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By Jonathan Baca Copy Editor
Planning and designs for the cov-ered shelters for CNM’s smoking sections have been submitted, and they will be fabricated and constructed by none other than the school’s own welding students, Welding instructor, Ron Hackney said.
The “smoking shacks” will be built by students of the Project Fabrication class, one of the final courses before Welding students test for their certificates, and they plan to build one to two shelters each semester the class is offered, Hackney said.
“These are folks who are already ready to graduate. Over three quarters of them are
already certified welders, by industry standards, so they are pretty advanced students,” Hackney said.
Hackney said the proj-ect will be a great oppor-tunity for his students to get real world experience, being responsible for every aspect of a project, from planning and materials to fabrication and installation.
Executive Director of Multi-campus Operations Jennifer
By Nick SternSenior Reporter
Administration has had an innovative and dif-ferent way to address the intersection of entrepre-neurship, education, and economic development
in Albuquerque’s down-town community, and the STEMulus Center was found to be the solution, which is planned to be acces-sible by the 2014 fall semes-ter, Chief Community and Engagement Officer, Samantha Sengel said.
CNM is currently leasing space for the new STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathmatics) center at the First Plaza Galleria building at 20 First Plaza Ctr. NW in downtown
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The CNM STEMulus Center will be located downtown in the First Plaza Galeria.
New campus STEMulates downtown
Smoking in the rainWelding students build new smoking shelters
see WeLDINg page 7
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Project Fabrication student Ezekiel Meza grinds down his welding station.
2 | The CNM Chronicle March 25-31, 2014CAMPUS NEWSEDITORIALTo submit items for Campus Bulletins, please email news item with a maximum of 150 words to: [email protected] or call 224-4755.
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ECOS Accepting New Members
The Executive Council of Students is accepting new members.ECOS meets every Friday at 4 p.m. in ST 12-A.For more information,email [email protected].
Veterans For Educational Success Student Club
Bringing together Veterans in an effort to assist each other in being successful in college.Come join us at the meetings for coffee, chat and ideas to benefit Veteran studentsand find volunteer opportunities in the local community. Where: Rio Rancho Campus. Meetings: Bi-weekly every second Friday at 1 p.m. and forth Friday 9 a.m. If interested email advisor at [email protected] for specific dates and times.
Join physics league
The CNM Physics League is a chartered student organization with a goal of supporting physics students. We meet every Saturday in JS 303 at Main Campus for a study session from 10 AM to 2 PM with the CNM Math League. We also hold an official meeting once a month, location TBA. Please contact our president, Jenny Smith, at [email protected] or our secretary, Joseph Denison, at [email protected] for more information
Chemistry Study Sessions Available:
Weekly study session for any chemistry subject. Meet people and get homework done at the same time! The study group always has free coffee and snacks.Contact: Tim Torres (President)Phone: 928-699-9834Email: [email protected]
Free Bus and Parking Passes
Current students qualify for a free general parking pass and AbqRide bus pass. The passes can be obtained at the Main campus Student Activities Office. Name, schedule, and student ID number are required. For a general parking pass vehicle and drivers license information must be provided. To register the online parking system for the free general parking sticker log-in to myCNM and follow links from the “transportation” section.
Planning to Attend Graduation Ceremony? Don’t Forget to Submit a Grad Application.
If you are planning to participate in the Spring 2014 Graduation Ceremony on Saturday, May 3, 2014 at Tingley Coliseum, don’t forget that you must submit a graduation application for your degree or certificate by Friday, March 28, 2014 by 5 p.m.To contact an academic advisor call 224-4321To contact the Student Activities Office, that organizes the Graduation Ceremony, call 224-3238.For more information about the Graduation Ceremony go to cnm.edu/depts/graduation/dates.html.
CNM changes prerequisites for Phlebotomy and Medical Laboratory Technician programs
As of fall 2014, CNM will change entry requirements for the Phlebotomy (PHLB) Certificate and the Medical Laboratory Technician (MLT) Associate of Applied Science degree programs. Students should plan accordingly.PHLB questions?Contact Paul Fornell at 224-4128 or [email protected] MLT questions?24-4000 ext 52158 or [email protected]
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Fine Arts Fandango!
