SEE RESERVE ON PAGE 7 SEE MONEY ON PAGE 7 The CNM C o v e r i n g c n m a n d t h e s u r r o u n d i n g c o m m u n i t y Chronicle Volume 19 | Issue 16 September 24, 2013 Pg. 4 Grand Theft Auto V Disbursement goes off without a hitch The library’s best kept secret Instructors object to lack of parking SEE PARKING ON PAGE 7 /cnmchronicle thecnmchronicle.wordpress.com By Jonathan Baca Staff Reporter Disbursement is always a logistical chal- lenge, and CNM had made several changes to the process this year to make things more effi- cient, and are discussing even more options for the future, Lee Carrillo, Vice President of Student Services said. CNM disbursed $21 million to 11,777 stu- dents last week, and things went smoother than ever, thanks to less paper checks and a new office at the West Side campus, Carrillo said. “I’ve done this for 23 years, and I think over all, this is probably the best,” he said. For students with part-of-term or short term courses, their funds may be split and disbursed in two or more parts, with subsequent checks going out ten days after the start of their late starting classes. This is an optional federal rule that CNM opted to comply with, mainly to discourage students with short term courses from receiving all of their disbursement, and then leaving school before the end of the semester, Carrillo said. “This was a way of keeping the student in the classroom, and hope- fully making them suc- cessful,” Carrillo said. 4,676 students opted for direct deposit this term, having their money sent directly to their bank accounts. This is a 10 percent increase from last semester, and a trend that CNM hopes will continue, Carrillo said. By Martin Montoya Staff Reporter For some teachers, a paid parking space is just not a possibil- ity as the majority of CNM faculty and staff that are part time have other jobs and just cannot afford the extra fees, American and Native American History Instructor Dr. Benay Blend said. Blend said the big- gest problem is that teachers have to show up nearly two and a half hours early just to get a parking space for a 10:30 a.m. class at Main campus. As a part time instruc- tor with a salary that has gone down with the decline in the number of classes to teach, Blend said she just cannot find a way to budget for a conve- nient parking space. “I’m not going to be paying out of my measly salary for the privilege,” Blend said. If the value of faculty members was a high pri- ority, people in charge would really understand that part time faculty does not make enough money to afford a permit, Blend said. “I would like to get here at a normal time,” she said. Unable to afford paid parking on an adjunct profes- sor’s salary, Political Science Instructor Bob Anderson said that for two to three years at the beginning of his teaching career he hauled all his books and supplies from the far end of the park- ing lot on Montoya campus, where park- ing was available. “That really wiped out my back,” Anderson said. After going to the doctor’s office with pain, thinking being out of shape was the problem, Anderson said the doctor found that the pressure from the book bag he car- ried everyday had resulted in a ruptured disk in his lower back. Anderson said that he now has permanent damage to his lower back which is irreparable. “It just goes out on me and I go through a lot of pain,” Anderson said. Anderson said that he now has a handicap placard that enables him to park closer, which he qualified for after being forced to use a walker and other painstaking tasks since his injury. Stephen Andrews, History Instructor and Chair of History, Economics, Political Science, and Communications said that there has to be a way to solve this parking situation and the impact it has on not only fac- ulty and students, but the part time instruc- tors who do not have a significant amount of job security. Stacie Armijo Staff Reporter For students who cannot afford to buy laptops, iPads, text- books and other mate- rials they may need, the Reserve program in the library is set up to help, Main campus Library Manager Olivia Baca said. Students are able to borrow items for a three hour interval, although not all text books are available and often there is only one copy of each, Baca said. “We feel that the three hours gives stu- dents enough time to take it to class and not have to race to the library or race to class. There is that window to accommodate whether it is a study session or a class session, but it is also reasonably brief,” Baca said. The three hour check out policy is set in place to ensure that an item will soon be turned back in for another student to use, she said. “With the three hours’ time frame the library is com- mitted to maximizing resources for the most number of students,” Baca said. B u s i n e s s Administration major Irving Ramos said that he likes the fact that laptops are available for students to borrow. “I can do my home- work here instead of look- ing for one in the com- puter lab,” Ramos said. The library recently added the availability of 20 laptops and 10 iPads to the reserve program, which helps adhere to the different types of tools students may need, Baca said. BORROWING POLICIES By checking out this laptop, you agree to comply with the Laptop Borrower Terms, the CNM Libraries Technology Use Policy, and the CNM informa- tion technology use policy LAPTOPS SHOULD NEVER BE LEFT UNATTENDED In the event of damage, loss, or theft, you may be charged up to $1500 based on the degree of damage or loss, and a block will be placed on your CNM and library accounts until paid. CNM libraries are not responsible for loss of data due to laptop malfunction, battery or power failure, network inter- ruptions, or any other reason. PHOTO BY JONATHAN BACA Nursing major susana molina gets her check from the cashiers office
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see RESERVE on page 7
see MONEY on page 7
The CNM
C o v e r i n g c n m a n d t h e s u r r o u n d i n g c o m m u n i t y
ChronicleVolume 19 | Issue 16 September 24, 2013
Pg. 4
Grand Theft Auto V
Disbursement goes off without a hitch
The library’s best kept secret Instructors object to lack of parking
see PARKING on page 7
/cnmchronicle thecnmchronicle.wordpress.com
By Jonathan BacaStaff ReporterDisbursement is
always a logistical chal-lenge, and CNM had made several changes to the process this year to make things more effi-cient, and are discussing even more options for the future, Lee Carrillo, Vice President of Student Services said.
