By Donald Seals
I’m tired of felling sorry for
myself, because it causes me nothing but pain,
and even when the sun is shining
all I feel is the cold chills of the rain.
The emptiness inside me has become
like the darkened skies of the night
because I had given up on myself,
and I couldn’t see any Hope in sight.
I walked around with the pain of
failure living deep inside me,
and even when help came my way
it was almost impossible for me to see.
My life had created its own
pain and sorrow,
and the emptiness inside me hurt
so bad I diddn’t care about my tomorrows.
But those times are now gone, and hope
has come my way,
because I’ve found faith in myself
that helps me to Succeed Day after Day
Category: Vol. 20
Rocky Horror New Mexico
By Guadalupe Santos-Sanchez, Staff Reporter | Photos Courtesy of Facebook.com
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is about two newly engaged college age people, Janet Weiss and Brad Majors who go to a nearby castle to ask for help after their car breaks down, said Rocky Horror New Mexico Director, Tim Coggins.
“They get sucked into a bit of a whirlwind of sexual promiscuity, aliens, and it really tests the two main characters Brad and Janet’s resolve as normal people,” he said.
Janet is an innocent girl, who while staying at the castle experiences weird things, said Melanie Gruber.
“She ends up turning into a slut for many different reasons. She was a virgin when she got there and she ended up sleeping with two people in that castle in one night,” she said.
Rocky Horror is a creation by the transvestite and he is very illiterate, she said.
According to imdb.com, the transvestite is a mad scientist named Dr. Frank-N-Furter, who creates the perfect life form for himself to have as a sexual toy. Other characters in the castle are servants Riff Raff and Magenta, a groupie named Columbia, the ex-delivery boy Eddie, a rival scientist Dr. Everett V. Scott, and an expert and narrator The Criminologist.
The night of each production starts with a pre-show where the rules are introduced and they kind of play around with the audience, said Coggins.
Those who have never seen the show before are called virgins and they are all gathered up right before the show, he said.
“They are basically mocked or made to do some sort of uncomfortable task like eating a cup of cereal out of someone else’s pants or sometimes they are forced to eat bananas since they are sexual innuendo,” he said.
This is called the virgin sacrifice and it is just a way to loosen up the audience and be a little raunchy, he said.
They are a shadow cast, which means they act out the entire movie on a stage while the film plays on a screen behind them, Coggins said.
“We also have a group referred to as the Trannys and they are the party goers, they interact with the audience, they do the call backs that have become classic over the 40 years that Rocky Horror has been a film,” he said.
“We pride ourselves in being extremely screen accurate, we try and make our costumes as close to the film as possible, we do actually sing and recite all the lines, we do all the dancing, we perform a full floor show, and there is multiple costume changes,” he said.
Rocky Horror New Mexico was started in 2010 by Teresa Ewers and Rocky Horror New Mexico producer Dustin Martinez, to bring Rocky Horror back to New Mexico, Coggins said.
It had been ten years since the last performance of the show anywhere in the state, he said.
Their official name is Rocky Horror New Mexico, but they are more commonly known as The Hotdogs, he said.
“It’s a reference to the movie, there’s a line in the movie where the main character Dr. Frank-N-Furter is called a hotdog by supporting cast members as an offensive term and we thought it was kind of funny and fitting,” he said.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is presented once a month, every fourth Saturday of the month, Coggins said.
September’s show will be of Guest Performer theme, he said. It will be at the Aux Dog Theatre on Sept. 27 and will start at 10:00 pm.
Other themes have included Back to School Night and in the Gender Bender themed show that they do every June or July, men play female roles and women play male roles, he said.
“But in October we’ll have multiple shows, two up in Santa Fe and two in town at the Guild Cinema,” he said.
These will be on Oct. 24, 25, and 31 and will include a Nov. 1 show.
Tickets are only $10 except for the Halloween shows, those are $15, Coggins said, and they ask that the audience be of an appropriate age to watch an R rated film.
“We always sell prop bags which allow our audience to interact with the show by utilizing the props like cards, and rubber gloves, we have noise makers for you to use, we have all kinds of different props, those are for $3 – $5,” he said.
As a tradition, everyone at Rocky Horror New Mexico usually walks around Nob Hill on the Friday before the show to advertise, he said.
Their next audition will be the first Tuesday in December, and they usually have auditions to join the cast the Tuesday after the performance, he said, and they do not allow anyone bellow the age of 18 to join the cast.
