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By Jonathan BacaSenior Reporter
Getting the required textbooks for each term without breaking the bank is becoming more diffi-cult and students have few options when trying to
save money, said Paralegal Studies Major Elisabeth Gehring.
The high cost of new textbooks and the addition of supplemen-tal materials like refer-ence books, workbooks and online codes, make
many students feel fed up, said Gehring.
“It’s just crazy how expensive textbooks are at the CNM bookstore. It’s only my second semester and I have already spent
By Adriana AvilaManaging Editor
The Executive Council of Students is working with mem-bers of administration to get stu-dent input about the possibility of removing spring break after this school year, said President of ECOS and Criminal Justice Major Stephen Martos.
There had been a five-year agreement for spring break dates to align among CNM, UNM and APS, but now that the agreement has ended, APS is moving their spring break to the middle of April, said Martos.
It would be senseless to continue the alignment since the spring term for CNM ends April 27, he said.
“There’s no sense in us to have a week off, one week of class and then finals week,” said Martos.
Director of Marketing and Communications Brad Moore said the spring break agreement was created a few years ago to benefit students, faculty and staff with family attending other edu-cational institutions.
Martos said the administra-tion is creating the survey and would like ECOS’s participation in increasing student awareness of the issue.
“The survey will examine pos-sible alternatives, including the complete removal of spring break and an extended break between the spring and summer terms, Martos said.
There will be a separate link for students, faculty and staff to take the survey, which should be available later this week. The survey will be accessed through the CNM homepage, he said.
By Shaya RogersStaff ReporterControversy has
been created around signs posted on campus by a student organization.
Signs posted on Main and Montoya Campus by the CNM Shooting Club play on students’ emotions and fears about school safety, said Psychology Major Dawn Shores.
The signs are displayed behind glass in various loca-tions around campus and say, “10 out of
10 criminals like gun free zones” and
“Signs can’t stop acts of violence. Armed citizens can.”
“Because it is behind that glass, if you look at the posters around those signs, a lot of them have to do with various aspects of things you need to do at school, directives from the school. So it looks like this is sponsored by CNM,” she said.
Shores said the posters suggest that students who are on campus without a gun are not safe.
President of the Shooting Club and Electrical Engineering Major Mitchell Jackson said the signs are behind glass for a reason; two semesters ago, when the club started putting the signs up, many were torn down.
“In order to combat that, we went to the next level. We didn’t start behind glass, we started on bulletin boards and once they were pulled down we decided we had to do something different
Campus News | Pg 4Students build a casita
Arts | Pg 5‘Loved to Death’ exhibit
Student Life | Pg 6Check out the Chess Club
see FLYER on page 7
see TEXTBOOK on page 7
see BREAK on page 7
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Volume 18 | Issue 18 January 22, 2013
Shooting Club flyers create controversy
PHOTO BY SHAYA ROGERS
Dawn Shores said she believes the flyers placed behind the glass makes it look as though administration endorses the message.
Students unhappy with rising costs of course materials
To Spring Break or Not to Spring Break
Spring Break March 2014
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A sampling of textbook prices at the CNM Bookstore
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Emergency Winter Shelter Available
The Emergency Winter Shelter program will run now thru March 15.
The program accepts families with children aged 10 and under.
Emergency pick up points are located at:
• First St. and Iron St.• Central and Alcazar
St.• Central and Wyoming
(under HillSon’s sign)• Central and Eubank
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Interested parties can register at Abq. Rescue Mission at 525 Second St. SW, Mon. – Fri. from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. For more information contact Darryl K. Clark at 346-4673 ext. 248.
25th Annual Rio Grande Arts and Crafts Festival Spring Show
This March, the original Rio Grande Arts and Crafts Festival will open its doors to celebrate 25 years! Featuring a juried lineup of 200 artists and craftsmen from all over the country in a variety of mediums including glass art, jewelry, watercolor, ceramics, wood, photography, oil paintings, mixed media and more, this Albuquerque favorite never ceases to draw huge crowds of enthusiastic shoppers! Festival goers enjoy live music, specialty foods, artists’ demonstrations, and the complimentary Kids’ Creation Station.
