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Issue 25 of Volume 18 of The CNM Chronicle
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By Daniel JohnsonInvestigative
ReporterTraining will be
provided on multiple campuses to teach fac-ulty and staff what to do if an active shooter situation should happen on campus.
Montoya and Westside campuses will each host two training
sessions which will be similar to the two ses-sions recently completed on Main campus, APD Patrolmen First Class James Vautier said.
I loved the turnout for our first session, I was surprised at how many people attended, he said.
The training pro-vided by Vautier was created using data col-lected from the NYPD,
the Virginia Tech mas-sacre, APD psycholo-gists and mental health case studies from past shootings, he said.
Vautiers tech-nique is similar to the Run, Hide, Fight technique, but focuses more on what a person can do to prevent a shooting, Vautier said.
By Rene ThompsonStaff Reporter
A New Mexico chap-ter of the First Tech Challenge Lego Robotics program is raising money to compete in the FTC World Championship
next month, dual credit CNM student and team leader Haley Hanson said.
Hansons team, Dutch 200, which competes against other teams using Lego Robot kits, has won a spot in the FTC World Championship on April
24-27 in St. Louis Mo., but must raise a $1,000 entry fee first, she said.
The team is really happy about going to the championship, team chaperone and Haley Hansons mom, Lori Hanson, said.
Dutch 200 was invited to the world championship after winning the Inspire Award in the regional competition on March 16, said Lori Hanson. The teams robot, Hal, won tenth place in the robot competition, she said.
The team does not yet know what they will do to raise the entry fee, but will post the details and how others can help on their Facebook page at facebook.com/ftcteam5666,
Feature | Pg 8
Telling Tales
see ROBOT on page 7
see TRAINING on page 7see POETRY on page 7
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Students team competes in lego robotics world championship
Instructor publishes book of poetry
Active shooter training offered on Montoya,Westside campuses
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY RENE THOMPSON
Team Dutch 200 won the Inspire Award in the regional competition with their robot Hal (left) placing tenth.
PHOTO BY DANIEL JOHNSON
APD Patrolmen First Class James Vautier lectures faculty and staff in the Smith Brasher auditorium on what to do in the event of an active shooter on campus.
Active Shooter Training Schedule
Montoya Campus March 22 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. or 3 to 5 p.m. in J Building, Room J122
Westside Campus March 22 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. or 3 to 5 p.m. in WSII, Room 115
By Shaya RogersFeatures Reporter
English and Cultural Studies instructor Felecia Caton-Garcia will be reading poems from her newly pub-lished book at a local bookstore next month, she said.
Caton-Garcia will read a selection of poems from her book
Say That on April 17 at Bookworks on Rio Grande in the North Valley. This is her first published book, she said.
Its really exciting, more exciting than I expected it to be, just to actually be able to hold the book in my hands, she said.
Caton-Garcia said she had been working on the poems for many years with no intention
of putting them together for a book, but it fell into place.
I have written for most of my life and Ive written seriously and for publication for 10 or 15 years, so you always sort of have an idea that youre evolving some-thing, she said.
The poems stem from personal experi-ences with death and family, including the death of her father and an uncle who died just weeks before she was born, she said.
Although her poems are based on real events, they show a fictional outsider perspective of these events, she said.
I dont feel ter-ribly tied to facts of a
2 | The CNM Chronicle March 19, 2013BULLETINTo submit items for Campus Bulletin, please email news item with a maximum of 150 words to [email protected] or call 224-4755.Phi Theta Kappa-Alpha Upsilon Chi Calendar
AYX will be holding meetings and events throughout the term.
Unless otherwise noted, events will be held in portable building ST-12A, in the portables east of Ken Chappy hall and south of the Student Resource Center on Main campus.
March 22 Campus Clean-up, meet at ST-12A, 1:30 p.m. sunset.
March 27 - Free pizza lunch social, Main campus Cafeteria, 1 4 p.m.
March 29 Meeting, 1:30 4 p.m.
April 16-18 Book Exchange, outside Main campus Cafeteria, 9 a.m. 3 p.m.
April 20 New member i n d u c t i o n , Smith Brasher Auditorium, 6 p.m.
