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By Daniel MontañoSenior ReporterActivists gathered

in Nob Hill on Saturday Aug 31 to protest the possibility of a United States military strike against Syria, Joel Gallegos, Education

major and Answer coali-tion member said.

The demonstration, which was part of a nation-wide string of protests sponsored by the Answer coalition, drew more than 100 people who packed Central Avenue at Tulane Drive, filling

sidewalks and medians, and was endorsed by more than nine local activist groups, such as the Albuquerque Chapter of the United Nations Association and (Un)Occupy Albuquerque, Gallegos said.

“We believe that our resources here in the United States are better spent on things like edu-cation, on things like housing and healthcare, not war,” Gallegos said.

Protestors raised signs and chanted at passing cars, often receiving a honk in rec-ognition: “Money for jobs and education! Not for war and occupation!” Protestors said.

The protest started at noon just minutes after President Barack Obama made a national address in which he said that any possible military

intervention in Syria would not be open-ended, would not include ground troops, and that he would seek congressional approval before making tactical military strikes against key locations sus-pected of housing chemi-cal weapons.

Gallegos said that he did not trust that Obama’s reasoning for striking against Syria

— destroying locations which might hold chemi-cal weapons that were

allegedly used against Syrian rebels — reveals the U.S. government’s true intentions for Syria.

“I think it’s ridiculous that the United States government is still using this narrative of weapons of mass destruction. I think they believe the United States public is naïve — that we are going to buy the same old story,” Gallegos said.

President Obama, said during his Saturday address that a chemical

weapons attack, which took the lives of more than 1,400 Syrian civil-ians and injured more than 3,600 who showed signs of being exposed to sarin nerve gas, which was orchestrated by the Syrian government itself, and called the attack an

“assault on human dignity” that was “the worst chem-ical weapons attack of the twenty-first century.”

Albuquerque participates in national protests of Syrian War

By Daniel MontañoStaff ReporterThe main campus

bookstore is feeling the squeeze of a smaller size, and students are taking the heat — literally.

In order to reduce foot traffic inside the new smaller location in the Robert P. Matteucci building, there is a line to get into the store, and buy-backs, rental check-ins, returns and refunds are handled through an

outdoor window, the line for which queues up — exposed to the elements

— in the courtyard of the building, Ann Heaton, district director of the CNM bookstores, said.

Bookstore staff mem-bers have been working to fix any issues that have come up since the book-store opened on July 29, but have not had enough time to deal with every issue, including the out-door line, Heaton said.

“We’ve been here for a month, and so we have growing pains right

now. And I just hope the students and faculty and everyone can remain patient with us, so we can work out these hiccups,” Heaton said.

Anna Hoefler, Paralegal Studies major, used the new window during the last week of the summer semester, and spent over an hour in direct sunlight waiting to sell her books back, she said.

According to the National Weather Service, the average temperature that week was more than

88 degrees with a high of 92, and Hoefler said she thinks there needs to be something built to enclose the line.

“In the winter it’s going to be too cold, and in the summer it’s too hot. I could see slip and fall hazards happening because of ice. It’s ridicu-lous!” Hoefler said.

Heaton said that she is aware of the problem and has spoken with CNM administration to find a solution to the buy-back window’s exposed line, and that

something will

be in place by the end of the fall semester.

“We’re trying to figure out what we can do and how we can make things better, and if we have to rent a tent at the beginning of each term to put out there, then that’s what we’ll do,” she said.

The reduced space of the facility provided has led to multiple issues for the staff at the bookstore, Heaton said.

The storage room provided with the new location is not large enough to hold the books that would normally be

on hand, and the team has had to rent a portable stor-age device that was placed in the parking lot near the bookstores back entrance and monopolize most of the space in a loading dock that is shared with the culinary arts department, she said.

“We kind of joke and say that everyday my staff and I push up against the walls looking for more

Shrinking painsNewly located bookstore adjusting to smaller home

PHOTOS BY DANILE MONTAÑO

Joel Gallegos chants slogans during the protest.