Dates: March 8, 9, 10 2013Location: Expo New
Mexico’s Lujan BuildingAdmission: $7.00, $9.00
Festival Pass (unlimited weekend admission)
Please visit our website for more details! www.riograndefestivals.com
Student Film Club Looking for New Members
DAT, a student film group, has just formed and is looking for new members. The group creates student-led films.
All students interested in making films are welcome. Students do not have to be in the film program to participate.
Email Madison Coss at [email protected] for more information.
Student Literary Mag CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
LEONARDO, CNM’s annual student arts and literary magazine, is now accepting submissions of poems, short stories, flash fiction, creative non-fiction, art, and photography until Feb. 2, 2013.
Writers: Submit written works in a single MS Word e-mail. There is no limit to the number of stories/poems submitted.
Artists: All art (paintings, sketches, sculptures, ceramics, photos, etc.) must be submitted digitally as a Photoshop, Illustrator, or PDF file (minimum 150 dpi resolution).
Send all submissions to: Patrick Houlihan at [email protected]. Type “Leonardo” in the email subject line. Include name, address, and phone in the email message, and send from your CNM email account.
LEONARDO is created by and for CNM students, and is edited and designed by CNM student volunteers; the magazine is published and distributed every April (National Poetry Month) with the generous support of CNM Student Activities.
Veterans Club Recruiting New Members
The Veterans Club will be hosting a “Meet & Greet” on Feb. 8, from 11:00 a.m. to noon in the Main Campus cafeteria in the Student Services Center.
Refreshments will be served. Come and join brother and sister veterans for a good time.
Law Access New Mexico Offers Free Individual Consultations
Low income students who have legal issues or questions have free civil legal service available to them.
CNM has contracted with Law Access New Mexico for legal services to CNM students who fall within 200 percent of the federal poverty guidelines.
Students may call Law Access directly – 998-4529 and identify themselves as CNM students; or Students may contact a Connect Achievement Coach to sign up for on-campus individual consultations.
Law Access Attorney Sandi Gilley comes to each campus twice a month to meet with students.
For more information about this free program, contact Law Access, NM directly at 998-4529 or speak to Connect Achievement Coach Chioma Heim at 224-4080.
Allocation Board Accepting Membership Applications
The Student Allocation Board is accepting member applications.
Allocation Board meets monthly and distributes money among student organizations for events, activities, travel and equipment.
Members must have a minimum 2.5 GPA, be enrolled for at least three credit hours and have completed six credit hours at CNM. For more information contact James Roach at [email protected].
Society of Law and Psychology Hosts First Meeting of 2013
The Society of Law and Psychology will be hosting its first meeting of the year on Jan. 31, at 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. in Jeanette Stromberg Hall room JS303.
The keynote speaker will be Kevin Dougherty, JD.
Dougherty has served in the United States Air Force for over 20 years. Other accomplishments include serving as a military district attorney and judge.
Dougherty currently offers instruction in the Criminal Justice Department at CNM.
Dougherty’s talk will focus on topics where psychology and the law coincide. There will be a Q and A session and refreshments. This is a public event.
Two New Classes Available at Workforce Training Center
Have you ever had a problem with your bicycle? Take the “Bicycle Maintenance & Repair (Park Tool 101 Certification),” four classes beginning Jan. 28 and ending Feb. 18. Classes will run from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. The course is $129.
Want to learn how to really use your iPad? Take
“Introduction to the iPad,” on Friday, Jan 25, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., only $49.
Go to cnm.edu/wtc or call 224-5200 for registration information for either class.
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EditorialBy the cnm chronicle
editorial board The CNM Chronicle does
not believe that the answer to gun violence is to allow guns on campus, but we do believe that the Shooting Club has an inviolable right to hang the f lyers on campus.
In this week’s front page article “Student club f lyers create controversy,” Shooting Club President Mitchell Jackson stated that the f lyers were behind glass because previous f lyers had been torn down, pre-sumably by community mem-bers who disagreed with the statements on the f lyers.
