TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN MON 99 45 35 80 85 95 99 25 05 07 50 00 49 12 The Independent Student Newspaper of NMSU since 1907 • Tuesday, 3.31.2015 • Volume 116 • Issue 25 nmsuRoundUp.com STUDENT LIFE #JAYKAY SPORTS NMSU MASCOT NOW FAMILY FRIENDLY PAGE 12 campus FILM SPRING BREAK WHAT YOU MISSED PAGE 6 READ THIS BOOKS WORTH READING PAGE 13 campus chipotle TO OPEN ON CAMPUS PAGE 3 Photos by Diane Arbus SHINING LIGHT ON OFFICER SHOOTINGS PAGE 8 By Abril Naive Ex Staff Writer New Mexico State University failed to mention to the public that the May commencement ceremo- ny has been postponed due to the building being occupied by stray cats. The university plans to an- nounce the postponement April 1. The stray cats finally got sick and tired of abusive conditions brought on by individuals who en- counter them. Mr. Boots, the lead of the pack, discusses with The Round Up what his intentions are for oc- cupying the beloved building to NMSU’s economy. “NMSU has attempted to elimi- nate us on several occasions. The students never show us any love. Some of the humans feed us aw- ful cheap store-brand cat food,” Boots said. “This is our revenge to the NMSU community for not appreciating us and our elegance. We know how much the singles on campus love dedicating their lives to felines, but they choose to go to pet stores.” Mr. Boots expects the sit-in to last till August 2015, but the Uni- versity plans on using militarized police force to vacate the protest- ing cats. The cats claim to deserve to be on this campus just as much as the cow and horses do. “We have feelings too,” Boots said.
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The Independent Student Newspaper of NMSU since 1907 • Tuesday, 3.31.2015 • Volume 116 • Issue 25 nmsuRoundUp.com
STUDENT LIFE
#JAYKAY
SPORTS
NMSU MASCOTNOW FAMILY FRIENDLY
PAGE 12
campus FILM
SPRING BREAKWHAT YOU MISSED
PAGE 6
READ THIS BOOKS WORTH READING
PAGE 13
campus
chipotleTO OPEN ON CAMPUS
PAGE 3
CONTINUED ON PAGE 41
Photos by Diane A
rbus
SHINING LIGHT ON OFFICER SHOOTINGS
PAGE 8
By Abril Naive Ex Sta� Writer
New Mexico State University failed to mention to the public that the May commencement ceremo-ny has been postponed due to the building being occupied by stray cats. The university plans to an-nounce the postponement April 1.
The stray cats fi nally got sick and tired of abusive conditions brought on by individuals who en-
counter them.Mr. Boots, the lead of the pack,
discusses with The Round Up what his intentions are for oc-cupying the beloved building to NMSU’s economy.
“NMSU has attempted to elimi-nate us on several occasions. The students never show us any love. Some of the humans feed us aw-ful cheap store-brand cat food,” Boots said. “This is our revenge to the NMSU community for not appreciating us and our elegance.
We know how much the singles on campus love dedicating their lives to felines, but they choose to go to pet stores.”
Mr. Boots expects the sit-in to last till August 2015, but the Uni-versity plans on using militarized police force to vacate the protest-ing cats.
The cats claim to deserve to be on this campus just as much as the cow and horses do.
Take a break between classes & come out for this amazing event which includes:
STUDENT TAILGATE LOT APRIL 6 & 7 • 10AM-5PM
Sales
Advertising ManagerJonathan Johnsen
Advertising Representatives
Director of MarketingSonia Diaz
Circulation SpecialistCarlos Garcia
Design
Design SpecialistHeather Nichole Miller
Graphic DesignersValentin Guereque
Kimberly RodriguezHeriberto Bajo
PhotographersOlivia Baker
Luis Miranda, Jr.
AdministrationExecutive Director
Dustin ChavezComptroller
Jessica ChenowethAdministrative Assistants
Tatiana MiyazakiWilliam Peck
Maylynn PadillaEditorial
Managing EditorAnthony Albidrez
Online EditorChristopher Allan
Volume 116 | Issue 25 | Mar. 31, 2015
Submission PolicyThe Round Up welcomes submis-sions for publication. Submissions can be dropped off , faxed or emailed. Submissions become property of The Round Up and will not be returned. The Round Up reserves the right to edit articles and cannot guarantee publication.Advertising PolicyThe Round Up welcomes paid adver-tisements for legal products and ser-vices. The Round Up does not accept ads deemed discriminatory by the editor. Any advertisement that might be confused with editorial content must be clearly labeled (paid adver-tisement.) Positions of ads cannot be guaranteed. The Round Up reserves the right to refuse publication of any advertisement.About Us:The Round Up is published during the academic year by the students for the university community. Correc-tions of the print edition will be made of www.nmsuroundup.com. Editorial content of the newspaper is indepen-dent of advertising content. Opinions expressed in The Round Up are not necessarily those of the staff , New Mexico State University or the Associ-ated Students of NMSU.
Welcome back Aggies,This year in emphasis of the Sunshine Week event on
campus 5 p.m., April 2, Zuhl Library, third floor (page 8-9), The Round Up expresses our use of misleading information as a metaphor to what could happen if the government were to be completely dark, without trans-parency (cough, cough, ASNMSU, cough).
Information could be dispersed by the government in very dim light or with no light at all if Sunshine Laws were gutted or diluted. With laws concerning the access of public records intact, the press and the public have access to certain public records if the records they are pursuing are not exempted under a certain criteria.
Sorry to say, New Mexico State University will not be getting a Chipotle, there wasn’t a crazy filmmaker on campus, “the Swastika” will not continue publica-tion, Tumbleweed Tim will not see the light of day, Sergio Williams may exist somewhere in the world, NM Legislature isn’t deciding whether or not to make this a dry county (or are they?) and NMSU will not get a bar on campus.
However, commencement will be postponed. Actually it won’t be, the date for graduation is May 9. Right on schedule for some of us. Congratulations! Less than a month to go.
The feature story about Sunshine Week at NMSU, the editorial written about graduation on page four, the sports section and all advertisements are factual and accurate.
We will attempt to make corrections in the next issue, but probably not because the stray cats have eyes set on The Round Up headquarters. They seek to control our journalistic resources for cat culture.
If we miss next week’s print, we blame it on the cats. Happy April Fool’s Week NMSU! I hope this
edition of The Round Up didn’t estrange any of our readers.
Photo by Luis Miranda Jr.
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THE ROUND UP Tuesday, 3.31.2015CAMPUS NEWS
By Merrit Peterson Dog Whisperer
The controversial New Mexico State University Year book, “The Swastika” was discontinued in 1989, but is being brought back beginning Fall Semester 2015.
School authorities are, “overwhelmed” by the amount of support the yearbook has received and are currently looking for a publisher.