All CNM faculty, students, staff and family members are invited to a fine arts celebration, fundraiser, and musical happening on Saturday, April 5th from 6-8pm at SCA Contemporary Art 524 Haines NW, Albuquerque. Rockin’ music courtesy of CNM’s very own Great Blue Whales! Come eat, drink, dance and bid in a silent auction for works of art donated by CNM Faculty, CNM students, CNM student Alumni and local professional artists. Tickets will be sold at the door: students $5, all others $10. All proceeds go to support the Ernest Garcia Emerging Artist Scholarship Fund. Please contact Andrew Tibble at 328-3403 for more information.
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The First Amendment, which guarantees free-speech rights, is fundamental to the highest ideals of American constitutional democracy and our nation’s system of higher education. However, no court, constitution, law or leader can guarantee any right once and for all, forever into the future. Even constitutionally protected rights need to be monitored, pro-tected, and every attempt to whit-tle away at them must be vigor-ously challenged.
Free speech rights at CNM are under threat. Last year, the CNM administration temporarily shut down The CNM Chronicle and suspended the staff over the publication of its “sex issue” and then reversed its decision less than 24 hours later after a deluge of public attention. More recently, new collective bargaining agree-ments for full-time and part-time faculties contained language designed to prohibit the CNM Employees Union (CNMEU) from using “College resources… for any union business of any type, a political campaign for an indi-vidual candidate, an issue or an organization.” In administration’s initial proposal to the part-time
faculty negotiating team, of which I was a member, The Chronicle was identified by name as one of those “resources,” though it does not appear in the final collective bargaining agreement.
It is no secret to anyone famil-iar with the CNM that this admin-istration is obsessively concerned with protecting and polishing its public image. Nothing in the new faculty contracts directly attempts to limit an individual faculty mem-ber’s free speech right, but it is naïve to think they are not threat-ened. The contract clause I quoted is vague. Could it be interpreted to prohibit a union official from responding to an inquiry from a Chronicle reporter? Perhaps. After the new contracts were reported on in the news media, CNM offi-cials issued pronouncements in which they affirmed their support for individual free-speech rights. What is a reasonable person to believe? Is the truth more likely to be found in the actions of CNM administration or in their state-ments once their actions have been exposed to public scrutiny?
CNM faculty, staff and stu-dents are on a “slippery slope,” by which I mean an action or law,
initially restricted to a specific situ-ation or group, like The Chronicle or CNMEU, which opens the door for a much broader and pos-sibly illegal application of the same restrictions. For that reason, it is in my self-interest to defend the free-speech rights of The Chronicle and CNMEU because any curtail-ments of their rights brings CNM one step closer to an attempt at restricting my individual right to free speech. Similar logic compelled the American Civil Liberties Union in 1978 to defend a neo-Nazi group’s right to stage a public political rally complete with swastikas in Skokie, Illinois, where a significant portion of the residents were survivors of the Holocaust. The ACLU’s argument, which was savagely criticized at the time by many of its own mem-bers, was that protecting the free-speech rights of a group as odious as the neo-Nazis was necessary to guarantee the free-speech rights of all Americans.
CNMEU and The Chronicle may be the only organizations associated with CNM that admin-istration cannot completely con-trol. At the moment, I am less concerned about the union than
I am for The Chronicle because I believe the newspaper has already been targeted for elimination. My suspicion is fueled not by any state-ment made by an administrator, but by what has already been done: three months after The Chronicle was shut down last March CNM launched The Suncat Times, which is described on the college’s website as a “student newsletter” distributed by email.
“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty” has been attributed to the abolitionist Wendell Phillips, sometimes to Thomas Jefferson, though a similar statement was made as early as 1790 by the Irish political figure John Philpot Curran. The statement is as sound today as it was in the 18th and 19th centuries and I hope it will heeded by liberals and conservatives, liber-tarians and socialists, people who support unions and people who oppose them, as well as friends of The Chronicle and people at CNM who never read an issue.