While placing the f lyers behind glass does make it seem as though the f lyers are endorsed by CNM, those who disagree would do well to create and post f lyers with an opposing viewpoint or send responses directly to the Shooting Club rather than stif le the organiza-tion’s right to free speech.
To its credit, CNM has had a long-standing record of pro-tecting all students’ right to free speech. The decision to place the f lyers behind glass was the best available solution for all parties involved.
Perhaps it would be better to say that the schools decision to place the f lyers behind glass was an endorsement of free speech rather than an endorse-ment of content of the f lyer.
While community members might find the f lyers offensive, removing them stif les every-one’s free speech. If CNM refuses to allow those f lyers, an argument can be made to disallow any student organiza-tion f lyers. Then clothing with offensive slogans, then perhaps offensive language.
Some community members may think that this could be OK. There are probably many who think that there is a lot of offensive language on campus, but then, who decides what is and is not offensive?
Freedom of speech is all or nothing; either everyone has it or no one does.
It is important to note that those f lyers do draw attention to the problem of gun violence and a possible solution, but the f lyers alone do not create meaningful discussion.
That could be accomplished only if the members of the Shooting Club took what they have started a step further and hosted an open forum on the topic, something the Chronicle hopes to see in the future.
Shooting Club flyers
are protected free speech
By Kristin L. Roush, Ph.D.
guest columnist*On a serious note:
please know that this series is intended to be a spoof, a lighthearted invitation to look at how we sometimes create our own misery. It is by no means meant to be disrespectful or minimizing of many people’s true pain, particularly around depres-sion and anxiety.
A proven technique
to generate an internal state of depression is to start on the outside and then focus on the inside.
This two part arti-cle will begin with your physical appear-ance. In part two we will concentrate on your outward behavior.
This systematic approach will slowly but surely destroy your life spirit.
Appearing Depressed
Wear drab, dark clothes that communi-cate to the world that you are invisible or deserve to be invisible.
Browns, blacks, grays, and navy blues are best.
Be sure your clothes are over-sized, wrin-kled, and not clean. A low slung hat or hair-style that hides your eyes is a particularly effective touch that will keep you feeling unworthy.
It telegraphs to the world your morose and sullen nature and has the added benefit of calling attention to yourself as a misunderstood outcast.
Some people will be merely intrigued; others will feel sorry for you and that’s exactly the effect you’re after.
Manage your facial expressions. Always wear a frown and do not make eye contact with people.
Use your face to express only minimal emotion; boredom, superior disdain and chronic irritation are the best options.
The well-timed roll-ing of the eyes is a clas-sic passive expression of disapproval. It has the added benefit of giving you plausible deniability.
When someone calls you on it, you can indig-nantly protest, “I didn’t say anything,” thereby absolving you of any responsibility for your toxic presence.
If you need assis-tance, consult with-drawn adolescents. They are masters of this technique.
Manage your body language. Always walk slowly using a short stride with your head down, hands in your pockets, and looking only 3-5 ft. in front of you.
Be sure you main-tain rounded shoul-ders and a hunched over posture. Never, ever look up.
While sitting, cross your arms, keep your head down and throw in the occasional despair-ing slow shaking of the head accompanied by a long, tired sigh.
I hope you found these tips helpful in your efforts to become a truly depressed person. Stay tuned for other install-ments from The Fine Art of Misery series.
The Fine Art of Misery Depression: Before you reach
for the Prozac, part 1
EDITORIAL CARTOON BY SCOTT M. ROBERTS
4 | The CNM Chronicle Janaury 22, 2013CAMPUS NEWS
Life as a casitaApplied Science students use technical skills to build a house
By Daniel Johnson
Staff ReporterStudents enrolled
in the Applied Sciences programs are building a house as part of their edu-cation, said Full-time Carpentry Instructor Lino Moya.
The casita, which sits in a lot just south of Ted Chavez Hall on Main Campus, is a two-term con-struction project that involves sev-eral Applied Science classes, he said.