Locked out: Another inconvenience for the pedestrian
This story was submitted by a CNM student expressing their opinions on the situation with the gates by oosevelt Park, and those of the individual writer and do not necessarily represent the beliefs of The CNM Chronicle or its staff.
If you want to submit a short story, poem, cartoon, or other works, send them to djohnsonchronicle@gmail.com – Subject to editing for space.
If you want to submit a short story, poem, cartoon, or other works, send them to djohnsonchronicle@gmail.com – Subject to editing for space.
By Addrienne Webb, Guest Writer | Photos By Addrienne Webb
Across the board, let’s all agree that Albuquerque is not a walkable city. Finding benches on sidewalks is as uncommon as a vehicle yielding to a pedestrian. Additionally, entry-ways to supermarkets and shops are specifically designed for vehicles, though, this is not the case for Albuquerque. Unlike the state of California and others, New Mexico does not have a law called “The Pedestrian Right-of-Way;” this law states that as soon as a pedestrian steps into a crosswalk, all cars must yield to the person walking. Additionally, this law can also protects those pedestrians crossing roadways without crosswalks.
In contrast to the city of Albuquerque, it can often be expected that junior colleges and universities are designed for people on foot. Unfortunately, CNM is not in this category and anyone who has walked the very dim lit area between the TC trailers and SSC parking lot know exactly what this means. The gate access between Roosevelt Park and Smith Brasher Hall is no longer accessible.
I am invested in this issue because the gate eased my walking commute to and from campus and my apartment. After noticing the gate being locked for a couple of days straight, I rang the Security Office on Main Campus to inquire. After being transferred a couple of times, I was finally able to talk to the person responsible for making the decision to close the gate: William Duran, the Chief of Security at Main Campus. Through our discussion, I was informed that other faculty/students had contacted him about the issue. Furthermore, he informed me that the idea of locking the gate has been a topic of discussion for years now and he took it upon himself to close the gate indefinitely. I inquired about why suddenly the gate is being locked and he stated that it’s due to “regulations.” The specifics of why the gate was being closed was not divulged to me. In suggesting an alternative route, Mr. Duran said I could walk on Hazeldine, the road that is parallel to SB and adjacent to Coal Avenue. Unfortunately, the right side of Hazeldine rd. has no sidewalk and is usually crowded with parked cars.
Would you like to inquire about the gate closure and voice your opinion? Please contact the Chief of Security, William Duran at (505) 224-4639.
Letter to the editor; Mid-Eastern Foreign Policy Flaws
This letter was submitted by a CNM student expressing their opinions on foriegn policy in the Middle East are those of the individual writer and do not necessarily represent the beliefs of the CNM Chronicle or its staff.
Dear Editor:
Dear Editor:
I am sure we all are concerned about the crises that are occurring in the Ukraine and in the Middle East as these seem to be our major flash-points for a future major war unless we can defuse them ASAP.
This letter deals primarily with Israel vs. the Palestinians and, to a lesser extent the rift between secular Arabs and moderate Muslims vs. the religious fanatical brand.
A well-thought out article in the latest PROGRESSIVE magazine (Author un-named; September, 2008) sets forth how the growth of religious fanaticism on all sides: the new ISIS (Iraq and Syria); orthodox hardline Jews in Israeli who have taken over that country’s armed forces and government; hardline Christian Neo-Conservative fundamentalists in the U.S.; etc. increases the danger of the current conflict spilling over into outright world war.
One of the biggest ironies in this story is that Israel, despite its stronger democratic values for Israeli citizens, has had foreign policy relationships since 1948 that contradict its once cosmopolitan progressive Judaic western values. It supported Apartheid South Africa that also came to power in May or June of 1948 despite the fact that several whites in South Africa still had the same pathological hatred against Jews as they did against non-white people. Several white South Africans before and during the Second World War openly supported Hitler despite South Africa’s alliance with the British. Israel also supported the violently anti-Semitic Galitieri regime in Argentina prior to its 1982 overthrow following the Falklands War. Indeed, one of the Argentine dictatorship’s chief victims, a Jewish person named Jacob Timmerman who described his ordeal in PRISONER WITHOUT A NAME; CELL WITHOUT A NUMBER, came down very harshly on Israel’s practice of siding with anti-Semitic and other repressive rulers over the world. The hardliners in Israel falsely accused Timmerman of being anti- Israeli, a charge that Timmerman indignantly denied. In addition, Israel along with some other western powers, helped mass Ugandan murder Idi Amin come to power when they trained him and his army how to kill and torture their enemies more effectively. As long as Amin confined his victims to black leftists, Israel never protested. Not until Amin made the mistake during the 1972 Olympics in Munich of killing several Israeli athletes did Israel and the rest of the West started yelling, “bloody murder,” against Amin.