Seamus O’Sullivan, Ph.D.Part-time faculty, politi-
cal science and sociology
L e t t e r t o t h e E d i t o r
It is so invigorating to be able to take a week long break during the spring semester to come back refreshed and ready to finish up the last weeks at school, but unfortunately this last spring break that passed will be the very last one ever, at least for CNM students.
Spring break has been a pastime since the Greeks and Romans started celebrating a
sort of spring ritual, and has been a fad since the 1930s in America, according to content.time.com.
Not all students use the break for decedent debauchery or to have a good time, and for most, the break is a much needed rest for those that have hefty sched-ules and busy lives to lead.
According to President Winograd’s Blog, starting in
January the idea of losing spring break all together was addressed, and was to be addressed by stu-dents and staff in a survey.
According to the Media and Communications Office as of Feb 14, “There will no longer be a spring break at CNM.”
It does not seem that this break survey was sent to all stu-dents, nor was the issue brought up through MCO until the
decision had already been made to ditch the term break.
We all rely on the break for a much needed rest from the semester, and it might just be beneficial to students to just pass it right on by, but will hopefully not affect students to the point of burning them out and making their GPA’s or grades suffer for just a little less of a spring semester.
Farewell forever to spring break
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fred phelps’ short visit to heaven
4 | The CNM Chronicle March 25-31, 2014 CAMPUS NEWSHidden Gems
By Angela Le QuieuStaff Reporter
A valid CNM ID can be used more than just on campus; vari-ous organizations and
businesses offer dis-counts and other perks to CNM students.
A free annual bus pass can be picked up from stu-dent services and CNM students can also get a free
UNM community library card that allows them access to Zimmerman and other libraries on the UNM campus.
Besides these freebies, there are many discounts
available for food, fun, fit-ness, and lots more, and this is a list of various places around town.
Student ID: Passport to discounts
By Carol Woodland
Staff Reporter
New Mexico is full of amazing geo-logical features and students who take Earth and Planetary
Sciences courses are able to take advan-tage of the hands on approach to learn-ing by participating in geological survey field trips.
John Rogers, professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences said that this semester there are six offerings within the depart-ment including a special topics course called Geology of New Mexico.
Rogers said he offers all students in Earth and Planetary Sciences the oppor-tunity to take part in the field trips, and hopes to give stu-dents the opportu-nity to go on at least
six field trips each semester in his classes.
“We’ve had two trips so far this semes-ter, and we’ll probably have five more before the end of the semester,” Rogers said.
This semester students have been north of Albuquerque to Tent Rocks and to the east side of the Sandia Mountains to touch a geologic fea-ture called the Great Unconformity.
There are also plans to visit the White Mesa area south of the Jemez, and to go on some trips with the Albuquerque Gem and Mineral Club, he said.
Students who go on the trips are able to collect fossils and min-erals for themselves, and for those inter-ested in collecting, the annual Albuquerque Gem and Mineral Club trip to Bingham Mine near Socorro is not to be missed, Rogers said.
“We’ll collect barite, calcite, lead minerals, travertine; a whole bunch of stuff,” Rogers said.
Rogers said that while most of his trips are not too strenu-ous some of them may include several miles of hiking, so he lets students know
beforehand how chal-lenging the trips may be and what students need to do to prepare.
CNM is in a great location to study geology, as there are many different land-scapes at each campus, Rogers said.
“Just walking between classes is a field trip. I’ve told my stu-dents that I don’t know of another campus in the world where you can see the diversity of volcanic features that you can see from CNM’s Main Campus,” Rogers said.
The Physical Geology and Earth History labs also offer students the chance to learn with hands on activities, he said.
Students in the Physical Geology labs are currently learning about geologic maps, and have also spent a lot of time this semes-ter learning to identify different rocks and minerals, and are learn-ing about how Earth’s geologic features work, Rogers said.
Studying geology offers students a chance to develop skills in other subjects as well, such as math and sci-ence, Rogers said.
“There is lots of math, biology and chemistry in geology, but you do not need to come in with a strong background,” he said.
