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Thursday, April 10, 2014

WEEKEND GUIDE

Volume 115 | Issue 37 | April 10, 2014

AdministrationExecutive Director

Alexandra Von Wol�

Director of FinanceMichelle Tejeda

Administrative AssistantsTatiana Miyazaki

William Peck

EditorialManaging Editor

Jesca Cervantes

News EditorBethany Blundell

Sports EditorLewis Harry

Culture EditorShaless Robinson

Sta� Writers

DesignDesign Specialists

Ana AyonFernanda Teixeira

Graphic DesignersHeather Miller

Web EditorNate Turner

PhotographersKyle Chancellor

Jenny Marin

SalesAdvertising Manager

Ashley DeMott

Director of MarketingZak Baeza

Submission PolicyThe Round Up welcomes submis-sions for publication. Submissions can be dropped o� , faxed or emailed. Submissions become property of The Round Up and will not be returned. The Round Up reserves the right to edit articles and cannot guarantee publication.

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About UsThe Round Up is published during the academic year by the students for the university community. Cor-rections of the print edition will be made of www. nmsuroundup.com. Editorial content of the newspaper is independent of advertising content. Opinions expressed in The Round Up are not necessarily those of the sta� , New Mexico State University or the Associated Students of NMSU.

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Las Cruces Area FilmmakersWest End Art Depot hosts an all age free event where local � lmmakers will screen their short videos. Bour-bon Legend will perform.When: 7:30-10:30 p.m.Where: WEAD, 401 N. Mesilla Street

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The MisanthropeNMSU Center for the Arts will host a performance of “The Misanthrope.” The play tells the story of Alceste who declares he will only tell the truth no matter the consequences. Student admission is $10 and regular admission is $17.When: 7:30 p.m.Where: NMSU Center for the Arts

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It is safe to say that a large percentage of the New Mexican population drinks or uses some type of dairy products in their everyday lives. According to New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty, “New Mexico’s 150 dairies have the largest average herd size in the country, with a total of 329,000 milk cows in the state and an average of 2,200 cows per dairy” (2012). Over the past five years, the New Mexico agricultural industry has received over $80 million per year, and in 2011 New Mexican agriculture had cash receipts of $4.1 billion. With such a large industry that requires ex-treme labor, it is not a job that many people would want to have. However, for that individual who’s soul passion is to provide for their family and has no other options, this is their job.

The individuals that we are talking about are U.S. migrants who come to the southern part of the United States to find work. These workers are faced with obstacles such as a lack of educa-tion, language barriers, and the inabil-ity to afford health insurance. With the

agricultural industry being primary mi-grant workers, agricultural employers and farm owners are not required by law to provide workers compensation to their employees or pay them the state’s minimum wage and/or overtime wages. These workers have long and heavy la-bor hours and days and are subjected to many injuries and health risks such as respiratory illnesses, injuries while working with machinery, exhaustion, and dehydration. The question here is why? Why is this acceptable to have an industry where the workers have to worry every single day if anything will happen to them, or worry about what will happen if they become ill or injured and can no longer provide for their families?

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Thursday, April 10, 2014

NEWS

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by S. O. NicliSta� Writer

The New Mexico Park and Ride bus, which many commuter students rely on, has pushed its morning schedule to an earlier time.

The change, which is for the morning schedule of the Gold Route of the NM De-partment Of Transportation Park and Ride, has pushed the time of departure from 7:15 a.m. to 6:51 a.m. With the changed sched-ule, the bus will depart from the West Side station from El Paso terminal nearly 25 min-utes earlier than it does now.

According to a press release by NM DOT, “The proposed changes will allow NMSU employees and students, who commute on the Gold Route, to arrive at work before 8 a.m. It will also allow passengers to arrive at NMSU at 7:37 a.m., 23 minutes earlier than they currently do.”

This means students who take the 7:15 a.m. bus at the West Side El Paso station would have to arrive before 6:51 a.m. in-stead.

