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By Jamison Wagner Staff Reporter

The Chemistry club offers assistance for stu-dents who are struggling in a chemistry class and a venue for people to be creative with the subject as well, said Tim Torres, Engineering major and club president. The Chemistry Club at CNM meets every Friday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in MS 112 at Main campus, he said.

“Our interest in getting this club going got com-pounded by the fact that a student taking any chem-istry class above General Chemistry II cannot get help at CNM and we said, ‘well let’s make one’,” he said.

The plans are still in the development stage but the club hopes to gain access to

a lab by the spring 2014 semester so that students can have the time to mix chemical compounds in order to observe the reaction — something most students do not have time for in class, he said.

“We are pushing to get lab access so a student can go in there with an instructor and run experi-ments and get to see how it works besides the fast-paced ‘mix this, do this, write down your notes kind of thing,’” he said.

The plans to make use of a lab have been complicated by the fact that the lab building at Main campus is going to be renovated in the spring of next year, he said.

The club spoke to the chair of the Chemistry Department and to Rick Snow, lab supervisor, who said that the club would need an instruc-tor to supervise. While the club does have an instructor, the club still faces a challenge because CNM does not know where the labs are going to be located in two semesters, he said.

“Next semester we can start getting the lab practice going but we need to lay the foundation or groundwork now. Right now

By Daniel MontañoStaff ReporterWhile congress

is locked in partisan battles regarding sub-sidized student loans, it is more important than ever to have a plan for paying back student loan debt, but most students do not understand their loans, much less have a defi-nite plan on paying loans back, Corbin Cordova, former Business major said.

As of July 1 the annual interest rate of 3.4 percent doubled to

6.8 percent on all sub-sidized student loans because congress was deadlocked in debate over how to address subsidized student loan interest rates, according to insider-highered.com.

Students have said they have mixed reac-tions regarding the interest rate hike and how they plan to pay back the extra interest.

Gabrielle Roberts is in the process of reg-istering for classes and plans to begin attending CNM in the fall 2013 semester, she said.

Although she plans on taking out student loans she hasn’t come up with a plan on how she is going to pay them back because to her it’s more impor-tant to get her degree then it is to worry about paying back loans, Roberts said.

“I’m just starting so I’m not too worried about paying anything back yet. I’m sure that as the years go on and I see my loans accu-mulating, I’m going to start wondering how I’m going to pay back that interest. Right

now the main con-cern is actually being able to go to school. Being able to afford going is the first step and I haven’t been able to conquer that quite yet,” Roberts said.

While some stu-dents may be more con-cerned about attend-ing class, Monica Apodaca, Nursing major, used to work for a student loan ser-vice provider and said that her experience prepared her to enter school with a plan to pay back any student loans she might have

needed to take out.Apodaca said that

she knew that student loan interest rates can fluctuate but that they wouldn’t go above 6.8 percent. Although the interest rate was lower at the time she took out her loans, Apodaca said she gave herself leeway when she took out the loans by planning to pay them back at the maxi-mum interest rate.

“Everything I took out I figured based off of the 6.8 percent because I knew that the interests rates f luc-tuate, but I knew the

highest they could go is 6.8,” Apodaca said.

It is important for students to know where their student loan money is coming from when developing a plan to pay back stu-dent loans because dif-ferent loan servicers can provide different repayment options, Apodaca said.

“Contacting the servicer is the best thing to do. Financial aid knows repayment options but the loan

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Gather family and friends and enjoy the dog days of summer at the twelfth annual Summerfest event in Nob Hill on Central Avenue from July 19 to 21.

Tierna Unruh-Enos, marketing man-ager for the city’s cul-tural services depart-ment, said there are four Summerfest events around Albuquerque. Each of the events is free and has concerts as well as family activities. This year’s theme for the events is ‘taking it to the streets.’

“This year our theme for the Summerfest is street parties, so that’s what we’ll be doing with all of them, except for the one that’s on Civic Plaza. We shut down streets and then we set up a street party essentially,” Unruh-Enos said.

Summerfest was created to entertain

the community and give people some-thing to look forward to during the summer, Unruh-Enos said.

“We have food trucks and differ-ent things for kids’ activities and stuff. But it’s really to get more people to stay in Albuquerque and have something for people to do.

“It is a free service that this department provides to give back to the community and the department works really hard, especially in the summertime to provide all of the events. There are def-initely things to do here in Albuquerque,” Unruh-Enos said.