CNM disbursed $21 million to 11,777 stu-dents last week, and things went smoother than ever, thanks to less paper checks and a new office at the West Side campus, Carrillo said.
“I’ve done this for 23 years, and I think over all, this is probably the best,” he said.
For students with part-of-term or short term courses, their funds may be split and
disbursed in two or more parts, with subsequent checks going out ten days after the start of their late starting classes.
This is an optional federal rule that CNM opted to comply with, mainly to discourage students with short term courses from receiving all of their disbursement, and then leaving school before the end of the semester, Carrillo said.
“This was a way of keeping the student in the classroom, and hope-fully making them suc-cessful,” Carrillo said.
4,676 students opted for direct deposit this term, having their money sent directly to their bank accounts. This is a 10 percent increase from last semester, and a trend that CNM hopes will continue, Carrillo said.
By Martin MontoyaStaff ReporterFor some teachers,
a paid parking space is just not a possibil-ity as the majority of CNM faculty and staff that are part time have other jobs and just cannot afford the extra fees, American and Native American History Instructor Dr. Benay Blend said.
Blend said the big-gest problem is that teachers have to show up nearly two and a half hours early just to get a parking space for a 10:30 a.m. class at Main campus. As a part time instruc-tor with a salary that has gone down with the decline in the number of classes to teach, Blend said she just cannot find a way to budget for a conve-nient parking space.
“I’m not going to be paying out of my measly salary for the privilege,” Blend said.
If the value of faculty members was a high pri-ority, people in charge would really understand
that part time faculty does not make enough money to afford a permit, Blend said.
“I would like to get here at a normal time,” she said.
Unable to afford paid parking on an adjunct profes-sor’s salary, Political Science Instructor Bob Anderson said that for two to three years at the beginning of his teaching career he hauled all his books and supplies from the far end of the park-ing lot on Montoya campus, where park-ing was available.
“That really wiped out my back,” Anderson said.
After going to the doctor’s office with pain, thinking being out of shape was the
problem, Anderson said the doctor found that the pressure from the book bag he car-ried everyday had resulted in a ruptured disk in his lower back.
Anderson said that he now has permanent damage to his lower back which is irreparable.
“It just goes out on me and I go through a lot of pain,” Anderson said.
Anderson said that he now has a handicap placard that enables him to park closer, which he qualified for after being forced to use a walker and other painstaking tasks since his injury.
Stephen Andrews, History Instructor and Chair of History, Economics, Political Science, and Communications said that there has to be a way to solve this parking situation and the impact it has on not only fac-ulty and students, but the part time instruc-tors who do not have a significant amount of job security.
Stacie Armijo Staff ReporterFor students who
cannot afford to buy laptops, iPads, text-books and other mate-rials they may need, the Reserve program in the library is set up to help, Main campus Library Manager Olivia Baca said.
Students are able to borrow items for a three hour interval, although not all text books are available and often there is only one copy of each, Baca said.
“We feel that the three hours gives stu-dents enough time to take it to class and not have to race to the library or race to class.
There is that window to accommodate whether it is a study session or a class session, but it is also reasonably brief,” Baca said.
The three hour check out policy is set in place to ensure that an item will soon be turned back in for another student to use, she said.
“With the three hours’ time frame the library is com-mitted to maximizing resources for the most number of students,” Baca said.
B u s i n e s s Administration major Irving Ramos said that he likes the fact that laptops are available for students to borrow.
“I can do my home-work here instead of look-ing for one in the com-puter lab,” Ramos said.
The library recently added the availability of 20 laptops and 10 iPads to the reserve program, which helps adhere to the different types of tools students may need, Baca said.
BORROWING POLICIES
By checking out this laptop, you agree to comply with the Laptop Borrower Terms, the CNM Libraries Technology Use Policy, and the CNM informa-tion technology use policy
LAPTOPS SHOULD NEVER BE LEFT UNATTENDED
In the event of damage, loss, or theft, you may be charged up to $1500 based on the degree of damage or loss, and a block will be placed on your CNM and library accounts until paid.