“The schedule change pisses me off,” said Danny Zacher, senior and commuter stu-dent. “I actually sent a few emails when they first put the notice up on their website. I told them that it didn’t make sense for them to

change the schedule halfway through the se-mester. If people have been making it work for them, then why are you changing it now? I sent about three emails total and I never got a response.”

Zacher also said the old schedule worked perfectly well.

“You had options to make it work and now everyone has to jump on half an hour earlier just to accommodate whom really?” Zacher said. “It came out of nowhere and it’s unnecessary.”

Some students are concerned with how the change will affect their sleep schedule.

“If the schedule does change then I’ll be forced to take it because my car is all busted up, but I’d like to sleep more, not less,” said Mario Galvan, criminal justice major and commuter student.

Galvan said since many students have homework, they tend to go to sleep at around midnight, which gives them nearly five or six hours of sleep before they have to get to the bus station.

“If the schedule changes, students aren’t going to have that much time to sleep and they’re going to come here sleepy and tired,” Galvan said. “They’ll probably stop taking the bus because if the bus leaves early and the students want to get that hour of sleep, they’re just going to decide just to come over

Morning schedule for commuter bus changes

The New Mexico Park and Ride recently changes the morning departure time from 7:15 a.m. to 6:51 a.m. for commuters who travel from El Paso to New Mexico State University. photo by S.O. Nicli

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Tuesday, April 7, 2014

FEATURE

by Anthony AlbidrezSta� Writer

New Mexico State University Board of Regents approved a new tuition policy that would reportedly benefit students and their wallets with dis-counted credit hours.

According to the current tuition policy, stu-dents are charged a flat rate of $3,110.40 for 12 to 18 credit hours per semester plus tuition and fees. This price will change during the 2014-2015 school year.

“This will affect student in the sense that it’s going to attempt to create a culture of 15 credit hours is the norm rather than 12,” said David Maestas, ASNMSU president. “They want to encourage students to get in and out in four years and save them money in the process.”

Regents proposed and approved a new tuition policy. For students taking 12 credit hours, tuition will cost $2,974.80, a 4.4 percent decrease, but these students will pay more over-all because it will take these students longer to graduate.

“This decrease in cost will provide tuition

relief for students who take 12 or fewer cred-its per semester, a group that includes almost all graduate students and some of our most financially challenged students, such as many students with families and children,” said Dan Howard, NMSU executive vice president and provost.

Students taking 13 credit hours will be charged $3,222.70 per semester a 3.6 percent increase. Students taking 14 credit hours will be charged $3,470.60 per semester an 11.6 per-cent increase.

A student taking 15 to 21 credit hours will get a tuition price of $3,286.50 per semester a 5.7 percent increase, and students who take 21 credit hours will get a 15.5 percent decrease in tuition.

The new linear model provides cheaper tuition per credit hour and in the overall cost during a student’s time at college when students take 15 or more credit hours.

“We are against tuition increases, but we also understand economic circumstances and we understand the decline in enrollment and how that affects tuition,” Maestas said. “Admin-istration does not want to compromise on the

quality of our education and the NMSU experi-ence, so they need to increase tuition in order to keep everything the same and the more en-rollment declines the more we are going to see tuition increases.”

Without the linear model, tuition increased from about $3,110 to $3,286.

Maestas said this linearization model is phase one of implementing a plan to provide students a flat rate for four years of tuition, and both phases are to encourage students to get in and out of college in four years.

For students who receive the Lottery Schol-arship, they will be required to take 15 to 18 credit hours in order to receive the scholarship, Maestas said. The new tuition policy would in-crease NMSU residence halls and apartments by 3.5 percent, but Greek affiliated and family housing rates will remain the same. Meal plan rates for Aggie Unlimited, Aggie Choice 230, Aggie 64 and Aggie 400 will increase 3 percent. Family Resident Optimum meal plan rates will not change.

Campus parking will increase $1-$3, depend-ing on which parking permit is purchased.