This year’s first Summerfest kicked off in the heights on June 15, which was the first time it was held in the heights, with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy as the headliner. The Route 66 event, on Central Avenue, takes place July 19 through July 21, and is the

biggest of the four Summerfest events, Unruh-Enos said.

“The one in Nob Hill is the Route 66 Summerfest which is the biggest Summerfest and it’s been going on for quite a while. We block off a mile of Nob Hill and we usu-ally get about 35,000 people there so it’s pretty big. It’s prob-ably the same size as Albuquerque’s Twinkle Light Parade, between 30,000 to 35,000 people,” Unruh-Enos said.

The main attrac-tions at the nob hill event will take place on Saturday July 20. The July 19 Friday event is a concert and VIP Reception featur-ing the Yellowjackets at the Highland Theater at 8 p.m. Nob Hill Jazz Brunches begin at 11 a.m. on Sunday July 21 at sev-eral restaurants that include Zinc Wine Bar & Bistro, Zacatecas Tacos & Tequila,

O’Neil’s Irish Pub and Scalo Northern Italian Grill, accord-ing to the Summerfest event program.

Headlining the Route 66 event in Nob Hill Saturday July 20 is Red Baraat, a Bhangra Funk Dohl ‘n’ Brass band from New York City.

One of the big-gest attractions of the Route 66 Summerfest in Nob Hill is the Old Route 66 Car show, which will be from 1 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., and will feature over 100 custom and clas-sic cars.

Immediately fol-lowing the car show, the Twelfth Annual Neon Cruise will parade down Central Avenue, according to the Summerfest event program.

The Route 66 Summerfest will have three stages; the main stage will be located on Girard Boulevard and Central Avenue, and east stage will be at Washington

Street and Central Avenue. The Cork and Tap stage will be located in between Montclaire Drive and Sierra Drive, and will be home of the Food Truck Rumble, where Albuquerque’s best street food vendors compete for the over-all winner. Local beer, wine and spirits will also be available.

The Kid Zone will have a rock wall, face painting and inf lat-able fun jumpers from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Wellesley Drive and Tulane Drive, and there will also be an artisans market on Saturday as well from Bryn Mawr Drive to Dartmouth Drive.

Before splitting off into different events, Summerfest used to be held Downtown at the Civic Plaza but about two years ago the city decided to spread the events throughout Albuquerque to serve different parts of the community, Unruh-Enos said.

Summerfest has two other events planned this year; one at the Civic Plaza Downtown on August 3 that will be head-lined by Ozomatli, a Latin hip-hop and rock group from Los Angeles, and the Westside event, located behind the Cottonwood Mall, is on August 24 and will have Better than Ezra, an alternative rock band from New Orleans, as the head-liner, she said.

“We take them to different parts of the city because they help spur economic development,so we’re serving everyone in the city, not just having them in one place,” Unruh-Enos said.

For more infor-mation about the Summerfest events go to rt66central.com/rt66summerfest.html.

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July 9, 2013 The CNM Chronicle | 5STUDENT LIFE

Magen Wells, Integrated Studies major, transferring to UNM for nursingChronicle: How is the change in Financial Aid’s policy going to affect you? “Well I graduated and I’m going to UNM in the fall but I think it’s going to really affect the single parents who are trying

really hard to make something of themselves. Being a single mother going back to school was the one thing that I could do, that I knew I needed to do, because I was left with nothing.

“Being in school has done a lot of things for me. It’s kept me afloat financially, it’s been able to progress me towards my big goal and I really think it’s going to affect single moms, single dads and lower class citizens who are trying to do better.

Chronicle: Was it the student loans themselves that actually enabled you to go to school?“Yes, because if the full student loans weren’t available to me I wouldn’t have been able to go to class, because I would have had

to work. You’re stuck between a rock and a hard place. You’re either going to school, getting student loan money to keep you afloat, or you’re working.

“It’s one or the other because then something will fail if you’re going to school and trying to work at the same time. There’s always one that you’re weaker at that catches up to you and you struggle with.

Students speak out about financial aid changesBy Daniel Montano

Staff ReporterCNM’s new finan-

cial aid policies have stu-dents’ best interests at heart, but the students’

themselves have had mixed reactions to the new loan revisions.

The Chronicle asked students receiv-ing financial aid how these changes will

affect their student loans.