From start to finish, it will be completed by stu-dents, which allows for complete hands-on experience in
areas of their educa-tional study, he said.
“The students start with a shell but what they do with it is up to them,” said Moya.
P a r t - t i m e A r c h i t e c t u r a l W o o d w o r k i n g Instructor Joseph Hirschfeld said the experience is some-thing the students need because it allows for easier job placement when paired with the educational experience the students will receive.
“The Carpentry program will build it, Woodworking will make the cabi-nets, electricians will wire it and the plumbers will lay the pipe,” said Hirschfeld.
Moya said that the students will gain experience in constructing the frame, roofing, insu-lation, drywall, tape and texture, paint and finish, installing cabinets and install-ing trim.
“We literally build a whole house from start to finish, bottom to top and frame to key in lock,” he said.
C o n s t r u c t i o n Technology Major Logan Harris said that students are working on installing fram-ing nailers around the window frames.
Next, students will hang drywall on the interior walls.
Working on the
project has been an amazing and educa-tional process, he said.
“Going from an open lot to building a frame and putting a roof on top, this is something I want to do for the rest of my life,” he said.
Carpentry Major Gabe Raab said it is wonderful to get an opportunity to prac-tice hands-on car-pentry skills.
Working with other Applied Science classes to complete the build-ing allows students to build something from the ground up in a real-world work experience, he said.
The project is designed to give
students the complete scope of a construction job in a short amount of time, he said.
Harris said he recommends this class to students interested in the trades and who want to learn and expe-rience step by step what it takes to build a house.
Moya said the casita will pass inspection and qual-ify as a residence anywhere within the state of New Mexico because it has been designed to with-stand wind and snow.
“Once com-pleted, it will have a Southwestern feel and décor,” said Moya.
The casita will
go up for auction and, once pur-chased, will be put on a foundation and become a permanent residence, he said.
It will be the buyer’s responsibility to set the foundation and move the house to its new location.
The auction for the casita will run in the Albuquerque Journal business section.
The proceeds received from the sale of the casita will help to pay for the next house building project, said Moya.
PHOTO BY JONATHAN GAMBOA
Joseph Hirschfeld and his Carpentry students will install cabinets, countertops and crown molding once the casita’s interior is insulated and drywalled.
PHOTO BY JONATHAN GAMBOA
The casita will include two bedrooms, a family room, a bathroom and a kitchen.
PHOTO BY JONATHAN GAMBOA
Lead Contractor and Full-time Carpentry Instructor Leno Moya prepares his students to insulate and drywall the interior of the casita.
PHOTO BY JONATHAN GAMBOA
The first house students in the Applied Science program built was completed in spring 2012 and was auctioned off for $20,000.
January 22, 2013 The CNM Chronicle | 5
By Adriana AvilaManaging Editor
Art History and Studio Art graduate Maureen Hendrick will be the spotlight artist in the Park Fine Art Gallery’s exhibit “Loved to Death” Feb. 1 to March 8.
Hendrick graduated from CNM in 2010 and said the exhibit is titled after her artwork. Her work is a still life nar‑rative with a symbolic and conceptual style, she said.
“It’s based on still life, but it’s conceptual still life and it’s still life narra‑tive because it tells a story,” said Hendrick.
She said when brush meets canvas, the pas‑sion flows into painting her separate ideas and ties her pieces together in an unusual way.
“I’m passionate about these ideas and I want to share these ideas. If people would stop and learn what my vision is about; that’s what would make me happy,” she said.
The idea behind her art is that it is psychologi‑cally and emotionally con‑trasting to what is seen at first, she said. Her art is about hope.
“I don’t tend to be a very scary person but when you look at these images it’s a little unset‑tling because of how I painted them, but they all have a story about them and once you understand the story then it’s all positive and hopeful,” said Hendrick.
She said there is a
particular painting featured in the gallery, entitled “Unassumed Awareness,” that is her favorite because of the meaning.
“My mother passed away and it has some symbolism in there that nobody would know about, but when I see it I think of my mother,” said Hendrick.
