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Campus Safety Walk Pg. 2 Second Main Campus Safety Walk Reveals Persistent Safety Hazards

Death and Dying Pg. 6 Cool Classes: Psychology Class Prepares Students to Handle Death

Where Are They Now? Pg. 8 Graduate Premieres New Makeup Line at Lovelight Boutique

Pchychedlic Drugs Pg. 12 A Look at the Ins and Outs of Mind-Altering Drugs

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CNM NEWS Second Safety Walk Finds More Campus Hazards

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Student Spotlight

By Jonathan Baca Senior Reporter

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Communications major Dana Chandler discusses her initiative to reduce the use of disposable bottles and plastic bags.

Trash Talk

Student Campaigns for Fewer Disposables on Campus

he Executive Council of Students, along with Campus Safety Services, the Student Allocation Board and a number of community volunteers, found many problems during the second Campus Safety Walk, said ECOS President Stephen Martos. Teams of three walked through Main Campus on Friday, Oct. 26, making notes of safety hazards — including broken or

dim lights, damaged electrical fixtures, tripping hazards and numerous emergency poles that have been out of order for some time, said Martos. “The Safety Walk is essentially an event to review the facilities and make sure that we are being proactive against potential safety risks to students,” said Martos. That some positives were that the emergency poles that were operational worked well and that Dispatch answered the call buttons alarms immediately, said Martos. The walk was

planned in cooperation with the Safety and Security departments and the Student Allocation Board, said Martos. Campus Safety Specialist Jim Moffett attended and said he felt the Safety Walk was a great idea. “These are eyes for us, and this gives us a whole new perspective on things. It’s not just coming from our eyes, it’s coming from students’ eyes,” said Moffett. The Safety Services department consists of himself and only one other employee for all seven campuses, and

that being aware of every potential safety concern can be very challenging, said Martos. “We try to keep on top of everything, but it’s pretty hard sometimes,” said Moffett. Martos said that ECOS plans to compile the findings of the Safety Walk into a formal report. Copies will be given to the Security and Maintenance departments and to Administration for consideration, he said. He said he hopes the school will give the report serious consideration and will act quickly to address some of the

issues identified. Moffet said that there is a long complicated process for dealing with new safety issues. He said people who notice a problem need to report it to their dean or head of department, who can then put in a work order using the Footprints computer program. The issue then goes to the Security and Safety departments, who send the issue to the Physical Plant Department. The PPD then secures funds, takes quotes for the work and chooses see

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“Not only do I want a really good grade in this class, but I really do want to persuade everyone to reconsider their habits,” said Chandler. She said that getting O’Niell’s to help her class is a small part of a larger goal: getting all of the CNM deans to sponsor a reusable water bottle or grocery bag for every student. She has always been aware of the heap, but she became inspired to raise awareness after a discussion in her geography class with instructor Justin Fuller, she said.

By Stefany Olivas Managing Editor

The owners of O’Niell’s Irish Pub are buying reusable water bottles for Communications major Dana Chandler’s Public Speaking class, she said. Chandler, who is an employee at O’Niell’s, is raising awareness about the Great Pacific Trash Heap for her persuasion speech and offering her classmates free reusable drinking vessels and homemade reusable grocery bags in exchange for their pledge to see PLASTICS on page 10 use the items, she said. “Student Spotlight” highlights an extraordinary individual from among the diverse student population at CNM. To nominate a student to be featured send an email to: jyllianchronicle@gmail.com

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Criminal Justice major and ECOS President Stephen Martos discusses the details of what to look for during the campus safety walk.

Fitness Major Will ‘Run Like a Girl’ to Combat Slavery human slavery and creating awareness for the organization. Staff “I didn’t even know Reporter about human slavery issues Albuquerque will host until I started coming to a charity run to benefit CNM, and I’m 28 years Aliento, an organization that old. It’s good for youngfights against all forms of sters to be aware of what human slavery, said Fitness is really going on in the world,” said Rockwell. major Rayson Rockwell. He wants to create The Nov. 3 run will pass along the Bosque more attention for the and help the Mexico- organization so more based charity to empower people can be a part of the women and raise aware- change, he said. Rockwell ness about modern slavery. said he has been trying to He said that students raise awareness and hopes will benefit from edu- students will get involved. “I’m trying to spread cating themselves about the word at the fitness lab,

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because everyone works out there anyway,” he said. Daniela Romo, the CEO and founder of Aliento, said her faithbased organization is focused on helping women all over Mexico improve their lives and realize their worth. Aliento is a nonprofit organization and the funds raised go to buying a home in Mexico as well as providing counseling and career training, she said. She wants people to be aware that slavery is happening all around and see

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The majority of trafficking victims are between 18 and 24 years of age. Many trafficking victims have at least middle-level education. Approximately 1.2 million children are affected each year

95 percent of victims experienced physical or sexual violence during trafficking 43 percent of victims are used for forced commercial sexual exploitation 32 percent of victims are used for forced economic exploitation