PHOTOS BY DANIEL MONTAÑO

Protestors stand on Central Avenue to protest the possibility of U.S. involvement in Syria.

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Lines at the new bookstore extended into the hallway.

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Students line up in the hot weather to return books.

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A trip to the ‘new and improved’ Main Campus bookstore proved disastrous this past Tuesday. I would not have imagined beforehand that the move would be such a dismal failure. In fact, I was looking forward to seeing some improvements. Unfortunately, that was not the case. First of all, the location of the bookstore itself could not have been more inconveniently placed; tucked away in an obscure nook between the R.P.M. building, the parking lots adjacent, the constantly f lowing traf-fic of University Boulevard, as well as a number of inexplicably placed tracts of loose, shifty, landscaping stone that seems purposefully positioned to dare one to haphaz-ardly stumble over them for a more direct route. However, on the list of things wrong with the new CNM Main Campus Bookstore those minor f laws are way down near the bottom in terms of significance.

The line for returns, refunds and buy-backs, which is not very clearly marked, as evidenced by the number of people I observed standing in line for several minutes before finally realizing their mistake upon reading a piece of copier paper labeling the line, that had been clumsily taped to the wall. Also, said line is outside and seeing as this is Albuquerque, with its a 278 days of sunshine annually, means that students are now being forced to stand out in the constantly blazing sun, or conversely as it does happen here as well, the bitter cold. Finally, after sweating profusely for 20 minutes, we, by which I mean the other poor souls in line with me, at last got around to the windows where employees were obviously overtaxed by the volume of students due to the start of the semester, which I may remind you has been a problem at the Main Campus Bookstore for years.

That being said, one would have thought that this problem and others like it would have been addressed with the relocation of the bookstore. Sadly, it seems that is not the case. I even overheard one of the employees at the windows complain to another, as he excavated her from underneath a mounting stack of returned books, that there hadn’t even been a phone installed for them to call for backup, and that they don’t have a phone to call for assistance at a cashier’s station is simply unacceptable. Finally, it was my turn, and I noticed a posted assertion that it is common for the bookstore to buyback books from students for as much as 50% of their original price, which seems to imply that it will at least be in that neighborhood,

Would it be that difficult to have posted a brief summary of the average rates? Seeing as it is too much to put up a sign that clearly denotes the line in which one actually needs to stand, I suppose that is the case. As is, they seem hard-pressed even to send an employee outside with a piece of paper, tape, and a sharpie. Anyway, I sold my Dugopolski 5th edition College Algebra book to them for $17 and on the CNM Bookstore website, used, it is $145. Now, if the Bookstore is able to f lip my book for $145, a full 89% more than what they gave me for it, I would at least expect that such an enormous profit margin would provide for making a better bookstore, one that is not cluttered, chaotic, inefficient, and physically uncomfortable to go to.

The sheer number of glaring problems are enough to encourage the discontinuation of my patronage unless I see some evidence of change for the better.

Student, Joseph Wagner

Dear Editor,While going to pick up

my wife’s Pharmacology book that she had ordered about a month and a half ago in used condition, I was perturbed that it had never been delivered. I then made the decision to pick up a new copy.

After making my way to what I thought was the back of the line, some disgruntled people were glaring at me from behind some merchandise and it became clear that I was standing right at the front of the line. I thought it was funny that a book-store employee was stand-ing right there and said nothing.

When waiting in line for twenty five minutes and watching two differ-ent employees standing behind a cash register and not taking any customers, I began to grow extremely irritated that there were only a total of two cashiers helping people with about twelve or fifteen registers closed down with nobody behind them.