“We couldn’t be more thrilled about this development,” said president of the NMSU Pro Swastika Alliance Adam Salin-ger, “People forget that the swastika actu-ally holds a beautiful sacred meaning. It is a still religious symbol for billions of Hindus, Raelians, Jains and Buddhist, not including the Native American ties to the symbol. I think publishing ‘The Swastika’ would make an excellent addition to the universi-ties multicultural environment.”
According to Salinger, most organiza-tions stopped using the pinwheel symbol in support of the Jewish community after the rise of Hitler, but New Mexico State University continued to use the swastika symbol until 1989 when the yearbook went out of print.
Today, however, many students are lead-
ing protests and petitions against the year-books publishing.
“The fact that NMSU is even considering renaming the yearbook ‘The Swastika’ is outrageous,” said student Kenny McLane. “The swastika has been used by countless hate groups that have idolized Nazi Ger-many and racist policies. This is a public university, and we can’t let this happen.”
Currently, NMSU is trying to find a print-ing company willing to print the publica-tion. Last week, NMSU printing company Hotchkiss Publications refused to print the publication and released a public statement about their decision Wednesday.
“Our goal at Hotchkiss Publications is to provide quality public printing services to companies and universities all over Ameri-ca,” said their representative, Henry Rodri-guez. “However, we do not feel comfort-able printing this publication at this point in time given the symbol. We hope that we continue to print for New Mexico State University in the future.”
While currently searching for a printing company, NMSU plans to continue to go ahead and publish “The Swastika”.
For more information on the Pro Swasti-ka Alliance, go to www.proswastikallience.com.
NMSU to Publish 'The Swastika,' NMSU Yearbook
By Merrit Peterson Dog Whisperer
Chipotle Mexican Grill fast food restaurant is to replace Blake’s Lota-burger in Gerald Thomas Hall on campus beginning in the Fall Semes-ter of 2015.
Franchise Chipotle had been an-ticipating putting a Chipotle on cam-pus for several years but recently decided to take action and replace Blake’s due to the franchise location shutting down.
The Chipotle site will be the first Chipotle located in the Las Cruces area, with the closest location about an hour away located in El Paso.
Francize co-owner Allan Robinson said the location and college demo-graphic of the area is perfect for a Chipotle location.
“The renovation of Gerald Thom-
as is going to take place over the sum-mer months is anticipated to end by October,” Robinson said. “Once es-tablished, we are anticipating a very profitable business.”
Chipotle has an almost cult-like following among many students at other universities.
Locally, it is not uncommon for students to drive to El Paso for food from Chipotle.
“I love Chipotle. I’ve wanted Las Cruces to open one for years,” said senior Cassandra Minus. “It’s just my luck we get one the year I graduate!”
The Mexican fast food restaurant will seat approximately 45 people and hire 30 people a semester. The hours are anticipated to be from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday through Fri-day.More information on Chipotle and its various locations can be found on chipotlefresh.com.
Chipotle to Open at NMSU
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THE ROUND UP Tuesday, 3.31.2015CAMPUS NEWS
By Jesse MoyaGonzo Mastuh
May 9 will mark the day where several hundred students will achieve their goals and move on to the next stage on their lives. They will walk across the stage and realize the end of nearly half a decade of work and determination.
Any student who enters into a university looks forward to those fi-nal months of their last semester in hopes that they will walk alongside their hundreds of other classmates to that giant stage and grab a di-ploma out of the hands of the most important people in the university. Mom and Dad cheer, take photos and simultaneously post them on Twitter or Facebook to send no-tice to family members around the world to let everyone know their baby has completed college. A sim-ple American tradition which, like every single other tradition in the U.S., has given into the ridiculous consumer based platform. Now, as it seems, it’s nearly impossible for someone to graduate if they find themselves being in the unfortunate situation of not being able to afford the bells and whistles tacked onto the overall commencement. First there is your diploma which, sure as death and taxes, you have to pay for. Then there is the arbitrary task of picking out what announcements you will be sending to several of your friends and family. Do you get the frilly ones with lace or do you go simple ad. tacky?
The school holds a fair to give you all of the answers and connect the dots about graduation with all of these vendors snagging at your dusty-lint filled pockets to add to their company’s already high stock
prices. Rings, announcements, caps
and gowns, when does the money spending stop?
The answer is never. The busi-ness of a university is to ready it’s students for the outside world of financial limbo. Budgeting and smart money sense is not taught, only consumption. Students are groomed for a consumer world and are quickly taught that money, not magic, is might. However, if you like many other students in your classes were left with an empty mailbox on your 11th birthday there are certain things you must learn.
Graduation is a step in life for a university student and it is a major accomplishment for the hard work they must go through. No doubt students kill themselves over tests or serious assignments that teachers use later in life as examples, com-bine that with several overnighters and weeks spent in Zuhl, and you have a college experience. Persever-ance and drive is what is rewarded at the commencement ceremony, but bear in mind this can be done with-out spending thousands of extras dollars you may or may not have.
No matter your degree, it is some-thing to be proud of and celebrated. The university tries to help by host-ing a fair in their corporately spon-sored building so that you might head upstairs and check out their certified apple store one last time before you grab your sheepskin and are no longer affiliated with them. The announcements look sharp and the kids gleaming with pride while a photographer takes their picture are enough to make any passerby smile at their accom-plishments. Understand that the real issue is not the money you have to spend but the time and money
you have already spent trying to get the degree. Ignore the meaningless tables and try to keep focus on the important things left in life.
Anything extra will cost you, your family is coming into town, your friends will congratulate you and most important, you will have com-pleted your time at school and are now free to follow your dreams, and hit the ground running so you can start working on your career. Next comes the big things like credit cards, house payments, car pay-ments and everything else. You are still a student for the next month or so, so try and act like it. Save your money instead of spending it, after all there is no guarantee you will get the dream job right away.
Writers these days are quick to give into fads and are quick to lose their journalistic ethic, however this writer is about keeping things real and letting people know the truth above all. There is no middle ground. Be entertained by the other stories in this issue but remember the issue at hand and keep focused on May. More important things are on the horizon and to let them take ahold of life is to fall through the cracks. No one cares if your an-nouncements are the best or if you have the coolest party among your friends.
Our culture has been driv-en far away from the ideals of tradi-tion and c e l e b r a -t i o n a n d has
been plunged into the idea of con-sumerism and excess. These are the shelves in Wal-Mart, the endless isles of candy in every department store. Consumer driven holidays have become the normal tradition in the U.S. much so to the point of plastic and paper decorations that are discarded at the end of ev-ery season. Companies have found ways to capitalize on just about every single holiday we can imagine and have nearly ruined the overall feel of the day. Graduation should not be about little pencil toppers shaped like graduation caps or confetti cut like diplomas. Stay away from the noise and listen to reality.