Israeli soldiers are divided among themselves about whether or not to serve in Gaza instead of only inside Israel’s pre-1967 borders. Several have risked courts-martial and prison for their refusal to serve in Gaza. Also, allegations that Israeli soldiers may have received orders to use Palestinian civilians (including children of both genders) and unarmed POW’s as human shields is very disturbing. Additional allegations that the Israeli military command is killing its own Israeli combat soldiers to prevent them from being taken alive by the Palestinians is also very troubling. Apparently, Israel’s command fears that any Israeli soldier taken prisoner by the Palestinians might make embarrassing political statements that could damage Israel’s international standing.
The West, who depends on Middle Eastern oil, has chosen since the 1940’s to align itself with violently anti-Semitic and anti-western regimes like Saudi Arabia (before 9/11) instead of with progressive more leftist regimes like General Nasser in Egypt (pre-1970) or with Iran’s Mossadegh (pre-1953). The West allowed its over-dependency on oil to cause it to support rulers who, despite their previous alliances with us, despised our democratic way of life in the West. Osama Bin Laden may have developed his anti-western hatred as a result of our supporting anti-democratic elements in Saudi Arabia like the Saud Royal Family. This country also once supported Saddam Hussein prior to his August, 1990, decision to invade Kuwait. Hussein was just as bad before, as he was after August, 1990.
The point is that religious fanatics often pose a greater threat than secular nationalist fanatics in that the religious group is generally more irrational than the secular group.
Those of us who believe in a sensible foreign policy that protects our people WITHOUT entangling us into any reckless warfare (especially one involving ground troops) need to assert ourselves now!
William R. Delzell
Reader-Writer (DRC).
From Knife to Stage; CNM culinary arts student takes on a new role
By Guadalupe Santos-Sanchez, Staff Reporter
Melanie Gruber is a Culinary Arts major at CNM who regularly performs in the Albuquerque production of the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
A few years ago she went to her first Rocky Horror Show and won a costume contest dressed as Janet, Gruber said, then in November 2013 she found out through Facebook that they were holding auditions, so she auditioned and made it.
She had no acting experience before she auditioned for the show, she said.
“The audition was very nerve-wracking we had a scene that we had to read, and then we had to do the same scene while they were yelling the call backs at us, and we had to do a Q&A,” she said.
The cast does not discriminate if you do not have any skill, if you cannot sing they are not going to turn you away because it is a fun show, she said.
If you do not have any acting experience they will try to train you, if not you can be part of the crew or a Tranny, which is mostly singing and dancing, she said.
“They just work with everybody they don’t like to turn people down unless they have a bad personality, if you’re going to cause problems then they won’t let you on the cast,” Gruber said.
She initially auditioned for Janet Weiss, but everyone who makes it automatically becomes a Transylvanian, or a Tranny, before becoming main cast, she said.
“A Tranny is a Transylvanian, they’re like the party guest/ chorus, so if you’ve ever seen the film they’re the people in the tail coats and fun hats that were weird looking,” Gruber said.
She has been in every performance since she started and she has played a Tranny, Janet, and Rocky Horror, she said.
When she is not playing Janet she plays a Tranny, she said.
“I like playing Janet the most, because I like to be on the stage, I like to be the person that everybody likes to look at,” Gruber said.
Having to dance around in a corset, underwear, fishnet, and high heels is very nerve-racking, however, because she is shy, she said.
“The first time it was really bad because my mom’s boyfriend was in the audience and I was like oh gosh… before the show I did a lot of hyperventilating ‘cause I wasn’t sure exactly how I was going to feel about it and when I got out there I just blocked everything out, I was like, I’m doing this by myself nobody else is here, nobody’s watching,” Gruber said.
Her first performance as Rocky was for their Gender Bender show, Gruber said.
“He makes weird noises, so it’s really hard to get comfortable with him, because you don’t say anything really, you just make grunting noises,” she said, “it was difficult at first because you have to grunt the right way, or else you just sound awful.”