Rogers said that while many students take one of the geol-ogy classes to ful-fill a science credit, some are just taking it because they are interested in rocks, minerals and crys-tals, and some are pursuing geology as a career.
According to the US Government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics website, bls.gov, the job outlook for geoscientists with a bachelor’s degree is promising, with a 16 percent increase pre-dicted over the next eight years, which is faster than average for most occupations.
“Hopefully our classes sway some of those who were just taking it as a science class to maybe think about going that direc-tion,” Rogers said.
Career possibili-ties include explora-tion for minerals or oil, working energy related fields, or environmental work, Rogers said.
“ P e o p l e don’t think of geologists as env i ron men-talists, but a lot of us get work in the environmental realm working for private con-sultants, work-ing for the EPA (Environmental P r o t e c t i o n Agency), and working for the New Mexico e nv i r o n me nt de p a r t me nt ,” he said.
There are also jobs working for private consultants looking at geologic hazards and remedia-tion of environmental disasters, as well as in education, Rogers said.
CNM’s Earth and Planetary Science classes all transfer to UNM, including the special topic courses, which, unlike some of the other special topics courses, are eli-gible for financial aid, Rogers said.
Rogers said that CNM will continue to offer the Geology of New Mexico class in addition to the Physical Geology class and Physical Geology
Lab each semester on multiple campuses, Earth History and Earth History Lab, as well as the new Dinosaurs special topics course, which will only be held once or twice a year, he said.
“One of my goals is to just get students thinking about things that they see every day and maybe haven’t con-templated before. Like what is the origin of that hill sitting off in the distance? Is it a vol-cano?” Rogers said.
PHOTO BY CAROL WOODLANDProfessor John Rogers shows off a cool rock.
Geology classes go on rock tour
Cheba HutMonday student day; free chips and drink with ID and pur-chase of a sandwich.232-2432115 Harvard Drive SE
Sombreros Mexican RestaurantStudents receive a 10 percent dis-count on Mexican cuisine, open daily from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.266-8226120 Harvard Drive SE
Street Food MarketTake 10 percent off on Malay, Vietnamese and Thai street food from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.268-11962300 Central Ave SE
Food
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The Guild CinemaStudent tickets are $5 with a valid CNM ID for a variety of independent movies. 255-18483405 Central Ave NE
The KiMo TheaterOffers student discounts, but discounts vary depending on show and discounts may not be available for all shows, check with the box office.768-3522421 Central Ave NW
Cliff’s Amusement ParkStudents, staff, faculty and their families can take 20 percent off ticket prices by purchasing tickets ahead of time at cliffsamusementpark.com/881-93734800 Osuna Road NE
Entertainment
Retailers Frock Star Take 10 percent off all non-clearance vintage clothing266-6979115 Harvard Dr. SE
Artisan Art SuppliesCNM students can take 10 percent off their total purchase with ID.256-45403017 Monte Vista Blvd. NE
Tom Quirk Automotive$80 per hour instead of the normal $92.50 for labor.883-07933434 Girard NE
Many student discounts can be found in the Bricklight District.
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March 25-31, 2014 The CNM Chronicle | 5FEATURE
By Jonathan BacaCopy Editor
With a lot of determi-nation, a little help from their friends, and new tech-nologies, blind and visually impaired students are suc-ceeding at getting a college education at CNM.
Blind students have a whole different set of chal-lenges along with all the traditional ones that every college student faces, and although some new devices and technologies have made some things easier, there is no replacement for hard work, said Lucy Birbiglia, counselor for the Disability Resource Center.
“Technology is not a sub-stitute for the student’s work. Students with any disability have to work harder than other students,” Birbiglia said.
Early education major Francine Garcia has been legally blind from birth, and can see some shadows, but no faces or details, she said.
For the obvious chal-lenges to class work like reading and writing, Garcia uses several tools that make it much easier than it once was, she said.
For her textbooks, she uses a device called a Victor Reader Stream, an mp3 player specially designed for the blind, where she keeps all of her textbooks saved as audio books.
