Volume 115 | Issue 42 | Tuesday, April 29, 2014

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Volume 115 | Issue 42 | April 29, 2014

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NMSU DanceSport Spring Fling Dance Lesson and PartyNMSU DanceSport hosts all level west coast swing dance lesson at 7 p.m. Dance party follows at 8 p.m. Admission is $5 and proceeds are used to assist NMSU DanceSport in representing NMSU at dance competitions.

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Take Back the NightHosted by Wellness and Alcohol and Violence Education to remember those who have been victims of sexual as-sault and violence. An acting performance, a variety of speakers and dancers will perform in the auditorium. Prior to the event, a remembrance march will go from the grassy area in front of Corbett in the direction of Gerald Thomas and ending at the Corbett Auditorium.

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The Great Conversation on CampusThe Great Conversation on campus holds bi-weekly meetings in which students may join in dialogue about community and social issues.When: 6 to 8 p.m.Where: Corbett Center

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Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Study shows more students in favor of marijuana legalization for recreational useS. O. NicliStaff Writer

The Law and Society Club, which was established last semes-ter, is a venue for pre-law students to acquire volunteer experience and network with other pre-law stu-dents.

Although the club is new, the members have already started to create change within the student body of New Mexico State Uni-versity and hopefully in the state of New Mexico. The club held a tabling event April 17 where they asked students about their thoughts on the legalization of marijuana for recreational use in the state.

“We’re all interested in public policy because we all want to affect society in some ways,” said Rene Rodriguez, founder of the club. “So we brainstormed some hot top-ics that we think we can actually do something about. The main one that we all agreed on was the mari-juana issue.”

The reason for this was mostly because of Washington and Colo-

rado’s newfound stance on mari-juana use. The club formulated a survey about marijuana asking for opinions on the subject of recre-ational legalization of the drug.

“A little less than half of those surveyed wanted it to be used com-pletely recreationally,” Rodriguez said. “A quarter wanted the penal-ties to be lessened and a little more than a quarter wanted more strin-gent penalties. It was somewhat split but there were more individu-als in favor.”

The club plans on taking the information to Santa Fe whenever the Bill goes up again to get passed through the House since there are openings where the public can speak their opinion. “We want to go up there and represent NMSU,” Rodriguez said.

The club is open for all students who are interested in volunteer work or law and society in general. Individuals of all majors and back-grounds are welcome to join the club.

“The tabling was the first large event we’ve had as a club,” said

Eric Steager, a club member and philosophy major. “We had 226 surveys turned in, which was a lot considering we did almost no promoting for the event. I’m very pleased with the turnout.”

The club will potentially do this again, but in a bigger, more gran-diose scale next time the bill goes up. The reason the club chose the issue of legalization is because it is one of the most tangible issues at hand.

“This is one of the hottest topics going around right now, especially with the youth on university c a m p u s e s , ” Steager said. “It’s one of the things that we feel we can control. There are plenty of other issues that we could

talk about but as far as popular is-sues that we can influence, this one is number one.”

The Law and Society club aims to be a club that creates actual, tan-gible change.

“We get our hands dirty,” Ro-driguez said. “We see issues that we feel we can help out with and get involved, whatever those issues may be. We’re trying to prove that

you can get things done with as few resources as possible, without a law degree, without a master’s degree just the will and desire as an Ameri-can citizen to implement change.”

The club meets at 4 p.m. Thurs-days in Cobrett Center. Those interested can contact Rene Ro-driquez at zrod22@nmsu.edu.

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For many students, the idea of transferring from one university to another can be both exciting and frightening. While the promise of new opportunities awaiting them is good incentive, there’s always that looming threat that there are some obstacles that are too dif-ficult to overcome.

The New Mexico State University pro-cess is no less intimidating. There are many things a student has to complete before they can transfer in or out of NMSU. The largest problem by far is the transferring of credits.

Jinhui Hu, a transfer student from main-land China, experienced significant difficulty during his transfer to NMSU.

“For me it was very hard to transfer credits from China,” Hu said. “I spent almost two years to get this done and transferred about 80 percent of them. It is annoying because without those credits I always had a hard time choosing what courses I’m going to take ev-ery semester.”

Although Hu said he now has everything in order, his difficulty implies that the transfer-ring process is not as efficient as it should be especially for students coming from countries

abroad.According to the NMSU registrar’s web-

site, while many core courses transfer to NMSU without issue, degree-specific courses can differ. This means a student who was on the right track for their anticipated graduation date may suddenly find that their courses do not match up with the credit requirement for their degree at NMSU.