Halfway through my transaction, I asked to speak to a manager. The manager came over and I remarked that I had been standing in line for forty minutes and that there only seemed to be three cashiers working the reg-isters with other employ-ees milling about not helping customers get on their way a week before the semester was about to begin. Taking an attitude with me instead of owning up, she reported that she had two or three cashiers call in absent this morning.Upon leaving the building and realizing that I had left my sunglasses in the car, I was also highly annoyed that the exterior of the building is white, which blinded me momentarily as my eyes adjusted to the tremendous amounts of light being reflected off of the building. It drove me nuts that they spent loads of money on a new build-ing but couldn’t afford to pay cashiers to operate the registers. Their prices are gouging and the service has mostly been terrible.

I can factually say that I will NEVER use Follett again for ANY of my or my wife’s educational needs. Follett needs to get a clue and smarten up. Half.com and Amazon have my fam-ily’s business from this point forward.

Student, Scott Gagnon

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toral BoardStudents and employees

of the bookstore are feeling the pinch after relocating to the new building named after Robert P. Matteucci or RPM, as mentioned in the front page story “Shrinking Pains.”

During the last few semesters, it seemed the bookstore employees were developing a decent system to deal with the overf low of students on certain days, but since being moved, the bookstore is trying to get back on track. For now, students will have to be patient until they work out the kinks.

Since the beginning of the fall semester, students were forced to wait hours to get inside the bookstore, just to wait again in the checkout line to get school supplies.

Bookstore employees are trying their best to get everyone through in a timely manner, but with system shutdowns and never ending lines, it is

hard for employees to even assess how to deal with the issues faced by the new move.

Students have also had concerns about the new outdoor buyback window, because if students hope to sell their book back, he or she has to be prepared to wait in the elements for almost the same amount of time as buying books. This is not only an incon-venience to students out-side, but also to people going inside because the line is right in front of the entrance to the building.

The bookstore is not a place for children, but some students are forced to bring their children with them if they do not have proper childcare. Standing in line with children adds a new level to the incon-venience, as children typi-cally do not do well wait-ing in line for hours. This can cause a problem for the parent, and those around them. If the bookstore had more room and the lines went quicker, the parents at CNM would not have to worry about bringing their

children along on what should be a quick errand.

The bookstore is not the only area of the RPM building that is way too small for incoming stu-dents, as even the culinary arts side of the building has cut corners. Culinary students need to have as much space as possible in order to be able to move around and maneuver quickly, which is not the case in the new building. Instead, students have to constantly tell each other the “right behind you” rule, or they would bump into one another with hot plates and knives in hand.

Hopefully, culinary art majors will not have to deal with an increase of on the job accidents, because no one wants to be burned or cut when going to class.

Administration needs to fix these issues over the semester so students coming back in the spring do not have to go through the absolute nightmare that happened this fall when attempting to get supplies from the bookstore.

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Deborah CooperStaff Reporter

Introduction to African American Studies is designed to outline the evolu-tion, the goals, the philosophy and the method of African American studies or Africana studies, said Ph.D. Charles Becknell, Cultural Studies Instructor.

“It’s really situ-ated not to discuss African American history from a beginning to an end period,” he said.

Becknell said there is a certain period of African American his-tory that is discussed as one of the areas of focus in his class, while looking at the studies as a discipline, and that it important

to understand the evolution, social, and political climate that has fostered African American studies into higher education.

“The core areas that we examine are important, which allow for a conversa-tion on history, so it’s kind of imbedded in all of this,” he said.

Becknell starts with early African history as the start of human history in which history is examined in the con-text of oppression and white supremacy, he said.

“When we talk about early African American history we start with the 1400s, the beginning of the journey to America and move on up to the twentieth century while discussing the spirit of resistance, so

we look at individuals who resisted coloniza-tion and who tried to eliminate enslavement in Africa,” he said.

The areas of African American history that are cov-ered are sociology, religion, politics, also cultural produc-tion in the arts, and is really an overview of everything including economics, he said.

“So we look at all of the areas that would encompass a discipline,” Becknell said.

With fall of 2013 being Becknell’s fourth semester teaching the class, he said that enroll-ment has been strong every semester since he has been instruct-ing the course.

Zachary Shank, Associate Dean of the School of C o m m u n i c a t i o n ,

Humanities and Social Sciences said, because the course is offered as an elective, stu-dents may be over-looking the class.