Action is Our Middle Name
CNMs Conservative Action Group is moving to bring programs of enlightenment to CNM campuses, such as speakers on the US Constitution and the free market.
Come help us plan a student debate on gun control at CNM. For more information, call Dan at 304-0244.
Be the fit...be Honeylicious!
CNMs Film Program is trying to raise $1,000 for a short film Honeylicious, about two unlikely friend that end up fighting for their lives in a road trip/bromance/ dramedy adventure.
Its Pineapple Express meets Collateral meets Fargo.
Please check out our kickstarter video and help us create our film.
Visit www.k i c k s t a r t e r . c o m /projects/421290428/honeylicious-a-short-film-0?ref=live
Volunteers needed for campus safety walks
The Executive Council of Students will host safety walks on South Valley and Montoya.
The South Valley safety walk will take place on March 21 at 7 p.m., volunteers will meet in the courtyard.
The Montoya campus safety walk will take place on March 22 at 7 p.m., volunteers will meet in the H-Building cafeteria.
Bottled water and snacks will be provided for both events.
Student Film Club Looking for New Members
DAT, a student film group, is looking for new members. The group creates student-led films.
Students interested in making films are welcome. Students do not have to be in the film program to participate.
Email Madison Coss at [email protected] for more information.
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EDITORIAL CARTOON BY SCOTT M. ROBERTS
Rape culture needs to end and it must start with education.
Questioning what a victim wore or what the victim had to drink seems natural. Jokes about rape such as the line sung by the men in Summer Nights from Grease are so common in media that most people hardly notice.
Rape culture will not go away over-night. We need education on the subject, without judgment, spin or propaganda.
We need institutions like CNM to add rape culture to the list of cultural studies classes.
We need professionals to tell us how to handle situations where rape culture is happening. We need classes on preventing rape culture like the active shooter train-ing mentioned in Active shooter training offered on Montoya, Westside Campuses on the front page of this issue.
We need this because victims should not be afraid to come forward after a rape. We need this because teenagers think it is ok to video tape a rape, but do nothing to stop it.
The problem with rape culture is that it blurs the line. It can make people forget that we live in a world where actions have consequences.
Major news outlets like CNN have made comment about the recent guilty decision in the Stubenville rape case that lament the loss of promising careers of the rapists, and of their lifelong labels as sex offenders.
What the national news media failed to acknowledge is the struggle the victim will have.
Images and video of her rape are on the internet forever. Her memory loss of the night will leave her with lifelong questions about how things got so out of control.
This case, from start to finish, is the product of a culture that embraces rape as funny or the victims fault or a common-place thing that happens all the time.
This is not ok.Last spring, the CNM Chronicle
wrote a special edition paper on sex and violence which included the story of a male rape victim.
He said his attackers were never brought to justice because the respond-ing officers did not believe a man could be raped.
His story can be read at thecnmchron-icle.wordpress.com/overcoming-stigma.
If the police can be taken in by rape culture, we must be educated in order to combat it.
So CNM, give us the option to learn. There are so many instances where
people tells us it is ok to think rape jokes are funny, that a persons sexual history is relevant to a sexual assault and that a forceful or violent man is somehow sexy.
We need a place to that will help us examine the problem.
Preventing rape starts
with education
4 | The CNM Chronicle March 19, 2013
By Daniel JohnsonInvestigative Reporter
Failing out of CNM was a major wakeup call for 4 On Your Side Investigative Reporter Gadi Schwartz.
Schwartz enrolled at CNM right after high school while also working more than one job. He spent less time studying because he thought he could breeze through, he said.
I thought I could make it on my own, but that def-initely did not work out so well, Schwartz said.
Graduating high school while still slacking off left him unprepared for the more challenging col-lege life, he said.
Even though he left after failing a single term, Schwartz said he felt that CNM is perfect bridge for students because the options are so diverse.
I wish I would have utilized it more because failing out was a swift kick in the butt or a wakeup call of sorts, Schwartz said.
It was the mirror that said, Look, this is where
you are in your life and you need to pull your act together and do something with yourself. I am probably where I am today because of the butt kicking I got from CNM, Schwartz said.
