. “I decided to see if I could do it, and I could, so it worked out well.” After architecture school, she worked in several firms before establishing her own professional office. In addition to her work there, she began teaching architecture classes at night. “I started teaching more and more, and being in the office less and less, so I went and got a fulltime job teaching in Los Angeles,” Isais said. She became director of the architecture program at Woodbury University before she was appointed founding dean of the San Diego campus. She alternated between her professional and academic work for several years, until she became full-time director of the architecture program at UNM. She wanted to continue SAAP’s hands-on, community-based approach to design and planning, which she said sets it apart from other schools. “When I was in architecture school, we never went out or left campus, so our projects were always very theoretical,” Isais said.
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Council appoints new members to Oversight Board By Jonathan Baca Albuquerque’s City Council has made appointments for the new nine-person Police Oversight Board. The nine appointees, who will have the job of reviewing complaints against the Albuquerque Police Department, voting on appropriate discipline for officers, and making policy recommendations, were approved in a unanimous vote on Monday night’s council meeting. “I am grateful for this recommendation and look forward to the work,” said appointee Joanne Fine, former project director of the Family Advocacy Center. “I think the community really needs this balance, and I look forward to being a part of it.” It was a historic day for the city, District 1 Councilman Ken Sanchez said, calling it a near perfect board. Sanchez also called on the larger community to remain engaged in the process of healing the city. The proposal to overhaul the old Police Oversight Commission,
which only had the power to make recommendations, was spearheaded by Council President Rey Garduño and Vice President Brad Winter. The proposal included the names and qualifications of the nine Albuquerque civilians nominated to sit on the board, as well as nine alternate members. Garduño said that the new commission will have more freedom and power, because it will not be tied to the city government or to City Council. The board will be funded using 0.5 percent of the APD’s total budget, and the board will be free to manage its own money. It will be able to subpoena officers and recommend punishments for any officers it finds in violation of the law, according to City documents. The chief of police will still have the power to overrule any of the board’s decisions. However, if the chief does, he or she will be required to explain why in official writing. “Neither the City Council nor
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Members of the new Police Oversight Board Dr. Moira Amado-McCoy: President and CEO of All Innovation & Kairos Solutions Jeannette Baca: Counselor and Retired Professor of Counseling Eric H. Cruz: Acquisition Program Manager at Kirtland Air Force Base Joanne Fine: former Project Director, Family Advocacy Center Rev. Dr. David Z. Ring III: Retired Pastor, United Methodist Church
Beth Mohr: Forensic Accountant & investigator, Managing Partner at McHard Accounting Consulting Eva P. Sandavol: former corporate Human Resources Director Leonard Waites: member, NAACP, previously served on the Police Oversight Task Force Jeffrey Scott Wilson: Director of the Victims Assistance Unit, Domestic Violence Resource Center Source: Albuquerque City Council Interoffice Memorandum