98 percent are women and girls 56 percent are women and girls

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LEO1NARDO, CNM’s annual student arts and literary magazine, is Get free training for hands-only now accepting submissions of poems, CPR. Project Heart Start and CNM short stories, flash fiction, creative have teamed up with CNM’s Event non-fiction, art, and photography Planning class to increase awareness until Feb. 2, 2013. and help reduce cardiac deaths. This Writers: Submit written works is not a certification course, but will in a single MS Word e-mail. familiarize trainees with a technique Artists: All art (paintings, that can be used in emergency sketches, sculptures, ceramics, situations. There will be a short photos, etc.) must be submitted video then practice on a mannequin. digitally as a Photoshop, Illustrator, The training will take half an hour. or PDF file (minimum 150 dpi Trainees can enter a free raffle to resolution). win prizes. For information email Send to: houlihan@cnm.edu. rgriego104@cnm.edu. Type “Leonardo” in the email subject line. Include name, address, and Monday Nov. 5 phone in the email message, and send Rio Rancho Campus from your CNM email account. Room 105 LEONARDO is created of, Times: 12:00 p.m.; 1 : 0 0 by, and for CNM students, and is p.m.; 6:00 p.m. edited and designed by CNM student volunteers; the magazine is published Tuesday Nov. 6 and distributed every April (National West Side Campus Poetry Month) with the generous Room WSII-117 support of CNM Student Activities. Times: 2:00 p.m.; 4:00 p.m.; 6:00 p.m. Westside/Rio Rancho Writing

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OPINION

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Editorial Cartoon By Scott M. Roberts

Happy Halloween

SkillsUSA Students are an Example to Follow The members of the SkillsUSA group who volunteered to rebuild housing in Bonita Park, as reported in this week’s article “,” are an example of the kind of people all students should strive to be. Most students juggle school, education, a social life and often, a family as well. With so many responsibilities, it can be easy to forget about helping others and what it means to fulfill civic responsibilities. The CNM Chronicle recognizes and applauds the extra efforts of student volunteers, not just from SkillsUSA, but from all student organizations as well as those students who volunteer off-campus. The Executive Council of Students organized a

safety walk for Main campus. Alpha Upsilon Chi is volunteering at the Road Runner Food Bank. The student editors of Leonardo Magazine spend long hours creating a venue for student artists and writers to publish works, and groups like the American Indian Science and Engineering Society and the African Student Association are designed as a venue for students to blend education, service and culture. To those students who go the extra mile to enrich the lives of others, we thank you. To those who are considering getting involved, we encourage you. The more involved we are in our community, the better our community becomes.

L e t t e r To T h e E d i t o r IN RESPONSE TO VOLUME 18, ISSUE 9

“School/Bank Connection Could Lead to Student Mistrust” In a Chronicle editorial last week titled “School/ Bank Connection Could Lead to Student Mistrust,” the Chronicle asserted that CNM administration “was in the wrong when it agreed to allow Wells Fargo access to students while they were getting (financial aid) disbursement checks.” I would just like to provide some more context on this topic. In the Student Services Division of CNM, and across the college as a whole, we know that many of our students face very difficult financial circumstances. And as many studies have shown, there are far too many folks in New Mexico and across the country who do not have any bank accounts or banking services whatsoever. We know from experience that way too many students in the past have had to pay scarce dollars just to get their financial aid checks cashed. To help more students keep more of their money in their pockets, CNM worked with its current banking services provider – Wells Fargo – in a successful effort to provide our students with a free check-cashing service. If Wells Fargo didn’t provide this service, many students would have been forced to pay check-cashing fees at other banks or at predatory lending operations. CNM will discuss the claims of pressure-sales tactics by Wells Fargo employees that were reported by the Chronicle. But we strongly feel that providing our students with a free check-cashing service was, and is, the right thing to do. Phillip Bustos, Vice President of Student Services

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Sun Cat Chit-Chat By Scott M. Roberts | Photojournalist

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Phillip Valdez, EMT First Responder

My favorite costume of all time would have to be Batman.”

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Levi Rolland, Mortuary Tech

My favorite costume of all

time must be a Pop-Tart.”

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Tiffany Hanna, Fine Arts

I actually do not know. I

have not dressed up for the past few years.”

“What was your most favorite Halloween costume of all time?”

Santiago Von Straussburg, Biology

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I would have to say my

favorite costume of all time would be Cowboy Dracula.”

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Annika King, Biology, Pre-Dental

I really like mermaids and

my sister is going as one this year so she pulled out the rug from under my feet.”

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Jessica Curtin, Health Sciences

Being wrapped up in a pink sheet

and having a shoe attached to your head to be a piece of bubble gum.”

