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Volume 20 | Issue 21 February 3-16, 2015/cnmchronicle thecnmchronicle.wordpress.comT h e s t u d e n t v o i c e o f C e n t r a l n e w M e x i c o c o m m u n i t y c o l l e g e PHOTO BY MELISSA SHEPARD
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Instructor spotlight:Leo Madrid
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Main Street PortalesPg 5 Heinous Clouds
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Mental health workshopsPg 7
Matters of theheart
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The weekly study session for any chemistry subject. Meet people and get your homework done at the same time! We always have free coffee and snacks.Saturdays 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.Main Campus JS Hall, Room 303Contact Tim Kimberley Landry at [email protected] for more information
The Executive Council of Students
The Executive Council of Students (ECOS) is looking for new students to join the CNM student government this semester. Students must have a minimum GPA of 2.5, be enrolled for at least 3 credit hours, have a letter of recommendation, and be willing to be an active student in the CNM community. For more information or to apply to ECOS students can pick up an application in the Student Services building in room 201, student life office of Main campus.
Join Physics League
The CNM Physics League is a chartered student organization with a goal of supporting physics students.Physics league meets every Saturday in JS301 at Main Campus from 10:00 a.m.- 3:00 p.m. with the Math League.Physic League Officers:President- Chris Bryer at [email protected] Bobi Drummond at [email protected]
CNM Shooting Club
The CNM Shooting Club is accepting new members and has openings for board members. If you are interested please contact the Faculty Advisor of the Club, Dr. Lisa M. Orick-Martinez at [email protected] or 224-4000 X50062
Student ClubsVamos al Museo!
Take a short tour of the art museum, followed by a hands-on art-making session inspired by the tour at the National Hispanic Cultural Center (1701 4th St SW) on February 7 from 10:30 a.m -2 p.mTickets are free for all ages.
Impetus Seekers: Integral Innovations of Pueblo Women Artists
Presented by the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center at the KiMo Gallery Theatre, this new exhibition explores how Pueblo women artists are both custodians of tradition and a source of innovation and features art from Tonita Peña, Lucy M. Lewis, Helen Cordero, Pablita Velarde, Helen Hardin, Margarete Bagshaw, Deborah A. Jojola, Glendora Fragua and Marla Allison from February 6 -16Tickets are free for all ages.
Heroes, Saints and Expeditions ARTScrawl
Exhibition of Etchings by Ray Maseman at New Grounds Print Workshop (3812 Central SE, Ste 100B) from February 7-15.Tickets are free for all ages .
Local Band Showcase
The City of Albuquerque’s Cultural Services Department will be hosting the first ever Albuquerque Local Band Showcase at the KiMo Theatre on February 11 from 1 p.m - 9 p.mTickets are Free for all ages.
EventsFree Bus and Parking Passes
Current students qualify for a free general parking pass and AbqRide bus pass.Name, schedule, and student ID number are required. Main Campus, SSC111, Monday-Friday 8am-5pmMontoya Campus, TW207, or Westside Campus, WSII-104, 8:00am-12:30pm/1:30pm-5:00pmThe South Valley Campus (Admissions Office) and Advanced Technology Center (South Lobby reception desk) can also provide the bus pass to the CNM community.For a general parking pass, vehicle and drivers license information must be provided. To register your vehicle, log in to myCNM and follow links from the “transportation” section. The passes can then be obtained at the Main campus Student Activities Office.
Free Clothing Exchange
Join us for the Job Connection Services’ Clothing Exchange!
Looking to spice up your work wardrobe? Free, gently used, professional clothing is available to CNM students, staff, and faculty. This is a great way to look professional at work, job interviews, job fairs, and networking events for the best price: FREE!Student Services Center Cafeteria, Main Campus, February 12 from 9 a.m - 2 p.m
CNM Blood Drive
United Blood Services will be on Campus for Students, Help CNM reach its goal of
“50 Gallons for 50 Years!”. All Donors will be given a FREE T-Shirt with a CNM ID. Main Campus, Ken Chappy Hall, KC 125, February 3 from 10 a.m - 2 p.m
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By Elizabeth Galvez
Recently CNM Chronicle posted an article regarding SNAP benefits that are now being granted to some CNM students. While I view this as a helpful thing for those CNM students, the argument must be made that there are huge flaws in how CNM disburses financial aid, and how that disbursement is detrimental to student success in the early weeks of the semester.
