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November 17, 2009
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GPSA: Krebs a poor leader by Pat Lohmann Daily Lobo
Gary Alderete / Daily Lobo In this photo illustration, Wiggles sits on a fur coat purchased at Buffalo Exchange. The Coats for Cubs program accepts fur clothing donations for orphaned animals in rehabilitation centers. Check out Page 6 for the full story.
The Graduate and Professional Students Association will meet next week to discuss a no-confidence vote in Vice President of Athletics Paul Krebs. All graduate students are invited to attend the meeting in the SUB on Monday. On top of sending a message to the athletics administration, GPSA Council Chair Danny Hernandez said a noconfidence vote could influence the Student Fee Review Board to stop giving a portion of student fees to the athletics program. “I want to continue to send out a message that we have a serious problem here at UNM,” Hernandez said. “The problem has started with Schmidly and Krebs. These are our tax dollars and student dollars that are being spent on incompetence.” According to Debbie Morris, director of the Student Activities Center, the Student Fee Review Board allocates about $1.5 million to the Athletics Department — 16.5 percent of their $9.2 million budget. In a statement to the Daily Lobo, Krebs did not directly address the possibility of a no-confidence vote. “I stand behind the body of work and the accomplishments of the Athletics Department over the past three-plus years,” he said. In a press release, GPSA President Lissa Knudsen said recent acts of violence by people in the Athletics Department are indicative of deeper problems. Knudsen cited two
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Art students upset over studio hours by Tricia Remark Daily Lobo
Fine arts students say they aren’t getting enough studio hours to finish assignments now that security is closing the Art Building at 11 p.m. The building is officially open from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. every day, but student Katie Carillo said the Art Building hours weren’t enforced until last week, and she used to work on projects after closing. Carillo said she was working late with other students in a studio last Monday when a security guard told them they needed to leave. “We were kind of confused because there were a few of my other classmates in there, too, and we’ve worked after midnight quite a few times in the Art Building,” Carillo said. “We asked how long that rule has been in place. He said since the beginning of the year, but they’ve never told us that before.”
David Craven, chairman of the Art and Art History Department, said the hours haven’t changed in the 16 years he’s been at UNM, and the hours are being enforced because of safety complaints to security guards. Craven said the Art Building closes at night because of student safety and expense. As chairman of the department, Craven has the authority to decide how late the building is open. “We really are not going to change the hours,” he said. “We’ve done a study of it, and it’s not financially feasible at the moment. We’re also worried about the safety with homeless people coming in here, some of which are violent.” Carillo said students need later hours in the Art Building because it provides them with art materials they can’t access at home. She said tools for design classes and large spaces to paint aren’t readily available, especially in dorms. “I think a lot of people are upset
about it because they don’t really have the resources to do projects outside of campus,” she said. “You need the right ventilation and space to work in.” Craven said the Art Building’s official hours should give students enough time in the studio. “If people are organized, they should be able to do work between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m.,” he said. “We have to organize our time. It’s just one of those things.” However, graduate students in fine arts can access the Art Building after hours because they have keys to the building, Craven said. “Graduate students who are grading people, there are times when you have to come in and get your grade book. That’s different,” he said. By contrast, all architecture students have access to studios in the Architecture and Planning Building 24 hours a day, seven days a week, said Roger Schluntz, Architecture and Planning dean.
Junfu Han/ Daily Lobo Student Mario Villagomez works on his drawing project in the Art Building on Monday. The Art Building studios are open from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. every day, but security only began enforcing the closing policy a week ago. Some art students say the building should stay open so they can work later. The Art Building uses about $4.85 per square foot of energy per year compared to the Architecture Building, which uses $1.17, according to the UNM Physical Plant.
Students in the architecture and planning program can access the architecture building studio at any time by swiping their Lobo ID cards
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Army mom without child care arrested after refusing deployment by Russ Bynum
The Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. — An Army cook and single mom may face criminal charges after she skipped her deployment flight to Afghanistan because, she said, no one was available to care for her infant son while she was overseas. Spc. Alexis Hutchinson, 21,
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claims she had no choice but to refuse deployment orders because the only family she had to care for her 10-month-old son — her mother — was overwhelmed by the task, already caring for three other relatives with health problems. Her civilian attorney, Rai Sue Sussman, said Monday that one of Hutchinson’s superiors told her
she would have to deploy anyway and place the child in foster care. “For her it was like, ‘I couldn’t abandon my child,’” Sussman said. “She was really afraid of what would happen, that if she showed up they would send her to Afghanistan anyway and put her son with child protective services.” Hutchinson, who is from Oakland, Calif., remained confined
Monday to the boundaries of Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, 10 days after military police arrested her for skipping her unit’s flight. No charges have been filed, but a spokesman for the Army post said commanders were investigating. Kevin Larson, a spokesman for Hunter Army Airfield, said he didn’t know what Hutchinson was
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told by her commanders, but he said the Army would not deploy a single parent who had nobody to care for his or her child. “I don’t know what transpired and the investigation will get to the bottom of it,” Larson said. “If she would have come to the deployment terminal with her child, there’s no question she would not have been deployed.”
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