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State of SFCC: A mix of feats, gripes In public address, president speaks about faculty concerns, board investigation into her actions
By Robert Nott The New Mexican
Santa Fe Community College’s president acknowledged Thursday that her first year in office has caused some “ripples” on campus and that an outside investigative firm has been compiling a report on her handling of the job. But that didn’t stop Ana “Cha” Gúzman
from plugging achievements at the school during a “state of the college” address Thursday morning to about 200 people, mostly employees, at the campus south of Santa Fe. Though data suggest Gúzman has played a role in increasing student success on several levels, staff members started complaining last spring about her decision to cut the number of deans from five to
three. Some employees also voiced concern about the large number of workers who left the college during the first year of her tenure. Faculty Senate members said Gúzman didn’t solicit enough input from instructors before making decisions. Gúzman acknowledged some obstacles during her first year, telling the crowd
Striking gold in film
Researchers have discovered that a fuzzy creature in the Andes has been overlooked as a unique species.
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ABOVE: A scene from Jamison Chas Banks’ short film, Cibola: Seven Cities of Gold, shot at the Legal Tender in Lamy. Banks, in the foreground, portrays a Confederate soldier who is looking to strike gold. Also shown are Mark Herndon and Garnett Thompson. The film won the Indian Market’s Class X, or moving images, category this year and is a Best of Show contender.
The Taos team is expected to dominate with a strong offensive line.
LEFT: A promotional poster for Cibola. COURTESY IMAGES
Silent, experimental short set in Civil War-era New Mexico takes top prize in category
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n the opening frame of Jamison Chas Banks’ short film, Cibola: Seven Cities of Gold, a lone buffalo gallops across the screen. The 10-minute film was shot digitally, but is sepia-toned and set in New Mexico during the Civil War. There is no dialogue, and no strict narrative, rather a series of images, some repeated over and over again: Snow falls on a Confederate soldier flipping a sliver dollar high in the air, a man pans for gold in the Pecos River, a barkeep polishes a glass and a hand traces white petroglyphs on a sunbaked rock. Cibola won Class X this year, the moving images category at the Santa Fe Indian Market, making it eligible to win the
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Group cites barriers in N.M. jobless claims system
More than 150,000 people are expected in Santa Fe this week for the 92nd annual Indian Market. Most events
What: Screening of winning films in the Indian Market’s Class X. When: 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 18 Where: New Mexico History Musuem, 113 Lincoln Ave. Cost: Free
Best in Show award, which will be announced Friday at a ceremony and lunch at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center. The film also won the experimental division of Class X. There are five divisions in the category: animation, documentary, experimental, feature and narrative. The winners of each division were screened Thursday and will show again Sunday at the New Mexico His-
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are free and open to the public. Check out the calendar in the Indian Market supplement published Friday by The New Mexican or on our website, www.santafenewmexican.com/
Federal agency to probe civil-rights complaint By Bruce Krasnow The New Mexican
Banks is shown in a scene of Cibola shot near near Pecos. COURTESY CAMERON TAFOYA
magazines/indian_market, or visit swaia.org. This is the sixth in a series of articles on some of the people who make Native art or are involved in producing Indian Market.
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State Rep. Stephen Easley of Eldorado, a freshman legislator who represented a House district that included southeastern Santa Fe County, is dead. He was 60. Details of his death on Wednesday were not immediately known. A Facebook page posting said Easley died of “complications related to an infection.” Easley recently had been hospitalized. Santa Stephen Fe County Democratic Party Chairman Richard Easley Ellenberg said Thursday, “I talked to him just a few days ago, and he was feeling strong and looking to be active after a stay in the hospital.” A native of Indiana, Easley was elected as a Democrat last year to represent District 50, which stretches into Bernalillo, Torrance and Valencia counties. He quickly became known as a political progressive. As vice chairman of a subcommittee on behavioral health, he had been active in recent weeks, trying to find answers to questions sparked by
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If you go
By Adele Oliveira
The New Mexican
Teens say, “Why not?”
Easley ‘made mark’ as state rep By Steve Terrell
Tigers look to top AAA
School all year?
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Santa Fe County lawmaker, 60, succumbs to infection
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The state of New Mexico might have a subtle message for unemployment applicants who lack English proficiency and computer skills: Go away. That is the basis of a civil-rights claim by the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty against the state Department of Workforce Solutions, which launched a new online unemployment insurance claims system in January. The complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Labor documents several cases of people who may have been denied their rightful unemployment benefits because of deficiencies in English or access to the Internet. “The Department requirements that the unemployment
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