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The CNMChronicleVolume 20 | Issue 8 July 8-14, 2014/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
Getting to know the new ECOS candidatesBy Nick SternCopy Editor
The Executive Council of Students has begun its annual election process this July and its current members who are now running for office have proven to be a capable group of folks promising that, no matter the outcome, the voice of the stu-dent body will be represented properly and efficiently, said President of ECOS and Criminal Justice major Carrie Ratkevich.
Ratkevich said four nomi-nees have been chosen for the election which is scheduled for July 11, and that she is satisfied with the candidates because she knows that they are each quali-fied and driven to do what is best for the student body of CNM.
“I am really happy to see that the members we have do care about things that are going on and they do understand the amount of effort that will have to be put in. Regardless who wins, I will be satisfied knowing that,” she said.
The four nominees each have different plans and ideas for what they would like to see happen during their time in office, yet Ratkevich is also confident that each of them understands the main purpose and goal of ECOS and are driven to pursue that goal, which is a promising pros-pect, she said.
“I think they are all serious and they have different view-points so it is really going to push them further into doing things that are the most good for the most students and as long as they have the students in mind, I think everything is going to be perfect,” she said.
The election process, Ratkevich said involves nomi-nating members at least a week
before the actual election and only official ECOS members are allowed to be elected and vote.
The people who are nomi-nated are required to have a mis-sion statement and answer any questions that the members feel are important, she said.
Ratkevich said that the elec-tion process is taken very seri-ously because ECOS holds a lot of responsibility as the represen-tation of the students’ voice, and that means electing officers who are fit for the job.
“It should be an important thing on campus for us to be able to invoke positive changes for the student body with the admin-istration, so it is important that we take this job seriously, thus elections are important. There is a lot of work you have to do so it is important that you have a good solid officer too,” she said.
The people who get elected will not take office until the beginning of the fall semester, so the time between the election and then will ensure that new officers learn everything that is needed to get a running start in the fall, she said.
Any student can become a member of ECOS by having a GPA of at least 2.5, two letters of recommendation from staff or faculty, and by filling out an application from the ECOS office located at Main Campus, Ratkevich said.
Ratkevich said she looks forward to seeing who wins the elections and knows that ECOS and the student body will be in good hands no matter what the outcome will be in the fall.
“We do not serve anybody but the students. That is our purpose here and I think all of them know that and take that job seriously,” she said.
Any current students looking to make a difference at CNM with ECOS can submit an application at Room SSC 201 in the
student services office at Main campus, which requires at least a 2.5 GPA and one recommendation from an instructor.
Welding major, Thomas Saunders is running for Administrative Officer and Communications Officer, he said.
Saunders would like to become an officer of ECOS who represents the voice of the other trades students such as himself, he said.
“What I bring to the table is I am obviously a trade student, so I am more of a blue collar voice of the group. I would like to repre-sent all the trade students—all the welders, the machiners, the carpenter, and be their voice,” Saunders said.
Saunders said when he becomes the Administrative Officer he will be willing to do everything and anything that ECOS needs him to do and is
confident that he will serve to the best of his ability, he said.
Saunders has been a member for less than a month and said he is greatly qualified for the position as administrative officer because he is experienced and skilled with administrative work such as making purchase orders and event requests.
He is also running for com-munications officer because he said that student issues and communi-cation with the school are a prior-ity to ECOS, just as he is passionate about opening a dialogue where students can feel free and comfort-able to address their concerns.
Saunders understands that ECOS is the “echoed voice of the students” and he originally joined the organization because he wanted to make sure that his fellow trades students’ voices were being heard and put into consider-ation, Saunders said.
He sees becoming communi-cations officer as a great chance to seek the thoughts of the students at CNM, he said.
“Ask them (the students) ‘hey what do you think about the school,
what do you think could be better, and what do you think about your teachers?’ Start hearing their voices because I know a lot of stu-dents, particularly in the welding program complain left and right about this and that, and sometimes their voices are not heard, so that is kind of what I want to be for them,” Saunders said.
Saunders’ currently has one main desire for bettering the school and that is for communica-tion to become something that is improved upon, he said.