As it currently stands, CNM Financial Aid does not disburse until 3 weeks after the semester begins. Although “credit” is given in the bookstore to purchase some supplies, those of us who rely on financial aid are forced into paying exorbitant mark ups for our books and supplies (those which are available). For example, a used copy of “Painting as a Language” sells at the bookstore for $180. A quick search on line and that book can be purchased for $30, but the $30 is not available to spend on a book because we are struggling to eat or pay rent. If financial aid were disbursed at the beginning of the semester, $150 could be saved on just one book! That $150 could then be used to purchase other supplies needed for classes. Waiting on disbursement also means that students need to wait until 3 weeks into the semester to purchase supplies that are not available in the bookstore. As an art student I do expect to pay for supplies out of pocket, but how can a student be successful if it is 3 weeks before they can buy the tools and materials needed to complete a project? None of the supplies needed are available in the bookstore. I recently tried to purchase a compass in the bookstore, only to find the selec-tion of 1 substandard compass/ruler set that one might purchase for an elementary school student (although there were at least 10 selec-tions of USB phone chargers available).
Additionally, the stress of waiting for the disbursement to pay rent, bills, buy food and all of the other day-to-day issues that require money, causes an unnecessary burden for students like myself. This semester in particular has been especially stressful due to the lengthened winter break. Those of us expecting disbursement at the end of January now need to wait until mid-February for our funds. Although I understand that CNM changed its disbursement policy due to students who received their disbursement and then never returned, CNM is punishing those of us who are serious students and have a vested interesting their success. The agencies that approve those funds will collect on them if the student does not uphold his/her end of the bargain, it is not up to CNM to penalize students financially due to past students actions. It is not CNM’s money. It is the U.S. government’s money, it is money granted by the Pell Grant fund. CNM is sabotaging my education!
I have a solution to this problem. Instead of granting students “credit” that can only be used in the bookstore, release that amount in cash, so that students can use the “credit” in ways that are more ben-eficial to them. Then they can release the remaining funds 3 weeks into the semester if they feel that the students who attend are too irre-sponsible to have their entire disbursement in one lump sum. Better still, disburse it all in the beginning of the semester. That money is there to help us with our needs, not for CNM administration to use as a carrot and stick so that if we struggle to do our work and stick it out for 3 weeks, barely skirting homelessness and starvation, we can be rewarded with our financial aid disbursement.
CNM Financial Aid Disbursement Policy Is Sabotaging Student SuccessL e t t e r t o t h e E d i t o r
4 The CNM Chronicle February 3-16, 2015FEATURE
By Guadalupe Santos-Sanchez Senior Reporter
Leonard Madrid has been a full-time theatre instructor at CNM since the fall of 2014, he said.
He began teaching as a part-time instructor in New Mexico in 2009 and then moved up to Denver to teach for a few years, he said.
“When I went up to Denver, it was proven to me how important the Albuquerque community is to me, so when I saw that a job opened up here, I applied for it, and got it, which was amazing because this was the community that I wanted to be a part of and I’m overjoyed to be home,”” he said.
The theatre company that he is a part of called Blackout, goes to schools to teach play-writing to kids because they want to teach them to have ownership of their creative ideas, he said.
A lot of them feel that they are borrowing theatre, but it belongs to them just as much as it does to anyone, he said.
Just because the theatre is not an American standard that does not mean it is not valu-able, he said.
New Mexican food and dialect are not American standard and it is what makes this state unique, he said.
“So my goal has always been to support our voices weather it is a Chicano or Latino or something else. I support our region because it is such a neat place to be, and I’m pretty proud of our culture,” he said.
Playwrights try to write plays that look like what they have seen before, so people from Idaho write plays set in New York even though they have never been to New York, he said.
He had spent all those years reading plays by other people and he had never seen any Chicano or Latino plays, so when he decided to start writing, he really got into that type of theatre, he said.