Reality is where we need to be as a society and it seems that we are slowly drifting away from that. Enjoy the day you graduate and remember that is it the journey we have gone through, not the worthless objects that people throw at you at the last minute. Your family and friends will be proud and so should you. The journey is almost over and the end is in sight. Grab your diploma, throw your cap and enjoy the rest of your life as a graduate paying into society however you choose. You have already paid for the ticket, now all you have to do is take the ride.
are on the horizon and to let them take ahold of life is to fall through the cracks. No one cares if your an-nouncements are the best or if you have the coolest party among your friends.
Our culture has been driv-en far away from the ideals of tradi-tion and c e l e b r a -t i o n
your life as a graduate paying into society however you choose. You have already paid for the ticket, now all you have to do is take the ride.
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CAMPUS NEWS
By Billy HuntsmanFilm Addict
The New Mexico State Legislature in Santa Fe is seeking to turn Doña Ana County into a dry county, and some people are not happy about it.
A dry county is one wherein the sale of alcoholic beverages is forbid-den. The legislature’s move comes not long after NMSU announced in January it was looking into the feasi-bility and legality of opening a bar on campus.
“(Opening a bar on campus) would actually be quite economical, we’ve found,” said Greg Armijo, vice presi-dent for economic development at NMSU. “We’ve conducted several surveys and in all of them we’ve found that, if there were a bar or some sort of establishment that students could get alcohol from, they would be less likely to go to off-campus establish-ments.”
The benefits of this, Armijo said, would be a reduction in the instances of driving while intoxicated, alcohol-related fatalities and accidents.
In NMSU’s latest crime statistics report, the Las Cruces campus was found to have more than 100 liquor-related violations in just the first half of 2014, ranking in the top 10 percent for alcohol-related on-campus inci-dents, according to the U.S. Office of Postsecondary Education’s 2014 Na-tional Report Card.
Armijo first pitched the idea to NMSU’s Board of Regents in Janu-ary, and after being tabled for fur-ther discussion at a later date Armijo turned to the Las Cruces community to “test the waters,” and see if any lo-cal bar owners would be interested in opening another location at NMSU.
He found a “kindred spirit” in Tom Leland Jr., proprietor of Waltzing
Matilda, Las Cruces’ oldest bar. “(Armijo) came to me, he said,
‘This is what we want to do, this is why we want to do it,’” Leland said. “I jumped on-board right away. I’m all for having a good time, but being safe at the same time.”
Leland said he knew he was in for “a rollercoaster” in regards to the public’s and the state government’s response to the move, and it seems he was right.
Las Cruces’ chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, or M.A.D.D., have been vocal opponents of the pro-posal since the beginning.
“It’s unconscionable,” said Glenda Dwyer, M.A.D.D. – Las Cruces’ spokeswoman. “There are enough bars in the city already, the school of all places does not need one.”
Dwyer went on to say opening a bar on campus would be akin to NMSU offering a degree in alcoholism.
The NMSU Board of Regents ap-proved the proposal in January by a vote of 3-2.
“It’s not ideal,” said Regent Carl Rembach. “But in the end we have to do what’s right for the university, and this, in the long run, seems to be what’s best.”
After a presentation of the proposal by Armijo, Leland and others in the office of economic development, the Las Cruces City Council voted against the proposal 4-3.
“If they have any sense of what’s right and wrong, they’ll drop it,” said Las Cruces City Councilor Victor Shanes. “New Mexico already has a bad enough of a drinking problem, we don’t need any help in worsening it.”
Other city council members were more optimistic and encouraged Armijo and Leland to take their case to the New Mexico Supreme Court.
“That close a margin (4-3), you have to try again,” said City Councilor
Camille Bustillo. “Personally, I think it’s a good idea. I’m not a huge fan of drinking, but students are going to do it, and if they are I think doing it on a designated school property, within walking distance of their dorm, is the best place.”
After the vote by the city council, Armijo and Leland took their case to Santa Fe and the state legislature, which then ruled in favor of the pro-posal 3-2 when the session ended on March 21.
“There are still a lot of hoops for them to jump through,” said Justice Richard G. Wilkins. “But this is a stepping point for them. Having the New Mexico Supreme Court’s sup-port behind them is a big thing.”
Shortly after the decision, however, the New Mexico M.A.D.D. chapter, as well as representatives from the New Mexico Motorists Association and concerned parents from New Mexico universities, and high schools submitted a bill to the New Mexico Supreme Court to overrule the legis-lature’s decision.
“As parents and concerned citizens, we cannot idly sit back and watch as a ‘respected’ university attempts to erode the moral decency and dignity of an entire generation,” said a press release from the collation.
This group has gathered further support from the Las Cruces and Doña Ana communities, which has enhanced their goal from simply dis-allowing a bar to be built at NMSU to turning the whole county dry.
“My son was killed a year ago going to Las Cruces from Radium Springs,” said Laura Turner, M.A.D.D. mem-ber. “He was killed by a drunk driv-er. (Drinking) is not okay, it never should have been okay, it needs to be stopped!”
If approved by the Supreme Court when it meets in April, Doña Ana
County will become the first dry county in all of New Mexico.
“There’s no way that’s go-ing to get passed,” said Leland. “The majority of people like drinking, they do it responsibly. There’s no way.”
When asked about the chances of the bar being approved to be built at NMSU, Leland was less sure.
“It’s difficult to say,” he said. “I’m hope-ful, and there’s the decision of the legis-lature behind us, but there still seems to be a lot of resistance. The world can sur-prise you, though.”
If the Supreme Court denies their proposal, Armijo said he will keep on advocating for the bar to be built be-cause, he said, “It’s the smart thing to do.”
“The probable benefits outweigh the possible consequenc-es,” he said.
The New Mexico Supreme Court will meet April 16-18, and will decide, among others, on the two proposals. If approved, making Doña Ana County dry will inherently deny NMSU’s bid to build a bar on cam-pus. If denied, the court will further ex-amine NMSU’s pro-posal.
County will become the first dry county in all of New Mexico.
“There’s no way that’s go-ing to get passed,” said Leland. “The majority of people like drinking, they do it responsibly. There’s no way.”
When asked about the chances of the bar being approved to be built at NMSU, Leland was less sure.
“It’s difficult to say,” he said. “I’m hope-ful, and there’s the decision of the legis-lature behind us, but there still seems to be a lot of resistance. The world can sur-prise you, though.”
If the Supreme Court denies their proposal, Armijo said he will keep on advocating for the bar to be built be-cause, he said, “It’s the smart thing to do.”
“The probable benefits outweigh the possible consequenc-es,” he said.
The New Mexico Supreme Court will meet April 16-18, and will decide, among others, on the two proposals. If approved, making Doña Ana County dry will inherently deny NMSU’s bid to build a bar on cam-pus. If denied, the court will further ex-amine NMSU’s pro-posal.
By Billy HuntsmanFilm Addict
Matilda, Las Cruces’ oldest bar. “(Armijo) came to me, he said,
‘This is what we want to do, this is why we want to do it,’” Leland said.
Camille Bustillo. “Personally, I think it’s a good idea. I’m not a huge fan of
County will become the first dry county in all of New Mexico.