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STUDENT LIFE

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Restoring Homes, Rebuilding Lives By Stefany Olivas Managing Editor

Students from CNM’s SkillsUSA members were the team leaders in the Save Little Bear restoration project at Bonita Park, where more than 150 students from colleges and high schools around the state helped restore Bonita Park staff housing, said Construction Technology major and SkillsUSA member Cheryl Douglass. The projects included putting up strip-pine fencing, re-wiring and skirting mobile homes, digging ditches and repairing vehicles — including two trucks and a backhoe damaged in the June Ruidoso fire, she said. “We united and conquered the burn area here in Bonita Park. I think it was rather successful,” said Douglass. Watching people from different schools come together to rebuild was an incredible experience, she said. “Things are doable. I think it is way cool to work with other colleges and learn their trades. Even though we didn’t all work in our own trades, we kept an open mind to do whatever it was that needed to be done,” she said. She said working with the high school students was good because they worked hard and were motivated. “They did their part and more than their own share. They did real well,” said Douglass. Hobbs High school freshman and SkillsUSA member Chris Williamson said he enjoyed helping the community while experiencing hands-on skills to rebuild and restore homes. The most fun part for Williamson was demolishing the walls in the mobile homes and learning how to install and plaster drywall, he said. He said he admired his team leader, Abran Salazar, who headed the drywall project, because of Salazar’s instructional

style and how well he encouraged the other workers. “I felt good about it. It was pretty fun overall. The leader of the drywall team helped me learn how to do a lot more things. I learned how to make it fun while also doing work,” said Williamson. Automotive Instructor Barry Mills Jr. said restoring the staff housing and saving Bonita Park more than $90,000 in renovations was gratifying for him and the students. Getting his students together for the trip was a great opportunity to learn about leadership, gain handson experience and build relationships within the community. He would absolutely do it again, he said. “Opening the student’s eyes to the idea that it’s just a feel-good event to drop whatever you are doing to help somebody in need,” said Barry. Over a three-day period, along with restoring homes, the students participated in team-building and leadership activities to strengthen their skills while leading the teams of other college and high school students, he said. “We exposed the students to the ideas of what happens in upper management: meetings and learning how to deal with conflict resolution and conversations, and communities with higher powers,” said Mills. “Consequently, it gives them the confidence to talk to people that they otherwise wouldn’t.” He and other automotive students repaired several of the service vehicles used on the grounds by Bonita Park staff. They fixed non-functional doors, the starting system and four-wheel-drive on a diesel truck that had not been used for two months, as well as the ignition system on a backhoe tractor. “We repaired two vehicles where the door would no longer shut and were unsafe in such a way that if you drove,

and made a right hand turn, you would simply fall out of the truck. The backhoe tractor gave a real good fight all day long,” said Barry. Human Resources Manager Brenda Garber and Activities Director Connor Bryan — along with the rest of the Bonita Park staff — lost their homes and belongings in the June Little Bear fire, Bryan said. SkillsUSA helped begin restoration of both homes. Bryan, his wife, and four children will be moving into one of them, he said. Bonita Park has had most of the mobile homes for almost two months, but the staff has not been able to work on them because they have been busy helping with other camp restorations, and have still been hosting events, he said. “My home was right in this very site, and it burned through. We lost 138 of our 154 structures, on June 8 and 9, and we’ve been in temporary housing since then,” said Bryan. “Having SkillsUSA here doing so much to get us back in our homes is very exciting.” Garber said that SkillsUSA has visited the camp for several years to participate in leadership programs, workshops, and small service projects but they have never done a project involving as much work as the Save Little Bear project. The area has not experienced such a severe fire since the 1950s, which is also when Smokey the Bear, as a cub, became a national symbol for fire safety, she said. The recent Little Bear fire was estimated to have burned up to 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit. “The work is incredible. It gives such a hope because there’s been such devastation, and they haven’t had a place to call home. Every day I go home to a place that’s not my home,” said Garber, “so to get these homes for the staff is incredible.”

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(left) Carpentry Program student Michael Love and Hobbs High School students (center) Juan Trevino and (right) Alex Medrano prepare skirting for the staff housing mobile homes.

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Electrical Trades majors (left) Jonathan Garcia and (right) Anna McCall fix the wiring in a demolished wall.

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This chimney is the only remains of a house at Bonita Park after the Little Bear fire this summer.

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Pyschology 2289: Students are Dying to Participate By Daniel Johnson Staff Reporter

Death and dying is something everybody will have to deal with in life so this class is one that students should think about taking, said full-time CHSS instructor James Johnson. Psychology 2289 Death and Dying is a class that prepares students for handling death emotionally, physically, mentally and financially, he said. “I have students plan their own funerals in detail. They have to write an obituary then decide if they want to be cremated or buried and they must calculate the cost of all this,” said Johnson. “We cover all aspects of death and dying from causes of death, genocide, homicide, vampire myth, and rituals that celebrate death like Dia de los Muertos,” said Johnson. One of the more interesting projects is to make a Dia de los Muertos mask for a small contest in the fall terms, he said. “We cover the history of death masks and how the Day of the Dead is a festival in celebration of those who have

passed,” said Johnson “When the students make the masks I encourage creativity, since the masks will be judged by staff at Montoya campus and the winner receives a $25.00 gift card,” he said. Psychology major Sidney Benta said she believes the masks are a fun project but it should not be too hard since she already has an idea of what she is going to make. Business major Hillary Barrows said she is excited to make her mask which she has based on the movie “Pan’s Labyrinth” and hopes that she will win. “I would like to win just so I can say that I had the best mask since I am into art,” she said. Benta she took this class because a friend told her about it. “It is an interesting class that I have learned a lot from and I am actually having fun learning about this kind of stuff,” she said. Barrows said that she was actually dealing with death at the time she registered for this term and thought the class might benefit her even though it is not