The time she spent at CNM was important to her artwork in many ways, she said. When she was a member of the Art Club, she said the group put together an art show and invited jurors from the community to judge the show.
She said that one of the jurors, Josh Franco, referred her to an international exhibit at Park Fine Art where only a select number of art‑ists were invited to submit one piece to travel internationally.
One of her pieces was selected for the travelling exhibit, she said.
“From here it goes to Beijing, China, and Seoul, South Korea, and last year it went to two places in Istanbul, Turkey,” said Hendrick.
Hendrick said she learned every‑thing she knows about art at CNM
and even though learn‑ing does not leave stu‑dents with a robe and tassel, she is satisfied with the education she received. She firmly believes the Art pro‑gram is better in terms of artist preparation.
“The Art Career Concerns class was a huge class. It’s such valuable information because it gives you all of the tools to make your own portfolio and write your own artist
statement, approach gal‑leries and how to have a show,” said Hendrick.
The breadth of knowl‑edge offered in each of the art classes is discussed in depth and the principles she learned were thor‑ough, she said.
“I highly recom‑mend the classes here to have all of the knowledge and infor‑mation and every t h ing
needed to be able to be a working artist because it really gives you confi‑dence in everything you need to accomplish that goal,”
said Hendrick. Since graduating from
CNM, Hendrick said she has participated in several art shows and has won two best of show awards
and three first place awards in the ama‑
teur division.
STUDENT LIFE
UNM/CNM/Sunport Transit Study Tell us what YOU think!The third series of public meetings is being held for the UNM/CNM/Sunport Transit Study - a project that will develop transit, land use, and parking strategies to improve transportation in an area that attracts more than 74,000 people a day! The study area includes CNM Main Campus, UNM North, Central, and South campuses, the Sunport area, and the surrounding neighborhoods.
Several potential strategies have been identified and will be presented to you. By attending one of the following workshops, your feedback will help us evaluate these strategies and develop more ideas on how to improve travel to and between destinations in the area.
Date & Time: Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 6 pm to 8 pmLocation: Central United Methodist Church, 201 University Blvd. NE
Date & Time: Wednesday, January 30, 2013, Noon to 1:00 pmLocation: UNM Student Union Building, Lobo Room A & B
Date & Time: Tuesday, February 5, 2013, Noon to 1:00 pmLocation: CNM Student Resource Center, Room 204
More information about this project is available at www.mrcog-nm.gov and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/transitstudy. For questions, please contact Tony Sylvester at (505) 247-1750 or [email protected].
To request Americans with Disabilities Act related accommodations for this meeting, please contact Cheryl S. Wagner with Parsons Brinckerhoff by January 24, 2013 at (505) 878-6560.
‘Loved to Death’ art exhibit
Feb. 1 ‑ 8, 2013 | 5 to 8 p.m.
Park Fine Art GalleryGalleria, lower level20 First Plaza NW
Suite 27Albuquerque, NM 87102
PHOTOS BY JONATHAN GAMBOA
Graduate Maureen Hendrick will display her work as the featured artist at the ‘Loved to Death’ Art Exhibit.
INFOGRAPHIC BY SCOTT M. ROBERTS
Where are they now?Graduate featured in gallery exhibit
A d v e r t i s e m e n t
6 | The CNM Chronicle January 22, 2013STUDENT LIFE
By Jonathan Baca
Senior Reporter
The Chess Club brings the age-old game of strat-egy to Main Campus each week, said Engineering Major and club Treasurer Tim Torres.
Each Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. in Ken Chappy Hall room 12, the Chess Club offers competition and friendly games for players of every expe-rience level, as well as offering a community and a place to hang out and make new friends, said Torres.
“If you are a beginner, you can learn new things. If you are a master you can teach somebody,” said Liberal Arts Major and club member Kyton Blair.
The Chess Club is open to players of all skill levels, and stresses that lack of experience should not deter anyone from coming to meetings and asking a member to play, said Torres.
“A grand master can learn from someone who has never played a game in their life. All players benefit from playing at all levels,” said Torres.
One of the benefits of the club is that there is always someone to play against, said Blair.
