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CNM admin reverses suspension of paper after sex edition brouhaha
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The CNM Chronicle will resume its production and impounded newspapers will return to newsstands this week now that the CNM administration has backed down from its decision to suspend the student newspaper. CNM President Kathie Winograd said at an emergency publication board meeting on Wednesday that the administration is pulling back the suspension and that the Chronicle will be allowed to publish again. She said the problem was in part CNM’s fault. “I am authorizing the CNM Chronicle to continue operations immediately,” she said. “I believe as a college we have failed to provide the CNM Chronicle editorial resources and education that it needs and deserves. I hope the publication board will create … a more educational environment.” CNM suspended the Chronicle on Tuesday after the student-run weekly newspaper published a “sex issue.” Hours after it was released, the administration deemed the issue inappropriate, then pulled all copies from stands and confiscated copies from students who read the issue in public. The administration also stripped Chronicle staff members of their positions and asked them to leave the Chronicle’s newsroom shortly after. According to a statement issued by CNM, the college would re-evaluate “how students can be trained, educated and supervised,” and that the Chronicle would have been allowed to publish again by the beginning of the summer semester. CNM fully funds the Chronicle, which gives them power to suspend the paper. Since CNM suspended the Chronicle, many have expressed
Juan Labreche/ @LabrecheMode / Daily Lobo Executive Director for New Mexico Foundation for Open Government Gwyneth Doland, left, and CNM Chronicle Editor-in-Chief Jyllian Roach embrace after the emergency CNM student publication board meeting. There, the college retracted its decision to suspend the publication of the Chronicle. concerns about the decision as well as support for the Chronicle. The New Mexico Compass published an article defending the Chronicle’s First Amendment rights. Also, a petition to reinstate the newspaper has been circulating in the website Change.org and by Wednesday afternoon it garnered about 400 signatures. The Daily Lobo printed an editorial on its front page Tuesday saying it was suspending publication of the printed edition of its newspaper until the
CNM administration reinstated the Chronicle. The Lobo printed black X’s on all of its inside pages in place of content. Winograd said CNM condemned the sex edition because it involved an underage student. This allegation was not present in the statements CNM released on the same day of Chronicle’s suspension. “The reason why we pulled this issue from news racks around campus was that a high school student was included on the
issue,” she said. “We needed to check on the legal ramifications about the publication of CNM.” The Chronicle’s Editor-inChief Jyllian Roach admitted that the newspaper interviewed a 17year-old student for an article about abstinence. But she said the Chronicle received a letter of consent from the girl’s parents for the publication of the article and that the administration did not ask them about it before suspending the newspaper. Although Roach said she
did not expect the publication board’s decision to reinstate the Chronicle, she said she is “ecstatic” about it. “We are all excited that we are going to continue our publication without any interruption,” she said. “We are going to continue to do what we have always done. We are going to continue to print whatever is important to our readers.” Roach said the suspension
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UNM ponders Asian American studies major ‘People don’t have a chance to talk to Asian students, so they don’t know what our lives are like’
by Jamillah Wilcox news@dailylobo.com
Julie Shigekuni has worked at UNM as the director of Asian American studies and said now is the time for a major change in student diversity on campus. “Having already done a great deal of footwork, I can say without a doubt that the timing for UNM to host its first ever Asian American studies program is now,” Shigekuni said. Initiatives to create a minor for AAS began in 2007, when the former Dean of University College Peter White agreed to cosponsor Shigekuni’s efforts for changes in the university’s curriculum. UNM has not yet created
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a major for the program because of changes in University government and financial challenges. “The new administration came in and the recession hit, so things were shuffled around, so it all got buried for a few years,” Shigekuni said. But Shigekuni said that because UNM has the ability to use its diverse faculty to teach courses in AAS from different academic angles, she wants to create a program to link such courses together. Working toward that goal, students and faculty members attended a four-hour presentation at the SUB on Monday to learn about the developments in the AAS program.
“To learn our history can help students get a better understanding of how people from different cultures think differently” ~Fan Xiao Chinese exchange student Guest speakers were invited to discuss issues affecting Asian Americans in the United States and at UNM, and to learn how to integrate those experiences into the program.
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“This launch is to test the waters and to see and gauge the interest of the community, the faculty and the students,” Shigekuni said. “All of the ingredients are in place. I think it’s the right program, with the right strategy, and the right time for campus.” One member of the crowd voiced his concern on how to facilitate conversations regarding homophobia in Asian American studies as well as with scholars. Another attendee wanted further explanation on how the history of Asian oppression in America will be applied into course content. Lecturer from the University of Washington Shirley Hune responded to the issues regarding homophobia in Asian American
culture by acknowledging that conversations about the topic should expand outside of the Asian community into other communities to gain a better understanding of the issue. “There are a lot of writings from Asian American LGBTQ studies,” Hune said. “Courses can’t be only for Asian Americans on Asian Americans, but how do we take a course, for example, on homophobia and include all communities of color?” Hune said. In regard to Asian oppression in America, Hune spoke about how Asian American scholars have opposed and disputed the
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