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SPORTS
SPORTS SPRING BREAKCATCH-UP
Men's BasketballThe Aggies followed winning the WAC Chapionship with earning a #15
seed in the NCAA Tournament placing them in a first round match-up with the #2 seed Kansas Jayhawks.
The team was outclassed from the start as Kansas never allowed the Ag-gies to take a lead and defeated the team by a score of 75-56. Seniors DK Eldridge, Remi Barry and Tshilidzi Nephawe each contributed with double-digit outputs of 11, 10 and 11 respectively.
By Julian MartinezSta� Writer
SoftballThe team boasted a top of the line offense recently, as they currently sit as the #8 ranked offense in the na-
tion. This past week they put their talents up against the #14 Arizona Wildcats in a day-night doubleheader on
Sat., March 21 where they unfortunately lost both games by scores of 14-2 and 11-6. Later during the week, the softball team looked to put those two losses behind them as they traveled to
Albuquerque to dominate the rival Lobos by a score of 12-6. They would also take 3-of-3 from Utah Valley later in the week with victories that can all be considered
blowouts; game one they won 7-2; game 2 by a score of 9-0; and game 3 by a score of 10-0.The softball team’s next home game is a doubleheader at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m., April 6.
BaseballThe team would take quite the road trip as they traveled to
Honolulu, Hawaii for a four game set. The Aggies won game one against the University of Hawaii
Warriors in a tight 6-5 matchup. Hawaii would strike back however with a 6-2 victory the following afternoon.
The teams would split a doubleheader on Satur-day as the Aggies won the early game 6-3, and Ha-waii would win the second game 12-1. The team traveled to Sacramento for three games
this past weekend. On Friday, the team was edged out 8-7, and on Satur-
day, the bats were silent as they fell again in a one run contest 1-0. Sacramento State would complete the sweep of the Aggies with a 10-0 victory on Sunday afternoon.
SPRING BREAKCATCH-UPBy Julian Martinez
1-0. Sacramento State would complete the sweep of the Aggies with a 10-0 victory on Sunday afternoon.
BaseballThe team would take quite the road trip as they traveled to
Honolulu, Hawaii for a four game set. The Aggies won game one against the University of Hawaii
Warriors in a tight 6-5 matchup. Hawaii would strike back however with a 6-2 victory the following afternoon.
The teams would split a doubleheader on Satur-day as the Aggies won the early game 6-3, and Ha-waii would win the second game 12-1. The team traveled to Sacramento for three games
this past weekend. On Friday, the team was edged out 8-7, and on Satur-
day, the bats were silent as they fell again in a one run contest 1-0. Sacramento State would complete the sweep of the Aggies
SPRING BREAKCATCH-UP
with a 10-0 victory on Sunday afternoon.1-0. Sacramento State would complete the sweep of the Aggies
The team would take quite the road trip as they traveled to Honolulu, Hawaii for a four game set.
The Aggies won game one against the University of Hawaii Warriors in a tight 6-5 matchup. Hawaii would strike back
however with a 6-2 victory the following afternoon.
this past weekend. On Friday, the team was edged out 8-7, and on Satur-
day, the bats were silent as they fell again in a one run contest 1-0. Sacramento State would complete the sweep of the Aggies
SoftballThe team boasted a top of the line offense recently, as they currently sit as the #8 ranked offense in the na-
tion. This past week they put their talents up against the #14 Arizona Wildcats in a day-night doubleheader on
Sat., March 21 where they unfortunately lost both games by scores of 14-2 and 11-6. Later during the week, the softball team looked to put those two losses behind them as they traveled to
Albuquerque to dominate the rival Lobos by a score of 12-6. They would also take 3-of-3 from Utah Valley later in the week with victories that can all be considered
blowouts; game one they won 7-2; game 2 by a score of 9-0; and game 3 by a score of 10-0.The softball team’s next home game is a doubleheader at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m., April 6.
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SPORTS
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL SEASON REPLAY
By Efrain HernandezSta� Writer
The New Mexico State women’s basket-ball team magical season ended in the first round of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Women’s Division 1 Champi-onship Saturday afternoon.
After capturing the Western Athletic Conference championship, the Aggies were selected as the 16th seed in the Spo-kane Region paired up against the top-seeded Maryland Terrapins (30-2, 18-0 Big 10).
“It’s been sort of a historic year for us and we’re very, very excited to be here,” head coach Mark Trakh said. “We’re very excited to play the University of Maryland here tomorrow, who has an outstanding team.”
In March, the best team can get beat any given night but this was not the case as the Aggies could not capitalize on key op-portunities while making costlwy mistakes throughout the game losing 57-75 and go-ing 0-3 in the NCAA Tournament.
Trading baskets back-and-forth in the first half, the Aggies slowly kept pace with the Terrapins trailing 42-32 entering the second half but ultimately, would not be able to gain momentum as they would continue to trail throughout the entire game never coming close within striking distance.
As the Aggies tried to play catchup try-ing to keep up with the Terrapins powered offense, Briana Freeman and Sasha We-ber were the only pair of Aggies to score in double-figures as Freeman finished with 15 points while Weber added 14 points of her own.
Maryland on the other hand, had three players combine to score 51 points; only six less points than what the Aggies scored the entire game which was 57. Brionna Jones proved to be a problem matching up against as the Aggies could not stop her on both ends of the court. Jones finished
the game with 22 points while adding 12 rebounds.
“It was like PT boats trying to attack a battleship out there,” Trakh said via ESPN. “We were bouncing off right and left.”
A big difference in the game was not be-ing able to capitalize on rebound opportu-nities being outrebounded 45-20 and only 5-of-21 beyond the 3-point range.
“If we could have knocked down a few more of those open shots, it might have been a closer game,” Trakh said via ESPN.
The Aggies finished the season 22-8 and 13-1 against conference opponents while capturing the WAC regular season cham-pionship and its first-ever WAC tourna-ment title.
CAPTION
Shanice Davis manuevers down the court.Photos by Luis Miranda, Jr.
Brianna Freeman goes for the layup. Photos by Luis Miranda, Jr.
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PANEL TO DISCUSS TRANSPARENCY OF OFFICER-RELATED SHOOTINGS
Trans-parency in the governmental realm con-stitutes a functioning government and allows a thriving free press the ability to perform their duty: supply the public with crucial information.
In the context of today’s society, inci-dents such as the officer killings of James Boyd and Michael Brown highlight the necessity of open governmental entities.
NMSU’s Sunshine Week Planning Committee assembled a panel who ex-pertise in journalism, sunshine laws, law enforcement and public records. The panel will discuss police officer-involved shootings and the public accessibility of information after the occurrences.
Sponsored by the New Mexico State University Library, Journalism and Mass Communications Department and alumnus Tim Parker, the panel com-memorates Sunshine Week, a national initiative emphasizing the importance of a transparent government.
