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By Daniel MontañoSenior ReporterSecurity’s detention

tactics have been called into question by students who witnessed three secu-rity officers apprehend and detain a skateboarder for

riding in a dismount zone, said Immanuel Colbert, liberal arts major who wit-nessed the incident.

The skateboarder, who asked to remain name-less until the matter is settled with CNM admin-istration and security, had

his skateboard taken and thrown to the ground by officers before they wrestled the skateboarder himself to the ground and began choking him, Colbert said.

Colbert watched and recorded the incident,

which took place on Sept. 11 just before 9 a.m. in the parking lot south of Ken Chappy Hall, and believes security offi-cials used e x c e s s i v e force for such a minor viola-tion, he said.

“It just wasn’t appro-priate. It wasn’t neces-sary to do it, but the guard brought the contact and the violence into it. There wouldn’t have been any if he would have just explained to (the skate-b o a r d e r ) why he was coming at him like that. But he didn’t. It was overly aggressive. I’d say completely unnecessary,”

Colbert said.Colbert’s

video can be viewed at the CNM Chronicle’s website: thecnmchron-icle.wordpress.com.

Colbert is ex-mil-itary, so he has been trained in intervention techniques and knows how security and police officers are supposed to deal with a possibly vola-tile situation, he said.

After stopping the skateboarder, security officers spoke to him and had the chance to resolve the situation without phys-ical force, but the officers escalated the situation to a physical level by push-ing the skateboarder in the chest repeatedly before attempting to detain him, Colbert said.

“They’re supposed to assess the situation and calm it down, and this CNM security guard did none of that. He acceler-ated the situation to physi-cal contact. He didn’t try to use his words to bring it down,” Colbert said.

The security officers were on scene responding to a medical emergency — a faculty member, who also asked not to be named because of the ongoing investigation, had fell and hit her head — when the skateboarder rode by, William Duran, Chief of Security, said.

Duran would not comment on the incident’s details, or whether or not

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Stacie ArmijoStaff ReporterPresident of Fellow of

Innovation David Valdes said he is holding focus group sessions to invite students to give their ideas for the next big accom-plishment at CNM.

Focus group sessions will be held on Wednesday Sept. 18 and Friday Sept. 20 at Main Campus, and all students are welcome to participate, Valdes said.

Two sessions will be offered both days starting at 9 a.m. and

10:30 a.m., with Valdes cautioning that limited space will be available for students to voice their opinions. For more information or to sign up for the focus group meetings stu-dents can email Valdes at [email protected].

Valdes said he has a number of ideas to improve the quality of what CNM has to offer by getting the per-spective of students and faculty, and by making the campuses better overall.

“I would like to emphasize that I want stu-dents to be part of what I am doing. I have jotted down a million ideas for innovations at CNM, a lot of them revolve around parking,” he said.

Many students, staff and faculty have voiced their concerns regarding problems with parking, he said.

“Something I would like to explore and look into as what we could possibly do about all of the park-ing issues,” he said.

Students can voice their opinions on what needs to be developed upon and how those ideas can be implemented into school programs, he said.

“It’s important to me to generate and narrow ideas for topics of innova-tion,” and that is where these focus groups come in, Valdes said.

There are 30 par-ticipants of CNM fac-ulty that have signed up to be a part of this new

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Free childcare program goes

unnoticed

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A student being stopped and detained by CNM security guards for skatebording to his class.

see YDI on page 7

By Daniel MontañoSenior ReporterThere is no ques-

tion: being a parent and going to school is diffi-cult, Christine De Lette, Center Specialist at Youth Development Inc., said.

The good news is CNM has – and has had for 14 years – a program that assists student-parents by providing childcare, but the bad news is students are not signing up, De Lette said.

“Currently it’s a really low number,” she said. “I believe we have about three or four right now.”

YDI is a non-profit company that provides free childcare, educa-tion and much more to low income families, and YDI has a location on the South Valley campus, De Lette said.

CNM and YDI have struck a deal so that YDI gets to lease CNM’s land and students get first dibs on the 40 spots that are open every year for chil-dren aged three to five, as long as the students apply-ing meet the guidelines for enrollment, she said.