Gadi Schwartz may be a well-known face on TV now, but before that, it was his father who was the local celebrity.
Sergio Schwartz, Gadi Schwartzs father, was a beloved broad-caster for Univision.
Sergio Schwartz began as a weatherman on the Spanish news channel, but eventually went on to report on bigger stories, he said.
I remember when he would come to my school and surprise me by taking me out of class to go and work on a really cool story with him, we would have these really awesome adventures together all the time, he said.
Gadi Schwartz said his dad would take him along to cover stories like the Roswell alien con-vention, the pilgrimage to Chimayo, the burn-ing of Zozobra and the
Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, he said.
I am now covering the same things as a pro-fessional reporter that I used to do with my dad as a kid, said Schwartz.
At first his goal was not to be associated with his father professionally, but now the respect and honor that has grown for him is undeniable, he said.
His father, who grew up in Guatemala, accom-plished everything he did without the education or opportunity that might have been presented to someone growing up in the United States, he said.
My dad always tells people, Look at my son, he is following in my foot-steps and I always have to say, Wait, hold on. You are a weatherman and I am a serious investigative journalist and that is a big difference. It is all in
good fun though, because I am very thankful to my dad for allowing me to have a passport into the people and tra-ditions of New Mexico, Schwartz said.
While Schwartz has become well known and respected for his investi-gative work at Channel 4, his long-term goal is to become a war correspon-dent, he said.
War is an issue that is hard to understand, but it is important that jour-nalists dig deep into what is happening and share it with the public, he said.
And much like, inves-tigative reporting, conflict reporting would give him more time to develop the story to make sure the
public gets as much infor-mation as possible, he said.
Every single story I have ever had has not been complete in my opinion because there are so many unanswered questions or incomplete informa-tion that I want to get the answers to, said Schwartz.
For Schwartz though, it all comes back to CNM and the importance of education.
When it comes to education and find-ing a passion, people
really need to take the time to self-reflect and realize what their jobs in the world will be and just go for it, he said.
The important thing is for students to commit to what they want and to stay focused on those goals, he said.
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Channel 4 investigative reporter Gadi Schwartz said that failing at CNM gave him the wake up call he needed to succeed.
Where Are They Now: Gadi Schwartz
Where are they now? features former CNM stu-dents who have gone on to do amazing things. To nomi-nate a former student send an email to:[email protected].
March 19, 2013 The CNM Chronicle | 5ENTERTAINMENT
A d v e r t i s em e n t
PHOTO PR0VIDED BY THE VORTEX
Actors Ed Chavez and Alicia Lueras Maldonado share an intimate scene during the rehersal shoot.
The gleefully foul-mouthed play, The Motherf**ker with the Hat, is coming to Albuquerque for the first time later this month.
Motherf**ker will open on March 22 at the Vortex theatre and run for three weekends.
The play is a chal-lenging, well-writ-ten and very funny examination of the choices we make about love. In many ways a coming of age story, the play is raw, yet deeply familiar and human, Director Leslee Richards said.
The play is set in a blue-collar Puerto Rican community in New York City and is an intense verbal cage match about love, fidelity and a mis-placed hat, she said.
Elliot Stenzel, who plays antagonist Ralph, said the life-like char-acters struggle with problems that are familiar to most people.
We all have f laws in our personality and how you manage
those throughout life can dictate how well you do, he said.
The off-putting title and the show itself is a reflection of modern American life, he said.
Efrain Villa, who plays supporting char-acter Julio, said the play will strike a differ-ent chord for everyone because it touches on many topics like fear, loneliness and addiction.
In many ways this play is about how people can get stuck in really bad cycles and how difficult it is to pull yourself out of that cycle, he said.
The 2011 play was written by Stephen Adly Guirgis and was nominated for six Tony awards. It centers on Jackie, a former drug dealer out on parole, and his relationship with his long-time girlfriend Veronica. When Jackie finds another mans hat in his girl-friends apartment, he is convinced she
has been cheating and swears to find the motherf**ker who owns the hat.
There is a content advisory for the per-formance, which is for ages 18 and over.