His focus is now on New Mexican theatre because it has been around for hundreds of years, he said.
“We have a pretty old theatre tradition that isn’t often recognized and we tend to think that New Mexico didn’t get theatre until New York got theatre and brought it to New Mexico,” he said.
When his parents told him about the workshop that they took with Teatro Campesino, he became interested in it and found out that as a result of the touring, little teatros were founded, he said.
He found out that these theatre companies were based in writing about their local communities with input from the community, he said.
That is when he realized that he could really do something similar with his community, he said.
His mother was a poet and his father was a drummer and they both had their day jobs and then would come home and work on their passions, he said.
Both of his parents were Chicano activists and would say that one of their children had to get into theatre because teatro was about helping the people, he said.
Teatro Campesino was a theatre company that worked with Cesar Chavez during the Delano grape boycotts, he said.
They performed in the back of trucks as a way to entertain and recruit protestors, he said.
When the boycott was over, Teatro Campesino toured the southwest doing workshops at colleges, one of which Madrid’s parents took for extra credit, he said.
“My parents kept telling us that one of you is going to be a priest, one of you is going to be a lawyer, and one of you is going to be in theatre,” he said.
His entire life he looked forward to being in theatre until he finally got into it in high school, he said.
“I don’t think they knew that theatre and teatro are actually two different concepts in the U.S.,” he said.
Teatro, also known as Teatro Chicano, is more politically active, and theatre can be anything, he said.
Teatro Chicano began to change because there was Teatro Chicano coming from the west coast and Teatro Latino coming from the east coast, and Chicanismo became a weaker force, he said.
His focus for his second degree was on Latino and Chicano theatre and that is what his background is in, he said.
He has even taught Chicano Studies at CNM because of his background in Chicano theatre, he said.
He has two degrees from UNM and another from ENMU, he said. He has a degree in acting, lighting and set design with costuming, and a mas-
ter’s degree in playwriting, he said. He first went to college as a theatre major to a school that was focused on
teaching the student everything, not just acting and not just designing, he said. With the first degree he went to work in the industry doing a little bit
of everything, he said. He has won the Kennedy Center’s Latinidad Award for Latino
Playwrights three times, he said. The plays that won awards were “Tecolotito”, “Perla”, and
“Aurora”, he said. After that he went to grad school and got his master’s degree
while teaching workshops and classes, he said.
Instructor Spotlight: Leonard Madrid
PHOTO BY LUCY HONORATO
February 3-16, 2015 The CNM Chronicle | 5FEATURE
By Guadalupe Santos-SanchezSenior Reporter
CNM students and faculty have begun production of two one-act plays that will be showing at the Coal Avenue Theater in March 2015, said Leonard Madrid, director and playwright.
The two plays called “Volver, Volver, Volver” and “Ambrosita” are together called “Main Street, Portales” and set in Portales, New Mexico, he said.
“I think the plays show a lot from the New Mexico culture which I’m really proud of, it shows a lot of our personalities that you don’t find in other places, I like being able to incorporate that instead of portraying a different society that we can’t really relate to, I think it really represents New Mexico in a way that’s relatable to all audiences that are not just from New Mexico,” said Alma Rivera, sociology major and assistant stage manager.
New Mexico does not get a whole lot of recognition and it gets overlooked a lot, she said.
People do not realize that New Mexico is more than just a movie industry or a set for action movies, she said.
“I hope we get a lot of people who come see it, I hope we get a lot of students who come see it, and maybe it’ll get them more interested in seeing other plays too,” said part time theater instructor Dani Belvin..
She said she hopes the plays show people that there is more to the-atre than just Shakespeare and musicals.
“There’s an older gentleman in one of my theatre classes, and he was saying ‘I wish I’d known about theatre earlier, I wish I’d gotten involved’ so if younger people see it, I hope they think, ‘Hey that’s something I want to do’ and they try it,” said Lexie Torres, English major and actor.
A lot of the lingo is really great because there is a part where one of the characters goes “I know huh” which says a lot about the way people communicate and the way language evolves to just communicate some-thing completely different, Rivera said.