The new policies, which will begin in the fall 2013 semester, will reduce the maxi-mum amount of money

that students can take out in loans per year by $2000, and increase the yearly award for work-study employ-ees by $1500, Joseph Ryan, administrative

director of Financial Aid, said.

The policies have been put in place in order to reduce the chance that students will default on student

loans after they gradu-ate by lowering stu-dents’ overall debt, Ryan said.

Jesse Hawthorne, Welding majorChronicle: What’s your reaction to the changes in Financial Aid’s policies? “It’s going to affect me greatly because I don’t have work-study. I have to pull out those loans and I have a job. I don’t have

work-study because every time I look into it, they’re all filled up; there are hardly any jobs available.“So that’ll affect me greatly. I rely on that; I only have about another year left, but because this is starting in the fall semester

it’s going to affect me greatly. I’m going to have to find another job or something.“Even if you’re aloud $1500 more through work-study but they’re taking $2000 off of loans, that’s a $500 dollar difference.

When you’re a broke-ass college kid like myself it’s hard enough as it is. “If they’re cutting loans by $2000 dollars, I mean that’s four months of rent right there that I usually pay out when I get those

loans. That’s essentially what that’ll be for me.”Chronicle: In the long run do you think this will help you stay out of debt and reduce your chances of defaulting on a loan? “Well, if I were to stay in school and continue on to UNM afterwards it could potentially help me. But the fact of the matter

is that here (at CNM) we are taking out such a small amount anyway because it’s our first couple of years.“I’m going to be about $20,000 in debt, but when I leave here I’m going to be working and making more than enough money

to pay that off. This is not really going to help me out. It’ll actually hurt me because it’ll be harder for me to stay in school.“If they make it easier for us to stay in school we can then get a better job and pay them back easier. If it’s harder for us to stay

in school, how are we going to pay back those loans as easily?It doesn’t make sense, at least not to me.”

Jack Pettigrew, Biology majorChronicle: How is the change in Financial Aid’s

policy going to affect you? “I don’t think the lower loans will affect me per-

sonally, but I definitely think it will affect some of the students here.

“My girlfriend for example, she pays rent on her own apartment and her rent is kind of expensive because she pays it all in advance and now I don’t think she’ll be able to take out a loan big enough in order to pay her rent. So she might struggle a little bit”

Chronicle: How do you think this might affect students in general?

“I think if people need those loans to pay their bills they will probably drop out, only because the work-study pays minimum wage. So they probably won’t be able to pay for what they need.”

Corinne Kilgore, Pre-Health Sciences majorChronicle: What’s your reaction to the changes

in Financial Aid’s policies? “I have to say that for me personally, I kind of

like it.“I do think that we’re in a dangerous situation

where people are taking out all these loans and then they get out into the real world and, with the way the economy is, they can’t find a job. Then they have to immediately start paying back all these loans and can’t.

“So I can see the reasoning as to why they want to raise the work-study and lower the loans but on the other hand, work-study is only $8.50 an hour and you can only do 20 hours a week, or even now with 30 hours during the summer, people aren’t going to be able to pay their bills on that.

“If they don’t have the loans to back them up then they may be forced to drop out of school to get a full time job.”

“I can see both sides of it I guess because I’m a little unbiased. I don’t do work study or loans. I’m one of the lucky ones that have been able to get by with just my Pell grant.”

Jeanie Castillo, Surgical Technology majorChronicle: How is the change in Financial

Aid’s policy going to affect you? “I have two kids and having the loans helps me

with my children, because in my program they expect you not to work. They actually tell you during intro; ‘that’s why you have the loans’.

“They tell you to get loans to help pull you through the term so you can concentrate on the program. Not having the full loans only gives you a certain amount of money that can’t cover rent and electricity and everyday costs.”

Chronicle: Do you think the increase in work study will help students cover those everyday costs?

“I don’t think so because once you are in a pro-gram or even taking classes full time you’re not going to have time to do that work-study.

“I mean, in the Surgical Tech program we’ll have clinics all week long and we’re not going to have time to do work-study after class. I mean maybe for an hour but that’s not going to come close to covering what we would get from loans. So, basically, students are screwed.”