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After more than two years of dormancy, the Math League is available once again to students who love math, need help with their home-work or are just inter-ested in learning a little more about the often dreaded subject.
The chartered stu-dent organization meets every Saturday on Main campus and is open to students at any math level, said Engineering major and club President Myra Villalobos.
Its not a competitive group. You dont have to be a math all-star; we just want you to come and do your math, she said.
Studying at meet-ings has helped all group members improve their math skills, Villalobos said.
We realized how dif-ferent each one of us is and how helpful it is to
study together. We have different strengths and weaknesses, she said.
The group re-formed during the fall 2012 term with four members and an adviser. The club now hosts about 20 stu-dents per meeting and a STEP-UP tutor is pres-ent to provide help if the group gets stuck, she said.
We want to get people from the lower levels in math show up for help so they understand that it really is a process and that we all go through it, she said.
The groups home-work model has become popular, and is now being used for both a Physics and a Biology club, Villalobos said.
Math League gets its p on
Students with an urge to try their hand at working in televi-sion can learn the ropes through U-public, the operators of Albuquerques Public Access channels.
The non-profit organization offers classes through meetup.com/upublicans which range in price from free to $10 and teach things like how to develop a show concept, how to use production and recording equipment and how to make money through programming, said U-public Director Toby Younis.
The program has offered 75 classes and trained 138 volunteers since July 2012, and has 35 more classes in the works, he said.
Since U-Public began operating chan-nels 17, 26 and 27 in the city, it has offered seven in-house productions
and 18 independent productions. More than 30 more are in various stages of pro-duction, he said.
We have been working on bringing in all types of content to public access, from shows such as an online web-series, to educa-tional and local based content, as well as sports broadcasts such as Womens Liberal Basketball, Younis said.
Theatre major Shelley Carney said U-publics vision of training and support-ing budding TV pro-ducers has done a lot to bring public television back into the public forum in Albuquerque.
U-Public has suc-ceeded in changing the face of public access television with educa-tional and local com-munity based program-ming, and U-Publics main focus is to
produce shows with quality content that add value to the com-munity, she said.
Carney, who pro-duces a local talk show called New Mexico Media Makers on U-public, said the con-tent on U-public is education-driven and locally-based, which has made it valuable to the public.
We have a show that educates on how to deal with the death of a loved one emotionally and financially, a show that gives legal advice on many common scenarios from legal experts and we have productions that show-case local community media, Carney said.
For more infor-mation on U-public, visit upublic.tv.
Public Access offers students opportunity to produce
television shows
PHOTO BY JAMISON WAGNER
(left to right) Math League members Adam Dyba, Phil Vanevery, Myra Villalobos meet weekly to study math together.
Math League11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays
Main campus Jeanette Stromberg Hall JS-208
March 19, 2013 The CNM Chronicle | 7
particular narrative so the book is a combina-tion of autobiographi-cal work, but often even much of the auto-biographical work is imagined, she said.
Publishing Say
That prompted her to consider how to recognize the artis-tic growth that takes place between the writing process, during and after publi-cation, and the present moment, she said.
I am choosing to
see it as a snapshot of that particular time and place and who I was as a writer right then, and the next one will also not be who I am when it comes out, she said.
She credits Say That with helping her evolve
her writing and bringing her to where she is today, she said. She hopes that by reading her work, others will be inspired by the imagery or ideas in the story.
Ideally, thats what art does; art changes you. The act of making art
changes you, she said.Caton-Garcia said
she would like for readers to feel inspired by her work.
Say That is avail-able at the UNM bookstore through unmpress.com/books and can be ordered
wherever books are sold for $17.95.
Bookworks is located at 4022 Rio Grande Blvd. NW, Caton-Garcia will be reading her poetry from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Wednesday, April 17.
Lori Hanson said.Haley Hanson said
she learned about robotics when she was 11 when she and her brother joined a team in the junior league of the same organization.