The American Society of News ditors formed Sunshine Week in 2005. The annual celebration is recognized nationally in mid-March, coinciding with James Madison’s birthday. Madi-son is a significant author of the “Bill of Rights.”
“Without an open government we’re screwed,” said Parker, who is also an NMSU alumnus and editor of The Round Up from 1976-77.
An open government supports its constituents and their right to access public records and governmental meet-ings, their right to know.
“If you don’t remind people to de-mand openness of government, govern-ment will close up and go secretive,” Parker said. “You have to continually remind people and demand openness of government. Its tendency is toward the dark.”
Parker said this is the third year NMSU has celebrated Sunshine Week. This year’s topic is how open record laws have been affected by recent po-lice-involved shootings. The program is titled “Police, Public & Press: Shining Light on Officer Shootings.”
“ T h e emphasis, I think, is some of our (lo-cal) journalists wanted to know why it was so hard getting names out of officer shootings,” Parker said. “Other police departments apparently give out the name of the shooter pretty quick.”
Parker said it is important to him the panel’s topic be kept local to Las Cru-ces.
“I find that people are watching na-tional, 24-hour news and national web-sites and everything, and know more about Ferguson than they know about Las Cruces,” he said.
To keep this year’s event local, Park-er said they enlisted a majority of local speakers.This year’s panel has six speak-ers.
Susan Boe, executive director of the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government, has worked for newspa-pers in Corpus Christi and San Antonio, as a public information officer for the University of Texas–San Antonio and served as a partner at Faegre & Benson, a Minneapolis-based international law firm before she retired from being an attorney.
Mark D’Antonio is the district attor-ney for the third judicial district of New Mexico. He formerly worked as a special agent for the FBI, investigating criminal and foreign counter-intelligence matters.
Michael Kinney is a retired captain with the Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Of-fice.
Stephen Lopez is the chief of the NMSU Police Department. He has worked in law enforcement for the past 27 years. He also has served as adjunct faculty at NMSU for the past 14 years, teaching courses in public health and criminal justice.
Walter Rubel, managing editor of the Las Cruces Sun-News. A journal-ist since 1982, Rubel previously worked on newspapers in Kansas, California, Wyoming and Colorado.
Las Cruces-based trial attorney Mi-
chael L. Stout specializes in criminal law. He is the chair of the New Mexico Public Defender Commission and has been on the faculty of the Na-tional Criminal Defense College in Macon, Ga., since 1983. Stout was also listed in “Best Lawyers in Arizona and New Mexico 2015,” a publication of “Best Lawyers in America,” in which he has been featured since the network’s founding 20 years ago.
Moderating the panel is Peter Good-man, a former trial lawyer in San Fran-cisco and current Sunday columnist for the Las Cruces Sun-News.
The program will include memorials of two pioneering journalists who have passed away recently. Passing away in August 2014, Barbara Funkhouser was the only female editor in the history of the El Paso Times and an NMSU alumna. Charles Bowden, author and journalist based in Las Cruces, was a contributing editor to Mother Jones and GQ.
Parker said the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and the subsequent protests and violence in that town primarily influenced this year’s topic.
Also an influence on this year’s theme, Parker said, and a more local in-fluence, was officer-involved shootings in Albuquerque, most prominently, the officer killing of James Boyd, 38.
Camping in a restricted area in the Sandia Foothills, Boyd, who suffered from schizophrenia and had history of police-encounters, was fatally shot by Albuquerque police officers on March 16, 2014. He died the next day at the University of New Mexico Hospital, ac-cording to the Albuquerque Journal.
Parker said the committee considered bringing in somebody from either Fer-
gu-son or Albuquerque, but finally decided against that idea, as it was not within the budget.
Parker said the topic is collaboratively decided by the committee.
Along with Parker, Goodman and Rubel, this year’s committee mem-bers include Paula Johnson, commit-tee chairperson and NMSU librarian; April Anaya, NMSU Library director of development; Mary Lamonica, NMSU professor of journalism; Caitlin Wells, NMSU librarian; Mardi Mahaffy, NMSU librarian; and Anthony Albi-drez, The Round UP managing editor.
Last year’s panel discussed the New Mexico In Depth and Las Cruces Sun News’ lawsuit that sought the release of a 2013 state government audit, resulted in the state withdrawing Medicaid funding from 15 mental health providers due to allegations of fraud, according to a news release.
Parker said access to public informa-tion is “the only way to a true democ-racy.” Likewise, he said the prevention of access is “close to dictatorship.”
Parker said he hopes the panel and Sunshine Week inspires “truth, justice and the American way” in its attendees.
“Police, Public & Press: Shining Light on Officer Shootings” will be held 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday, April 2, Zuhl Library, third floor.
Parking on all parts of the campus will be free after 4:30 p.m.
By Billy HuntsmanSta� Writer
PANEL TO DISCUSSPANEL TO DISCUSS TRANSPARENCY OF OFFICER-RELATED SHOOTINGS
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PANEL TO DISCUSS TRANSPARENCY OF OFFICER-RELATED SHOOTINGS
Michael StoutDefense Attorney
Peter GoodmanPanel Moderator
Stephen LopezNMSU Police Chief
Walt RubelLC Sun News
Susan BoeNM FOG
Mark D'AntonioDona Ana County BA
Photos by Olivia Baker
TRANSPARENCY OF OFFICER-RELATED SHOOTINGS
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By Billy HuntsmanFilm Addict
A One-Man Show: NMSU actor uses tal-ent to get hired
On the carpet in front of the television within the bleak apartment, he has arranged 10 large white pieces of paper, each with the name of a business in Las Cruces scrawled on it: Subway, Best Buy, Target, Pecan Brewery, Toucan Market, to name a few.
There are sticky notes stuck on the screens of all the phones, bearing first and last names written in pen. He sits before this arrangement of papers and cellphones, watching the screens. His name is Sergio Williams.
“That’s not my real name,” he said.A sophomore theatre major at NMSU,
this is the stage name he will use once he becomes a professional actor; but to get to that point, he said, first he has to start earn-ing some money.
This is the plan: when you fill out an ap-plication for a job, typically you need refer-ences. Sometimes you have them, some-times you don’t, and even when you do have them, maybe you aren’t sure what they’ll have to say about you.
“So you go to Wal-Mart or Best Buy or Verizon, and you get one of these cheap no-contract phones for $4.99,” Williams said. “You prepay the minutes. You get three of these maybe, then you go fill out an applica-tion and make up names for references, and put the numbers of the prepaid phones for them. After that, the fun begins.”
By the time you get the first call, you should already have rehearsed the voice of the character you’re going to be playing.
“One reference I put down had a French name,” Williams said. “When I got the call from the employer asking the reference about me, I talked in a French accent.”
To achieve this effect, and others like it, such as Italian, Mexican, New York, South-
ern, Bostonian and Midwestern accents, is not easy.