There is also a fee for copies of transcripts, paper is $12.25 and an eStatement is $10. While these fees don’t seem like much at first, it is not unusual for transfer students to be looking at multiple schools that each re-quire an official copy.

Transferring from another country wouldn’t be considered easy within any uni-versity, and it’s apparent that some processes are easier than others.

“It was pretty easy to get everything in or-der for me,” said Emily Ramirez, who trans-ferred from NMSU to Doña Ana Commu-nity College. Considering how closely DACC and NMSU are connected already it is not surprising that the transfer process is much smoother.

Despite the sharp contrast between trans-fer processes from certain schools, it’s still a good idea for students to do their research.

Transfer students struggle with credits

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

FEATURE

by S. O. NicliStaff Writer

Beginning in the spring semester of 2015, the main campus of New Mex-ico State University will potentially ban the use of all tobacco products on campus.

The “Striving to Be Tobacco-Free” initiative, which was started by the Department of Public Health Sciences of NMSU, could bring change to the tobacco usage on campus on Jan. 1, 2015. Susan Wilson, Ph.D., associate professor, is the strongest force behind the initiative.

“It’s the right thing to do,” Wilson said. “For the employees, the students and everyone that comes to our campus. It doesn’t look good for us to say ‘oh, we support’ and by not doing anything, we’re tacitly supporting the use of tobacco. It doesn’t look good. It’s not the right impression to give children who might come to campus or who might have families on campus to be able to see this.”

Wilson said people who habitually refuse to follow the policy could be reported to their dean or their boss, it would be a violation of the rules. Whether any kind of penalty for smoking tobacco products on campus will exist is still unknown at this time.

The College of Health and Social Services re-ceived grant money from the Paso Del Norte Pub-lic Health Foundation, which HSS then used to begin this initiative. This initiative is for all types of tobacco products, including chewing tobacco and electronic cigarettes.

“Tobacco-free campuses are going to happen,” Wilson said. “The question is ‘Do you want to be a leader or a follower?’ There are over 800 cam-puses now that are totally tobacco free and close to 1,200 that are smoke free.”

One of those 800 tobacco-free schools is the University of Texas at El Paso, which became to-bacco-free earlier this year. According to UTEP, initial work to make the university tobacco-free began in 2012 with a request from Theodore Coo-per, Ph.D., associate professor in the Psychology Department, to the president’s office on the need to implement a tobacco-free policy.

The tobacco-free campus policy was placed in the UTEP Handbook of Policies and Procedures on Aug. 5, 2013. The Office of the President of-ficially announced it Feb. 20, 2014.

In 2013, UTEP conducted a survey to under-stand the faculty and student’s views on a tobacco ban. The same survey indicated that at UTEP, the majority of faculty, staff and students supported a tobacco/smoke-free campus policy.

“Smoking, even by individuals spread through-out campus, poses a health threat to non-smok-ers,” Cooper said. “To create a healthier environ-ment and to provide for a campus climate that revolved around respect for our environment and others, it was decided that a tobacco-free campus policy would be beneficial.”

Similarly, the Department of Public Health Sci-ences of NMSU conducted a survey to gauge the response to making NMSU tobacco free. Accord-ing to the survey, 70.4 percent of the students, fac-ulty and staff agree colleges and universities have a responsibility to lessen the risk of tobacco addic-tion by adopting policies that discourage tobacco use.

Of the students surveyed, 48 percent agree wuniversities should prohibit all tobacco use on campus while 45 percent disagree with that no-tion. The results from the survey seem split down the middle, all NMSU can do now is wait and see what policies will be implemented in the tobacco-

No SmokingNMSU strives to become a tobacco-free campus

Colleges and universities have a responsibility to lessen the risk of

tobacco addiction by adopting policies that discourage tobacco use.

Colleges and universities have a responsibility to adopt

policies that ensure people have smoke-free air to breathe.

70.4% strongly agree or agree

26.0% strongly disagree or disagree

3.6% don’t know

88.7% strongly agree or agree

9.6% strongly disagree or disagree

1.7% don’t know

Striving to be Tobacco FreeSummary by Susan L. Wilson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences

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“I disagree.If people want to smoke, let them smoke.”

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“It’d be hard to police. It’s pointless to do anything about it.”

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“NMSU is not a dry campus. It wouldn’t make sense to make the school tobacco free. You can drink, why can’t you smoke?”