“The course has been taught since 2006 and has had its ups and downs, however, Mr. Becknell has brought stability to the course,” he said.

Shank said that word of mouth and student surveys con-ducted by the Cultural Studies Department are ways that the school is able to find out what classes peak students interest.

“These are great classes for under-standing what it is to be human and for students to experi-ence the voices that aren’t usually heard,” shank said.

Fitness Tech major, Santana Johns

said he did not think about taking the class because he was focused on what classes are a part of his degree, also that he believes hip-hop relates to the class very much because artists rap about African American history and heritage.

“Hip-hop is major because it ties into African American culture, so if a stu-dent has already taken the Intro to African American studies, they won’t see hip-hop as some commercial prod-uct, it would be seen as being tied to a long historical expe-rience of African Americans,” he said.

Becknell said that this is the appropriate course to introduce AA studies because it builds foundation for students

to keep on learning. “There’s room

for so much more because when you look at it, you could have one class on black economics, one class on black poli-tics, as well as one class on black cul-tural production and expression,” he said.

Becknell said that his father was the first Director of Afro-Studies at UNM 20-years-ago.

“I’ve always been immersed in Black studies,” Becknell said.

Becknell is an Albuquerque native and gradu-ate of UNM, who also teaches African American history I and II at UNM.

Cool classes: African American StudiesBringing African American history to the forefront of higher education

Nick Stern Staff ReporterA plethora of gadgets

and electronics seem to now dominate in today’s society especially with students, and when stu-dents come to class, there is most likely to be an electronic device in hand, said Liberal Arts major Erik Neumann.

Devices such as smartphones, MP3 play-ers and laptops are espe-cially prevalent among students attending college, Neumann said.

“It is next to impos-sible to be on campus and not see someone on an electronic device of some sort. Even though stu-dents can benefit greatly from much of the infor-mation and technology at their disposal, it is impor-tant for them to recognize the potential these devices have for being a complete distraction and waste of time,” Neumann said.

In the majority of his courses, Neumann notices increasing num-bers of students using electronic devices in

the classroom from the moment class begins until it ends, he said.

Neumann said he notices many students appear to be taking and organizing notes with their devices such as tab-lets, laptops and even smartphones which he believes is a great idea. The problem is that while professors tend to be more lenient toward the use of electronics in their courses, students are taking advantage of such leniency and wasting class time on distractions such as social networks, games and movies, right in the middle of class, Neumann said.

“I have lost count of how many times I have seen students watch-ing Netflix, checking Facebook or surfing the internet for just about anything that has abso-lutely nothing to do with the class they are in,” Neumann said.

Dr. Felecia Caton-Garcia, CHSS instructor, teaches a class in pop cul-ture, in which technology and the use of technology is a part of what is taught

in that class, she said. Garcia recognizes

that some students will abuse the option to use devices in her classroom by looking at things that have nothing to do with the class she is teach-ing, she said.

However, she is reluctant to ban laptops in her classroom because she recog-nizes how convenient and useful they can make classroom lectures go and how, for some students, the devices actu-ally act as a learn-ing aid, Caton-Garcia said.

She also has a strict

“do not be on your phone” policy in class with very rea-s o n a b l e exceptions that require the student to commu-nicate with her and let her know what is going on in advance, she said.

“I give my students a

chance to liberate them-selves from their cell phones for two and a half hours a week. In class, it is very important to me

that my s t u d e n t speak to

one another and small group discus-sions are a huge part of

all my classes and in order to

be fully engaged and fully present

they cannot be divid-ing their attention,” Garcia said.

C at o n - G a rc i a believes that one

of the functions of college is to make people come into contact with others who have com-pletely differ-

ent experi-ences and beliefs and

get different perspectives from communication with each other, she said.

“Social networking allows you to screen out all the people who do not

agree with you and I think it gives people a really nar-cissistic and solipsistic idea that the world is just how they imagine it, when it is not,” Caton-Garcia said.