CNM libraries are not responsible for loss of data due to laptop malfunction, battery or power failure, network inter-ruptions, or any other reason.
PHOTO BY JONATHAN BACA
Nursing major susana molina gets her check from the cashiers office
UNM IS RECRUITING WOMEN WITH ASTHMA FOR RESEARCH STUDY
If you are a woman with asthma, over the age of 18, and are interested in finding out more about this study, please contact study coordinator at 925-6174 or 269-1074 or email [email protected].
TYPE 2 DIABETES RESEARCH HRRC Have you had type 2 diabetes for less than 5 years? Are you currently only taking Metformin to treat your diabetes? You must have been at least 30 years of age when you were diagnosed (if you are an American Indian, you must have been at least 20 years old at the time of diagnosis) and are willing to add another diabetes medication to your treatment plan. You will be compensated for time and travel. If interested, please contact. Elizabeth at 272-9887 or 272-5454. Email at [email protected]
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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].
Westside, Rio Rancho Writing Group Meets to Share Writing, Inspiration
The Westside/Rio Rancho Writing Group meets twice a month to share a love of creative writing and to inspire each other. The group spends the one-hour meeting time doing short writing exercises and sharing their work with each other. Everyone who writes or loves writing is invited to attend. Writers of all genres are welcome. For more information contact Rebecca Aronson at [email protected].
Come check out M.E.Ch.A.
CNM’s chapter of el Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano/a de Aztlan meets every other Thursday search for “M.E.Ch.A de CNM” on Facebook, or email at [email protected] for meeting locations and times.M.E.Ch.A. helps chicana/o students unite to build a community that’s a better place for future generations.
Make stone tools and build fires!
CNM’s Anthropology club is looking for new members and officers.Become a part of a club dedicated to studying and understanding humanity. Activities include field trips to museums and archeological dig sites, workshops wherein members learn to make stone tools and fire.e-mail Sue Ruth: [email protected] or search for “CNM anthropology” on facebook.
Immunizations
The CNM Student Health Center is open during term breaks for your convenience. Please make appointments for your programs in advance.Thank you-CNM Student Health Center StaffLocated @ Main Campus @ the Student Services Center Second Floor, Room 206Open Monday-Friday 8 am to 5 pm(505) 224-3080
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.
Locations to pick up stickers:• Main- Student Activities/ ID office.• Montoya and Westside- Student ID office.• South Valley and Rio Rancho- Admissions office• Advanced Technology Center- Front desk
Meet and greet ACE tutors
Tutors are here for your benefit! Research has proven that students who go to tutors get better grades!Come meet the people who can help you get an A, and find out about the tutoring program on Montoya campus.Tuesday, September 2411 a.m. - 1 a.m.
Free HIV Testing
New Mexico Aids Services will be offering FREE confidential HIV testing at Montoya Campus on Thursday, September 26 from 11:00am-3:00pm in H-126. No needles! No Blood! And it’s free.
Volunteer positions
At pottery studio not made in china. Come volunteer here at NMIC and get jumpstart on learning ceramics. Volunteer one day a week and earn: unlimited clay, glaze, and fire, with free access from 12 to 7 p.m. every day. Contact notmadeinchina.com for more information.
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing!
Come get your swing dance on every Tuesday night at the Heights Community Center! Intermediate and beginners swing classes start at 7:30 p.m. Free dance begins at 8:30 p.m.823 Buena Vista Dr SE$4 donations at the doorContact Desi Brown, [email protected]
Aki Matsuri Japanese Fall Festival
Come celebrate all things Japanese: Taiko Drumming, Okinawa Dancing, Martial Arts demonstrations, and Japanese Art and Food. This year’s theme is Tako: The way of the kite.Hosted at the Nation Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 fourth street SW, on Sunday Sept. 29 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. $5 admission, free parking.
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E d i t o r i a l C a r t o o n B y N i c k S t e r n
The Chronicle would like to give thanks and praise to the one woman in the SRC café, Natasha Martinez, who does not get enough credit for what she does. Her efforts help us so much, by caffeinating the majority of the student body, so that students can function and succeed in classes.
Martinez makes it a point to give great customer service to everyone that comes into the café for their coffee fix, but she is usually the only employee that helps a massive volume of students that come to get the Starbucks signature coffees only provided at this café location.
Even though Martinez deals with a high volume of students, she still manages to work quickly and to get everyone on their way with a smile and some small talk, while students wait for their coffee to be made each day.
Martinez has had a few challenges beginning at the start of the semester, when the café credit card
machine stopped working, and students were giving her a hard time because of it. Keep in mind that this is not the fault of Martinez or the Sodexo team but was an error through the school, and also know that the credit card machine is up and running again, should one need a caffeinated treat.