in her area of study. “The class is awesome. When you first hear about it, it sounds scary but it is actually very, very interesting and pretty cool,” said Barrows Johnson said students are nervous when they first come to class but in the end they are fascinated and enjoy the class. “If you take this class you will die, but if you don’t you will still die,” said Johnson. When students take the class, they learn about death across the world — from weird rituals of different cultures and how they deal with death to how to handle death at home, said Barrows. Benta said that she would PHOTO BY SCOTT M. ROBERTS | STAFF recommend this class to fellow Full-time Psychology instructor James Johnson addresses the subjects of Death and Dying. students because it is intriguing and very informative. Johnson said, “Why not let a student experiment with his or her own death and rituals?” “We all die someday, so why not be prepared?” he said

“Cool Classes” focuses on an interesting program or class at CNM. To nominate a class or program, send an email to jyllianchronicle@ gmail.com.

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The Dia de Los Muertos masks created by Johnson’s Fall 2011 Death and Dying class.

Double, Double Toil and Trouble

Culinary Arts Program Cooks Up Scholarship Fundraiser By Jonathan Baca Senior Reporter

The Hyatt Regency Hotel, in conjunction with CNM’s Culinary Arts and Art programs, will be hosting Dia de los Muertos, a charity event to benefit the CNM Culinary Arts Scholarship Endowment, said Culinary Arts Program Coordinator, Chef Scott Clapp. The event will take place on Nov. 1 at the Downtown Hyatt, and will include hors d’oeuvres, a silent auction, music and dancing, tequila tasting, sidewalk chalk art and

free face painting, said Hyatt’s Director of Sales and Marketing, Geoff Armerding. “We’re really excited. It’s going to be a really great time, and it’s great for CNM,” said Clapp. This is the event’s fifth year, and each year the Hyatt selects a different charity to benefit, choosing CNM for 2012, said Clapp. He said that Hyatt is one of CNM’s industry partners, and has been very supportive of the culinary program. Many members of the Hyatt kitchen staff are current or former students, he said. Hyatt felt the donation could help train future employees, Clapp said. Armerding said that the

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Hyatt has benefitted greatly from CNM graduates. “We have a great relationship with CNM. We have hired many students from the culinary program who have worked out and have been very successful within the Hyatt family,” said Armerding. The event will include a silent auction where attendees can bid on traditional Mexican sugar skulls created by students from the Baking class, said Clapp. The proceeds from the sale will also be donated, he said. Students from the Global Cuisine class will be competing in an hors d’oeuvres contest at the event, said Culinary instructor Chef Mark Patel. His students will be broken into five teams, and on the night of the event, each team will receive a mystery basket provided by the Hyatt kitchen staff, he said. Each basket will contain the ingredients that the team has to work with. The teams will be given three hours to turn their ingredients into two different hors d’oeuvres, said Patel. Each team will need to prepare between 75 and 150 individual pieces, which will be served to the guests, he said. “The cool thing about the event is that the guests are the ones who will decide the winner by filling out comment cards on their most favorite hors d’oeuvres or appetizers,” said Patel.

The winning team will receive a free dinner at Forque, the Hyatt’s fine dining restaurant, he said. The head chef at the Hyatt has been very secretive about what ingredients will appear in the baskets, but that they will most likely be inspired by Dia de los Muertos, said Patel. “The class is very excited about competing, and they are a little nervous too, because of the mystery basket,” said Patel. “Usually, culinary students are used to knowing what they are going to be cooking a week in advance. So the exciting part for them is showing up and the chef saying, ‘These are your ingredients; you’ve got three hours to make two appetizers, now go to town.’” Patel said events like this one are great for students, because they prepare them for working in the industry under pressure. He said it is also a great way for them to network, meet real chefs and open up job opportunities as they prepare to graduate. Art is another important part of the evening, and CNM students will have their artwork displayed at the reception, said Armerding. Students from the Art Department will also be working to complete a large chalk sidewalk mural in front of the Hyatt, he said. “It should take them three to four days to complete, but when it’s finished it will be right

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(left and above) Candy Skulls created by Culinary Art students will be auctioned off at the fundraiser.

out front to greet the guests. We are very excited, it’s going to be special,” said Armerding. He said that students will also be offering free face painting. The event is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 1, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Hotel at 330 Tijeras Ave. NW. Tickets are $30, and include hors d’oeuvres, entertainment and a tequila tasting. Parking is free. To purchase tickets visit diadeloscnm.eventbrite.com.