This sort of deal should have people clam-oring to get in, but the student response to enroll children has been less than overwhelming, and De Lette thinks it is because students do not know the program exists, she said.

“They’re not aware of it. It’s not on the map, it’s not in a brochure, it’s not in the catalog for the new school year, it’s not sent out on flyers, we’re not posted on CNM’s website as an option,” she said.

De Lette is looking to change that in the upcom-ing semesters by getting word about the program out to students, she said.

Because YDI is inde-pendent of CNM, De Lette has not had any direct control over the lack of advertising, but she has been reaching out to various departments within CNM, and has been trying to place ads to bring in more students, she said.

“We understand that students do have the need for childcare, and our goal is to make sure that students know that we’re here for them,” she said.

Even though the school year is already under way, YDI is still accepting applications and their waitlists tend to move quickly, De Lette said.

Because families move or have a change in status, there is usually a good chance children can get in regardless of the time of the year, and De Lette is still encouraging students to apply, she said.

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After finding out about the incident that occurred on the morning of Wednesday Sept, 11 when a stu-dent rode by security on a skateboard and was tack-led and detained until APD arrived on the scene, one has to wonder what constitutes excessive force when it comes to the men and women that secure our campuses.

Students should not be riding their skateboards where there is high foot traffic on campus, and some students can be seen maneuvering and skating their way through crowds of people up to the doors of buildings such as the Student Services Center, which can be a hazard or could potentially hurt someone that is just trying to get to a class on the walkways.

Campus security used force last week on a stu-dent that heard security telling him to get off of his board, but kept skating anyway. This resulted in offi-cers throwing the student’s board across the parking

lot, tackling the student, pinning him to the ground, and witnesses say choking him before cuffing him.

Security does so much for the school, from helping students with medical needs and issues, to stopping the assaults and thefts on campus, but to the Chronicle, this particular incident seemed to include excessive force that could have been avoided. Security should have made themselves clear in their intent to detain this particular student, instead of throwing him to the ground for not listening to them and allegedly choking him before cuffing him, because he had no idea why they had grabbed him in the first place.

Students on skateboards need to be aware of where and when they are skating, and if there is a congested group of people ahead on a walkway, they should stop and get off the board, because it really is not worth being even later to class for being detained by security.

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Nick SternStaff ReporterA n t h r o p o l o g y

major and vice president of Services Learning Program, Tiffany Ruelas, is now the current Vice President of the Phi Theta Kappa chapter at CNM, and she and fellow mem-bers have plans that will help further PTK’s goals and encourage students to do well in school, she said.

This month PTK is planning some-thing called the C4 Commitment to Complete which is basically getting stu-dents to sign a massive banner committing themselves to com-plete an Associate’s degree at a community college, she said.

“It is for stu-dents who do well in school. For them to be acknowledged that they actually did well in school and there are scholarship opportu-nities and other events for students that are in PTK. It opens doors

for students,” she said.PTK has a lot of dif-

ferent things going on like planning for an ice cream social for the spring term which will help the group try to raise money to make scholar-ships for its members, she said. Members are also working with the CNM bookstore to try and get textbook scholarships for its members, she said.

PTK also works on a whole bunch of different things including differ-ent fundraisers and even events to just have some fun, she said.

“We went to the museum over the summer just to be together. So we do a bunch of different stuff,” she said.

PTK also plans on doing volunteer work for the Roadrunner food bank, which already has 30 volunteers, not includ-ing actual members, and are hoping to get a lot more, Ruelas said.

Ruelas recognizes that PTK does not have a really big presence on campus and not as many people

know about it as there should be, she said.

One of the group’s larger goals right now is to create a bigger and better attendance and to convince more students to finish at a community college with an associate’s degree, she said.

“We are trying to get a bigger presence in school and we are planning some things to do that. We are planning school events and are thinking about doing rounds to different classes if teachers allow us to just talk for five minutes about PTK and answer questions,” she said.

PTK is a honor soci-ety organization for outstanding students of two-year colleges and has a two part mission according to its web page, which is to acknowledge and encourage academic accomplishments among students and to provide chances for experience and growth among indi-vidual students through participation in different types of helpful programs.