Martinez is a mother to four children, and has had a hard time lately since her family’s home in Chama, NM was f looded, according to Vinnie Crispino, Sodexo Café Director. That has not stopped Martinez from giving every student a great experience when picking up coffee, though.
The entire Chronicle staff would like to thank you Natasha Martinez for making our days better and help-ing us to succeed at school, with the help of your awe-somely made coffee and fraps in the SRC café. We are sending you well-wishes and we hope that the situa-tion in Chama improves for you and your family.
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4 | The CNM Chronicle September 24, 2013OPINION
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By Rene ThompsonEditor-in-ChiefGrand Theft Auto V
has been one of the most highly anticipated video games ever. The game hit stores at midnight on September 16, and according to the telegraph, has been the fastest sell-ing video game of all time with $1 billion in sales in just three days for the makers, Rockstar games.
There are many great things about this new installment of GTA. Although the game still lacks in some areas, it does make up for that with new features, such as finally developing an intriguing storyline. There are three separate characters to play, all with their own special abilities and these characters are played with paths that intertwine and missions that occasionally require playing all three charac-ters interchangeably.
The characters have really rich back stories. There’s Franklin who is a tough and somewhat shady repo guy just get-ting on his feet and trying to come up; Michael, a middle-aged husband and father that is treated like crap by his family and longs for the good old
days, and Trevor, who is the most colorful of them all as a crazy drug addicted long-time crimi-nal that has a psychotic sense of humor through-out the game.
The antics and con-stant sarcasm of pop cul-ture, stereotypes, and just about everything else, including making fun of the game players them-selves, really makes this game fun to sit through the cinematic storyline. It is reminiscent of ear-lier games in the series such as Vice City, because San Andres and GTA IV were truly just too dull to sit through and made skipping most cinematic scenes inevitable for many.
One thing that both-ered the most about this game is the fact that there is still no real fast travel other than means of transport such as taxis. Since this is the fifteenth game in the GTA series, one would think Rockstar would help out their atten-tion deficit players a little bit by giving some better forms of fast travel by now.
The map itself is simple and completely open from the begin-ning of the game, which many game players had been hoping for, instead of having to tediously
unlock areas of the map with missions. It seems to be open to add-on content for downloadable extras later down the line.
With Rockstar’s Advanced Game Engine (RAGE) the graphics and gameplay are choice, with better mechanics for driv-ing, flying and boating controls, as well as vivid colors and more realistic looking scenery, sounds and gameplay.
Some things that have been added include being able to skill up with certain activities such as running, flying and shoot-ing accuracy, which was in San Andres, but this game seems to have many opportunities for skill-ups with triathlons, shooting ranges and many other sports challenges.
There are also more options now for making money, from being able to gamble on the stock market to just robbing store clerks at gun point. This makes it easier to mess around in the game without having to do missions to make cash, especially since players can now use the internet in the game for all sorts of purchases from planes to cars, not that anyone really needs to buy
these things when they can be easily stolen in the game.
Some of the more seedy stuff in the game such as a torture scene in one of the missions, top-less nudity, and picking up medical marijuana are just a few of the new shock novelties simply there to horrify parents and drum up controversy, because without it, this game just wouldn’t be GTA.
There are some more odd things to look for-ward to in gameplay such as alien abduction, Bigfoot sightings, demented clown takedowns and even zombie-like dialogue poking fun at the boom and cultural obsession with zombies as of lately.
One thing that has been changed for the better since GTA IV is the ridiculous friend interactions. Players are now no longer forced to make sure that other characters in the game still like their charac-ter by hanging out with them at the game’s beck and call, and instead the player has the option of calling up friends or not, which was one of the most annoying features in the GTA IV game.
The phone menu fea-ture has been updated to
keep up with the techno-logical times, to include internet, email, mission check list, camera and quick save, all equipped from the player’s phone menu. Radio play in the game has also stepped it up a bit with surprising and welcomed classics from every genre, which makes driving around the map not such a monoto-nous task to fulfill. It can even sometimes make a player actually want to stay in the car to finish hearing a great song. Not all radio stations seem to work in every part of the map, however.
Saving in GTA has always been a bit annoy-ing, but if players have the internet at home they can quick save from the phone menu between missions, and the game has auto saves at check points. This makes missions in this game much less frus-trating to play, because it seems really no one ever liked to have to constantly start over missions in pre-vious games. Speaking of the crazy difficulty of some missions; if a player just cannot get past a mis-sion and just wants to give up, Rockstar has added a feature so players can skip missions after a certain amount of tries if needed.
Players can still always go back and try playing them again. It seems this new feature was made because it can be really hard for some players to pass the game, which caused some to just eventually give up. Now players don’t have to anymore, and this has made it much more enter-taining and less frustrat-ing for less experienced players to enjoy.