ALL PHOTOS BY DANIEL MONTAÑO

6 | The CNM Chronicle July 9, 2013STUDENT LIFEChronic le Crossword: Game Over D i f fucul t y : Easy

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4. Series of post-apocalyptic role play-ing games set after nuclear war with underground vaults (1997-2010)7. One of the first multi-player arcade fantasy games by Atari, where one could be a warrior, wizard, Valkyrie, or elf (1985)10. The Legend of Zelda character (1986)13. Mario’s brother in super Mario brothers14. Addictive tile matching puzzle video game (1984)

16. Video game of a gorilla throwing barrels at Mario while climbing plat-forms (1981) (2 words)17. First person shooter game fighting the alien covenant (2001)19. Namco video game where the object is to eat dots and stay away from ghosts in a maze (1980)20. Video game series of a female British adventurer and Archeologist (1996-2013) (2 words)

1. Tennis themed, and one of the ear-liest video games developed by Atari (1972)2. First person puzzle game that allows the player to make teleporting wall openings (2007)3. A shoot ‘em up arcade game by Atari where the player defends against swarms of insects (1981)5. Light gun shooter game from Nintendo where the objective is to hit moving targets in mid-flight (1985) (2 words)6. Sega’s Hedgehog (1991)8. Atari’s best-selling space shooter video game of all time (1979)9. First-person shooter survival horror

video game with big daddies and little sisters11. An open world game that has no specific goals with many modes from building structures to surviving (2011)12. Originally an arcade game where the player directed amphibians through traffic avoiding cars15. The fifth game in the Elder Scrolls series of a vast world with dragons from Bethesda Softworks (2011)18. An action role playing game with the Hero of Oakvale who could be good or evil depending on gameplay (2004)

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July 9What: “Dr. George Fischbeck Night” at Isotopes Park; Isotopes v. Nashville SoundsWhere: Isotopes Park 1601 Avenida Cesar Chavez SEWhen: 6:05 p.m. to 10 p.m.Welcome Dr. George Fischbeck to New Mexico’s Hall of Fame with the Isotopes and ABQ Ride. Ticket prices vary depending on seat selection.www.abqisotopes.com

July 10What: Stories in the Night Sky concert seriesWhere: Albuquerque Balloon Museum 9201 Balloon Museum Dr NEWhen: 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.Enjoy a free outdoor family interactive concert performed by the Albuquerque Concert Band. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own chairs, blankets and snacks.http://www.cabq.gov/culturalservices/balloonmuseum/events/stories-in-the-night-sky-2/

July 11What: Brown Bag Seminar at the Botanic Garden, Figs of EnchantmentWhere: BioPark Botanic Garden 2601 Central Ave. NWWhen: 12:45 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.In this free lecture event, learn about the history of figs in New Mexico by Albuquerque fig authority Lloyd Kreitzer.http://www.cabq.gov/culturalservices/biopark/garden/events/brown-bag-july-11/

July 12What: Zoo Music, Mountain HeartWhere: ABQ BioPark Zoo 903 Tenth Street SWWhen: 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.Doors open at p.m. and concert begins at 7:30 p.m. Animals on exhibit until 8 p.m. Ticket prices for adults $10, children and seniors $3 and children 2 years and younger free.http://www.cabq.gov/culturalservices/biopark/zoo/events/zoo-music-mountain-heart/

July 13What: Movie MatineesWhere: Open Space Visitor Center 6500 Coors Rd. NWWhen: 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.This free event takes place every Saturday same time. For a full list of movie titles call 897-8831.http://www.cabq.gov/parksandrecreation/open-space/events/movie-matinees/

July 14What: Free Sunday Mornings at Albuquerque Museum of Art and HistoryWhere: 2000 Mountain Rd. NWWhen: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.http://alibi.com/events/34036/Free-Sunday-Mornings.html

Calendar of July Summer Events July 9 to July 14

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CNM does not know where they will hold labs when the renova-tions start, whether it will be at UNM or the labs redistributed to Montoya campus,” he said.

Torres and another student got started in the club when they were taking Organic Chemistry together and then got involved with the Math League, he said. The math league was doing great things like helping stu-dents with their math studies and holding

fractal presentations, he said.

“Otto (other student) and I were both Math League members, we went all the time and I got tutoring from STEM UP by one of their tutors and I was like, “wow, I want to start some-thing that is chemistry-related’,” he said.

The club was formed shortly after and the officers were picked out from other students in the Organic Chemistry class that were willing to commit to the time and effort needed to get the ball rolling, he said.

Getting the club going has been helpful

in both learning new chemistry and retain-ing the knowledge already learned said Otto Mossberg, Biology major and club treasurer.

“We recently reviewed some stuff that I have not seen in the last couple of years and re-capping that data has been fun,” he said.