Students have to have

a grade point average of at least a 3.5 to get in to PTK and maintain at least a 2.5 GPA to maintain their membership, Ruelas said.

When she first got the email asking her to join, Ruelas did research on PTK and decided it was interesting and joined the society, she said.

Ruelas said she came to a couple meetings and offered to help with the ice cream social and other activities and was soon emailed by the president asking if she wanted to be an officer and she agreed.

It cost 75 dollars to join and membership lasts a lifetime, Ruelas said

“You’re always going to be a Phi Theta Kappa no matter where you are, it is great because you can finish a degree at a community college, wait however many years, and still go back to school and apply for PTK scholar-ships and can possibly get them,” Ruelas said.

Ruelas is from San Antonio, Texas where she moved to New Mexico from three days after her

high school graduation in 2012, she said.

She will be the first one in her family to get a degree and her parents have very high expectations for her, she said.

She meets them by making the dean’s list for all three semesters she has attended, and she got to be in the honors program, she said.

One piece of advice she has for students is to get an educa-tion in something they like or are interested in, because it is much harder to finish doing something that does not interest and will make it that much harder to succeed.

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Tiffany Ruelas setting up for PTK meeting

Stacie ArmijoStaff ReporterAt the Westside

campus there is a new Piano class being taught by Dr. Vincent S. Schenck that gives students the opportu-nity to learn piano on the 20 Yamaha pianos provided in the class-room, said Schenck.

The thing that makes this class so unique is that students can work together or work separately and the students learn how to play melodies and harmonies as well as proper techniques, he said.

“To have the piano class, I think it’s important because the piano is a basic instrument that is very visual,” he said.

In addition to learning how to read music students will have the ben-efit of knowing how to play basic songs, Schenck said.

“My favorite thing about teaching piano

is that it is an impor-tant skill for people to learn when it comes to music,” he said.

For the final in this innovative course students play a song of their choosing in front of the class, he said.

By the end of the semester students will learn how to play music themselves and be able to read music, he said.

“There are a lot of things learned; hand and eye coordination and memorization. It’s just the discipline of sitting up straight, actually playing the instrument and dedi-cating the time to it,” he said.

Schenck said he believes his students appreciate the fact that he offers an open studio before classes where students can come in earlier and catch up or have their questions answered before the class starts.

“I am not under any obligation to have studio hours but I think it’s a good time

for them to come in and ask questions and work on things, who doesn’t want to come in early to play the piano more if you are interested in it,” he said.

One of the things that Scheck stresses in class is to not get easily frustrated and to have patience while learn-ing this instrument or any other, because it can be somewhat dis-couraging at first to learn and keep prac-ticing, he said.

“Once some-one learns to play the piano it is easier for them to pick up another instrument,” he said.

Schenck said that he not only teaches piano, but he also teaches Music Theory, Fundamentals of Music and an online Music Appreciation course as well.

For more infor-mation on the new piano class stu-dents can email Dr. Schenck at [email protected].

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Piano Man

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One of the 30 Yamaha pianos in Dr. Vincent Schenk’s classroom

September 17, 2013 The CNM Chronicle | 5STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

By Jonathan BacaStaff Reporter

The world of stand-up comedy is changing, and a handful of dedicated comics in Albuquerque are taking back the scene and doing things their own way, said professional comedian and Burque native Mike Long.

One local comedian who has broken out in the scene is Digital Media major Curt Fletcher. Fletcher has become a big name in local comedy, and has had success perform-ing at clubs and comedy festivals throughout the country, he said.

“I like the scene here. Everyone is super sup-portive,” Fletcher said.

Since he started doing stand-up twelve years ago, Fletcher has performed all over the country, to audi-ences in 24 states, he said.

He has moved up through the ranks of the comedy world, battling critical club owners and drunken hecklers along the way, he said.

“I think it takes a certain kind of person. You definitely need to have thick skin,” and Fletcher said “You have a lot of bad shows before you get good.”

He first started perform-ing there, despite his

extreme nervousness and shy personality, and feels that he has come a long way since then, he said.