“When I was doing the gender bender show and I was playing Rocky for one of the scenes Rocky has to be touching Janet seductively, and the guy who was playing Janet decided to motorboat me into his fake boobs and put me under his slip,” she said.
Usually it is just touching or rubbing the chest area but he took it to a whole new level, she said.
To prepare for the show she watches the movie a lot and practices to ensure that she does not mess up, she said.
Before the show, she does vocal exercises because she has to do a lot of singing, she said.
For the show, the movie is projected onto a screen and the cast are on stage performing the exact same thing that the characters are doing in the film, at the same time, she said.
“We kind of block it out, we block out the movie and we block out the call backs- because the audience is screaming obscenities as part of the show,” she said.
“I put a lot of acting into it, actually for a show I become that character not just somebody in a costume saying lines, I pretend that I actually am that character,” Gruber said.
Her performance is a lot better than when she started, she said, she knows her lines and dance moves more and she does not get as nervous as she used to.
This is just a side thing and she never thought she would do theatre until she saw the Rocky Horror Picture Show, she said.
She first watched the movie when she was 6 years old, her whole family used to sit and watch the movie together all the time, she said.
“I just fell in love with the movie, and I was like I have to do this I can’t not act in this movie, I have to do it… you have to be a pretty big fan to run around in your underwear,” she said.
New sustainability class brightens CNM’s future
By Daniel Johnson, Editor In Chief
The fall semester of 2014 at CNM is utilizing the idea of sustainability by having a new class SUST-1134 Intro to Sustainability which is going to teach students the different ways man kind can progress forward while leaving less of a carbon footprint in the process, said Campus as a Living Lab Liaison Carson Bennett.
The sustainability class is an introduction to concepts used to make an environment more planet, profit, and people friendly which is also called the 3 Ps, he said.
“The idea is to identify a problem and figure out a way to solve it with an environmental, socially equitable, and economical solution, all while making people and the planet happy,” Bennett said.
The renovations to buildings on campus which will allow them to use less energy by providing more windows to allow for more natural lighting is an example of an economical solution, he said.
Natural light is also proven to make people work more efficiently and feel more comfortable while inside the building, which is a socially equitable solution, he said.
For the environmental solution products used are made out of recycled and environmentally safe materials and when all of this is done you have found a sustainable solution to make a building more energy efficient, he said.
“Creative problem solving is something that I really love about this class, you are able to look at the world today and see problems that you can solve with the information you will learn in this class,” Bennett said.
The class will look at examples of how problems have been solved in sustainable ways in the past as well as ways that seemed sustainable but have failed, he said.
The class will allow the students to access the same information and statistics that big businesses like CNM use to make decisions on renovations and building concepts, he said.
“The class will also discuses if it is truly possible to find a solution to problems that can last forever or at least last a really long time,” Bennett said.
Once a 3 Ps concept is reached the class will discusses if the solution can be used in other fields or if it can be utilized globally or just locally, he said.
The class will consist of hands on learning, reading, lecture, field trips, and a lot of group discussions, he said.
“Students who take this class will be at the ground floor for the new direction the school is spending a lot of time and energy to go in,” Bennett said.
The class has a required service project so students will be able to help local businesses find sustainable solutions to problems that they need assistance with, he said.
The class will count as a Liberal Arts and Sciences elective, he said.
“One really cool thing about the class is that it transfers directly to UNM as a sustainability intro class for the sustainability minor degree that can be achieved there,” Bennett said.
The class will be a part of the Campus as a Living Lab because students will study how the projects on campus relate to the 3 Ps concepts, he said.
Campus as a Living Lab is the idea of turning a campus into a learning opportunity for students, he said.
Different classes use renovations and construction projects to educate students in the areas they are studying like math, science, engineering or statistics, he said.
There were four Campus as a Living Lab projects put into place in the fall semester of 2013, he said.
The biggest one of the four was the recycle mania event, which started as a competition but then evolved into a teaching opportunity because faculty would use the event data to teach different types of learning outcomes to students in their classes, he said.
Data was used for behavioral phycology concepts and statistics in a couple of psychology classes, he said.
CNM installed solar panels at four different locations that can be used for educational purposes by classes like chemistry, physics, and a few of the applied technology classes, he said.
“I would love for students to be able to look at the world, the nation, classes or in their own families and say, hey I can use the 3 Ps to solve this problem and solve it for good,” Bennett said.
Transportation Resources
By Rene Thompson, Guest Writer
Sometimes it can be hellish to find one’s way around the city and sometimes it’s even harder to find one’s way around the seven campuses of CNM.