At the start of each semester, counselors from the Disability Resource Center help visually impaired students find solutions to their textbooks, whether they are audio files, PDFs that can be read aloud using a program called a screen
reader that can read any text on a computer screen out loud, or for students with some lim-ited sight, a magnifier may be all that is needed, Birbiglia said.
Garcia also uses a piece of technology called a BrailleNote, a device that looks like a laptop with no screen, that Garcia can use to type notes and assignments using Braille. The device also has a line of refresh-able Braille, an area filled with tiny metal pieces that can pop up and form words of Braille.
Garcia said that she can read textbooks and assign-ments on her BrailleNote, and can even surf the internet with it, because the refreshable Braille line can translate any text from a website into the bumps and lines of Braille, line by line.
“It’s a really cool tool. It can also read text aloud, and can even translate stuff into Spanish and French. It’s pretty amazing,” Garcia said.
Joseph Diekmeyer, Social Work major, said that he did not go blind until 2003, when he was 23 years old.
Diekmeyer, who is an orphan, said that his glau-coma and the high doses of medications he was made to take caused his eyes to start bleeding heavily one day. He said that at the hospital, doc-tors gave him medication that forced him into a coma, and when he woke up, he was alone in a homeless shelter, com-pletely blind.
Since then, Diekmeyer has had to learn to live again without sight, never losing the determination and zest for living that he always had, he said.
“People look at me and just see the cane, they don’t see the man behind the cane. They let their eyes deceive them, and just assume they know what I can and can’t do,” Diekmeyer said.
Diekmeyer said he is extremely active and self reli-ant, using a cane and a talking smart phone with an advanced GPS application to get around town, and all over campus, on his own.
He began attending classes at CNM seven years ago, back when the accommo-dations for blind students were not nearly what they are today, he said.
“It was extremely diffi-cult because CNM was not set up for blind people as well as they had led me to believe that they were. They boasted about all these things, but when I got here it was not happening at all,” Diekmeyer said.
Diekmeyer said that things have improved a lot, but that there is still a lot of work to do, particularly around the subject of sensitivity training for instructors and staff.
Birbiglia said that there is no mandatory training for instructors on how to deal
with the special needs of dis-abled students, although she would like to see some happen.
Each disabled student is given an Accommodations sheet that is created by their counselor, that describes the special needs that the stu-dent will have in class, like having chalkboard notes or PowerPoint presenta-tions read out loud for them, Birbiglia said.
But some instructors do not always do these things happily, and sometimes do not feel the need to do them at all, Diekmeyer said.
He said that he has brought up the problem sev-eral times to deans and admin-istrators, and that he takes it upon himself to personally try to educate people on how they can best interact with him and other blind students.
“I’ve said that I will per-sonally sit down and take the time to instruct people and show them. The school needs sensitivity training for the faculty and staff, and maybe even some of the students,” Diekmeyer said.
He said that he has fallen into open trenches and holes that were not properly blocked off, and that he has failed many classes because of the chal-lenges created by a system that is not fully prepared to deal with blind students.
“They have made prog-ress, but there needs to be a lot more progress. I do the best that I can, I try to be as self reliant as possible, I take it very seriously. I’d like to see the campus and the institution work a little bit more with me,” Diekmeyer said.
He said the main thing he hopes is that instructors and students will take the time to get to know disabled stu-dents, and not just assume that they know what they can and cannot do.
PHOTO BY JONATHAN BACA
Disability counselor Lucy Birbiglia shows off an audio book player for blind students.
Leading the blindVisually impaired students succeed
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The BrailleNote can translate websites into Braille.
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Writer’s Club hosts visiting poet
By Carol WoodlandStaff Reporter
On Thursday March 27 at 7 p.m., CNM’s Writing Club will be presenting writer and poet Tomás Morín in the Smith Brasher Auditorium, which will be free and open to the public.
Writing Club Advisor and English Instructor, Rebecca Aronson said she is excited to host Morín, who is reading his first published book, “A Larger Country,” which is a poetry anthology that was published in 2012.
“He is a really interesting poet; a really engaging nice person, a good presenter” she said.
Aronson said that at the event Morín will talk about his poems and will read either from his book or new work, and there will be a question and answer session afterwards.
