Santa Fe New Mexican, July 14, 2014

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Palestinians flee Thousands of residents leave their homes in Gaza ahead of bombing attacks by Israel. PAge A-3

Finding digital fame

group plans new med school in n.M.

Santa Fe businessman capitalizes Las Cruces project designed to alleviate provider shortage

Emerging social media stars seek to turn “likes” into money and careers. Tech, A-6

By Bruce Krasnow The New Mexican

Crowdfunded science Scientists turn to a new way of raising money for smaller projects. LIfe & ScIence, A-7

State park name hits sore spot

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ollywood portrayed Bonnie and Clyde as glamorous, misunderstood killers. Tabloids treated mob boss John Gotti as a celebrity. Richard Dean says the state of New Mexico did something even worse by elevating Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa from international terrorist to folk hero. A state park near Columbus carries Villa’s name. Dean considers this tantaMilan mount to naming Simonich Ground Zero in Ringside Seat New York City after Osama bin Laden, or placing a monument at Pearl Harbor to the Japanese pilots who bombed the American naval base. Columbus is the border town that Villa’s men attacked in 1916. They killed eight U.S. soldiers and 10 civilians. One was a pregnant woman. Another was Dean’s great-grandfather, James T. Dean, a 62-year-old grocer who previously had worked as a lawyer and a judge. Richard Dean, himself a resident of Columbus, is 81 years old and needs dialysis three times a week because his kidneys are failing. He says he still has one mission left in life: persuading the New Mexico Legislature to erase Villa’s name from the state park. Dean has tried but failed to generate much interest in changing the name of Pancho Villa State Park. Legislators were mostly disinterested when Dean pushed for a new name a decade ago. But recently, Dean has been inspired to take another crack at it because of a similar effort in Northern New Mexico. A group of residents recently convinced the Taos Town Council to briefly change the name of Kit Carson Park. Critics said Carson was a mercenary frontiersman who uprooted and brutalized Navajos. Then, the council reversed itself last week, restoring Carson’s name to the park but promising to consider a permanent change. Even so, the confrontation in Taos has prompted Dean to try to end the mystique of Pancho Villa in New Mexico. For years, Dean has been active in the Columbus Historical Society. He says the volunteer work has taught him that visitors to Columbus are confused about the state honoring Villa. “We always hear the same question about the state park: Why is it named for the person who attacked the town?” Dean said in an interview. John Read, the manager of Pancho Villa State Park, says the name is enticing, not controversial. “I think the name Pancho Villa State Park is helpful in drawing visitors to the park, especially history buffs. I might have had three or four complaints or questions about its name in

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New Mexico’s top elected officials and business leaders will gather Monday in Las Cruces to unveil a unique partnership they hope will pilot the biggest enhancement in medical education in state history.

The $85 million Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine is planned as a privately funded for-profit school with the goal of graduating 150 osteopathic doctors a year starting in 2020, some of whom will be paired with new medical residency programs in Las Cruces and El Paso.

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for health care in underserved Southern New Mexico. “The mission from the very beginning is not only to address the severe shortage of physicians in our region of the country, but the shortage in the Hispanic community and the Native American community,” said John L. Hummer, a business leader in Las Cruces with experience in health care management and who serves as chief executive of the school.

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U.S. jails ‘Fidelio’ under the Führer struggle to handle mental troubles OPERA REVIEW

New Mexico official critical of state’s ability to care for inmates By Adam Geller

The Associated Press

Paul Groves, left, portrays Florestan opposite Alex Penda as Fidelio/Leonore in The Santa Fe Opera’s production of Beethoven’s only opera. PHOTOS COURTESY KEN HOWARD/THE SANTA FE OPERA

SFO tries Nazi-era take on Beethoven’s only opera By James M. Keller

The New Mexican

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n the course of its nearly sixdecade history, The Santa Fe Opera must have thought now and again about presenting Fidelio, Ludwig van Beethoven’s only opera and one of the repertoire’s seminal works. Not until Saturday night, in the third week of its 58th season, did the stars come into requisite alignment, along with bolts of lightning above the surrounding hills, to yield the high point of the season so far. When a company presents a classic work for the first time, it is not a bad idea to follow the general directives of the composer and librettist and save more radical alterations for future productions by directors bent on reinvention. Santa Fe Opera assigned this first outing to Stephen Wadsworth, a veteran of this and other leading theaters, who tends to infuse his productions with comprehensive insight without throwing out the baby with the bathwater. He accordingly gives the piece a personal twist without abandoning its essential spirit.

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Bass-baritone Greer Grimsley, as Don Pizarro, is a villain incarnate in his Nazi officer’s uniform, and his powerful interpretation often assumes the dramatic focus in the production.

Fidelio is a story of political imprisonment: Florestan is being starved to death in a dark dungeon by the prison’s governor, Don Pizarro, whom he has impugned and about whom he possesses potentially damaging information.

Learning that the prime minister is about to arrive, Don Pizarro decides to finish off Florestan and bury him in a cistern rather than risk having his own evil exposed. The chief

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Obituaries Joe F. Gonzales, 70, Santa Fe, July 6

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Americana trio American Jem, noon; Santa Fe Chiles Dixie Band, 6 p.m.; blues/rock artist Alex Maryol, 7:15-8:45 p.m.; no charge, visit santafebandstand.org for the series schedule. More events in Calendar, A-2 and Fridays in Pasatiempo

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Index

Located at the Arrowhead Center, the technology and business incubator of New Mexico State University, the college will have an affiliation with the university and the NMSU Foundation for student services, housing, faculty teaching and scholarship assistance. The medical school is the culmination of an effort by a group of Las Cruces medical and business leaders who hope the college can be a game changer

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CHICAGO — Peering through the chain link of a holding pen at the Cook County Jail, a man wrapped in a navy varsity jacket leans toward clinical social worker Elli Petacque Montgomery, his bulging eyes a clue that something’s not right. “They say I got bipolar, that’s all,” he says. “OK, are you taking your meds?” she asks. “When I can get them,” he answers. “I’m down here every day,” Montgomery says. “Every morning I hear this.” The Chicago jail and many of its 3,300 counterparts across the country have become treatment centers of last resort for people with serious mental illnesses, most arrested for non-violent crimes. And like other jails, it is awash in a tide of booking and releases that make it particularly unsuited for the task. U.S. jails, most of whose 731,000 inmates are trying to make bail or awaiting trial, hold roughly half the number in prisons. But last year, jails booked in 11.7 million people — 19 times the number of new prison inmates. The revolving door complicates the task of screening for mental illness, managing medications, providing care and ensuring inmate safety. “Jails are churning people,” says Henry J. Steadman, a consultant to government agencies on how courts and correctional facilities deal with people with mental illnesses. Experts have pointed to rising numbers of inmates with mental illnesses since the 1970s, after states began closing psychiatric hospitals without following through on promises to create and sustain comprehensive community treatment programs. But as the number of those with serious mental illnesses surpasses 20 percent in some jails, many have struggled to keep up, sometimes putting inmates in jeopardy. The Associated Press has reported that at least nine of the 11 suicides in New York City jails over the past five years came after operators failed to follow safeguards designed to prevent self-harm by inmates. The AP’s investigation into the deaths of two mentally ill inmates at the city’s Rikers Island complex — one who essentially baked to death in a 101-degree cell in February and the other who sexually mutilated himself last fall — have

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