Dia de los Muertos What: Charity event to benefit the Culinary Arts Scholarship Endowment When: Thursday, Nov. 1, 5:30-8:30 P.M. Where: Hyatt Regency, Downtown Albuquerque Tickets: $30 Contact: diadeloscnm. eventbrite.com

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HALLOWEEN

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A Bloodcurdling Benefit

Theater Performs ‘Haunting of Hill House’ as Fundraiser By Adriana Avila Staff Reporter

A benefit performance of a play based on Shirley Jackson’s 1963 novel “The Haunting of Hill House” will be held at The Aux Dog Theater, said Liberal Arts graduate and play director Lori Stewart. The money raised at the Halloween night performance will be donated to the theater for renovations and day-to-day

expenses, said Stewart. “Just the utility cost alone on a building that size is outrageous,” Stewart said. This special performance will include a costume contest, she said. She agreed to direct Hill House because she loves a good ghost story and Shirley Jackson’s writing, said Stewart. She read the novel before reading the script and had many ideas on how to produce the piece, she said. “It seems like a really

fun piece for Halloween,” Stewart said. The play is not horror as many people think, but more of a thriller with lots of suspense, she said. Chemical Engineering major Heather Donovan said she has been acting in theater since she was a kid. She was cast as the charismatic Theodora. “She’s sassy, sarcastic and she’s very sure of herself,” said Donovan. Some of her friends see her as Theodora but it

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effects coming from the house and pictures moving by themselves and things like that.” Mrs. Montegue is played by Art major Ninette Mordaunt, who said she has been in theater pretty much all of her life as well as playing music. Every once in a while she gets to do a musical which is fun and a good way to do both, she said. Her character is the wife of the psychological researcher Dr. Montegue. She said she comes in before the end of the last scene of act one, she said. “I provide the comic relief, I guess you could say,” Mordaunt said, “I come in and change things around a little bit.” The play is more true to the book because in the film Mrs. Montegue does not appear, she said. “The play is true to the story Shirley Jackson wrote at the core of the story,” Mordaunt said, “Obviously you can’t get everything into a play but the basic story is there and the most important characters are in the play.” Mrs. Montegue’s character is domineering and self-righteous and she thinks she knows the proper way to do psychological research, she said. “She wants to impose her

Ghost Stories in Al-BOO-querque

professional and thorough investigation while supplying detailed analysis of our Staff Reporter findings,” said Schofield. W i t h The following paranorHalloween around the mal activity has been reported corner it is not hard to find in the Albuquerque area. ghostly activities, but in Information is provided by Albuquerque there are places Suite101 website at suite101. that have paranormal activ- com and by the Southwest ity year round and have been Ghost Hunters Association’s investigated by professionals. web site sgha.net. Peggy Schofield, cofounder of Los Muertos Church Street Cafe Spirit Seekers, said that she is part of a small team The former hacienda, interested in document- built in 1709 for the Ruiz ing evidence of paranormal family, was purchased by activities, helping people restaurant owner Marie find comfort in their Coleman, who began renovahomes or businesses during tions on the café and discovand after a haunting and ered the building had a ghost. exploring historical sites to The sprit is believed to confirm or deny folklore. be Sara Ruiz, who was not “Our primary goal is pleased with the renovations. to help and educate those Activity reported is buckwho live with paranormal ets that move on their own, activity, and provide a glimpses of Sara’s ghost and

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is somewhat of a challenge because she wants to bring more than just her own personality to the role, said Donovan. “I’ve got to bring certain aspects of myself to the role but not turn it into Heather on the stage when it should be Theo,” Donovan said, “It’s a really fun role to play. It’s a lot of work, but it’s not hard.” The actors do their own makeup and Stewart designed the costumes, she said. Stewart took pieces from actors’ personal closets and looked for clothes from all around, said Donovan. “She takes from secondhand stores, from places where she can find them for a reasonable price,” Donovan said. The set is dark and gothic. There is no way to describe it well; people would have to go and see it to understand the turn of the century look and feel, said Donovan. There are special effects built in to the set because the house is supposed to be haunted and there are certain things that happen in the play, she said. “The doors close on their own, there are various sound effects that not only come through the speakers,” Donovan said, “There are actually sound

sensations of her presence. SGHA has investigated this location and said they found an odd electromagnetic field that seemed to be moving in a counterclockwise pattern near the east side of the patio. “Photographs taken of the patio with a camera showed several unusual lights that were consistent with the movement of the EMFs,” Schofield said. Investigators inside the building seemed to have found the same field on the east side of the front room and again unusual lights showed up in the pictures. Haunted Hill

The area is in the foothills at the east end of Menaul and people have reported hearing phantom screams, footsteps and the sounds of bodies being dragged. According to legend, the spirit is an old man who lived in the caves at the top of the hills. He would take prostitutes there and kill them. Sightings of the old man’s ghost and a lantern swinging from invisible hands have also been reported. SGHA has not conducted any investigations on this location. Kimo Theatre

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The supposed haunted Hacienda in Old Town where employees are tormented by the spirit of Sara Ruiz.