To find out more about the event or the Main Campus Writer’s Club, email Rebecca Aronson at [email protected].
S.A.G.E. Instructor, and member of the Main Campus Writing Club, Stephen Romero said he thinks Morín’s poetry has a naturalistic sense, and readers can find a sense of home or personal history in his work.
“It’s clear his poetry has a deep connection to place—this comes through the imagery in his poems, which like a winding road, takes readers on journeys with the speaker, and at the end, it’s exciting to see where he takes us,” Romero said.
There are three chapters of the writing group that meet on Main, West Side and Montoya campuses, Aronson said.
Locations and times of the meetings can be found on the CHSS calendar at the CNM website.
“It’s a group for people who are interested in any kind of creative writing, at any level, to just come and write and get to know other writers and talk about writing,” Aronson said.
The group is open to people who may not con-sider themselves writers too, Romero said.
At the Main Writer’s Club, writers bring something they have recently read to share with the group, such as an article or book excerpt, or poem that the group can discuss, and mem-bers also may bring prompts or writing exercises, Aronson said.
“We’re really a mix of poets and fiction writers, play-wrights and memoirists. We try and make the prompts, so that they could work for any genre, then everybody writes, and people can choose to read what they’ve written or just listen,”Aronson said.
Aronson said that in her opinion any kind of writing practice is helpful and can be a great outlet, and believes that poetry can be a good means to express things that are difficult.
“It’s just a playful, expres-sive, interesting way of com-municating,” she said.
Romero said that members can gain a lot from the experi-ence of being in a writer’s group.
The group is very open to helping others find resources and work on specific skills, he said.
“I’ve been in the writing group for a few years now, and it’s been one of the most wel-coming, relaxed environments I’ve been a part of, and it’s helped me develop my writ-ing skills so much because it’s allowed me to have a set time to actually sit and write and talk and share with others,” Romero said.
Romero said that he thinks the idea of poetry and creative writing has become distorted or roman-ticized as though it is an unattainable or unnecessary skill but the reality is that language is power.
Romero said all language, even body language is poetry, and that creativity is an inher-ent force within a person con-nected to how they view the world around them.
“To anyone who is intimidated by poetry, my honest advice is to try and recognize that it’s not just confusing word vomit that high school English teach-ers make you write five paragraph essays on. It’s a force inside the human spirit— each person just has to have the desire to explore it, in whatever capacity in which they feel comfortable,” Romero said.
For students interested in experiencing great poetry come to life, Tomás Morín’s reading will be Thursday, March 27 at 7 p.m.
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Albuquerque where it will complement the sig-nificant amount of energy being put into the revi-talization of downtown Albuquerque and contrib-ute to the constantly evolv-ing workforce, Sengel said.
“The mayor and the leadership in our city have been very clear about the fact that downtown is going to become the hub of innovation, entrepreneur-ship, and startup culture. We need to be responsive and proactive in bringing
what we do best down-town and making it avail-able to the community that is there today and that will be growing in the near future,” she said.
The STEMulus center will have coding academies, cyber-security academies, accelerated learning pro-grams, boot camps, and even a prototyping lab, which will have the resources to move ideas from the sketchpad to the real world, she said.
The prototyping lab is intended to have a wood-working station, a welding station, a machine tool-ing station, and even a 3D
printing station, but most importantly will have technicians and courses that will help people acquire the skills needed to use each workshop, Sengel said.
“We will have the struc-ture for credit classes, but we also have non-credit, that has to do with skill development and train-ing. We do not just stick you in a welding station and say good luck. We are going to structure around the safety training, so that they can be at the weld-ing station and work there and if there is one-on-one
instruction that needs to occur then we are going to have that technician onsite to support them in that way,” she said.
There will probably also be practical applica-tion courses like weekend-long, non-credit, intro-ductory welding classes where people can pay to spend the weekend learn-ing and increasing their skills which really is what the center is meant to be all about, Sengel said.
CNM recognizes that it is still very impor-tant for more and more people to receive degrees
in New Mexico, and the hope is that people will become interested in pur-suing their education after learning related skills, Sengel said.