“(To get the French accent) At first I scooped a big glob of peanut butter into my mouth, stuck it to the roof of my mouth,” Williams said. “I monologued for a while, recording myself on my iPhone. Then I lis-tened to it for hours on end, walking back and forth around school, at night going to sleep, until I finally got what I think is a pret-ty good French accent.”
Suddenly one of the old flip-phones on the Target paper starts ringing. Williams asked the name on the sticky note not be revealed.
“¿Bueno?” he says after pressing the an-swer button.
The person on the other end starts speaking in English; Williams responds in English with a Mexican accent.
“I watched inter-views with Guill-ermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuáron, Salma Hayek, even a little Alec Baldwin from ’30 Rock,’” Williams said.
For little more than five minutes, the character whose name is on the sticky note on the phone’s screen praises the work ethic, dependability and kindness of the applicant also known as Sergio Williams.
When the call is over, Williams is beaming.
“He loves (Sergio Williams),” he says.
When asked how this idea came about, Wil-liam said he initial-ly conceived of it by
frustration from unsuccessful job hunting.“I’d been looking for a job, not very en-
thusiastically, I’ll admit, since I was a sopho-more in high school,” Williams said. “Then after graduating, I was like, ‘I really need a job.’ So I went around Albuquerque (his hometown) and then around here, applying to different places, putting down the refer-ences I had.”
He said these references were not ideal.“When you’re applying to a job as a wait-
er, they don’t really care about any praise your drama teacher or tennis coach has,” Williams said.
For some of these applications, he re-ceived calls for interviews, but never landed
any of the jobs.
Thus, he started experi-menting.
“I knew I’d need a lot of characters,” he said. “Every-one has a dif-ferent voice; some are sig-nificantly dif-ferent, some
only minorly different, but every voice is differ-
ent.”He said he
would record his voice as it sounded when he covered
one nostril, then both; when tilting his
head backward, to one or the other side, forward;
pressing his Adam’s apple; biting his lip; and combinations
thereof.“Then I got into the accents,”
Williams said. “To get the German
accent, I watched the documentaries of Werner Herzog and imitated his narrations. To get the Bostonian, I watched Boston movies, ‘Mystic River,’ ‘Good Will Hunt-ing,’ things like that.”
Williams said he is “dreading” the day when, if, his “victimless subterfuge” should be found out.
“It hasn’t happened yet,” Williams said. “I think mostly because I’m paranoid about it, so I practice a lot and yeah, I guess cover up my footprints a lot.”
Williams said he does not think what he is doing is unethical.
“I’m not hurting anyone,” he said. “Yes, it’s deceit, but I’m a good employee, I have yet to be fired.”
The job he currently works at, which he asked not be revealed, he got via the recom-mendations of three fictitious references.
“Those three phone calls happened right in a row,” Williams said. “The first I think was a Mexican character, then the second was a New Yorker and for the third I had to shift right away to a West Texas accent, which I learned from Tommy Lee Jones in ‘No Country for Old Men.’”
Williams said he estimates in the year that he has been using this plan, it has cost him more than $700.
“That’s with all the prepaid cards, the base costs of the phones,” Williams said. “It sounds like a lot, but if I wanted to get another job I’d have the references from my current job, who are real.”
Williams said the plan has an even deeper value for him.
“I’ve evolved as an actor in the last year,” he said. “It’s really conceited, but I’m really impressed with myself.”
Williams’ future plans include moving to New York City in order to audition for “SNL,” performing on Broadway, perform-ing alongside Mark Rylance and mounting a production of, and starring as King Lear, his favorite dramatic work.
“I’m not hurting any-one,” he said. “Yes, it’s deceit, but I’m a good
employee, I have yet to be � red.”
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By Billy HuntsmanFilm Addict
A planned documentary detail-ing life at New Mexico State Uni-versity has been called off because NMSU “is too boring.”
Asmodeus Winthrop, a Los Angeles-based filmmaker, first be-came interested in making a docu-mentary about NMSU because of a friend of his.
“Daniel (Richter) went there and did all of this stuff and then he didn’t graduate, but he came out to L.A., and he got real big and did all of this stuff, and I thought, ‘Maybe I should see where he came from, so that I can do all this stuff,’” said Winthrop.
Richter was arrested six months ago for conspiracy to commit mur-der. He was at that time and, ac-cording to Winthrop, still is the head of “a committee” whose ide-als include “freeing our immortal souls from these mortal shackles,” “learning the Real Truth” and “having fun.”
“Manson was a genius,” Win-throp said. “I came out here and I was really excited and everything, but I got here, I was just like, ‘What?’”
Winthrop said he went around campus with a shoulder-mounted 1992 analog VHS camcorder, ask-ing students, faculty and anyone he saw walking around questions, such as, “How do your humors ac-count for who you are?” “Where’s the end of the road for you?” and, “Would you die in the name of nothing?”
“Nobody would talk to me,” Winthrop said. “Sometimes I think those people in the Twin Towers were lucky.”
After coming to the conclusion that he would not conceivably ac-cumulate enough footage to con-struct a documentary, Winthrop said he thought maybe he could be a Daniel Richter to the people at NMSU.
“I said to myself, ‘I like (Rich-ter), other people seem to like him, maybe if I’m like him, people will like me,’” Winthrop said.
Subsequent to this idea, Win-throp posted non-NMSU-autho-rized fliers around the campus, bearing the message, “He’s cooler than Koresh, more jammin’ than Jones, more laughable than LaVey, come meet Asmodeus Winthrop and hear why you should join his new club.”
Winthrop was arrested by NMSU police in early March for loitering around Frenger at 3 a.m. reading aloud from a copy of “The Catcher in the Rye.” His fliers have since been taken down and a restraining order of a thousand feet from all NMSU property has been ordered on him.
Some NMSU students were sad-dened to learn this.
“I really liked him,” Margot Kiddie, NMSU junior, said. “He scared away all those freakos talk-ing about the Apocalypse in front of Zuhl and how all NMSU wom-en are whores.”
These “freakos” have since re-turned.
Winthrop has remained in Las Cruces since. He has no money and his attempts to hitchhike back to California have been unsuccess-ful.
“It’s too boring here,” Winthrop said. “Nobody wants to know the Truth.”
In early February, Winthrop was found wandering in pecan
groves in Mesilla. “I’ve been lost,” he said to the
police.While awaiting processing at
the Doña Ana County Detention Center, it was reported Winthrop barked at the warden and pro-cessing officials, as well as started speaking in some strange language to the detention center nurse while taking his medical history.
Part of The Round Up’s inter-view with Winthrop unexpectedly took place in this language, which cannot be translated or related here.
“That’s the language of the Old Ones,” Winthrop said. “The Ven-erable Daniel used to play it over loudspeakers when we went to sleep in the Holy Dominion.”
This Holy Dominion, according to L.A.P.D. police reports, is an abandoned sewer treatment facil-ity in South Central L.A. Formerly a gathering ground for Crips, the gang members were scared off when Richter and his entourage started hanging around.