“I know that’s how my family talks, and I know that’s how a lot of people’s family talks, so it’s really comfortable I think, we don’t see that as often as we should in Albuquerque and it’s nice cause it repre-sents the community that it’s being produced in, by, and for,” Belvin said.
One-act plays are usually shorter than an hour, so “Volver” is about 45 minutes long and “Ambrosita” is about 30 minutes long, he said.
“Volver” is about a man who returns home to his family thinking that he has only been gone for three days when in reality he has been dead for three years, he said.
The story shows him trying to figure out how he died and why he was brought back, and is about his relationship with his mother, his wife, and his daughter, he said.
“It ends up being the story about a man who is unaware of his posi-tion in the world and how in certain communities men get a lot of free rides and get treated better,” he said.
There is also themes of magic, or brujeria, in a light sense, and culture, he said.
So the play is also about ownership of culture, the magic and lan-guage fading through the generations in the play can be seen by a lot of people as representative of the fading of their culture, he said.
“Ambrosita” is about a young lady who has a reputation for being the prettiest girl in town, he said.
She is walking through the streets of Portales, and everywhere she stops there is a boy or a man who wants to marry her but she turns them down, he said.
At the very end she goes to the house of a man who has never pur-sued her and asks him to marry her, he said.
This play ends up being about how men treat women, he said. “It’s a weird thing to feel that men deserve something from women,
and if we find them attractive they owe us something because we find them attractive,” he said.
If a woman rejects the man for genuine reasons, then he may get angry, assumes she is stuck-up, and begin calling her names, he said.
The man she ends up falling for is not afraid of being honest with her or of her honesty towards him, he said.
As part of the magical realism genre, both the plays are heightened by being told as legends several generations later and by use of poetic dialogue, Madrid said.
“What I see in it is similar to when my grandpa used to tell stories and everything had magic in it, so there’s that sort of legend within your family that grows and becomes more beautiful as it is passed down through the generations,” he said.
In “Volver” the man’s name is Junie, for junior, his dad’s name is Refugio which means refuge, his mom’s name is Dolores which means pains, his wife’s name is Sirena which means mermaid, and his daugh-ter’s name is Socorro which also means refuge or succor, he said.
“Ambrosita” means ambrosia which is the food or drink of gods, and the man she marries is named Flores which means f lowers, he said.
So all the names have another meaning, he said. In the story of “Ambrosita” part of the legend of her and her hus-
band is that when they were younger, Flores said he was going to marry Ambrosita one day, Madrid said.
In both plays, the characters speak poetically, more than a real person would, he said.
“I’m not going to talk about how your soul is withering in your bones and trying to get out, I’m not going to tell you that, but the characters speak like that to each other,” he said.
It is not a thing real people say to each other, but that is part of the genre, the storytelling, and the legendary, magical realism, he said.
There are a lot of themes that you can see going through them, Belvin said.
Forgiveness is a big one in “Volver” because ultimately at the end he is wanting forgiveness and acceptance from his daughter, she said.
“I think throughout both of them, the strength of the women is really apparent, in our culture, as New Mexicans, the women are just so strong and you see that in the plays,” she said.
From the brujas in “Volver” that can raise the dead and are not intimidated by anyone not even their husbands to Ambrosita, the girl who is turning down suitors left and right and is ultimately in charge of her own destiny, she said.
They wanted to produce a play that would be modern and diverse that at the same time would have been easier to rehearse for the stu-dents, Madrid said.
On show nights, “Volver” will be performed first, there may be an intermission, and “Ambrosita” will be performed second, Belvin said.
“I think because its two different plays being performed together, kind of as a set, they actually work really well and kind of complement each other in a lot of ways, it’s a nice contrast, and I really like how it’s all set in Portales, it seems like whoever is watching could see a little of themselves or their neighbors in it, and all the different points of view,” Torres said.
They are not exactly the same thing, they are a fun little juxtaposi-tion of each other, she said.
Particularly for someone who is not used to going to see theatre, she said.