Six-year-old Bobby Darnall was killed in 1951 when the boiler in the basement exploded

views and her message on the rest of the group and she comes in and wants to take over everything,” Mordaunt said, “She’s a very controlling person.” It is a fun role to play and while some like Donovan said their characters are extensions of themselves, Mordaunt said it is not true for her. “She’s bigger than life and in a way it’s easier to play a character which is a little bit extreme than it is to play somebody that is really close to you on stage,” Mordaunt said, “This is just a fun role to get lost in and you get to be a little bit crazy and that’s okay.” The physical experience of the show is great and fun to watch, she said. “I hope people go and enjoy the play,” Mordaunt said, “The characters and special effects are worth it.” Tickets for the one-night benefit performance of “The Haunting of Hill House” are $20 and can be purchased at auxdog.com. The show begins at 8 p.m. “Ticket sales are usually not enough to make theater happen on a community level. We really rely on people who donate their money or products and services,” said Stewart.

and demolished part of the theater’s lobby. People have reported seeing his ghost playing in the lobby’s stairway. Bobby is also responsible for childlike pranks, including tripping actors and creating disturbances during performances, according to witnesses. SGHA has investigated this location and said the theater has powerful EMFs on and around the stage of the GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION BY JASMINE CHAVEZ | STAFF theater, but that is not conclusive because of The ghost of Six-year-old Bobby Darnall has haunted the setting. the Kimo Theater for 61 years. “Most findings were explained by natural or One orb was captured on the walls on the stairway mechanical causes,” said IR video in the Winepress behind the stage. There Schofield. Room,” said Schofield. are also reports of cold SGHA also witnessed and hot spots, feelings of Maria Teresa Restaurant three glasses moving in the being watched and objects Salvador Armijo built Armijo room along with moving mysteriously. SGHA has investigated this former hacienda in strong EMFs. this location and picked 1783. At least four ghosts up some minor fluctuating have been sighted roamWool Warehouse EMFs before they even got ing through the restaurant. Theater/Restaurant close to the front door. Other phenomena include a This landmark was “Strong EMFs were piano that plays on its own, employees being touched, built in 1929 by Frank found near the stage and on ghost reflections in mir- Bond. Reports are that the second floor lobby area. performances Also, very strong readings rors, phantom voices and during a spectral man wear- were on the EMF around tables or flatware moving ing a cream-colored suit, the pink columns that by themselves. believed to be Bond, has adorned the hallway near SGHA has investigated this location and said the been seen on the stage. His the stairs,” Schofield said. majority of phenomena ghost also watches plays seemed to be confined from the side stage area. Employees have to the Armijo, Baca and reported the feeling of Winepress rooms. “Several photographs of hands pushing them and possible phenomena were grabbing their ankles captured in these locations. and hearing noises in

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Skin Deep

Graduate Achieves Dream of Producing Makeup Line By Adriana Avila Staff Reporter

Medical Health graduate, current UNM student and cosmetics designer Danielle Bridges said that while the medical field is more stable; her passion is helping women feel beautiful and making it affordable. When launching her makeup line, Passion, Beauty, Eternal Cosmetics, one of the most important things was to make it accessible to all women and make it match their personalities, she said. “I always thought medical was more stable but I’ve always been a makeup girl,” Bridges said, “I still have my little safety net but I figure I’ll still do makeup while I’m still at school because that is my heart.” Her makeup line was launched in August and her aim was to make quality makeup without the label price, she said. “I loved Mac, and things like that, but I’m a college kid and cannot afford to go there so I knew I wanted the high color pay off,” Bridges said. She said she wanted to have the fun colors and all of the pigments of quality makeup but she did not want it to cost $200. Her makeup line is affordable and anyone can buy it no matter what their budget, she said. “Sometimes I see women walk in, head hanging low, a little sad and they get out of my chair or they put on my makeup and they’re beaming and they’re confident,” Bridges said. “Every woman deserves that regardless of their demographic.” She said her makeup is sold at Love Light Boutique at 147 Harvard Dr. SE and Trendz Beauty Supply at 5314 Menaul Blvd. NE. She finds joy in helping customers find what they are looking for and it is better than the money, she said. “My biggest happiness is seeing them so excited and smiling,” Bridges said, “To me, it’s not just about the sale because the reason I wanted to do this it’s more important than the money aspect.” She asks customers questions to help them find the ideal makeup to fit their personalities, she said. She believes that in order to get the right makeup it is necessary to find what customers are like and what they are interested in so she knows what the perfect pieces are, said Bridges. “When I meet customers I ask ‘What’s your personality, are you really bold or are you really subtle?’ Bridges said, “I ask them what they are so I can match their personality.” She genuinely wants to

help people find the perfect makeup and she can tell that people recognize that, she said. “I’ve sold out of half of my product already and it’s because I think people can sense that I’m not just going to give you a color because I want the certain price,” Bridges said. “I want you to be happy and smile.” Bill Forts, owner of Love Light Boutique, said he was all for the idea of Bridges selling her makeup in his store because her makeup style matches the type of clothes he designs. “She came to me saying ‘your boutique is exactly what I’m looking for in order to carry my line of cosmetics,’” Forts said. “Her makeup is very bold and ridge deep and that’s what I like.” She went to Forts with the idea and he did everything he could in order to make it happen, she said. He jumped on the idea and was more than happy to help her with her line, said Bridges. “I came with an idea and said ‘I have makeup and your store’s awesome’ and Trendsz is awesome too because they were like ‘how do we do this and how do we get it in the store?’ and they just worked with me,” Bridges said. She is an artist as well and that makeup is not just a superficial subject. She said art is beautiful and so is makeup and makeup is her art, Bridges said. Her makeup career was 10 years in the making and she hopes to continue it for as long as she can, she said. For more information visit facebook.com/passionbeautyeternalcosmetics. PHOTO BY SCOTT M. ROBERTS | STAFF

Medical Secretary and Liberal Arts graduate Danielle Bridges talks about the debut of her new line of cosmetics.