Certain Las Cruces-based groups have suggested Winthrop receive professional help.
“Our office has been conducting some research into who this man is and what his background is like,” said Matt Krauer of Las Cruces’ Adult Protective Services.
To that end, Krauer said, it has been discovered through Califor-nia medical and police records that Winthrop is actually Francis Liebowitz of Sherman Oaks, Ca-lif., born Feb. 21, 1973.
“The last known point of contact with his family members was right before they flew off to Romania in 1988 to join a traveling vaudeville troupe, leaving Francis on top of a gas station pump in Los Feliz, Ca-
lif.,” said Krauer.Winthrop said the next 10 years
after this point are unclear to him.“I remember coming back on-
line as this (Winthrop) in 1998, stealing drugs from a veterinary clinic somewhere,” Winthrop said.
He was soon arrested for this in Gilbert, Ariz., and attended detox and rehabilitation soon after this, which is where he initially met Richter.
According to Winthrop, he, Richter and the rest of the group Richter had managed to persuade into listening to his ideals planned a grand escape from the rehab fa-cility; but this plan became super-fluous one day when they found the front door of the facility left unlocked, unguarded.
“A state facility,” Winthrop said. “What can you do?”
From here, the group walked to the nearest bus station and re-turned to Los Angeles because “that just seemed like the place to go for us.”
The group’s activities at this time remain unclear until 2003, when Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected as the governor of Califor-nia.
“That was when the Venerable Daniel was like, ‘All right, I know what we should do,’” Winthrop said.
During this time is when Win-throp came into some filmmaking experience.
“I filmed the Venerable Daniel squirting lighter fluid into a trash-can fire for a few hours,” Win-throp said.
Nothing came of the group’s plans until Richter mistakenly sent an email detailing the group’s plans to the Los Angeles’ mayor’s
office. He was arrested two hours later.
The content of the email has not been disclosed but L.A.P.D. offi-cials said it contained no mention of the other alleged group mem-bers, and none of them, Winthrop included, are involved in any le-galities currently.
Now free from jail and the charg-es against him dropped, Winthrop said he does not know what is next for him.
“I may just kill myself and see what the next world holds,” he said.
Certain civil rights groups around Las Cruces had expressed interest in helping Winthrop when news of his situation first made headlines in town, but these groups have since rescinded their support.
“He only eats the wrappers and containers the food comes in,” said Martha Paxton of Las Cruces’ food pantry Casa de Peregrinos. “I don’t know how he’s still alive.”Other volunteers and group of-ficials have said Winthrop scares them.
“I don’t know what he’s about,” said Taylor Hemlock, a volunteer with Mesilla Valley Community of Hope. “I can’t make heads or tails what he says. He’s nuttier than squirrel shit.”
At the conclusion of The Round Up’s interview with him, Win-throp said he had an urgent task to perform.
“I’m going to go blow out all the candles in a Cat holic church,” he said. “Otherwise, they’ll all get sunburned.”
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NMSU Receives Visit from Eccentric Filmmaker
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By Brynn Herndon Fashionista
New Mexico State University is facing the harsh truth: guns are not very family oriented.
In 2005, NMSU altered all im-ages of the iconic Pistol Pete mas-cot to replace his holster and six shooters with a lasso. The new mascot, comically given the moni-ker “Lasso Larry,” was abandoned in 2007 after an uproar among stu-dents and faculty.
However, in the approaching fall semester, NMSU is imple-menting another change in its much-beloved mascot: getting rid of him entirely.
“Guns just don’t represent what NMSU stands for,” said commen-tator Jones Lovat. “I think it’s time to get with the program, is all I’m saying.”
Tumbleweed Tim, who will
replace Pistol Pete starting in fall 2015, is a large tumbleweed with wide, childlike eyes filled with excitement because he just loves sports, almost as much as he loves NMSU as a whole.
Tumbleweed Tim (which can also be depicted as Timbleweed) represents not only NMSU, but all of New Mexico. There are tum-bleweeds everywhere – literally ev-erywhere, especially in the spring. They are also known for their only goal, to keep going where the wind takes them, much like many NMSU students who have been at NMSU for a significant amount of time and are tired of adulthood.
“I love the idea,” said student Monty Gage. “My feelings about the sports teams are the exact same as my feelings for something that gets stuck in the grill of my truck.” Gage declined to elaborate on what exactly his feelings are in
particular, but it can be assumed they are positive.
Tumbleweed Tim was just one of many candidates for NMSU’s new mascot. Among the other choices were Henrietta the Heifer, Chad the Charming Chili Pepper and a visual representation of the abstract concept of apathy.
Next fall, be on the lookout for NMSU’s fun new mascot at games and just around campus. (Admin-istration asks that students keep in mind that the mascot costume must be befitting of a tumbleweed, and this required use of cheap ma-terials to make up all the branches and achieve the round shape. If a student should see Tumbleweed Tim on the ground and not mov-ing, they are advised to just leave him, he needs to figure it out on his own.
The Round Up is also accepting submissions for a new fight song.
NMSU to Change Mascot tobe More “Family Friendly”
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Read This, Read That: Books for your consideration
By Billy HuntsmanFilm Addict
Over the spring break, I did more reading than I did movie watching. Reading is one of my life’s great pleasures, and in the spirit of helping you enjoy read-ing, as well, I’d like to recom-mend to you some of my favorite works.
“The Turn of the Screw” by Henry James: Published in 1898, it tells the story of a governess, an at-home tutor, put in charge of a pair of children, an inscrutable young girl and a charming but quietly dis-turbing young boy.
The unnamed governess never meets her employer, the children’s uncle, given custody of the chil-dren after their parents die. The governess co-inhabits a sprawling estate in rural Essex with the girl, Flora, and the housekeeper, Mrs. Grose, and eventually the boy, Miles, who returns to the estate after being expelled from boarding school under mysterious circum-stances.
The supernatural-ness of this story, particularly the ending, has been the cause of much discussion among literary critics and scholars. It’s a story that requires and de-serves diligence. For a fast-paced,
thought-provoking, subtly unset-tling story, check it out.
Additionally, you may want to watch “The Others,” starring Nicole Kidman, which is loosely based on the novella. Watching it probably won’t help you under-stand the novella, but it’s a great creepy movie, nonetheless.
“The Great God Pan” by Ar-thur Machen: Another quick, ex-tremely enjoyable read. Published in 1894, this novella has been cited by Stephen King as one of the greatest horror stories ever written, and influenced H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Dunwich Horror,” as well as much of his other work (any of which could prove to be good reading on a dull night, as well).
In the first few pages, we are in-troduced to Dr. Raymond, a minor but essential character whose ob-session with the expansion of the mind’s potential via minimally in-vasive brain surgery sets the story’s horrific tone early and effectively.
He operates on a young woman before his friend, Clarke, and af-terward, in explaining the young woman’s permanent mental im-pairment, Raymond says simply, “She has seen the Great God Pan.”