PHOTO BY GUADALUPE SANTOS-SANCHEZ
Leonard Madrid rehearsing Main Street Portales with CNM students
Main Street PortalesA night of New Mexico One Acts
6 | The CNM Chronicle February 3-16, 2015
By Creighton BursonGuest Writer
The windshield wipers left a thin mustache streak of rain behind and the thunder clapped like a zoo seal asking for a sardine treat. The weather was just murky enough for her to transfer a dark disposition into a snarling yelp of anger when Ophelia saw a young misfit run a red light while talking on his cell phone.
“Pay attention!” She was driving alone, shaking her fist, a bit of drool spat from the side of her mouth. She used her sleeve to wipe it clean and felt grateful no one saw her sloppiness.
Ophelia left her desk job at the daycare early. The teachers wouldn’t miss her, there were only a few students left to be picked up by their parents and she decided the stack of paperwork could wait for her until tomorrow. She had to rush to get downtown for the clearance sale at Eternal Youth, a boutique designed for high-school students, but was filled with 30 something’s pushing strollers and pilfering though al the XL’S.
Moments of hypocrisy are inevitable, like when the abortion protester finds herself in the clinic. Ophelia was adamantly against talking on a cell phone while driving. It manifested many of the societal elements that itched her compulsion to disappear from mainstream society. She could see herself as a beach rat in Costa Rica; living off mangoes and fresh fish. She scowled while she thought about the younger technologically dependent generations, their obsession with appearance, lack of self-awareness, not thinking ahead, the unwillingness to be reminded that you never know where someone is coming from. Scowl, scowl…she looked in the rearview mirror to check her lipstick.
A ripple of vibrations crept down her leg, buzzing against her seatbelt. It startled her into a slight squirm in her seat. Reaching into her pocket, she removed the phone, not resisting to see who was giving her a ring, a moth to a light.
“Renee.” She was her best friend, her #1, the Kleenex to her tears, the Band-Aid for her ouchies, but lately their symbiosis had been fading
Ophelia was running late, the store would be closing soon. She knew that she wouldn’t be able to return Renee’s call in the store because the music is so loud: the beat of shopping was timed to the beat of her heart. Renee would be at work by the time she left the store. Her #1’s stepfather had a stroke last week, loosing physical movement on his entire left side and barely able to mumble words.
Renee had cried in front of her a couple of nights previously. Interrupted by some drunken piss-off who felt inclined to join the table, throw insults, and then walk out on his bill. The girls were able to salvage a bit of their night as they watched video blunders and practical jokes, put on silent at the local pub. But the conversation cycled around again to the complexity of human life. Renee’s tears seeped like a perculator. As they fell down her cheeks she caught them with her tongue before dabbing her eyes with a cocktail napkin.
Instead of just giving her a hug and stepping into a consoler role, The Band-Aid to her wound, Ophelia left Renee exposed. Emerging as a preacher; lectur-ing her on the human capacity to control emotions.
“You never know what the universe will throw at you. It’s the beauty of being a human how you can actually choose to react to it.” It was the first time Renee had cried about her stepfather. She had to answer the call.
“Hey…yeah I’m on my way there now…..I’m glad you called…” Her insides boiled like a spitting sprinkler sizzling on a sun blazed sidewalk. She had troubles admitting when she did something wrong.
Learning to admit you are wrong is an essential part of life. She lis-tened to Renee, feeling sunset press the night into her face. Guilt and regret were spinning through her faster than a whiplashed roller skater. She was almost to the boutique, stepping on the gas to power through that yellow, red light.
A homeless man standing in the rain was trying to collect enough hand-outs to buy his High Gravity Malt experience. The bottle of aerosol hairspray bulged out in his trench coat pocket. A wool blanket draped over his head cre-ated a comfortable illusion for himself. An invisible face and no name are easy for anyone to ignore and the horse blinders attracted enough charitable donations to keep his chicken bone body from expiring. A cold raindrop fell in his eye, squint-ing, he adjusted the large blanket over his head. For just one second, his top heavy gravity collapsed. He fell into the road.