So here is a comprehensive list of, parking pass information, bus routes to and from campuses, as well as how to get a free bus pass from the school.
General Parking Passes
According to cnm.edu.
General parking passes are free and are required to park in the general free lots, so make sure you get one before trying to park your car, or parking enforcement might just ticket your vehicle without an up to date semester sticker.
Also, all vehicles have to be registered through the MyCNM website first, which is on the welcome page under transportation, and once that is done, print it out and head down to the security office.
Security office locations are at:
Main Campus: PS-North Entrance Front Desk,
Montoya Campus: TW-107
Westside Campus: MJG-100B
Students can also get paid parking passes at $43 per semester, but those usually run out fast, so get on that if that is the route you would like to go.
But be warned though that just because it is a paid lot does not mean that there will be a free spaces there (the parking craziness usually subsides after the first couple of weeks…usually).
And most importantly, make sure you know which lots are paid and which are not, because parking enforcement knows, and they will not give you any slack for not knowing which lots are which.
STUDENT BUS PASSES
According to cnm.edu.
All current students and employees can qualify for a free ABQRide bus pass sticker that gives free rides all semester long and can be picked up at these locations.
Main Campus: SSC-111
Montoya Campus: TW-207
South Valley Campus: SV-40
Westside Campus: WSII 104-H
Advanced Technology Center: South Entrance Reception Desk
BUS ROUTES
According to myabqride.com and planyourride.cabq.gov.
ABQ Ride has a great online trip planning page at planyourride.cabq. gov and click on landmarks then higher institutions for a list of CNM campuses, or type in the address. Make sure the bus you need runs during the times you need to go, as many routes end before 5 p.m.
There is also an app for I-related product users, and can be found by searching for ABQ ride app through an I-phone, I-pad, or I-touch product, which has many features to include calculating trip times, fares and
There are bus schedule updates via text message as well, where students can find out the next two busses coming on a route by texting 27433 and providing the bus route number to get a text back within seconds (standard texting rates apply).
From the Main campus to Montoya students would have to take the 50 and the 5 bus routes to get back and forth. To get from Main campus to the Workforce Training Center there are more than five possible routes that can be taken and usually arrives within an hour and a half.
For more information on these services go to myabqride.com or planyourride.cabq.gov.
BIKING ROUTES
If you live in the area it can sometimes be less complicated to ride a bike, but there can be congested zones, so here are a few streets with lighter traffic and some decent bike lanes.
Nob Hill:
Coming from the or nob hill is a hop, skip and a jump really, but Silver Avenue, Garfield Avenue, or the one ways Lead or Coal are probably your best bet to staying away from high traffic areas like Central Avenue. The one ways have bike lanes but Silver and Garfield do not. Silver and the one ways can get a bit congested too sometimes, but at least most drivers abide by the 30 and 20 mile an hour speed limits during the day.
Downtown:
Again, the one ways Lead and Coal are good routes with bike lanes, also Mountain road on the other side of Central Avenue can be better to get to University Boulevard, as well as Avenida Cesar Chavez.
For any ways that you may take, just remember to give yourself more than enough time to get there, and above all else make sure you know where your classes are before you start.
Also try not to stress over the commuter blues, because within a couple weeks you should have it down and know exactly where you need to be and when.
Good luck finding your way Suncats and good luck with classes this semester.
Work-study qualified
By Daniel Johnson, Investigative Reporter
Students can go through the MyCNM website and access the financial aid page to locate the information needed to start the process of a loan, federal or state funded aid, or to qualify for work-study positions within the school, said Lee Carrillo, Senior Director of Financial Aid, Scholarships and Veteran Services.
All students need to fill out the FASFA form to qualify for financial aid, he said, but once the FASFA form is filed electronically it will be submitted and reviewed by the financial aid department.
And once reviewed a student will be informed of what they qualify for, he said.
“Almost anyone who comes into the school can qualify for loans, aid, or some form of work-study,” Carrillo said.
There are currently two different types of financial aid assistance, he said.
The first is need based he said, which allows a student that qualifies the opportunity to collect assistance from state and federal funds, as well as becoming work-study qualified.
The second is no need work-study, which means that a student that may not qualify for assistance but they could still qualify to work on campus as a student work-study, he said.
“Most no need work-studies can still receive loans as well as working for a paycheck,” he said.