A new style of do-it-yourself stand-up is chang-ing the local comedy scene, replacing the old model of the comedy club with a looser, more democratic system that puts the power back into the hands of the comics themselves, giving comedians and their fans the power to do things their own way, Long said.

“There’s a real resurgence of comedy as an art form, but it’s more accessible. All the gatekeepers have been removed, so it’s more do-it-yourself. Everyone has access to the same kind of network and scene,” Long said.

Just like many other comedians in Albuquerque, Fletcher got his start at Laff’s Comedy Club, where he previously worked.

“I’ve known Curt Fletcher for eight years and he’s one of the hot-test comics coming out of New Mexico now,” said local actor Steven Michael Quezada, best known from his role as Agent Gomez on Breaking Bad.

Quezada also got his start as a stand-up comic in Albuquerque, and has since

been the host of a local late night talk show, where he helped put the spotlight on many local comedians.

Former student and fellow comedian Terrance Brown said, “There’s a lot of funny guys here, but Curt is on another level.”

Local comedian Sarah Kennedy, along with ten others, will be hosting Comedy Awareness Week from October 12 to 19, with multiple shows every night, performances at UNM, and many other events, all with the goal of putting the spot-light on Albuquerque’s comedy scene and let-ting people know about the caliber of talent the city has, according to their Facebook page.

K e n n e d y runs the website AlbuquerqueComedy.com, which has become a much needed source of information for local comedy fans, with a calendar of perfor-mances, profiles of local performers, and other useful information.

“Since I started doing comedy, I think we’ve become so much more connected and so much more collaborative, and I think we’ve grown a lot,” Kennedy said.

Kennedy hosts sev-eral stand-up open-mic

nights at Blackbird Buvette downtown and at Broken Bottle Brewery on the west side, as well as a showcase at The Box on the first and third Saturdays of the month. With so many options, new talent has a chance to shine, Kennedy said.

“I would put any comedian from here up against what happens elsewhere in the country, and they would shake out to be equal if not better,” Kennedy said.

Comedy in Albuquerque has evolved from the days since Laff’s Comedy Club closed its doors years ago. Back then, if a local comic wanted to perform, Laff’s was the only stage in town.

“Now, with the internet and the local hubs of connectivity that we’re seeing, it’s a whole new world. We’re seeing people having amazing suc-cess without having to go through those traditional channels,” Long said.

Big name touring comedians also have plenty of venues at their disposal, Long said.

The Kimo Theater, the Kiva Auditorium, the Guild, and the Launchpad are all hosting touring comics, as well as the casi-nos, especially Santa Ana

Star casino’s new comedy spot The Stage, and all of these are helping to make New Mexico a lucrative destination for national talent, Long said.

“The fact that there is a good paycheck to be made for a national headliner in New Mexico is a really big boom,” Long said.

National acts like Doug Stanhope, Seth Meyers, Steve Hofstetter, David Tobey, and many others have made New Mexico a stop on their tours is a testament to the growing importance of the Land of Enchantment as a comedy destination, Long said.

This helps the local scene because many of the opening acts for these shows are local up-and-comers, said Kennedy. Kennedy, Long, and fellow local Matt Peterson recently opened for Doug Stanhope at the

Launchpad, which was a great opportunity for them to get stage time with a high-profile head-lining act, Kennedy said.

Many exciting things are happening in the local comedy scene, and the challenge now is getting the word out, Long said.

“There’s half a million people in Albuquerque who don’t know that comedy shows are hap-pening in this town,” Long said.

Thanks to people like Long, Kennedy, and dozens of others, the scene is alive and well, and should only continue to get bigger.

“There is always room to grow, and I hope Albuquerque stays on top of things, and remains ahead of the curve instead of just following,” Kennedy said.

Self made stand-upAlbuquerque comics take back the scene

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By Martin MontoyaStaff ReporterTommy Borunda,

Digital Media and Film major, has made his own business and multiple clothing lines while attending CNM, and wants to let people know about his new store scheduled to open in two weeks, he said.

The store, called V$ (Versus), will be located at 220 Sixth Street Downtown and will feature locally made brands by Borunda and other artists, he said.

