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'Partners' Trains Student Workers to Be More Customer-Friendly
by Colleen Wright
Communication Services

Eastern New Mexico University is implementing "Partners," a new training program for student workers to make them more well-rounded and customer friendly.

Partners is a two-part training session mandatory for ENMU student employees. The first session is a two-hour video pertaining to the workplace; the other is a workshop about each student’s specific work area. [more]

ENMU Receives Grant for Students With Disabilities
by Shane Brown
Communication Services

Eastern New Mexico University has been awarded $204,854 in a federal grant to help fund the Eastern Academic and Curriculum Excellence program for students with disabilities.

"This is very good news, it's a much needed grant to assist faculty and staff in working with students with disabilities," said Bernita Nutt, coordinator of ENMU's Services for Students with Disabilities Office. [more]

ENMU Presenting Bilingual Play
by Colleen Wright
Communication Services

Eastern New Mexico University is hosting A falta de pan galleta (In the Absence of Bread, Cracker), a bilingual play at 1 and 8 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 27.

Hispanic Affairs is sponsoring the play for The New Mexico Coalition against Domestic Violence. It is being put on in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs from Sept. 15-Oct. 15. It is about family violence, not only the terror, but the confusion, the misguided affection, and even laughter and love. [more]

Greyhounds Have All Three Conference Players-of-the-Week
by Robert McKinney
Sports Information Director

The Eastern New Mexico University Greyhound football team had the offensive, defensive and special teams players-of-the-week for the Lone Star Conference following their 70-28 gridiron victory over the Cowboys of New Mexico Highlands University.

Read all about this amazing accomplishment, as well as updates on your other favorite ENMU teams, at the informative athletic Web site at this link. [more]

ENMU-Roswell Joins Forces to Lighten Backpack Load
(burdened-down student can be seen on continuation page)
The community of Roswell has joined forces with the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) to weigh in on the issue of school backpacks and health.

On Sept. 25, ENMU-Roswell is holding a school backpack “weigh-in” to encourage students to “Lighten Up.” This local effort is part of National School Backpack Awareness Day events held around the country to educate children, parents, teachers, and communities about the serious health effects on children from backpacks that are too heavy or worn improperly. Occupational therapy practitioners advise a backpack strategy of “Pack it Light, Wear it Right.” [more]

ENMU Presenting Southwest Saxophone Quartet
by Colleen Wright
Communication Services

Eastern New Mexico University is presenting The Southwest Saxophone Quartet on Tuesday, Sept. 24, at 7 p.m. in Buchanan Hall in the Music Building. [more]

Candid Camera

"It's a Bird, It's a Plane...no, it is a bird. (Maybe we should go back to work now?)" (photo by Wendel Sloan)

No Siesta During Fiesta – (left) A mariachi band made up of mostly high school students from Roswell performed during the Sept. 16 celebration of Mexican Independence Day at the Dallan Sanders Memorial Plaza. The event was sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs. No Resta for Feet-esta – (right) These dancers just couldn't resist the mariachi beat. (photos by Richard Salas)

Food Fiesta Before Siesta – ENMU employees enjoyed bountiful food at the President's Picnic in President Gamble's backyard on Saturday night, Sept. 14. The affair was made even sweeter when word got out that the Greyhounds had defeated New Mexico Highlands University, 70-28, in Las Vegas that evening. No doubt, many employees were ready for a siesta after the fiesta of food. (photo by Richard Salas)

Jack Williamson's latest short story, "The Man from Somewhere" (working title was "The Baby Black Hole"), has been accepted by Gardner Dozois for ASIMOV's (a sale to probably the best science fiction editor of the best science fiction magazine).

Dr. Paul Lockman Jr., professor of sociology and criminal justice, has had an essay titled "The Berdache as Medicine Person or Shaman" published in The Chesopiean, Vol.40, No. 1, (Spring, 2002). An earlier draft of this paper was presented at the Western Social Science Association Conference at Reno, Nev., in 2001.

Dr. Manuel Varela, assistant professor of biology, has published a book by John Wiley and Sons, Inc. The book is co-authored by Barry Chess and Carolyn Dabirsiaghi, and is titled "Test Bank to Accompany Microbiology: Principles and Explorations."