Work-study allows students an opportunity to get a job at one of the seven CNM campuses, he said.
A work-study employee can work up to twenty hours a week and earn from $8.50 to $9.50 an hour, he said.
The rate of pay all depends on what the job duties are and what position a student would be in at the current job, he said.
“There are few jobs that pay $9.50 an hour but they do exist,” Carrillo said.
If a student is work-study qualified they will again need to access the MyCNM page to look for work-study jobs, he said.
Some paper work will need to be filled out in the financial aid office at main campus if a student is hired as work-study, he said.
If a student is under the age of 24, then they will need their parents tax information as well as their own, if they are over 24 and had a job in the past they will need their own tax information, he said.
“Most of the filing process can be done on-line but if a student ever has any questions they can feel free to visit us in the financial aid office with any questions they may have,” Carrillo said.
Everybody that comes to CNM has a financial advisor available to them he said and they are always willing to help students that need it as well.
At this point in the year it is essential that a student submits their paperwork as quick as possible to get qualified because as of right now it is late in the season, he said.
“If a student wants to get it going they should start now and come in to get on the right path to succeed,” Carillo, said.
For more information on what is offered to students via financial aid, go to cnm.edu/ depts/financial-aid or make an appointment with a financial aid advisor at 224-3090 .
(Summer) break the monotony
By the Chronicle Editorial Board
Before students get to binge watching on Netflix or catching up on video games and napping, students should take the time to get out in the world and seek something beyond their computer screens this coming break.
There really is so much one can do to subside the boredom that comes with having a couple weeks off, such as getting out into nature, and New Mexico has much of that to offer including the Sandia Mountains that are right in all of our backyards, to Cochiti Lake that is only 50 minutes away.
New Mexico has many breath-taking landscapes and surrealistic camping sites far off the grid to choose from as well, that are all within an afternoon’s drive, so if this is the route you might want to take over the break, newmexico.org has a comprehensive list of great places to choose from on their explore New Mexico page.
There are also an array things to do in the city, and taking the time to pamper oneself can do wonders when coming back for a grueling semester, such getting an inexpensive mani/pedi or massage, or just relaxing with family and friends at a bar-b-que.
Albuquerque is truly diverse when it comes to culture as well, and one could even have an art scavenger hunt with friends, go to the museums in Burque, or go on a brewery and/or winery tour (with designated driver of course), as Albuquerque has a large assortment of home-brewed beers and wines accessible at an array of locations.
For more information on any of these suggestions, check out visitalbuquerque.org/things-to-do.
Either way, find something that you can enjoy doing over the break besides catching up on what the internet or boob-tube has to offer, and seek out what New Mexico has to offer instead, which will help in actually getting something out of having the time off, and will feel like your weeks off were not wasted away with trivial time suckers.
Sometimes it just takes someone saying we need to get out of here and do something in order for it to happen, so get out this break and have an adventure all your own, and gain some great memories with the people you love, so you can come back, hunker down, and be ready to get back to the grind of pursuing your dreams of a better education.
The Chronicle hopes everyone has a great break and relishes the rest of the summer season.
Financial aid, a three-ring circus
By the Chronicle Editorial Board
Getting through the FASFA process and attempting to get Financial Aid can be somewhat of a circus for some students.
What students have to understand is that the Financial Aid Department deals with close to 30,000 students, and many are having the same issues as you are right now.
So if you are having issues with Financial Aid and it is frustrating the hell out of you, seek advice from other students in their experiences and dealings with the financial aid department and see how other students dealt with their issues, because chances are it is not as bad as it seems.
Sometimes it can just be a form missed during filing or information that was overlooked, and can be remedied with a quick appointment with a financial aid advisor.
Also, many students do not actually know that they can qualify for grants and scholarships without applying for student loans, and can even become work-study qualified without getting all that financial aid has to offer.
Right now there are more than 100 student work-study positions offered throughout all the seven CNM campuses, which offer an array of positions, including here at The CNM Chronicle.
Due to the firing freeze we are hiring for more than 10 positions in an assortment of positions, including staff reporter, ad sales, and distribution (Please see our hiring ad on Page 2).
There are many opportunities to thrive here at CNM, and it may take some patience to get through the process, but there are many ways of acquiring funds here and the school knows we need those extra funds and will help students in getting them, you just have to know who will actually help.
So, to the people wondering if you qualify for financial aid or work-study, make an appointment with a Financial Aid Adviser at 224-3090.