Psychology major, Carly Barnes said that she likes to go on Pinterest three to four hours a week, but can be a problem since she does not ever pin any-thing school related.

Pinterest is addicting for her because it is a social network where people basically put up just about anything they find inter-esting for other people to look at online, Barnes said. Pinterest is a pinboard-style photo-sharing site that creates theme-based image collections accord-ing to the Pinterest site.

“I do not recommend it for students because you will get so distracted from school and waste so much time that you will never get anything accom-plished,” she said.

Despite the warn-ing to other students, Barnes believes Pinterest is definitely worth the time she spends on there because she does find some of the information

useful, she said. She has even gotten

school tips from Pinterest, but unfortunately the vast majority of her time is spent looking at “stupid stuff,” she said.

Criminology major McKinley Smith said Tumblr and Netflix are her biggest distrac-tions and tend to come before her responsibili-ties, because the very first things she said she does whenever she gets home from work or school is to get on these sites.

Tumblr is a short-form blog that lets users post and share blogs according to the Tumblr site.

“They certainly can take stress off if you are trying to get through school stuff, as long as they are used in mod-eration, which is not that hard. It is easy to wean yourself off, but when you go back you get sucked in again,” she said.

Technology: Time saver or time waster?

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Thursday: Titanic — the artifact exhibitionThe New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science is taking visitors on a journey to the depths of the North Atlantic through 100 years of the history of The Titanic. The exhibit features hundreds of authentic artifacts recovered from the luxury liner and detailed recreations of the ship’s interior.• 1801MountainRoadNW,841-2802• OpendailyuntilOct.27from9a.m.–5p.m.• $11–$18

Friday: Murder on the Rail Runner!Nob hill’s Aux Dog theater presents Agatha Christie’s classic “Murder on the Orient Express” with a New Mexico twist. Kenneth Ansloan’s all original script is full of laughs, and the stage is full of Burque’s favorite drag troupe — the dolls. Opens Friday Sept. 6 and runs through Sept. 22• 3011MonteVistaBlvdNE,254-7716• FridaysandSaturdaysat8p.m.,Sundaysat2p.m.• $15

Saturday: TEDxABQAlbuquerque’s independently organized TED talks event will include 18 of New Mexico’s biggest ideas and brightest minds. Local doctors, authors, artists, engi-neers and more will seek to inspire education and motivation while discussing some of the most pertinent issues of our day.• PopejoyHall,203CornellDr.NE,925-5858• 8a.m.–4:30p.m.• $25–$65

Sunday: “We art the people!” folk art festivalMusic, handmade local art and a puppet parade, what more could you want from a new age folk art festival? Local musicians David Neil Kinkead, Elena Higgins and the dance party band Goddess of Arno will provide the music while event goers can participate in a giant coloring book project, peruse the for sale kiosks and watch the giant puppet parade.• RobinsonPark,EighthStreetandCentralAvenue• Startsat10a.m.• FREE!

Local eventsSeptember 3 through September 10

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September 3, 2013 The CNM Chronicle | 7CONTINUEDSYRIA Continued from Page 1

Obama said that the attack was a menace that

“must be confronted.”But Obama’s

address did little to slow the Nob Hill dem-onstration because protesters believe that the U.S. govern-ment’s reasoning is an excuse to begin a war for natural resources and regional power, Gallegos said.

“It’s a way of maintain-ing power and control over that region, and I feel that the U.S. feels that they are losing control of that region because of recent political turmoil,” he said.

Political Science Instructor, Bob Anderson was in attendance at the demonstration and said that he shares in Gallegos’ sentiments because of his personal experience in the U.S. Military.

Anderson took part in orchestrating several

‘false-flag’ operations during the Vietnam War, in which U.S. troops dressed as North Vietnamese soldiers and attacked fellow U.S. troops in order to justify military attacks, and feels that the situation in Syria is an example of a similar military tactic, he said.