Saunders said he sees a lot of communication issues, espe-cially in the trades departments where teachers and students do not communicate well, or where students are afraid to confront cer-tain issues involving instructors or safety violations.
“I want to see more commu-nications open up and see more friendly ground in the trades department because it is everybody versus everybody, and it should not be like that. We should all work together one way or another,” Saunders said.
Thomas Saunders
Ana Martinez
Phillip Cox
Psychology major, Ana Martinez said she is run-ning for President and Vice President of ECOS.
She has been a member of ECOS for more than 2 years and said she believes that her lengthy involvement has given her the experience needed to become a leader for the organization.
“I would want to be president because I think that with ECOS we can do a lot of things. So, what I want to do is push a little more
and be able to accomplish every idea,” she said.
Martinez has also had expe-rience with the responsibilities as Vice President and Treasurer and has helped with many presidential responsibilities, she said.
“Vice president is something that I have been doing for this last term, so I know how to do it, I know what to do, and I know the responsibilities of the position,” she said.
One idea that Martinez is very passionate about is to create a spring fling during the spring semester so that students can take a break after their midterms, she said.
Martinez envisions the spring fling as a carnival-like setup that could also allow the possibility for different student organizations to have a chance
to have their own fundraisers during the event, she said.
“I would like to see the spring fling so students could get some relief after the midterms. Right now we are talking about the idea and thinking about it but next term I am really going to push it and talk about details,” Martinez said.
Martinez said that her experi-ence with ECOS has showed her all of the ins and outs of being an officer in the organization and she believes she has learned how to handle the many responsibilities of being a leader with the organiza-tion, she said.
“I have seen three presidents with all the responsibilities they are doing and all the stress that they have and I think I can handle it now better than the previous terms,” Martinez said.
Criminal Psychology major, Phillip Cox is also running for President and Vice President and said he sees being elected as an opportunity to better the circumstances of the CNM’s student body, which has always been something he cares about as a student.
“I definitely care about the livelihood of the stu-dents at CNM. It has always been something that, as a student, I have always had an interest in and I really want to make sure that the interests of the students are being represented at the higher levels of our particular college,” he said.
Cox said that if he made office, his first goal would be to get more attention focused on student government so that more students can take advantage of the great things ECOS can do for them.
“The first thing I plan to do in office is to bring more awareness to student government.
ECOS has a lot of power before authority and I want students to become a part of it,” he said.
Cox is currently serving as the Administrative Officer of ECOS, which involves getting correspondents’ contribu-tions for events and fundraisers, and keeping tabs on offi-cers by making sure that they keep up with attendance and essential paperwork, he said.
Cox said that though he has had a lot of experience in politics as far as student government is involved, what he believes is more important is his desire to make sure that
the voice of students is loud enough to be heard by the right people, he said.
“I think that people voting for me will definitely provide them with a much louder voice in school. I definitely want them to feel as though, if they have issues, talking to me as their president, they know it will get addressed in some way, shape or form,” Cox said.
Cox believes that the most important responsibility as a leader in ECOS is to be a representative to the students and to make use of every option available to reach out to them, he said.
“It is finding out exactly how the students feel about pol-icies, their situations or whatever is going on in campus and making sure it is represented to the leadership of the school. That is my primary responsibility,” Cox said.
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PHOTO BY MELISSA SHEPARD
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By Daniel JohnsonInvestigative
Reporter
Los Compadres is a family-owned and operated authentic Mexican and New Mexican cuisine restaurant located at 2437 Central Ave NW near Old Town.
Manager Fred Gallegos said that this quiet little restaurant has been pre-paring some of the best authentic New Mexican and Mexican cooking for more than 20 years.
“The name Los Compadres was decided upon because it means “the buddies” in English which was meant to represent the group of friends that wanted to open the restaurant,” Gallegos said.
The menu consists of family favorites like carne adovada and menudo, which are prepared in traditional Mexican styles, he said.
Sitting down at the table during lunch to feast on a meal and to smell all the great mouthwatering aromas gives an atmosphere that ele-vates one’s senses and overall mood in one shot.