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The debut of the new cosmetic line by Danielle Bridges was at the Lovelight Boutique on Silver and Harvard.

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Instructor Kevin Goodrich Talks About His Rise to Math By Christopher Pope Staff Reporter

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for you,’ and then ask them how their math is going,” said Goodrich. A lot of people may think teaching is just about teaching, said Goodrich. The majority of his 40-hour work week is spent doing paperwork and lesson plans, said Goodrich. There is more to teaching than just moving students through one class and onto the next, Goodrich said. “It only takes one student saying ‘thank you’ to make my job worthwhile,” he said.

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Part-time Math instructor Kevin Goodrich said he wanted to become an astronaut when he was growing up, but bad eyesight led him to a promising career teaching math. He was about 8 years old when NASA first started launching people into space which really got him interested, he said. He thought majoring in Engineering would be a good way to get started but found out that bad eyesight would hinder this dream, Goodrich said. Little did he know a work-study job at TVI would lead to a teaching career, he said. “It was not until I got a job at TVI that I discovered I had the skill to teach,” said Goodrich. His sudden passion for helping others learn quickly became a career goal, he said. “I really liked showing people how to do math. It was nice to give people a boost, and see their rise in confidence as well,” he said. During college he discovered he was not as good at high level math as he thought, said Goodrich. Since this was the case he switched his major from engineering to math. In his last

semester before graduation he switched majors for the last time, to history, he said. Shortly after the switch, he graduated from UNM with a history degree. While working at TVI as a teacher’s aide he mostly worked in math classes, he said. He came to the conclusion that teaching math was what he should do for a career. He got his first job as an instructor almost immediately after graduation, he said. “They were so short on instructors that year, that right out of the gate I started out with three classes,” said Goodrich. Goodrich thinks math is important because the students take what they have learned and continue to use it throughout college, he said. He was not sure he would have stuck with teaching as long as he has if he did not really love the job, said Goodrich. He wanted to impart what he had learned to students, said Goodrich. “I wanted to become a teacher because I knew I could help people, which really made a difference to me,” said Goodrich. One of the best things about teaching is running into former students who thank him, he said. “I always say ‘well good

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Part-time Math instructor Kevin Goodrich discusses his childhood dream of being an astronaut.

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“I think it seems like an abstract concept because, here in New Mexico, we’re far removed from it. We don’t really see any direct correlation or causation,” said Chandler. The class was studying ocean currents and Fuller handed out a National Geographic article which explained problems of the trash heap and used it as an example of how ocean currents flow, said Chandler. “A lot of people around me didn’t know what it was. I was already familiar with it, but I don’t think I realized how much it was until I was looking at this article. It’s kind of sobering I think,” said Chandler. She began doing research and learned that the trash heap is estimated to be 90 feet deep below the surface, weigh 3.5 billion tons, and be twice the size of Texas, which normally takes an average of 16 hours to drive across, said Chandler. The growth of the trash heap and the damage it does is a very feel-bad situation, but she wants to get people as positively motivated as possible, she said. “I understand it’s totally unrealistic to change habits right away. I get that; I want to be realistic and I don’t want anybody to feel bad

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Event Planning Class and Project Heart Start Aims to Save Lives with Hands-Only CPR Training By Adriana Avila Staff Reporter

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Part-time BIT instructor Laura Hines discuss details of Project Heart Start event with her Event Planning students.

week-long event will be hosted by the Event Planning Class and the nonprofit organization Project Heart Start to raise awareness about the importance of hands-only CPR, said Part-time BIT instructor Laura Hines. The event runs from Nov. 5 to Nov. 9 and will take place on a different campus each day, finishing on Friday on Main Campus with the dedication of the newly renovated Jeanette Stromberg Hall, said Hines. Throughout the week, the Event Planning students will visit classrooms on all of CNM’s campuses where certified officials will give a 30-minute hands-only CPR training session, said Hines. “What better way than to have the students plan an event where we could really impact the community?” said Hines.

Hands-only CPR is a life-saving technique, created by Dr. Barry Ramo, that does not require certification, said Hines. Several instructors have contacted Hines to request the training for their classes, she said. “We’ve had a wide variety of instructors respond so it’s been across the board,” Hines said, “The more people that know about it the better.” Hospitality and Tourism major Hongqui Yu said the class goal is to have an audience of 600 people to learn the compressiononly CPR method. “Saving lives: that’s our mission,” Yu said. Hines said Project Heart Start, which has a partnership with CNM, will send Red Cross certified professional trainers for the events. Hospitality and Tourism major Davelyn Duran said new features have been added to the event this year, including a raffle and a new community outreach portion. The drawing will be held on

Nov. 9 for a dinner package at Texas Roadhouse as well as other prizes, she said. Hospitality and Tourism major Bobbie Huber said the project is also targeting high school students and their families for awareness. She contacted most of the high schools near CNM’s five campuses, said Huber. Hospitality and Tourism major Rozlyn Griego said that planning an event takes a lot of organization and dedication. “I think the hardest part was realizing that you have other people you have to work with and making sure you keep in touch with everyone so that way everyone’s on the same track,” said Griego. Hines said the class had to find teamwork skills and collaboration skills because event planning is more detailed than some think. There are still a few spots available for in-class hands-only CPR training, said Hines. For more information visit projectheartstartnm.org.