“We instigate civil wars so we can get people fighting against each other, and then in that chaos we create new leadership that is friendly to U.S.

intentions,” Anderson said.Anderson also believes

that Obama’s reasons for striking against Syria are contrived and hide a deeper truth, he said.

“I think Obama should be impeached for lying to the American public about what’s going on,” Anderson said.

The chemical weap-ons attack in Syria on Aug 21 came after months of civil war between Syrian rebels and the Syrian government, which has

been ruled by the Assad family for more than forty years, according to a BBC report.

The current uprising began in March of 2012 after 14 school children were arrested and tortured for writing a well-known slogan of similar uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt on a wall that said “The people want the downfall of the regime,” as stated in the BBC report.

A peaceful protest against the children’s

arrest took place in the city of Deraa, and Syrian security forces opened fire into the crowd kill-ing four demonstrators, according to BBC.

Within days, the protests in Syria became more violent and unrest spiraled out of control until the Syrian army was dispatched to control the uprising, but instead of stopping demonstra-tions, the crackdown trig-gered protests across Syria, according to BBC.

space,” she said.The line to get into

the store is also a symp-tom of the smaller size, Heaton said.

After moving to the new location, Heaton walked the bookstore floor with security officers in order to determine how long to allow the checkout line to get before limiting access, she said.

A long line to check out is typical of the begin-ning of a semester, and if the amount of students going into the store was not restricted, then the checkout line would interfere with students browsing textbooks and could even cause a safety hazard, she said.

“It would just become chaotic, and that’s what we’re trying to eliminate,” she said.

While Heaton thinks the new building and location is beautiful, she recognizes that space is an issue, but Follett Higher Education Services, the company that runs the CNM bookstores, was not involved in planning the new RPM building, she said.

Instead Follett was simply told by CNM administration that the bookstore would be

moving to a new location, was given the dimensions of the new space and had to design a layout that worked within the space provided, Heaton said.

“CNM’s not in the business of running bookstores. That’s why we’re doing it for them, and we want to make it look pleasant and make sure that foot traffic is flowing and everything, and that’s what our team

in our corporate office does,” she said.

Heaton said that she and her team are com-mitted to trying to make sure that students receive the same service that they used to receive at the old location in the Student Services Center, and that she is working with administration to solve storage and student issues.

Solutions to these issues will probably not

come until after the first few weeks of the semester are over, which is always the busiest part of the semester, she said.

“We just hope that the students will be patient with us. Again, these are all kind of growing pain issues, and we’re trying to figure out what’s working, what’s not working, and what can we do better for the spring term,” she said.

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UNM/CNM/Sunport Transit Study

Tell us whatyou think!The fifth series of public meetings is scheduled for theUNM/CNM/Sunport Transit Study – working to developtransit, land use, and parking strategies to improvetransportation in an area that attracts more than 74,000people a day! The study area includes UNM North,Central, and South campuses, CNM Main Campus, theSunport area, and the surrounding neighborhoods.

At these meetings we will present the findings of thealternatives analysis, the draft locally preferredalternative, and the next steps for the project. Yourparticipation will help select the preferred alternativeand shape the future of this project.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013, Noon to 1:00 pmUNM Student Union Building, Lobo Room A & B

Wednesday, September 11, Noon to 1:00 pmCNM Student Resource Center, Room 204

Thursday, September 12, 6 pm to 8 pmLoma Linda Community Center, 1700 Yale SE

More information about this project is available at:www.mrcog-nm.gov andwww.facebook.com/transitstudy.

For questions, please contact Tony Sylvester at (505)247-1750 or tsylvester@mrcog-nm.gov.

To request Americans with Disabilities Act relatedaccommodations for this meeting, please contactLesley Maurer with Parsons Brinckerhoff bySeptember 3, 2013 at: (505) 878-6523.

8 | The CNM Chronicle September 3, 2013

By Martin MontoyaStaff ReporterTeachers and stu-

dents are fighting blaz-ing fires side by side all thanks to the CNM Fire Science program that offers an array of pro-gram concentrations, said Mike Kavanaugh, Fire Science Instructor.