While there are many smart phone apps with which a person can play at any time, he said he prefers the more personal, leisurely experience of playing a live person.
“I’d rather sit down,
take my time with a real person, have a chance to think about my move and maybe have a little conver-sation,” said Blair.
It is only the club’s second semester as a chartered organization, but already the Chess Club has been making plans for projects at school and in the com-munity, said Torres.
Members have dis-cussed partnering with the Welding program to construct and install tables around campus with chess boards on top, he said.
Ultimately, he would like to get involved with after-school programs in the community, teaching chess to at-risk youth, he said.
“We’d like to do a mentorship program that is focused on the benefits of learning chess — the rules, the structure, the history and background
— and also learning some discipline,” said Torres.
The game of chess teaches critical think-ing, planning ahead and sportsmanship, he said.
“We had some people with ADD come, and they said that chess really helped them learn how to focus, and I thought that was so cool,” said Torres.
Lessons learned on the chess board can help people see things dif-ferently and recognize patterns in their daily life, then use strategy to
improve their situations, he said.
“Chess is the game of kings. It incorporates everything from strat-egy, sportsmanship, focus, memory, concentration and patience. You can incorporate the ideals of chess into every aspect of life,” said Blair.
Those interested in playing need to bring only a desire to play, said Torres. The club has plenty of high quality chess sets that anyone can use.
“We have everything that you need. All you need to bring is your body and a willingness to learn, and if you already know, to teach,” said
Chess Club gets its game on
PHOTOS COURTESY CNM CHESS CLUB
Members of the Chess club hold an event in the Student Services Center.
PHOTOS COURTESY CNM CHESS CLUB
Students play chess in the Student Services Center to make students aware of the club.
A d v e r t i s e m e n t
January 22, 2013 The CNM Chronicle | 7
almost $800 on books alone,” said Gehring.
The campus book-stores are run by Follett, a private contractor and book publisher that runs college bookstores all over the country, said Vice President of Student Services Phillip Bustos.
“A company comes in, bids when we put out a request for proposals, and we try and choose the best bidder. Follett has been here at CNM at least 16 years,” said Bustos.
Textbooks are selected by a committee within each department and orders are then placed with Follett, said Bustos.
These committees make decisions such as whether a new edi-tion will be required for classes, or whether to choose a book with an internet component.
“They will often choose to bundle prod-ucts, like a CD, an
additional workbook or an online code, and then they work with the book-store in bundling those resources for the student,” said Bustos.
The addition of these supplemental resources especially the online codes — can cost stu-dent sa lot more money, said Fire Science Major Josh Silva.
Silva said he tries to save money by buying his textbooks used off the internet, finding down-loadable versions or get-ting with another class-mate to share a textbook.
“The bookstore is the last place you should look to get your textbooks,” said Silva.
With the addition of online codes, which must be purchased by each stu-dent for full price at the beginning of each term, many of these strategies no longer work.
“The online codes are a huge rip-off. They want to force you to buy a brand new book,
when you could get a used one or share and it would work just as good,” said Silva.
Online codes can be purchased separate from the printed textbook, but the savings are small, said Gehring.
Follett has no control over which materials are chosen and how much they cost, said District Director of CNM book-stores Ann Heaton, a Follett employee.
“Our first goal is to save the students as much money as we possibly can. We do our best to make sure the faculty are edu-cated as to the options that are available to stu-dents to help save them money,” said Heaton.
The bookstore offers several options, including new and used textbooks, digital books for laptops or tablets, and many books that can be rented, both in printed and digital form, said Heaton.
Digital books are typically cheaper than
printed books and, with the growing number of students who use tablets and laptops, the digital options are becoming more common, she said.
“Some can be pur-chased outright, and some can be rented for 180 days, after which the book is erased,” said Heaton.
For students who receive financial aid, there are other options beside the CNM bookstore. Campus Bookstore, on Central Avenue west of Girard Boulevard, carries all required textbooks at lower prices and accepts financial aid, said Manager Wes Strassle.
The bookstore also offers a program for stu-dents waiting on financial aid money, he said.