For more infor-mation or to join the Chemistry club, email Tim Torres at ttor-res44@cnm.edu.

servicer will actually be able to give them quotes and give them better options because they’re the ones actu-ally servicing their loans,” Apodaca said.

If a student has taken out a loan but doesn’t know which loan ser-vicer they have, they can find out by accessing the National Student Loan Data System, at www.nslds.ed.gov.

Corbin Cordova who currently attends UNM and is a former CNM Business major said that he knows how much stu-dent loan debt he has, but doesn’t have a definite plan on how to pay it back.

Cordova said that he is relying on finding a job through which he can pay back his loans after he graduates, but that he isn’t sure if he’ll be able to find work because of the difficult job market right now.

“It’s one of those things that I’m going to have to deal with eventu-ally. One of the promises of school is to improve our future. That’s defi-nitely one of the market-ing campaigns for CNM in particular, to know your path know where you’re going and that the unwritten prom-ise is that at the end of it you’ll be getting paid more. So you should be able to pay it off, right? Should being the opera-tive word,” Cordova said.

While some stu-dent’s do not have a clear-cut plan on how to pay off their student loans, other students have said that they might have to default on their loans if they are not able to find a good job after school.

Dustin Zumwalt, Business major, said that he has taken out the maximum amount of student loans ever since he started attend-ing CNM in order to feed and house his

family and that he will not pay the loans back until he is able to do so comfortably.

“I mean, my family comes first. If it’s going to take food off of their table then I’m not going to pay it back. But if I end up doing good, being successful and it isn’t going to hurt me to pay it back, then I’ll pay it back,” Zumwalt said.

The STEM up pro-gram offered a finan-cial literacy workshop in June, including

information from both UNM and CNM’s Financial Aid depart-ments, and plans on hosting another in the fall semester; E-mail’s will be sent to all stu-dents when a date is set. To reach CNM’s Financial Aid depart-ment call 224-3090, to view individual student loan information visit www.nslds.ed.gov.

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8 | The CNM Chronicle July 9, 2013FEATURE

By Jamison WagnerStaff Reporter

The student Math League will be holding a presentation about fractals on Friday July 12 at 6 p.m. on Main Campus in Smith Brasher room 106, Alex Cordova, physics major and Math League vice president, said.

The Fractal Event, which will be hosted by Tim Torres and Otto Mossberg, will cover what fractals are and where frac-tals can be found in nature. The event is open to anyone and will end at 9 p.m., Cordova said.

“Fractals are literally nature. Nature pretty much bases itself around the most efficient way of doing something, and if it works it repeats itself over and over again,” he said.

Fractals are a mathemati-cal phenomenon where there is a simple rule and it gets applied over and over again forming a geometrical shape that has sym-metry of scale, he said.

“This kind of phenomenon does not even have to happen with a math equation; it can simply come about from a general rule,” he said.

An example of this is the Koch Snowflake; where a person can divide a line segment into three segments of equal length, then draw a regular triangle that has the middle segment from the first step as its base and points outward, and then remove the line segment that is the base of the triangle from the second step, he said.

“This is neat since you just follow the algorithm and you get the snowflake. Just cut out the middle and keep following the rules and you get a fractal,” he said.

One of the uses for fractals is in the building of a cell phone antenna to have more surface area without changing its’ size, he said. This allows the antenna to absorb a broader range of fre-quencies for receiving cell phone signals, he said.

“With fractals you can get all telephone frequencies and only have that on one small antenna, and if we did not have this we would have to carry a different antenna for each different fre-quency,” he said.

One of the pioneers in the field of fractals was Benoit

Mandelbrot, and one of his first papers was a study of how to measure cosines that explained that depending on the ruler one uses, whether it is a mile, half an inch or another length, one can get varying inaccuracies on how long that cosine may actually be, he said.

“There is a way to get a really precise measurement in units you can use based on his works,” he said.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Mandelbrot used the term fractal (derived from Latin fractus which means broken glass) to describe a pattern of roughness, and no matter how closely some-one views the pattern the person will always see a equally jagged or rough edge to the object at all scales. This pattern, for example, can be found in a fern plant.

For more information on the Math League or to RSVP to Fractal Friday on July 12, email Alex Cordova at acordova112@cnm.edu.

Fantastic FractalsMath League Event

Fractal Friday When: July 12, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.Where: Smith Brasher Hall in Room 106RSVP: acordova112@cnm.eduDinner will be provided beforehand for free