We build our robots
to complete a certain challenge each year that is released in September, and challenges consist of game like competitions for children to better under-stand, such as this years form of a three-dimen-sional vertical Tic-Tac-Toe, taking objects from one point to another in a
specific pattern, she said. The FTC and the
FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) organization work to get kids from Kindergarten through grade 12 inter-ested in learning about science and technol-ogy through robotics
challenges, she said.It is a fun way to
learn about new technolo-gies, as well as teamwork and strategy, with a very unique sports model, she said. It also teaches gra-cious and ethical profes-sionalism at an early age, Haley Hanson said.
Dutch 200 works
with several chil-drens organizations and schools, such as the Albuquerque Sign Language Academy, the Albuquerque School of Excellence, and the Pruitt Reservation, teaching students about Lego robotics, she said.
Our team has
mentored over 60 First Lego League and First Tech Challenge teams in our five plus years with the FIRST organization, she said.
For more informa-tion on Lego robotics and competitions visit usfirst.org.
Vautier believes that getting people to be aware without being paranoid is the best way to ensure
that someone will spot a shooter before anyone gets hurt, he said.
I want people to have an idea of what to look for with a person
who may need help, but I also want them to know what to do in case an active shooter event was to occur on campus, he said.
Deaf Services Coordinator Faith Timm, who attended the Main campus session, said the training could have been more focused specifically
on active shooters on col-lege campuses, but still felt it was helpful.
I thought the training was good and worth my time
and I would recom-mend that all staff and faculty make it to the training if they can, she said.
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8 | The CNM Chronicle March 19, 2013FEATURELeonardo Literary Magazine release party announced
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY JONATHAN GAMBOA
Previous issues of the Leonardo Literary Magazine.
By Adriana AvilaManaging EditorThe 2013 edition
of Leonardo Literary Magazine is scheduled to be released next month, said Leonardo adviser and Full-time Creative Writing instructor Patrick Houlihan.
The release party for this years edition will be held at the Main campus Student Resource Center on April 5 where stu-dents will have the opportunity to share their works during the festivities, he said.
Its a celebration of whats in it. Anyone who is published in it can stand up and read their stuff and pick up copies, share them with friends, he said.
Leonardo is funded by through student activ-ity fees and prints only 250 copies of each edition, which are free, he said.
With the increase of student interest,
Leonardo has grown from tabloid size to an actual magazine length, he said.
Its grown and sta-bilized over the years to where its now a 50 or 60 page magazine full color and student activities has been great at funding the
increase costs. Paper and ink took a huge jump about five or seven years ago, he said.
Being published is a big step for people and it helps a great deal to write it on resumes, he said.
Its a wonderful resume line to say Im a published author or artist selected, Houlihan said.
English major and Leonardo editor Shaya Rogers said it is a privilege to review student works because this years submis-sions were impressive.
Giving students the opportunity to share their creative work is a positive aspect of the CNM community and I am so happy to support that, Rogers said.
Rogers, who also works as the features reporter for the CNM Chronicle, has three nature photos and two poems featured in the magazine: one about her challenges with monog-amy and the other an ode to her sister who commit-ted suicide when she was a teenager, she said.
Business and Communications major and layout designer Jonathan Gamboa, who also works at the produc-tion manager for the CNM
Chronicle, said he enjoys designing the magazine because it gives him the opportunity be creative.
I think its fun. Since I am the only one designing, it allows me to have more freedom in producing the magazine, Gamboa said.
This is Gamboas second design year and his role for Leonardo extends further profes-sionally from the mouse and screen, he said.
I really did get pro-fessional experience doing it the first year because I was having to stay in touch with the printers and coordinat-ing the release party with the editors, along with setting my own deadlines to finish the magazine, he said.
Houlihan said Leonardo used to be a semester project for the Business and Graphics department, but the magazine became the work of volunteer stu-dents after the pro-gram was cut a couple of years ago.
Submissions for Leonardo for 2014 are now being accepted and deadline for works will probably be in early January 2014, he said.
Houlihan hopes to
continue the works of Leonardo because of the communitys great reviews and the benefits
students receive when published, he said.
Its a nice repre-sentation of us to the
community and Id hate for it to disappear, Houlihan said.
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY JONATHAN GAMBOA
The 2012 issue of Leonardo Literary Magazine entitled Destination Unknown.
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