“We do a hold check program. You can write a check for the amount of your books, we’ll hold that and give you two weeks to pay it off from disbursement day,” said Strassle.
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because people were infringing on our right of free speech,” he said.
Although certain areas of campus are des-ignated as gun free zones, that does not stop crimi-nals from bringing guns to school, he said.
“In situations like the school, we have an area that claims to be gun free, but research indi-cates otherwise. Research indicates that there are a certain percentage of stu-dents that bring guns to school a certain percent-age of the time,” he said.
Balancing out illegal activity with legal activity would make students who agree with the right
to conceal carry com-fortable, he said.
“If we recognize that illegally possessed weap-ons are prevalent, and they are around, then we should seek to strike a balance, just like we rec-ognize organized crime exists so we strike a bal-ance with a police force,” he said.
Encouraging the conceal carry conver-sation is an essential reason why these post-ers are up, said Jackson.
“If nothing else, the posters are to encourage dialog, to get people to think about the fact that gun free zones aren’t [gun free]. I think once people come to the recognition that gun free zones aren’t [gun free], then they start
to see guns in a little bit of a different light,” he said.
Shores said she does not think that permitting students to carry con-cealed weapons would succeed without incident.
“I don’t want to be in a classroom with someone who has a conceal carry gun legally and then, if for some reason, they thought someone else was pulling a gun and they weren’t, or even if they were, they could pull that gun and shoot me or anyone else by mistake,” she said.
Letting students come to an educational institution while armed puts other students in a possible dangerous situ-ation, she said. Students may not have the proper gun training.
“I think, ‘You may be trained on how to fire a gun, but most people are not trained in how to respond to a situation correctly.’ They’ve done studies on this,” she said.
Part-time Political Science Instructor Robert Anderson said he takes issue with the signs because there is more the school and our society can do to prevent these fears without permitting stu-dents to go armed.
“This is a social dis-ease really, a problem brought to us by unreg-ulated market capitalism which profits from war and violent entertain-ment,” he said.
War and violence are glorified within our society and that
is part of the problem, he said.
“We could make mili-tary type assault weapons and guns less attractive to mentally disturbed people if we did not glorify war and violence as entertain-ment,” he said.
Giving students the right to carry weapons is dangerous and does not solve the problem at hand
– it makes it worse, he said.“The solution lies not
in individuals arming themselves like the old frontier days. We are 500 years past that in society now. The frontier is gone,” Anderson said.
F u l l - t i m e C o m m u n i c a t i o n s Instructor and Shooting Club Adviser Lisa Orick-Martinez said she
supports the signs.“Colorado, Utah and
Virginia all have institu-tions of higher education which permit concealed carry on campus. None of these institutions has seen a single resulting inci-dent of gun violence or a resulting gun accident,” she said.
She said she has seen an increase in the number of students curious about the Shooting Club and the posters and she wants stu-dents to make sure they are educated about all aspects of gun use.
“I would ask that the person research the facts, critically think about her or his beliefs and opin-ions, educate her or him-self in the issues and get involved,” she said.
One of the big-gest issues is that non-alignment with APS could make it espe-cially difficult for stu-dent parents, he said.
“They’re going to worry about who’s
going to watch their kids during the break while they’re attend-ing school or work,” said Martos.
He said that even though this is a major concern, it is still silly to have a spring break just before the final two weeks of the term.
“If CNM would get rid of it we would end a week earlier than normal and we would have three weeks off,” Martos said.
He said ECOS is planning to set up a booth on Main Campus to address the issue with the student body and
understand the range of issues and concerns stu-dents may have.
“It is going to be word of mouth, just talking to students, answering questions and kind of getting that information out there,” Martos said.
Like many
arguments, there are the pros and cons involved with the situ-ation, but participa-tion is a must and get-ting feedback from the student body is vital, he said.
“We need to hear from as many mem-bers of the CNM
community as possi-ble,” said Martos.
Students with questions or concerns on this or any other issue can contact ECOS at 224-4746 or by emailing [email protected].
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