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The Deal With Drugs Psychedelics

something to stop the pain, an unexpected way. something to make them forget “There are some psychedelManaging Editor their bad lives. Often times it is ics that are used in meditation sychedelics are a clas- considered a bad trip when the in Central America, and South sification of drugs that hallucinations end up being very America. Well-established have mind-altering terrifying,” she said. people who have some money effects because they There are also instances of take trips down there to expeaffect the brain chemistry users having good psychedelic rience these psychedelic medieasily, said Director of Nursing trips, and the popularity of this tations, and they’re finding that Programs Diane Evans-Prior. type of drug is re-emerging in the overall experience is very Psychedelics can alter neural transmission and cause visual or auditory hallucinations, she said. “It’s that they change the perceptions. Visually, the colors seem brighter, your sensations feel intense. Some people will report that the experience is like synesthesia, where people will smell music or hear color,” she said. An experience can be positive or negative. Taking peyote is almost always associated with heavy vomiting, she said. If someone takes the drug on a whim and has depression or anxiety, the psychedelic trip can make the effects of the disorder PHOTO BY STEFANY OLIVAS | STAFF worse, she said. Science major Thom Maybee discusses how the “A lot of people who are effects of psychedelics depends on the type of person. pursuing this are looking for

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healing,” she said. Nutrition major Lorenzo Ascoagea said he is on the fence about the use of psychedelics. These types of drugs alter the state of mind and it is hard to tell how much of the user’s true personality is still there during a trip, he said. He has also seen studies in which psychedelics are used to treat people with certain mental disorders. “Some things I’ve watched say it can help with psychological problems with certain people, so it’s good and bad for me,” he said. Evans-Prior said that, in conjunction with heavy therapy, psychedelics like LSD are starting to be used for disorders such as anxiety or depression because the participant can have a more active role in the treatment. “The psychedelic experience tends to be on a much more lucid side. They do tend to cause people to let go a little bit and some people might be more inclined to let some of those walls down to talk about

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those issues,” she said. “It’s not can be very dangerous, she said. like alcohol where your speech “The person who is seekgets slurred and you don’t ing it to become insightful really remember things, or for healing, under the right morphine and opiates where circumstances and processes, you’re more sleepy.” could actually achieve that. Science major Thom Unfortunately that’s the Maybee said that psychedelics minimum. Most people want can be good or bad, depend- to see the walls move, and ing on people’s perspectives that becomes really dangerand what outcomes they are ous,” she said. looking for. Those who use psychedelic There are more benefits drugs for spiritual or medicifrom the use of psychedelics nal purposes usually do so very than negative outcomes, he said. carefully but even under the There are dangers to certain most controlled circumstances, types, but the majority of the their use can be very dangerous. slight chemical alterations in “They know how much to the brain do not outweigh the take, they know how to preenlightenment a person can take pare it, how to consume it. It from the experience. has got to be used very cau“In societal merit I think tiously,” she said. they are more of a help than a Experiencing psychedelics hindrance. What you derive outside of the practitioner realm, from that chemical alteration spiritual leaders included, is can be immensely more posi- dangerous because when money tive than the downside biologi- is the motivator to distribute the cally. I definitely believe that the drugs, the user cannot know if altered state has a negative con- it has been cut with a dangerous notation about it,” said Maybee. substance, she said. He said he has had several “People are unscrupulous experiences with psychedel- and they don’t care. It might be ics in the past 10 to 20 years, cut with something that looks and some of them were bad in like it or tastes like it — anythe beginning, but have since thing from Dran-O to baking always been positive. soda,” she said. “I’ve had bad experiences Christopher Pope contributed in the beginning but those bad to this article. experiences enlightened me into more meaningful experiences later on after the hindsight,” he said. Prior-Evans said a psychedelic that can be found locally is Artemisia, otherwise known as wormwood, whict has been used by the Native American population for religious ceremonies. There was a time when wormwood was being used by teenagers and young adults in an irresponsible manner and the outcome was not always a good psychedelic trip, she said. “It’s one of the sage PHOTO BY STEFANY OLIVAS | STAFF plants here. It has been used Nutrition major Lorenzo by the Native population Ascoagea talks about how because it is very mind altering. There was a time here he is unsure if psychedelics when some teenagers were are good or bad. using it, and if you’re just doing this willy nilly it could be deadly,” she said. It is important to have “The Deal with proper education on drugs and Drugs” is a special series their effects because when a that looks at various substance starts to cross into aspects and issues of the central nervous system, it drugs and drug addiction.

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