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SHAC fights student stress with laughter yoga Relaxation workshop part of series that is free to students by Megan Underwood news@dailylobo.com
A free workshop at the Student Health and Counseling Center
Graffiti cleanup $20k per year
encourages students to laugh as a form of therapy and stress reduction. Workshop leader and student counselor Kathleen SchindlerWright said the workshop, Laughter Yoga, promotes laughter, which increases oxygen intake, in turn encouraging relaxation, and can
even be considered a type of exercise. She said it’s crucial that stressed college students find ways to relax, and that this class is a great way to do that. “It’s like an aerobic workout when you laugh,” she said. “It’s also fun way to use breathing to reduce anxiety.” Participants spend the class doing
poses and activities that induce laughter, including making noises and behaving like farm animals until everyone starts to laugh. Participants are also asked to think of a situation or place they were in where laughing may have seemed inappropriate.
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For more information about workshops, including registration and a schedule of workshops, please visit shac.unm.edu or call (505) 277-4537
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‘Center of the Universe’ alone tagged three times a week by Courtney Rogers news@dailylobo.com
Since fall 2011, UNM’s Physical Plant Department has received more than 2,240 work orders for the removal of graffiti. Physical Plant Department Associate Director of the Environment Services Division Gary Smith said the number of work orders placed includes only graffiti that has been reported by phone. He said that every day, maintenance members come to the University at 4:30 a.m. to remove or paint over graffiti before students arrive. Smith said the University spends about $20,000 every year for graffiti cleanup. He said that, because budget cuts don’t provide adequate funding, student fees increase to help fund the cleanup. “Usually, when school starts in August, we have more graffiti than other times of the year, then it picks back up again around graduation time,” Smith said. More activity and warmer temperatures contribute to the amount of graffiti found each day, Smith said. Smith said some areas on campus are tagged more often than others, such as The Center of the Universe sculpture, which is tagged about three times per week. He said maintenance costs $849 per week for the structure, but the cost doesn’t include the cost of materials, such as paint and paint brushes. Smith said north campus is almost never tagged and this is because north campus is less accessible from a main street. Gary said University policy mandates that all graffiti be removed within 24 hours, but that offensive messages, which might include racial slurs or profanity, are top priority. He said graffiti on artwork on campus is also high on the priority list because University policy prohibits modification of on-campus artwork. Smith said graffiti in the bathrooms in Dane Smith Hall is also a problem.
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Natalia Jacquez / Daily Lobo Roberto Rosales walks back to his car after an afternoon photographing the Albuquerque Maize Maze at the Rio Grande Community Farm on Montaño Road on Sept. 28. See photo essay on Page 2.
Unified data center to make audits easier by Svetlana Ozden news@dailylobo.com @SvetlanaOzden
The University’s Internal Audit Department will attempt to centralize the University’s data center in an effort to improve the auditing system and keep track of issues more closely. The Audit Committee meets monthly to assess various audits, such as department performance and financial audits, implemented by the Internal Audit Department. At a meeting on Thursday, Internal Audit Director Manu Patel said the department believes an audit would be useful to address the various University data centers, which do not work together to provide a cohesive report of all issues within the University, such as complaints from members of the University who inform the department about problems they’ve experienced, such as fraud or misconduct. He said the audit would allow the department to move some or most
of the University’s data centers to the central data center. “We have a decentralized data center,” he said. “A better audit at this time would be to consolidate or identify the issues with the different data centers and see if we could move some of them or most of them into our central data center.” Investigating complaints Patel said that during fiscal year 2012, the audit department spent about 2,300 hours assessing five audits, including two audits that were a response to a complaint the department received. He said the department received 92 complaints last year. Patel said that during 2011, the department had completed 20 percent of the audits they expected to complete and increased completion to 36 percent in 2012. This included a banner security audit, provost and general administration audit and an audit of the real estate department. He said the completion rate is low because
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Aaron Sweet / Daily Lobo Internal Audit Director Manu Patel discusses the audits the Internal Audit Department completed for fiscal year 2012. He said the University will try to consolidate issues from all data centers into a central data center. the department is understaffed and the scope of the audits exceeded original audit plans. According to the provost
administration audit report, the provost has “taken considerable steps toward advancing the
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