Rockstar has defi-nitely stepped it up from the days of Niko Bellic in GTA IV, which was really not one of greatest games of the series. The makers have managed to success-fully continue the GTA series with its usual shock and awe, as well as with record breaking sales by bringing new and inno-vative ways to make this series once again a step above the rest.
There are still a few things that are going to bug about this game (and there will always be some-thing to gripe about in a new game), but overall I would say the cost is defi-nitely worth checking out all that GTA V has to offer. In conclusion I would give Grand Theft Auto V a 4.5 out of 5 wanted stars.
What’s good and what sucks about GTA V
Rene’s Ratings of GTA VGraphics Gameplay Storyline
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September 24, 2013 The CNM Chronicle | 5STUDENT SPOTLIGHT
By Martin MontoyaStaff ReporterAudiences have
recently been submerged in lyrical depths with a cascade of hard hitting beats in the desert of Albuquerque.
Raul “Syfe” Hilliard, Radiology major, is an emcee with the local underground hip-hop crew The Flood, who lyrically deliver all over Albuquerque and will be performing October 11 at BlackWater Music located at 109 4th Street NW.
The Flood has performed with well-known artists like Brotha Lynch Hung, C- Rays Wallz and Masta Ace, Hilliard said.
In July, The Flood came out with their third
full length album, The Flood Ritual, Hilliard said.
“The Flood Ritual hits really hard, but it also has those tracks where you just slowly nod your head and get down to the groove,” Hilliard said.
Hilliard said he con-siders it their most bal-anced album to date, The Flood Ritual will give people razor sharp lyrics with verbal aggression, beats that will smear a date’s make-up, and preci-sion DJ cuts that will leave people’s thoughts on the vinyl, he said.
“It’s ritualistically sac-rificing your eardrums,” he said.
The Flood signed with a record label out of New York called Chamber Musik. Hilliard said other artists on the
label include Madlibs, Cappadonna from the Wu-Tang Clan, and other Wu-Tang affiliates.
New York is the birth place of hip-hop and The Flood is proud of being a local act from Albuquerque representing on a label from that city, he said.
“We are starting to get a lot of attention from other cities and other places, so hopefully soon we will be touring,” Hilliard said.
The Flood also has a music video coming out for their song “Red Ring of Death,” which was filmed downtown at The Distillery, by CNM digital Media and Film student Tommy “ill” Borunda, Hilliard said.
The Flood started to flow through the Duke City in 2001 when Hilliard and his friend Bryan “Kuma” Higgins came up with the crew, who are now seven mem-bers strong, he said.
“The Flood means we don’t flow lyrics, we flood lyrics,” Hilliard said.
A way to express how these musicians feel, The Flood is very much in touch with their hip-hop roots and uses it as a voice for the community to speak out on politics, the streets, and any life situa-tion, as well as just having fun and releasing some stress, Hilliard said.
“I call it getting rid of the demons,” he said.
Having done every-thing from freestyle bat-tles to slam poetry to just a poetry reading at a hippie bar, Hilliard said that hip-hop is his outlet.
“Hip-hop to me is a lifestyle,” he said.
Learning the mean-ing of time management by attending classes as well as working for CNM
and juggling his music, Hilliard said school is his main priority Monday through Friday because he understands that school will be the way to support his hip-hop career.
“You have to make sac-rifices to get things done in school,” he said.
Closer to the holi-days, The Flood will be just one of many local underground hip-hop artists giving back to the community by perform-ing in a fundraiser show called Toys in the Hood. The show will go toward collecting gifts for home-less and underprivileged children and families, Hilliard said.
On any given Sunday you can catch the crew at their Flood meetings discussing upcoming shows and collaborations, Hilliard said. They are currently working with a crew out of Phoenix called The Society of Invisibles who tour with Jedi Mind Tricks, he said.
Practicing their sets is very crucial to performing
on stage and being able to give an audience what they come for, he said.
“We take pride in our live performance. We love hip-hop,” he said.
Each member of the crew is considered a “Flood Brother” in the Free Lodge Of Oracle Disciples, an acro-nym The Flood uses to describe their circle. If you are a member you are never going be homeless, never going to be down and out, never going to be hungry, never thirst-ing for a beer, Hillard said. Whatever you may need there will always be another “flood brother” there to help, he said.
“That’s our lodge and we are all disciples of the same craft. We are all disciples to the Flood, the flow,” he said.
Students can find The Flood Ritual Album on Amazon.com or visit The Flood’s website at www.thef loodsite.com and click the links to hear The Flood.
The Grimy AwardsWhen: October 11, 2013Main act: Ill Bill. Where: Black Water Music located at 109 4th Street NW $20 Presale
ing increasingly popu-lar, especially among students. In addition
to their portability and versatility, tablets are also considerably cheaper than most lap-tops. With the growing number of textbooks being sold and rented in
digital form, tablets are also a way for students to save money and avoid the long lines at the bookstore, lessening the load on their wallets as well as their backpacks.