The entrées chosen by this reporter were carne adovada and eggs, with menudo, a carne deshe-brada stuffed sopapilla, and
a green chile smothered chicharron burrito.
The carne adovada is slow-cooked and simmered in a succulent red chile that provides just the right amount of heat yet packs a punch in the flavor category.
The carne deshebrada is rich and tasty, while still keeping its integrity of being a slow- cooked meat, without all the greasiness that a lot of slow cooking can cause.
The sopapillas are made from scratch and are light and fluffy while still capable of being stuffed and packed with mounds of mouthwa-tering marinated meat.
The chicharron bur-rito is definitely not a hand-held version, as it is served smothered in green chile and cheese and gives an explo-sion of spicy flavors that makes this reporter’s taste buds dance with joy.
The chicharrones were cooked to precision by having just the right amount of exterior crunch to go with the right amount of tender-ness once bitten into that can bring out the carnivorous side in us all, but without making the jaw feel like it did all the work afterward.
Lastly, but most defi-nitely not the least, is the award winning menudo that is prepared in a way
that really does call to mind the memories of a Mexican grandmother slaving away in a kitchen for hours to make this menudo just right.
Unlike most menudo served at other restaurants where it is cooked way too greasy and the tripe is under or over-cooked with mushy hominy, Los Compadres cooks their menudo to perfection.
It is seasoned with red chile and has enough flavors to surprise but not destroy your taste buds, or have you regretting it the next day.
Los Compadres seems to pride themselves on having a well cooked and consistently scrumptious menudo that is worth writing home about via self-foodie photos and hashtags online.
Tripe by nature can be gristly and if over-cooked it tends to be a slimy and leathery mess of nastiness to eat sometimes.
But when cooked prop-erly it can be tender and con-sumed in a matter of seconds, as Los Compadres cooks it every time and is definitely
the standard for traditional Mexican menudo by far.
Overall this is a restau-rant that has a great tasting menu no matter what you get, and also makes your wallet happy too, because even though Los Compadres is located next to the Albuquerque Aquarium and Historic Old Town where many restaurants are not cheap, they keep the prices to the standard of a family affordable establishment.
The restaurant is now owned and operated by Robert Martinez, his brother Fred
Gallegos and his sister Marissa Candelaria, who are all chil-dren of the original owners Roberto and Janice, he said.
“The idea was to make sure the food that was offered was the same as what we all grow up eating at home,” Gallegos said.
People love the ability to come in and sit down to a meal that will be prepared the same way as it would if you were to walk in to a Mexican’s house who had been cooking for her family and friends for years, he said.
Los Compadres has the best traditional eats for the whole family
PHOTO BY DANIEL JOHNSON
Los Compadres’ traditional Mexican menudo, topped with onions, oregano and lime.
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Albuquerque’s economy is one of the worst in the nation right now
Many students at CNM have felt the pain and suffering that came along with the recent great recession, and many have had to resort to going back to school as a last alternative to move into another field in hopes of finding a decent paying job, but that is after months or even years of look-ing for employment in the desolate tumble-weed that is the Albuquerque job market.
And analysts at the Brookings Institute have said that as of 2014, Albuquerque is now back in a recession after three quarters of steadily drop-ping job losses in the metro area, with only 54 percent of the population in the workforce, according to the Rio Grande Foundation and kob.com.
We as current students are fortunate that there is a local community college for people to go to when times are tough to be able to find another occupation through low-cost education, but what will happen when we all leave college and there is indeed nothing out there for us to move on to and the student loan debt starts to accumulate.
Development has come to a screech-ing halt in most of the city and state, especially with industry development and exporting; seeing that many com-panies have either attempted to come
here, have come here and failed, or were driven away by our politicians who have had their own agendas when bringing in new jobs and companies.
Some examples of this neglect are such as with the Richardson administra-tion that lost $31 million in state grants and funds to two solar companies in the late 2000’s for not securing the return of funds through contracts, or the film bill from Martinez’s administration that essentially drove away most television series from producing in New Mexico because of last minute tax break negotia-tion changes.
The reality is that our politicians are not fighting hard enough to make adequate contracts that protect the state, and are not giving enough breaks or other incentives to bring new companies here— at least with-out preventing ruin or outright pullouts.