The narrative switches view-points among several characters, also delving into epistolary narra-tion, and proves to be a memo-
rable horror story in less than 100 pages.
“The Unburied” by Charles Palliser: From quick novellas to a 400-page novel. Published in 2000, this novel is set smack-dab in the middle of Victorian England at Christmastime.
Dr. Courtine, an historian, travels to a cathedral close in the hopes of researching and solv-ing an obscure mystery concern-ing Wessex’s King Alfred in the Ninth Century. For those of us who aren’t history majors or An-glophiles, it would be enough to render us catatonic.
However, we find relief from the Ken Follett-esque history lesson in Courtine’s friend and host, Austin. He tells Courtine about the close’s ghost, murdered two centuries ago amid a complex and captivating plot.
The most impressive and com-pelling thing about the novel is that, as you read more of either the King Alfred plot or the ghost plot, you find startling parallels between the two.
Consider this an historical ghost story, with a satisfying, utterly bril-liant ending.
“The Thirteenth Tale” by Diane Setterfield: Calling all Brontë fans, this one couldn’t be more directed at you if its title were, “If You En-
joyed ‘Wuthering Heights’ or ‘Jane Eyre’, You’ll Love This Book.”
Margaret Lea, a biblio-logo-phile and occasional biographer of little-known historical figures, is enlisted by the bestselling but reclusive English author Vida Winter, about whom very little is known as factual.
Winter, promising to tell the whole truth, wants Lea to record her biography, and thus we’re tak-en into Winter’s horrific past.
In between interviews with Winter, we learn about Marga-ret, her difficult relationship with her mother, her and her father’s shared love of books and, most importantly, the origins of the pain she’s always felt in her side and why she always feels so lonely when she looks into a mirror.
The novel is, at its core, about family: love of family, alienation from family, perversion of rela-tionships within a family. If you want sentimentality, you’ve got it in this book; you want horror, you’ve got it; if you just want to reflect on how amazing words are and how much you love reading, this book is for you.
“Angela’s Ashes” by Frank Mc-Court: Easily the most satisfying book I’ve read in a long time, this is a memoir of Ireland by a man
whose family, originally from that country, return to it from Ameri-ca during the Great Depression. They hope to find work, salvation, by returning to their homeland, but instead they find even worse conditions and more misery than they knew in America.
The memoir follows Frank’s life from his birth to the age of 19, and in these years he and his fam-ily experience almost-unheard-of anguish: the father and husband of the family is an alcoholic who drinks away their government as-sistance money; of seven children, three die; verbally and physically abusive Catholic schoolmasters and instructors; living in a house beside which is the outhouse for their entire neighborhood, to which their neighbors routinely, day and night, go to dump their chamber pots.
As miserable as the memoir and characters are, there’s also a great amount of humor and kindness in the book. The end result is a terri-bly endearing account of how spec-tacular utter squalor can be, and how we as readers can find hope in the fact these characters were able to, for the most part, survive it.
Hopefully you find at least one of these works to be as compelling as I did. Happy reading!
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10:30-11:00 am: Opening Ceremony & Blessing by Governor Henry Torres outside of Hadley Hall, East Entrance Area
11:00-11:15 am: Parade of Nations from Hadley Hall to Corbett Center Student Union (CCSU)
11:15 am-12:00 pm: Native American Giveaway in the CCSU, Rotunda
6:00-8:00 pm: Miss Native American NMSU Meet & Greet
Reception at Stan Fulton Center, 3rd Floor
2:00-3:00 pm: Photo Gallery in Kent Hall, University Museum
5:00-8:00 pm: Heritage Dinner in CCSU, Taos Restaurant
7:30 pm: Guest speaker Sherman Alexie in the ASNMSU Center for the Arts, Medoff Theater
11:00 am-4:00 pm: Indian Taco Demonstration at the American Indian Student Center
7:00-9:00 pm: American Indian Week Movie: Smoke Signals in CCSU, Aggie Lounge
5:00-8:00 pm: Heritage Dinner in CCSU, Taos Restaurant
6:00-11:00 pm: “Tradition & Culture, Past & Present:” Native American Regalia Exhibition and Dance in CCSU, Aggie Lounge
8:30 am-4:30 pm: Native American Arts & Crafts Expo in CCSU, 1st Floor
6:00-9:00 pm: Miss Native American NMSU Pageant in CCSU, Auditorium
9:00 am-4:00 pm: Kent Hall, University Museum Events: Native American Arts & Crafts Expo Sharon Naranjo Garcia Pottery Demonstration Jemez Pueblo Dance Performance
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Do you think the public should have access to government information?
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TWO SAXOPHONES FOR SALE1) One is a Selmer SS600 soprano saxophone with case and accessories. It was recently adjusted and is ready to play. It only has some minor lacquer wear and scratches, and is in awesome shape. One of the best horns I've had. PRICE: $750.00 or best off er. 2) The other is a Holton Collegiate alto saxo-phone from the 1960s. This horn was recently ad-justed as well, and plays fi ne. It did sustain a little damage to two of the keys, but it plays fi ne. It could use a repad eventually though. Comes with case and accessories also. PRICE: $300.00 or best off er. I will also consider partial cash plus trade off ers on both of these. Please feel free to call/text me at 575.635.7095 if you are interested. NO E-MAILS. Thank you, and God bless you!
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INGENICOMMIngenicomm seeks motivated individuals for soft-ware engineers to support NASA’s Space Com-munication Network Services (SCNS) program at the White Sands Complex (WSC) in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Responsibilities · Analyze, design, implement, test and document software for inclusion in high-profi le satellite communications systems · Work closely with system engineers and project managers to deliver high-quality, reliable systems to the end customer· Help construct unit and system/ regression level test cases, Partici-pates in design/ code reviews for project/ product initiatives · Assisting in prototype and tool development, Please email resumes to [email protected]
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NMSU - CENTER FOR ANIMAL HEALTH, FOOD SAFETY & BIO-SECURITY ACESThe Biosecurity and Food Safety Center is a research unit under the Agricultural Experiment Station which consists of a veterinary entomol-ogy research lab, a chemical and analytical instru-mentation lab, a food safety microbiology lab, as well as work done by individual researchers. Primary responsibilities include care of research livestock and laboratory insect colonies as well as general facility maintenance. Travel to Ag Science Center may be required via NMSU transporta-tion. Must be reliable, hard-working and able to work with a minimum of supervision; Limited to 20 hours per week during the semester and able to work up to 40 hours a week to include some weekends during the summer. Experience with livestock husbandry and basic skills in structural maintenance is a plus. Work will be conducted
outdoors in all weather conditions and will require strength and stamina. Must have a valid driver's li-cense and a personal vehicle to travel to the work-site, the Veterinary Entomology Research Lab, located approximately 2-miles east of the NMSU campus // aces.nmsu.edu phone: 575.646.7582
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