There are dozens of tablets competing for students’ hard earned dollars, and making sense of all the options can be daunting. With disbursement checks
going out and students looking to make their lives a little easier, The Chronicle has com-piled information on some of the top sell-ing tablets, in order to
make shopping a little easier. All of the tab-lets discussed come in different sizes, ver-sions, and GB storage options. These are the most popular models.
Apples to orangesPicking the right tablet for school
Apple iPadPrice: $329 (iPad Mini) $499 (iPad with Retina Display)Specs:• RetinaDisplay
has the highest reso-lution screen on the market• iOS6• DualCoreA6XProcessor(1GHzA5in Mini)• WiFi,and4GLTEoptionavailable• AppleAppStore• 10hoursbatterylife• 16GBstorage• Frontandrearcamera• Largestlibraryoftabletapps
Pro: Best all-around tabletCon: High price tag
The iPad is the original, and in many ways still the best tablet, but it is also one of the most expen-sive. It comes in full size and mini, competing in both the large and small tablet markets. The full size iPad is still the king, but at $329 for the mini, there are much cheaper options that perform just as well. For someone who is already a fan of Apple products, and if money is not an issue, the iPad is the best choice.
Pro: Bestsmall(7inch)tablet,bestvalueCon: no micro SD, smaller screen
Google has certainly made its presence known in thetabletgame,anditsNexus7isthebestseveninchtablet on the market. At $100 less than the iPad Mini, it packs serious power without such a serious price tag. For people who prefer Android over other operat-ing systems, this is the tablet.
Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9Price:$269Specs:• High defini-
tion 8.9 inch screen• A m a z o n
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Pro: Best tablet for media consumption. Great sound, screen, and access to the Amazon store, and is an easy to use interface for tablet beginners.Con: Limited app store, simple interface is very limited.
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“It is something we’ve worked towards for forever. Go direct deposit if you have a bank account,” he said.
Students who signed up for direct deposit got their money two days before students who received a paper check, and this has made the pro-cess easier and faster for both the Cashiers office and the students, Bursar Christine Duncan said.
“The less paper checks we have to handle, the faster it is,” Duncan said.
Financial Aid and the Marketing and Communication Office teamed up to encour-age students to switch to direct deposit, using emails and social media to let students know about the option, Duncan said.
The other big change this semester was the start of disbursement at the West Side campus, which lessened the load for Main and Montoya campuses, Duncan said.
With more staff and resources this year, the West Side campus gave out checks to over 600 stu-dents. Montoya campus handled disbursement for over 900 students last week, and this has meant more convenience and shorter lines for every-one, Duncan said.
“We tried to make it a little more conve-nient for those students at the other campuses, so people didn’t have to drive as far,” Duncan said.
An email was sent out to students, letting them know which campus to go to in order to get their checks. Checks were sent
to whichever campus the majority of a stu-dent’s classes were held, Duncan said.
Disbursement is a joint effort between Financial Aid, the Cashiers office, and Accounts Payable, and is a team effort, Duncan said.
“This term we changed a couple of things, so we had meetings, talked about it, and made decisions together,” Duncan said.
Financial Aid pro-cesses a student’s award eligibility, and the Cashiers office cuts the checks, once a student’s tuition and fees have been paid, Carrillo said.
“We work very well together,” Carrillo said.
With the success of the direct deposit option, CNM has begun discus-sion about another pos-sibility for disbursement;
replacing paper checks with plastic credit cards from a bank, Carrillo said.
The cards would be free to students, and would work like a gift card, with no possibility of overdrafts or further debt, Carrillo said.
The main issue with this option is that many banks would charge a trans-action fee every time the card was used, Carrillo said.
Carrillo said the school has received presen-tations from several banks, but they have not made a decision to go with a par-ticular one yet, and are waiting for the best pos-sible deal, one that would work best for the students.
“We just need to make sure that whichever bank we choose to go with has none, or the minimal fee, so it doesn’t affect the students’ money,” he said.
Carrillo said it would most likely start out as an optional program, like direct deposit, but that it might become mandatory at some point down the line.
No decisions have been made yet, and it is ulti-mately up to the Executive team whether CNM will implement these cards in the future, Carrillo said.
Most of the student problems with disburse-ment last week were about confusion over whether they would be getting the full amount of money, and when, said Duncan. According to Carrillo, students get their money ten days after the start of their classes, but for Freshmen and first time borrowers of loans, there is a thirty day wait before their funds are disbursed.
“We want to make sure that they are here and they
are doing well before we disburse those loan moneys to them,” Carrillo said.