It honestly is a sad state of affairs when U.S. state officials are desperately competing with one another to win con-tracts and jobs for much needed develop-ment from the few companies still willing to base their operations out of the country.
But it is essentially up to our lead-ers to be innovative enough to develop a better economy with more jobs to deter-mine whether outgoing students will have
a fighting chance or not out there in the Albuquerque job market.
So it is extremely important, more than ever in fact, to pay attention to local politicians and to become part of the voice that dictates what our leaders do with our great state’s economy, because every day more and more people do not feel it is worth it to keep struggling in this now rapidly declining economy and are f leeing the state for better opportunities, which has unfortunately been an issue for many years here in New Mexico already.
Pay attention to the local general elections on November 4 if you plan on sticking around the state after school, and vote for the candidates that build their policies and reform around more steady jobs for New Mexico residents.
Because our city and state can no longer rely on government, scientific, or military jobs to get the state through this now overlapping recession, and what the state really needs to do is to bring back more blue collar industries and corpora-tions to give New Mexico more middle and lower class jobs, as well as to give an opportunity to the residents to thrive, instead of to just merely survive.
Universal Design Team commends CNM Chronicle
To the Editor of the CNM Chronicle,
We, the leadership team of the Universal Design Team at CNM, wish to commend the CNM Chronicle reporters and editorial staff for their insightful story on how faculty at CNM support students with disabilities and the statement from the Editorial Board. The examples given in the story about the success of the student in Instructor Carol Martinez’ class demonstrates how powerful the principles of Universal Design can be in enhancing students’ learning experiences. Her creativity in designing learning objects shows us how incorporating the Universal Design Principles of “equitable use,” ”simple and intuitive,” and “perceptible information” can improve learning for all students in a chemistry classroom. We are glad that our fellow team member was willing to share her methods and that her student was given a voice in the article.
It is our hope that the CNM Chronicle continues to include examples of Universal Design in action in further issues.
Mark Cornett, DirectorDisability Resource Center
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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.
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PNM Butterfly Pavilion
Enjoy hundreds of butterflies in this immersive seasonal exhibit, weather permitting.Now until Saturday, August 16 at the ABQ BioPark Botanic Gardens.Free with price of admission.
Summer Thursday Jazz Nights
Thursday July 10, the Robert Lah Quartet and the Asher Barreras Quintet will be playing at The Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale Boulevard SE.Tickets are $15 for general public, and $10 for Outpost members and students, and can be ordered online at’ outpostspace.org or at the door Monday-Friday 2 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
‘Pay it Foward’ at KiMo Theater
Trevor McKinney is caught up by an intriguing assignment from his new social studies teacher, to think of something to change the world and put it into action. Trevor comes up with the notion of paying a favor not back, but forward. Trevor’s efforts to make good on his idea bring a revolution not only in the lives of himself, his mother and his physically and emotionally scarred teacher, but in those of an ever-widening circle of people completely unknown to him.Saturday, July 12 7 p.m.-9 p.m. at KiMo Theater. Tickets $5-$7, doors open at 6:30 p.m. Ages 16 and up.
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. For a general parking pass, vehicle and drivers license information must be provided. To register, log in to myCNM and follow links from the “transportation” section. The passes can then be obtained at the Main campus Student Activities Office.
Chemistry Info Sessions
Interested in Chemistry?Learn what courses at CNM will help you complete your Associates of Science Degree and transfer to complete an UNM Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry.June 26, Main Campus SB 100 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.For more information contact Doni Hardy at 224-3253
NMHU Visits CNM
Are you interested in transferring to NMHU? New Mexico Highlands University will be visiting the Westside Campus. Stop by MJG Bldg. near the Security Office to visit with a NMHU representative.Wednesday, July 9, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Westside Campus - MJG RotundaContact Sharon Gurule at [email protected] or call 224-4000 x 52624
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Solution to Crossword
C o r r e c t i o nIn Issue 7, Volume 20, in the article ‘Hulk SMASHES the Albuquerque Comic Expo, the word
‘schance’ should have read ‘chance.”