Borunda’s designs are a twist on a concept based on the ‘90s tele-vision show ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel Air,’ appro-priately named The FrshPrnts.

“I just flip things, old icons and other stuff,” Borunda said.

While Borunda sells his gear and develops new designs, he is also collaborat-ing with a friend on the V$ brand who will be running the store with him and will also be selling his personal brand called The Two MM’s, he said.

For the “B-boys,” (Break Dancers) there is a design in the FrshPrnts line called the Breakman that looks like the Jordan dunk design f lipped upside down, only he is posted up in a stall, he said.

Getting good responses from his designs and selling them all over and at any time, Borunda said he is excited for the opening of V$.

“I have been doing pretty good just selling my designs out of my trunk,” Borunda said.

A few other designs that Borunda has made that are organic to Albuquerque and have been sources of inspi-ration are designs such as Dead Dooks, Lota Hands, and Num Lokos, he said.

When V$ opens up, Borunda said they will be hosting art shows, B-boy events, and live performances.

Hosting these events is a way to get the community together as well as a way to bring the underground culture together, Borunda said.

“Everybody tends to jock the mainstream so we are trying to get people to jock the local’s,” Borunda said.

While taking advan-tage of a program through CNM and U-Public, Borunda said he built many relation-ships and got a kick-start in filming and editing as well.

Along with editing and filming his own videos, Borunda said he can also make money editing projects for other people because there are many people who need film out here.

“This town is Tamalewood, there are a lot of people who need stuff done and not enough to do it,” Borunda said.

Borunda said he also does street art through-out the city and that is how people know what design will be coming out next in his clothing line, so keep a look out for upcoming designs, his store grand open-ing, and until then stu-dents can get FrshPrnts at www.thefrshprnts.com or can follow Borunda on instagram @ THEFRSHPRNTS.

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1. Goddess of war, fortifications and the defense of towns, also of good counsel and heroic endeavors.3. The goddess of magic, necromancy and the haunting ghosts of the dead, as well as the minister of Persephone.4. The King of the sea, lord of rivers, lakes and other sources of fresh-water. He resides in the sea rather than heaven like the other Olympian gods.5. God of wine, viticulture, and wild vegetation.8. The Queen of the gods, goddess of women and wife to Zeus.

11. The craftsman’s god presiding over metalworking, building, sculpture, and artistry.14. Goddess of love, beauty and procreation.15. Goddess of the underworld river of Oblivion. The souls of the dead tasted her waters to forget their former lives.16. The great King of the Gods, ruler of Olympus and the Heavens.18. Daughter of Zeus and Hera, she is the goddess of childbirth and the pains of labor.

2. God of music, prophecy and healing.3. King of the Underworld, the ruler of the dead. He received his dark domain when the three sons of Cronus drew lots for the division of the universe.4. Goddess Queen of the Underworld who was abducted by Hades to become his bride. 6. Three dangerous sea Daemones with the heads of women and the bodies of birds, using their irre-sistible song to lure sailors to their deaths.7. God of war and conflict.9. Goddess of hunting, wild animals, childbirth and children, as well as a death-dealing goddess who brought

upon sudden demise to women with her arrows.10. Greatest of the Greek heroes. Upon his death, he was welcomed into Olympus, becoming the gatekeeper of heaven, and the god of strength and heroic endeavor and the averter of evil.12. God of herds and flocks, the coun-try arts, travel, trade, merchants, and thievery.13. Goddess of agriculture, such as plowing of the earth, to the milling of grain for flour.17. The primeval goddess of the night who issued forth from her home in the underworld trailing her dark mists across the sky.

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group idea, with fac-ulty being a separate entity from the student groups, Valdes said.

“The program of innovation is to try to find a way to accomplish something tangible. I can generate a decent amount of ideas on my own but I want more brains involved,” Valdes said.

New ideas for the school are welcomed

and are to be shared at one of these mentioned sessions, he said.

“There are several types of innovation; cultural, technologi-cal, academic and eco-nomic,” he said.

Valdes hopes these focus groups help stu-dents become more involved in volunteer pro-grams where students can learn to help the commu-nity through the school.