Tuition discount?NMSU approves new policy

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going to attempt to create a culture of 15 credit

arship, they will be required to take 15 to 18 credit hours in order to receive the scholarship, Maestas said. The new tuition policy would in-crease NMSU residence halls and apartments

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“This decrease in cost will provide tuition relief for stu-dents who take 12 or fewer credits per semester.”- Dan Howard- Dan Howard

provide tuition relief for stu-dents who take 12 or fewer

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Thursday, April 10, 2014

SPORTS

by Skyler WilsonStaff Writer

Major League Baseball is notorious for how slow they let change come into their league. Lately the league has been more open to change as they have made many rule adjustments like the new instant replay rule.

Some people think that all of these new changes to baseball are killing the purity of the game, but it actually is far from that idea. This replay rule is going to make the game so much fairer, and teams will win because the umpires get to see if the play is actually correct.

In the past years, there have been many plays in the game of baseball that

have been questionable. An example of this is when Tigers’ pitcher Armando Galarraga was near perfec-tion in a game and the umpire called the last run-ner headed to first safe. The umpire made snap decision and as the broadcasters ran the replay it was clear that the runner was out by a couple of steps.

This is why implement-ing the replay rule is at the upmost importance for the MLB. Although it is not in the original baseball’s foun-dation, replays can ensure that a team won the right way and as fair as possible.

Another rumor is the players, managers and um-pires of the game are upset by this rule. This could not be more wrong because this

rule will positively affect the chemistry of the game. Even though it could be fun to watch a manager and um-pire tussle and argue about a play, having this replay system will eliminate that.

So far in the season, some managers have used the instant replay for some games. In about 50 percent of those games, the decision changed the outcome of the game.

All in all, the only thing this replay system is changing in baseball is the fact that less fights will occur due to miscalled plays by the umpires. This adjustment of replays will positively impact baseball as it evolves in the future.

Aggie softball looks to improve By Jarrett TranthamStaff Writer

The New Mexico State Aggie softball team

has had a successful season so far this year with a current overall record of 22-16 and 4-1 in Western Athletic Conference play.

The team looks to improve their record this weekend, as they are set to play a three game series at home against the Bakersfield Runners.

Bakersfield has not found as much suc-cess as the Aggies have this season and their overall record currently sits at 10-30-1 and 1-5 in the WAC.

Offensively, the Aggies play tough and are fortunate to have some powerhouse hitters in the lineup. It will be important in this up-coming series for the Aggies to gain the up-per hand early.

Junior Staci Rodriguez is currently the most powerful slugger in the Aggie lineup followed by sophomore Fiana Fianu.

Rodriguez and Fianu have collected more than 40 hits each and both have 12 homeruns and 34 RBIs on the season. Rodriguez cur-rently has the highest slugging percentage at .843 followed by Fianu at .752.

So far this season the Aggies have earned

a total of 213 runs and 303 hits.Bakersfield has shown less success of-

fensively with a team total of 125 runs and 261 hits. Karissa Veiga tops the lineup for Bakersfield with 50 hits and 27 runs off of 141 at bats.

The NMSU pitching staff will play a very important role in this upcoming series. The Aggies’ defense must prevent Bakersfield from scoring runs to ensure they maintain the upper hand.

The Aggie pitching staff as a whole has pitched 239 innings this season and has a total earned run average of 3.90.

Sophomore Karysta Donisthorpe has pitched the most innings, totaling 83.1, and has a current ERA of 4.03. She has also struck out a total of 74 batters. Senior Celi-sha Walker has a current ERA of 3.64 and a total of 47 strikeouts.

The Bakersfield pitching staff has pitched 273 innings and has an ERA of 4.41.

If the Aggies sweep this series, they will improve their record in the WAC to 7-1.

The first game will start at 6 p.m. Friday and is Military Appreciation Night. Saturday will feature a double-header starting a 4 p.m. as the Aggies will celebrate Senior Night.

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