It happened so suddenly, too fast for her to stop and not hit him. Ophelia had dropped her phone, leaving Renee hanging. Gripping the steering wheel and slamming on the gas pedal. Thunk and skid. She took a deep breath and didn’t see anything in front of her. Ophelia got out of the car and walked around to see a man on ground. She couldn’t see his face, his head and torso were under a blanket. He was unconscious. Smelling so strongly of urine and street mush, it was impossible for her to approach his body without covering her nose. She could get only close enough to nudge him with the bottom of her. He didn’t move. Standing in the rain, she watched a yellow carbonated river pool by his backpack, then fork into the gutter .
Ophelia stood there standing still with shock; her hair became soaked with rain. Paramedics arrived and strapped down his body and loaded him up and away to the hospital. She never saw his face. She returned and sat in her car, her hand up to her mouth; as if she were holding the last breathe of his life in her hands. The police were amazingly dismissive, never asking: How fast were you driving? Have you ever gotten a D.U.I.? Were you on your cell phone? She wanted to be held responsible. One officer said the same man was arrested three times last month for public intoxication and disturbing the peace.
The flashing lights left, their sirens disappearing like a passing flock of geese. She started her engine again, watching the beer saturate the dead leaves in the street ditch. She tilted her head up with a tear forming in the corner of her eye, feeling the lack of responsibly just because this man was homeless. The rain stopped. The clouds passed….the sun reflected off the wet street and aluminum fences, chain-link shadows across her face; she gripped the steering wheel and took a deep breath. A car honked behind her.
A ripple of vibrations crept down her leg; buzzing against her seatbelt…..Renee was calling her again. Emotions are like the weather, always changing.
“Oh my gosh, Renee, you won’t believe what just happened….”
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By Guadalupe Santos-Sanchez Senior Reporter
In continuing with the Behavioral Health Speaker Series from last fall, CNM is hosting four more lectures this semester, said Libby Fatta, student events and pro-gram manager.
In all the events this year they are trying to focus on students and how they are learn-ing and benefitting from the events, she said.
“One thing we’re trying to promote is that the event is an excellent presentation for students in the social sciences field, for their academic coursework and potential careers, this could be a great topic for students, who are studying those fields, to kind of get more detailed interactive learning lesson from this workshop,” she said.
Fatta is going to work with professors, deans, and students, to get feedback on what kind of events students want for their courses, she said.
Social science students are the intended audience for the lecture series, but it is open community members and to anyone who is interested in the topics, she said.
The Behavioral Series is being done in partnership with the UNM Psychiatry Department, she said.
The next lecture will be on February 26 at 6pm at the South Valley campus and the topic will how to improve babies’ mental health, she said.
This lecture will be done by two speak-ers because it will be in both English and Spanish, she said.
“It will be nice since our South Valley campus and community have a lot of both English and Spanish speakers,” she said.
The third lecture will be on March 26 at 6 pm at the Westside campus where they will be speaking about the difference between sadness and depression, she said.
The final lecture will be on April 30 at 12 pm at Montoya campus and the topic will be schizophrenia, she said.
The first lecture was on February 10, where the speaker Molly Faulkner spoke about anxiety, Fatta said.
“I think it’s really awesome that we can get out there and kind of develop a relation-ship with the community and let them know that we’re very approachable and we want to be of help in any way we can,” Faulkner said.
Sometimes mental health issues is not something people really talk about, she said.
Faulkner also think it is important for everyone to know about mental issues and anxiety, but especially young students and young adults who are in college, she said.
“They need this kind of information too because they’re trying to make their own life and kind of separate from their families maybe a little bit, and trying to do their own thing, and I think a lot of anxiety comes up about being a good student and whether or not they will be able to provide for their themselves and their family, there’s just a lot of anxieties that happen in young adulthood,” she said.
So she was relieved to see that a lot of people showed up for her lecture, she said.
“People are not going to come away from their house and drive all the way to a building on the other side of town, during the noon hour that it’s busy, unless they’re interested, so I thought wow this is really neat,” she said.
Although Faulkner is very used to teach-ing, she had never really done that kind of presentation for the public, she said.
Being approachable will allow students to ask questions without being anxious which will allow for more information to get to those students who need it, she said.
“I was trying to destigmatize anxiety and any other mental health issue that comes up, because they think that if we don’t talk about it out loud then people will continue to hide and hide how they feel about things,” she said.
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