DAILY LOBO new mexico
November 18, 2010
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Students are fuming about a recent change to the art buildingâs open hours. Because of a change to security guardsâ schedules, UNMPD Lt. Robert Haarhues said the building will now close at 10 p.m. instead of 11 p.m. He said security guards used to leave at 12 a.m. but will now leave at 11 p.m. âThe problem is that weâre down three security guards,â he said. âWe no longer have the manpower, and UNMâs on hiring freeze. Weâre not hiring any more people to replace them. We canât be everywhere.â Angelina Skonieczka, administrative assistant for the Department of Art and Art History, said her department had no say in the open-hours policy. âIâm sure students will be upset by not being able to work as long, but unfortunately we donât have much control over that,â she said. âIf we want our building opened and closed, we have to go by what they tell us.â Student Kira Vanderkolk, who uses studio space at night, said limited hours make it difficult to complete projects. âThe thing about an art major is that you canât do it all at home,â she said. âWith oil painting, unless you have ventilation you canât do that at home. It puts on a time constraint that a lot of other majors donât necessarily have.â Student Liz Olive said the change is detrimental to students in metalworking classes. During the day, she said, classes occupy the lab space, and the open hours are limited. The work cannot be done at home. âItâs a very time-consuming class, and when you go to lab, you have to be there for at least three hours in order to accomplish anything,â she said. âTaking an hour off of working in the small metals lab is like destroying your whole project.â Haarhues said the police department hasnât received complaints and expected the impact to be minimal. âI havenât heard anyone was upset about it,â he said. âThatâs funny because thereâs nobody in there when we close the building
Dylan Smith / Daily Lobo Brook Megah participates in the Zombie Apocalypse at UNM on Wednesday. The event, based off similar productions across the country, attracted more than 150 participants.
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eva.incognito@gmail.com UNM sophomore Jo Ann Smith sang for President Obama in New York once, which is pretty cool by anyoneâs standards. And she doesnât like the N-word. Jo Ann Smith: Nigga is not a good term. I mean I can understand you saying ânegro.â Thatâs black in Spanish. Itâs literal. But saying ânigga,â saying âoh my nigga, my homieâ â that was used to demean us. We were hung from trees and dragged and beaten and called that constantly. And being belittled. Thatâs used as a belittlement to even call your friend a nigga. Like, no! Daily Lobo: So what do you think about rappers throwing that word around? JAS: I donât know if they really know what theyâre talking about. Not only are they belittling their own selves and their own race, theyâre belittling their own people. Not only that, theyâre belittling women. My mom always says this: âYouâre going to be really scrutinized and belittled because not only are you black, but youâre a woman.â Weâre, like, very last on the food chain. Before we were even allowed to vote, we still werenât allowed to vote because we were black, you know? Rappers nowadays these days, they donât know what theyâre talking about. I donât think itâs cool at all.
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JAS: I was like, âYou canât just say that stuff because you know me. If you were around any other black person saying that, you wouldâve got jumped. Iâm just telling you this to save your butt.â You know how they say, âA drunk mind speaks a sober heart?â Well, I was just going off, rattling, rattling, about everything that bothered me in the past. I was calling him racist and stuff. He says the N-word, clearly blond-haired, blue-eyed. I donât think itâs OK for anybody to say the Nword. I donât even say the N-word. And I was saying âCracker!â like loud and I was pretty drunk, but I didnât care. I was like, âYou like that? You like that?â ⌠And then there are the other classes where you talk about racism or slavery or whatever. I remember being in a lecture hall, and we were discussing slavery, and Iâm like one of the three black people in class talking about slavery in front of like a whole classroom â about a good 50-60 people of just white people. DL: Did that make you feel weird? JAS: Yeah, they were making it seem like slavery wasnât so bad. We were talking about the compensation theyâre giving AfricanAmericans in the U.S. â $5,000. DL: Theyâre giving who, exactly, $5,000? JAS: African-Americans. Blacks. DL: When?
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Smith said racial tensions exist on campus, but theyâre subtle, and while the school may look diverse, the attitude is not diverse. She hails from Los Angeles and wasnât prepared for the small-town mentality she finds all over New Mexico, she said. One blue-eyed, blond-haired guy called her âBlackie Chanâ and she went off on him.
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