Carrillo said that many students at times get con-fused about disbursement because of attending hours, short term courses, ineli-gibility because of repeat courses, and other issues.
The Financial Aid office tries to commu-nicate with students as much as possible through emails throughout the year, including award letters, schedules, and deadlines, so hopefully students will be less confused if they read these emails carefully, Carrillo said.
“We always have the student in mind when we are sending out these emails, to make them as simple as possible so they understand them,” Carrillo said.
This is the case if teachers are traveling from campus to campus to try to get enough classes to teach to survive, he said.
“I have been part time, I have taught out of the trunk, I know what it’s about and it’s tough,” Andrews said.
CNM clearly does not have enough park-ing spaces to ensure
every faculty member gets a guaranteed or reserved parking space, and at the same time the part-timers are expected to simply deal with these condi-tions, he said.
Director of Marketing and Communications Brad Moore said that as of yet there are no pro-cedures in the works for instructors to be able to get set up with
preferential parking permits, and that there are no immediate plans to change policies regarding instructor parking issues.
“I am not aware of anything in the works
that would change the parking situation for employees,” Moore said.
“We are really excited about the I-Pads. Because it is the touch interface it mimics a desktop com-puter in a lot of ways and a tablet operates completely different so we want all students that are so inclined to
be able to try that out,” Baca said.
Baca said the col-lection of items is available through donations and loans.
“Professors loan us a copy of a text book or if a department has extra copies they will loan or donate it to us so we are able to make it available to students,” Baca said.
A year ago the library put a policy into practice that deals with the consequences of returning materials late, she said.
“If a student returns it late than they are not denied access to the resource but they are restricted. At the main campus library that means using it
at the big silver help desk on the first f loor,” Baca said.
The Main campus library currently has many text books on file. In addition to the lap-tops and iPads they also loan headphones, com-puter mouse, and other resource material.
“I think it’s impor-tant to know that
library staff is always willing to help them,” Baca said.
All students are encouraged to call, email CNM.edu/libraries, or stop by for any help they might need, she said.
“We are here to help them, so we can help them find a resource for a project so that it doesn’t take
those three frustrating hours,” she said.
If you have any questions regarding this valuable resource please contact the CNM libraries at 224-4278 or email Olivia Baca at [email protected].
8 | The CNM Chronicle September 24, 2013FEATURE
By Daniel MontañoSenior ReporterLearning and doing
are two very differ-ent things, and students enrolled in service learn-ing are finding out that doing can be rewarding in many ways, Sharon Gordon-Moffett, director of service learning, said.
Service learning takes students out of the classroom and puts their knowledge to work at local non-profit organiza-tions with credit toward a class, she said.
Gordon-Moffett said that most students say they find the experience rich and meaningful, and that it can sometimes even land stu-dents a job.
“It’s a great, great expe-rience. This is real life, real world experience. Close to forty percent of the students stay on to volunteer once they complete their hours, and several years ago it was estimated that 20 percent of our students are offered jobs,” she said.
Instructors can choose to offer service learning as an additional
teaching method for whatever course they plan to use it in, and stu-dents will receive a grade based on a ref lection of what they learn, Gordon-Moffett said.
Cynthia Griffin Ediger, Math, Science and Engineering instructor, for example, gives her students in her geometry for teachers class a service learning option to volunteer with the Boys and Girls Club, actually teaching math to kids in an after school program, and then present their experience in lieu of a research paper, she said.
Griffin Ediger’s students get the real world experi-ence that can prepare the would-be-teachers for what teaching children can actually be like at the Boys and Girls club with all sorts of different types children, she said.
“They’re not just ideal stu-dents. There are kids who are homeless, there are kids that come to school hungry and that type of thing,” Griffin Ediger said.
Service learning works with more than 20 differ-ent organizations around Albuquerque and Rio Rancho, with representatives for each that are trained in the goals of service learning so that these reps. can engage students in the sorts of activities that will teach them the things that are relevant to the student’s course, Gordon-Moffett said.
“I like to call it academ-ics in action. You’re actually applying the theory,” she said.
Linda Fuller, Shelter Director at St. Martin’s Hospitality center, said the real learning hap-pens when students get exposed to things that cannot be fully under-stood inside a classroom.
St. Martin’s, a day shel-ter for the homeless, is one
of the many service learning agencies available, and caters to Child, Youth, and Family Development majors who want to go into social work, Fuller said.
Students often feel overwhelmed for the first few hours they work at St. Martins because they get exposed to the reality of homelessness, substance abuse, mental disorders, and much more, Fuller said.
“This is an eye-opener, this is the real world, and I think people really need that,” Fuller said.
Service learning stu-dents also get the ability to test the waters in their chosen field, which is beneficial to knowing if a certain career choice is best for that student, Gordon-Moffett said.