“With the introduc-tion to something excit-ing and interesting we can hopefully hook them and get them interested in pursuing their education, because that is what’s good for New Mexico. More people with degrees are important in New Mexico and we want to increase degree attainment across our country, region, and state,” she said.
Sengel advises anyone who is interested in this future project to keep their ears tuned for announcements because CNM intends on doing its best to keep everybody informed as there are new developments, she said.
Anyone who is inter-ested can also go to cnm.edu/stemulus and fill out a form with any questions or comments they might have about the STEMulus center, Sengal said.
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Cornish said that the idea for the project came from dis-cussions about the best way to create the smoking shel-ters they had promised to install after the new smok-ing policy was implemented.
“Since the inception of the new smoking policy, we knew that we needed to provide some shelter, if not all, than at least most of the smoking sections,” Cornish said.
A team was assembled to design and make the specifications for the shel-ters, and Cornish said the school’s architect had the idea to ask if the Welding department would be inter-ested in creating them.
Thomas “Hass” Saunders, Welding major and work study lab assistant, was the stu-dent who actually created the designs for the shelters as part of his class work, he said.
“It is essentially a bus stop with a couple of modifications made to it,” Saunders said.
Saunders took mea-surements of existing bus stop designs and CNM locations, designed the
“smoking shack” on a CAD (computer aided drafting) program and made physi-cal blueprints, created a list of materials, and then got quotes for material costs, he said.
Saunders, who helps stu-dents with their class work as part of his work study job, said he feels the project will be a lot more valuable and fun for the students than their normal projects.
“It takes a whole dif-ferent meaning to welding. Instead of just doing differ-ent positions all day, now we can actually build some-thing, and it makes the stu-dents feel good at the same time,” Saunders said.
In addition to benches and a covered awning to protect smokers from the elements, the shel-ters will have perforated walls for ventilation, and so Security can easily see inside, Cornish said.
Another important feature will be solar panels on the roofs of each shel-ter, to power lights that will shine in the evenings, she said.
“We can’t run electric-ity out to all the shelters; that would have made it too expensive. But we want to make sure that they are safely lit,” Cornish said.
They would also like the openings of the shel-ters to be facing toward the south, so that in the summer the sun will gen-erally be at the back and the smokers will have more shade, she said.
Cornish said that the school’s Sustainability
Team will be meeting with members of the Welding department sometime this week to go over the final details of the project, and to see if any of the loca-tions around the school’s many campuses will require any alterations to the original designs.
“I think it’s a really wonderful opportunity for our students to participate as a learning project, and it meets the needs of the students who want to use the smoking areas, and it is a sustainability project,” Cornish said.
Hackney said that since the plan is for the Welding program to eventually build a shelter for every smoking section on every campus, the project will likely become a major part of the curriculum for the Project Fabrication class for some time.
He said that while the instructors will act
as quality control, set-ting specifications and inspecting each shelter on completion, the stu-dents will essentially be in charge of the project from start to finish.
“We have to make sure as an educational institu-tion that the students actu-ally use it as a learning out-come. It’s not like we’re trying to get free labor, we want to make sure that they can actually learn from it,” Hackney said.
In addition to the expe-rience for students, this project will also help the Welding department save some money, because the materials will be paid for out of a special budget created for the smoking sections.
Normally project costs come out of the Welding program’s budget, which is strained as it is, so Hackney said it is nice to be able to save a little
money while giving his students a great project.
“It certainly helps, because every department gets billed for its metal, and it’s pretty expensive. But in the end, somebody’s got to pay for it, so we have to make sure that we don’t waste metal and things like that,” Hackney said.
Saunders said that as a student, he agrees that none of the students feel they are being taken advantage of, and that they are happy to be building something of value that will be used by people on campus for years to come.
“This is not free labor, this is essentially a great learning experience. In a nutshell, it’s kind of the students’ way of giving back to their school,” Saunders said.
8 | The CNM Chronicle March 25-31, 2014 STUDENT LIFE
By Angela Le Quieu
Staff Reporter
Not only can stu-dents get extra credit in class for watching movies, but students are also being directed to see classic films on the big screen at the histori-cal KiMo Theatre at 421 Central Ave NW.