“I would like to see every graduate

of CNM having been involved in a chari-table organization before they leave. It sounds like a great cultural shift that I would like to see for the future of our state, and our nation. I hope that students focus on how they can help the people next to them,” Valdes said.

Valdes said that after the focus groups he will continue with applying what ideas

are really going to help students and fac-ulty and how these new innovations can be incorporated into the school.

“I am trying to build research, then implementation and evaluation groups as well.” he said.

There are currently three fellowships here at CNM and Valdes said that each one hopes to better the school for the students in new ways.

“There is also a fellow of distance learning and there are two people working on curriculum. There are several areas to look at; talking about technological inno-vation in particular I know that the fellow-ship of distance learn-ing is really looking on how they can ramp up technical help for stu-dents,” he said.

Students need to be able to voice their opinions of what can be improved at the school and focus groups will be the first of many new ideas that will help the school to become better with the benefit of many perspectives, Valdes said.

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The south valley YDI location can be reached at 873-0905 for specific information.

“We rarely, rarely turn people away,” De Lette said.

YDI serves over sev-enteen thousand children and their families and has over 20 locations in Albuquerque, and even more in Taos and Rio Arriba counties, all of

which offer a head-start program, De Lette said.

The south valley location is the only YDI facility that holds onto spots specifically for CNM students, but there is a transfer program available so kids can move to a location that is closer to home once they are fully enrolled in the program, she said.

“The way head-start works, and this is kind of a bonus, once

you’re in, you’re in for good,” she said.

The south valley YDI location is a head-start program, which means they specialize in helping underprivileged children get an education before entering elementary school, De Lette said.

The kids follow a regular school sched-ule, have a curriculum planned out for them and get the benefits of a traditional daycare,

such as meal programs, and even wipes and dia-pers, at no cost to the parents, she said.

“Everything in our program is free. It’s completely covered,” De Lette said.

In order to be eligible, Students must be below 100 percent of the federal poverty line; however, YDI will accept applicants up to 130 percent, but those parents are put on a waiting list, De Lette said.

Once in the pro-gram, children receive early education focused on preparing them for school, which includes fostering social skills through a special teach-ing approach called “nur-turing hearts,” she said.

“So the relationships, the friendships, the close-ness, how to share, how to follow rules, how to build and develop rela-tionships with people, all of it is developed so we

focus on the whole child,” she said.

De Lette’s YDI loca-tion is open Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. and she encourages students to call if they need help with childcare, she said.

“…Please, please come. Call me. Let me know and we will go over everything you need to bring. Our waitlist is very low right now,” she said.

the guards’ actions fell within policy guide-lines, because the investigation is ongoing, but did say that initial reports from staff indi-cate that the officers’ actions were appropri-ate, he said.

“I’ve had staff, I’ve had faculty members, I’ve had health staff tell us ‘Hey, your officers did what they had to do. She needed to be protected,

and that’s what they were doing,’” Duran said.

The faculty member in question was sitting on the east side of KC receiv-ing care from officers for the injury to her head when the skateboarder rode “about as fast as you can go on a skateboard” towards the scene of her accident, she said.

Officers yelled at the skateboarder to dismount, but he con-tinued skating, she said.

“He just kept coming and the security guard

treating me said ‘get off that board!’ and the kid yells ‘I’m late!’ and just kept going faster and faster,” she said.

The skateboarder did not hit any of the guards or the faculty member as he went by, she said.

Officers ran after the skateboarder, fol-lowing him to the south side of KC, which is where he finally dis-mounted and started speaking to officers, Colbert said.

After repeatedly asking for his skate-board, the security officer took it from the skateboarder’s hands and threw it to the ground, then started pushing the skateboarder’s chest and threw him to the ground, Colbert said.

“Right after they grab him and the initial physical con-tact happens, and they start tussling around, he slams (the skateboarder) down

and starts choking him,” Colbert said. Colbert recorded the incident and sent it to the skateboarder as evidence in case the skateboarder wished to pursue legal action, Colbert said.

The skateboarder declined to comment on the situation or whether he will be pursuing legal action, because he has been advised “not to talk about anything that has happened,” he said on Monday, Sept. 16.