“It’s a great opportunity for students to kind of get their feet wet. Some think they want to work with kids, and then they get done and find out they can’t stand kids,” she said.
Service learning is offered by many instruc-tors for many different types of courses, including psychology, social work, hospitality and tourism, communications and
health sciences, Gordon-Moffett said.
Gary Peoples, CYFD Social Work major, is ser-vice learning at St. Martins Hospitality Center for his intro to social work class, and has learned just how impor-tant his chosen career will be, he said.
“I’ve learned there’s a tremendous need out here. There’s a problem in our soci-ety for those who have and those who don’t have,” he said.
Peoples’ experience at St. Martins has motivated him to get more involved with and set him in his career path, he said.
“There was no doubt before, but definitely this has solidified it. Absolutely,” he said.
In contrast, another stu-dent who volunteers at St. Martins, CYFD Social work major Johnel Reddic, said his experience at St. Martins has changed his career path — he now wants to work directly with people who need assis-tance, he said.
“I wanted to work in administration but I think I’ll probably be bored. This’ll probably be a bit more inter-esting, probably be a bit more fulfilling,” Reddic said.
Nick SternStaff ReporterStudents who
are unable to leave Albuquerque and who are working towards an asso-ciate’s degree at CNM can now consider getting a bachelor’s degree in Hotel, Restaurant, and Tourism Management (HRTM) from New Mexico State University without leaving Albuquerque, thanks to the collaboration between both CNM and NMSU, Program Coordinator for culinary arts and hospi-tality and tourism, Scott Clapp said.
What Clapp refers to as the “two-plus-two” program allows CNM students to receive their associate’s degree in two years with CNM’s Hospitality and Tourism program and then transfer to NMSU for a bachelor’s degree in HRTM without having to go to Las Cruces, Clapp said. NMSU has a small campus right here in Albuquerque located at 4501 Indian School Road NE, so students will be able to take their classes at this facility or through
online classes, as well as labs that can be taken at CNM, Clapp said.
“What is really excit-ing about this relation-ship between CNM and NMSU is that they can do the whole program here in Albuquerque. For students wanting to get their bachelor’s degree, whether they have family, a job here, or whatever reason moving to Las Cruces is not really an option for them,” he said.
Clapp said that the goal is to allow students to be able to bring the full program to Albuquerque by next spring of 2014, when it will begin as a cohort, which means stu-dents will start as a group and go through the entire program together to receive their bachelor’s.
As of now CNM is in contact with previous graduates that might be interested in the program as well as contacting cur-rent hospitality and culi-nary students who ,ight be interested in a bach-elor’s degree through the
“two-plus-two” program, Clapp said. The hospital-ity classes teach things like
event planning, under-standing the processes in different areas of hospi-tality, general account-ing, and a lot of leadership classes, Clapp said.
“Hospitality touches on everything because basically when you walk in a room, there is some hos-pitality going on,” he said.
Clapp said that there are many leadership classes because Human Resources (HR) is very important in Hospitality, and that leadership man-agement in the associate’s degree program is for students who want to be in the management level of hospitality, including job titles like food and beverage manager, gen-eral manager, and head of housekeeping.
While an associate’s degree can take someone far in the culinary side of hospitality, a bachelor’s degree is what is really important in the corpo-rate setting of hospitality, Clapp said.
The corporate side is usually looking for someone with a four year degree for catering direc-tors, HR people and
management positions, jobs that are highly sought after, Clapp said.
“An associate’s in hospitality will benefit in some ways but to really get to the management positions a bachelor’s will take them a lot further. What we have been able to do here with NMSU is provide that avenue,” Clapp said.
CNM’s Dean of School of Business and Information Technology, Donna Diller said that New Mexico State’s HRTM is a great pro-gram because they get to work with employ-ers from all over the country for internship opportunities, and that this program works as a very effective way for students to be exposed to their desired field, and to place them around the country to work.
“New Mexico State has the most robust of the degree programs because they work with employers around the country. One of my son’s friends just graduated from there and is working in San Diego at a resort hotel,” Diller said.
Hospitality is not a small and precise study but rather covers a very broad area, Diller said.
There is the food ser-vice side, bed and break-fast, hotels, travel agencies, event-planning, catering management, and a sales side of hospitality, just to name a few, she said.
The two colleges have collaborated since 2007 and the transfer degree program was in the 2009-10 catalogs but has not
been offered until now, Diller said.
“Part of what we are doing this fall is reach-ing out to students that are close to finishing the degree or maybe even have finished and are interested in pursuing this,” Diller said.
For more information on the Hotel, Restaurant, and Tourism Management program, students can call the NMSU Albuquerque campus at 830-2856.
CNM and NMSU partner to bring degree program to Albuquerque
Welcome to the real worldService learning gives students real life experience