English instruc-tor Jonathan Briggs said that he offered his English Film as Literature class an opportunity to visit the historic theater and watch a movie for extra credit.
“I told the class about it for two rea-sons; one is that it’s something to do outside of class that is related to film, and another is that the KiMo is an
important landmark in Albuquerque,” Briggs said.
The Film as Literature class is a survey course that covers the origin of film, film as an art form, and the cultural impact of film, Briggs said.
The KiMo Theater runs various film retro-spectives throughout the year; The Silver Screen Legends Film Series will wrap up on March 29 with a showing of “The African Queen,” at 7 p.m., with ticket prices at $5 to $7.
Briggs said that films like “The African Queen” are important to film history because of the impact that was made in cinema by the actors who starred in them, their directors, and the stories.
“There is this period of Bogart’s career where several really important
films were made that he was in, that are different styles, different stories; in ‘The African Queen” his female lead was Kathrine Hepburn, and it was
very much not war story, not the detective thing, it’s about a strug-gle, they are stuck in the jungle just the two of them and it’s another kind of story for the both of them,”
Briggs said.To see a clas-
sic film on a big screen is a very different experi-ence than watch-ing one on a tele-vision or computer screen, Briggs said.
Films made before television
were made to be seen on a
large screen; at that time people did not know about the small screen and since then film makers have learned that sometimes they shoot things very differently if they are made for televi-sion, Briggs said.
Another reason to see a classic film in a theater is because of the audience, Briggs said.
“Being in a theater with people— that’s a different experience than sitting by yourself or sitting with a few people in a small room,” Briggs said.
An example of this was at the KiMo Theater’s showing of the film noir classic “The Big Sleep” on March 15, 2014 when the whole audience jumped at a surprise gunshot that killed a character.
Classic film is not the only reason to visit the KiMo Theater, it is also an important part of film architecture, Briggs said.
The KiMo Theater was built in 1927, during a time when the people who built theaters wanted to make them interest-ing places to look at as well as serve the func-tion of showing films, and several styles emerged such as orien-tal, Greco Roman, and Art Deco, which the KiMo is an example of these architectural styles, Briggs said.
“I love the KiMo. It’s great because it’s big, but not huge, it has a wonderful look, and there are many things to look at besides the film,” Briggs said.
The KiMo Theater has several murals as well as art throughout the building that is inspired by native New Mexican
design and culture, a style which is known as Pueblo Revival, and includes the sculptural elements that frame the stage with buffalo skulls that have glowing eyes.
According to cabq.gov in 1977 the people of Albuquerque voted to purchase the KiMo Theater, which had fallen in to disre-pair, and renovations have happened since then; the most recent ending in 2002, to bring the back the former glory of the historical building.
“To see (a movie) on the big screen at least once and to see it in a place like the KiMo, which is that other kind of theater, you know the contemporary m u l t i p l e x e s aren’t built to be an example of design, other than functional,” Briggs said.
There are several other series that will be running at the KiMo includ-ing Crazy for Swayze, which shows a different Patrick Swayze film every Friday night, through to April 18.
But the KiMo has played host to other movie events such as the upcom-ing film series at the KiMo Theater that includes the Sunday Matinee: Sir Anthony Hopkins Festival, from April 27 to June 29, and Friday Fright Nights: Universal Monster:
the 30s, from May 23 to July 11.
For more infor-mation on events at the KiMo Theater and for show times
or tickets, visit KiMotickets.com.
English class visits cinema’s golden age
Showing this weekend at the KiMo Theater:
“Dirty Dancing”
Friday March 28
at 8 p.m .
“The African Queen”
Saturday March 29
at 7 p.m .More information on show times and tickets at KiMotickets.com
One of the iconic skulls from the lobby of the KiMo.
PHOTO BY ANGELA LE QUIEU
Film fans gather at the premier of “50-1”.PHOTO BY ANGELA LE QUIEU
GRAPHICS BY MELISSA SHEPARD