The faculty member has some bumps and scrapes as well as the cut on her head from the fall, but is fine now after receiving atten-tion from officers and a trip to the hospital, she said.

“Security was the bomb in treating me and kind of securing the scene and all of that. So I really gave them props for being responsive in helping me,” she said.

8 | The CNM Chronicle September 17, 2013FEATURE

PHOTO BY ANGEL MERCIER

Angela Cordova working at Creative Education Preparatory Institute.

Nick SternStaff ReporterCareer Education

Coordinator at the Creative Education Preparatory Institute (CEPI) and previous CNM student, Angela Cordova has had many challenges stand in the way of her getting where she wanted but she has managed to persevere regardless of her struggles, and gets to offer help and support to high school students preparing for college, she said.

A big part of Cordova’s work entails connecting as many high school students as possi-ble to CNM and walking them through the steps for registration, financial aid, academic advisement, and everything the high school student needs to know to get started and manage their future educations, she said.

Cordova said she makes it a point to let students know about the support CNM has to offer and really focuses on teaching students that it’s not all about having a high intelligence in every subject, but that it is about the effort and drive to do well, that will help carry students all the way through college.

“I had a student the other day saying ‘I’m not that smart’ and it is not about being smart. The smartest person could fail because they are not trying. It is not about your IQ. It is about being willing to try. You have to want to do it,” she said.

C o r d o v a moved from California to New Mexico where she intended on finish-ing up high school which was going according to plan until her senior year, when the high school she attended discovered entirely too late, that her transcripts we’re

lacking the credits she had earned, she said.

“I went to the student counselors in high school and asked what I had to do the first time I came to class after moving. They were like ‘you are ok, we got you setup.’ I went in again and asked if I’m doing everything I’m sup-posed to do and they said ‘oh yeah, yeah, yeah…’ Then all of a sudden they pull me out of class my senior year and said a whole semester did not transfer and I would have to make up all the credits,” she said.

Cordova decided to drop out of high school with the intent of getting her General Education Diploma (GED) instead, she said.

Cordova said she studied for it, but for some reason or another

such as money issues, the three month waiting period, and other similar issues, young people tend to never get around to getting it done as she also hadn’t, she said.

She was able to get good jobs but would ulti-mately have to leave them because she had lied about having her High School Diploma and was found out, Cordova said.

At 21, Cordova had a child and she still did not have a Diploma or G.E.D., she said.

Soon after having her child she found out about the Welfare to Work (WTW) program, which among other services, could help her get into a community college and pay for her GED, she said.

“I was like, ‘Okay, I’m on board’ and I took the class and soon the

program helped me get to CNM,” Cordova said.

WTW and the career specialist with the pro-gram helped Cordova write her very first résumé, and she was then able to take her Accuplacer exam, which she received col-lege-level scores on, and after the exam, she then received her GED, paid for by WTW, which was what made her able to start taking courses as an official CNM college stu-dent, she said.

Cordova started at CNM in 2001, had her second child in 2005, and received her Associates in 2007, she said.

Cordova still has a fondness for the college and that is one of the reasons she loves her job, she said.

“I like what I get to do now. A big part of

why I like it is I get to interact with CNM and get as many students over there as possible. The dual credit department has been awesome and when-ever I need help they are on call or email. I was just messaging an advisor with a student to walk him through online advise-ment so there is a lot of support and it makes my job easier here at school,” Cordova said.

Cordova’s career decision came from her experiences whether they were good or bad, she said. She would have liked to have somebody to tell her what she can do to make her life easier and now she gets to try and make her student’s lives easier, she said.

She does not know where she would be if she would have

graduated in the normal fashion and she believes the incident actually helped lead her to what she does now, she said.

Now she just wants to help, in any way, to get students to graduate high school and think about college, she said.

Once she graduated with her Bachelor’s from Highlands University, she decided she was going to work for schools and found CEPI which had a really nice setup and every staff member is used to help students in any way they can, which reminded her of CNM, she said.

“Honestly if I could have created a dream job that I wanted to do when I was 17, it would have been this job. Luckily it was already created for me and I found my way into it,” Cordova said.

Where are they now?Former student still helps CNM

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