Recent graduate Noelle Gabaldon, said she got her associates in two concentrations through the fire science program at CNM, with one in wildland fire-fighting and the other in structural firefighting.

“I owe it to CNM, because I think it is the only school in the state that has this fire science program,” Gabaldon said.

With eighteen years of experience fighting wild fires, Brian Henington, Fire Science Instructor, said this will be his fourteenth fall semes-ter teaching at CNM.

Henington first got into wildland firefighting for summer employment, as many CNM students in the Fire Science pro-gram do, he said.

“It’s a very competi-tive field; the training that CNM provides gives them the advantage over the student that doesn’t try to get an associate’s degree,” said Henington.

Kavanaugh said that the Fire Science

curriculum has three dif-ferent associate concen-tration programs, and these concentrations show employers that students are ready for a higher or supervisory position.

The concentrations students can choose from are wildland and struc-tural firefighting, as well as emergency medical ser-vice that is a newly offered focus, added about a year ago, as these three core programs are amongst the most popular fields in fire services, Kavanaugh said.

“I think what is good about our program is that our students after one semester with Brian (Henington) are certi-fied wildland firefight-ers,” Kavanaugh said.

All over the country fire fighters have been battling wild fires since May and many are tiring and slowing down, as well as fire crews becom-ing affected by a common sickness called “Camp Crud,” Henington said.

“If one person gets the sickness, the whole crew gets it,” he said.

“Camp Crud” is the result of people from all over the country assem-bling together and work-ing their bodies into the ground for 14 days straight at 16 hours a day, he said.

The crew’s immune systems get weak and everyone catches hor-rendous colds, he said.

“To do this you got

to be tough, as you can imagine,” he said.

Throughout the fire season, Henington said most of his work was with a fire crew made up of military veterans, two of which are CNM students.

Henington’s fire crew was assigned to attack the Tres Lagunas fire that burned near the Pecos River in the Santa Fe national forest, he said.

According to nmfireinfo.com the Tres Lagunas fire was caused by a downed

power line that burned 10,219 acres from the end of May to early June of 2013.

Having been there within hours of the fire starting, the crew’s first objective was to pro-tect the nearby com-munities, with the big-gest community being Holy Ghost, and had an estimated 100 to 140 summer homes, which some were occupied by residents, he said.

Henington said that there was a little over a month of fire activity,

with fires getting big very quickly driven by the wind and the impact of the drought.

“If we didn’t get the moisture we did in July, we would prob-ably be burning like Idaho is right now, they are in pretty bad shape,” he said.

The fire science program has had many students throughout its time at CNM and Henington said he ran into many of his stu-dents on the fire line or at chow during a

fire, yet he was still able to recruit from the fire line future CNM students.

“Several students coming this semester that were not students that I talked to on the fire line are now enrolled in our pro-gram,” he said.

With the Fire Science program on the rise and getting CNM students trained and into the work force, Henington said that with any one of the big fires that there was anywhere from 30 to 50 current or gradu-ated CNM students.

Throughout his career Henington said he has worked for both the State Forestry and the State Land Office.

Having several certifications and years of experience, Henington as Incident Commander would primarily be placed

on the fire line, but also worked on operations and safety for the veterans crew known as, “VPP1.”

“I was the youngest IC in State Forestry’s history at one time, a long, long time ago,” said Henington.

For more infor-mation on the Fire Science associates pro-gram go to www.cnm.e d u /p r o g r a m s - o f -study/all-programs-a-z/fire, or call the pro-gram director at (505) 224-4207.

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PHOTOS COURTESY BRIAN HENINGTON

The Tres Lagunas fire was caused by a downed power line that burned 10,219 acres from the end of May to June of 2013.

PHOTOS COURTESY BRIAN HENINGTON

Veterans crew, known as VPP1, made up of members who have several certifications and years of experience.

Fire Science program heats up student training