Colleges and universities should prohibit all tobacco use

on campus.

50% strongly agree or agree

43% strongly disagree or disagree

3.6% don’t know

Striving to be Tobacco FreeSummary by Susan L. Wilson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences

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by Anthony AlbidrezStaff Writer

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needs to be sacrificed for the relationship, and it is hard but necessary.

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We catch ourselves find-ing anything negative we can about this particular person.

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We can let it happen or we can go looking for it our-selves.

But when it doesn’t work, there is always that moment when we know it is not going to work.

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Maybe he’s right.

OPINION/CULTURE

Tuesday, April 29, 2014 #Fashionista

by Maria HarrisStaff Writer

The amount of time and hard work that went into the play “Mis-anthrope” was clear for everyone to see this weekend.

The brightly colored costumes and elaborate wigs contrasted strongly with the simple set, which seemed to emphasize the intricate detail of both the costumes and the set.

“Misanthrope” is a comedy writ-ten in verse by French playwright and actor Moliere. The play de-picts a group of French aristocrats in the 17th century.

Joshua Horton, a sophomore

majoring in theatre arts, acted as the main character, Alceste who is disgusted with society and con-stantly makes a point of telling his peers how fickle, hypocritical and insincere their lifestyle is.

However, Alceste is in love with a woman named Celimene, who embodies the frivolous lifestyle that he despises. Celimene, played by senior Ellen Striepeke, refuses to give up her other suitors despite the fact that she assures Alceste she is in love with only him.

Throughout the play, Alceste tries in vain to make Celimene and her friends see that their hypo-critical conversations and insincere

friendships are empty and worth-less.

Although the play is set in 17th century France, there are conversa-tions between the characters that resonate with our modern society.

Alceste and his friend Phil-inte have multiple conversations throughout the play about the gen-eral hypocrisy that is rampant in their culture. Alceste, emotional and extreme is a clear contrast to Philinte who is calm and rational.

Alceste is severely critical of Ce-limene and her friend’s noisy and flamboyant meetings followed by the disparaging gossip, which is eas-ily recognizable in modern society.

“Misanthrope” shows two ex-tremes of society. There are Ce-limene and her friends who base their social life off of flattery and gossip, and there is Alceste who is brutally honest and offensive to ev-eryone around him.

In the end the character that seems to stand out the most is Philinte. Although he occasionally flatters his peers, he is honest when he feels it is appropriate and neces-sary.

The actors did an excellent job of taking a play about a 17th cen-tury society and making it both en-tertaining and thought provoking.

‘Misanthrope’ provokes thought, enjoyable for audience

by Kyla HollisterStaff Writer

Girls at New Mexico State University don’t have problems expressing themselves with their personal style.

Every girl has a touch to her style that makes it her own. Girls who dress for themselves and their moods portray strong, inde-pendent women who we strive to become during our college years.

This lovely lady was the Femme Fatal of Crossroads, in her laid back and lady-like attire.

Student: Lola ChavezYear: Senior

Major: Journalism and Mass Communications

Q: What are you wearing to-day?

A: High-waisted floral print shorts, black camisole, black fe-dora, fringe purse and black em-bellished flip-flops.

Q: Where do you find fash-ion inspiration?

A: I would say mostly Pinterest. I get a lot of ideas from there. I also watch E! Hollywood News a lot, so I get a lot of ideas from there as well.

Q: How would you describe your personal style?

A: I think it ranges. Sometimes I dress a little hipster, and some-times I dress a little punk rock. I think it just depends on how I feel when I wake up in the morning.

Q: Are there any new trends your wanting to try this sum-mer?

A: I’m really into high waisted pants. I just bought a few of those. I like harem pants a lot as well. They’re really comfortable!

Q: Where are your favorite places to shop?

A: I love Pacsun, Rue 21 and Forever 21.

Q: If you had to wear one brand or designer for the rest of your life, who would you wear and why?

A: I really don’t do designers or brands either. I just choose what-ever I think is cute.

Q: If you could trade closets with anyone, who would it be and why?

A: I think Aria from Pretty Lit-tle Liars (Lucy Hale). She’s got a unique style and I love everything she wears on the show.

To achieve your own personal touch to your wardrobe, first ask yourself what your mood is and how you want to come off to oth-er people. Yellow is a very friend-ly and approachable color while darker colors like black and ma-roon are more unapproachable. More embellishments or skin baring pieces are for the outgoing and shameless, attention-seeking woman.

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