As I waited in the lobby of the Gospel Rescue Mission, I noticed a woman with long white hair leaning up against a doorway looking outside with a smile. I met Virginia, 61, who is the women’s supervisor at the Mission. Like many other women I interviewed, Virginia wanted to protect her last name.
As I walked over to Virginia, I saw that she was watching a woman walk to the bus stop right outside the mission. She told me that Patricia, 49, of Cincinnati, got a job and was on her way to work.
“I’m so proud of her,” Virginia said. “She is going to do really well for herself.”
New Mexico State University Creative Media Institute student Jared Ortega, in his own words, sits back and watches the monster that he created: "Grief Mop." (Photo by Victora G. Molinar)
story by Victoria Guadalupe Molinar
Growing up in El Paso with a father who worked in broadcasting, New Mexico State University student Jared Ortega was bitten by the filmmaking bug.
An introvert in high school, Ortega said that film enabled him to express who he was. During his high school years, he worked with other students with the same interests and fed his aspirations with various film projects.
Members of the Delta Zeta sorority work on addressing letters to their friends and families in hops of benefiting St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. (Photo by Carolyn Wright)
About 5,400 patients visit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital on a yearly basis. New Mexico State University students are doing their part to help raise money for the hospital.
NMSU recently adopted the Up ‘til Dawn program, a letter-writing campaign to raise money for St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. More than 600 students on campus wrote letters to friends and family asking for donations to St. Jude.
Ashley Richards practices "Feeling Good" for the Desert Dolls performance. (Photo by Heather Lang)
Story by Heather Lang
In hopes of promoting body image and acceptance, a New Mexico State University student has founded the first and only burlesque dance group in Las Cruces.
Camille Shields, a women’s studies major who will graduate in May, said she decided to start the Desert Dolls after a life time of performing and feeling she didn’t fit in.
“For years I wanted to be a dancer and perform,” Shields said. “In high school I was in theater, but even then I my size held me back. I didn’t get lead roles or love interests.”
One Zumba class can burn anywhere from 500 to 1,000 calories in a way that is fun and much more satisfying than your average stair-stepper. (Photo by Jenn Grider)
“Zumba is such a great, energizing workout without actually feeling like work,” Donna Ferguson, age 52, said. “I knew it was the perfect workout for me when, after just one month of classes, I could fit into my 20-year-old daughter’s jeans.”
Well, the fact that my mother could fit into my jeans was just the kick-in-the-butt I needed to try Zumba for myself, and I can honestly say it is one of the best workouts I have had, while also being extremely entertaining.
AdFed students review the 2010 campaign with their supervisor, professor Hwiman Chung. (Photo by Chelsey Drummond)
The students in New Mexico State University’s Advertising Federation know all about hard work.
The program was originally designed to introduce advertising students to the world of sales and promotion, but has accomplished so much more than that.
Led by journalism professor Hwiman Chung each year, the group is given quite a hefty task of researching and designing a fully integrated marketing plan for a client.
What do high levels of dissolved solids in your drinking water mean to you? (Photo by Erica Tinsley)
Story by Erica Tinsley
Recently, a friend of mine purchased a new brand water purifier. This water purification kit came with a small handheld tester called a TDS Meter. This meter tests all the total dissolved solids in a certain amount of water.
When using this device you will read the numbers in parts per million, ppm, which Bill Boyle, lab director at the Soil, Water and Agricultural testing Lab at New Mexico State University, said is just one of the basic units for water testing.
The spring rodeo hosted a full house of community members and visitors. (Photo by Simone Del Rosario)
The New Mexico State University Rodeo Team finishes the year first in the Grand Canyon Region after a second place finish at the Las Cruces spring rodeo.
Both the men and women’s team ended up on top in the region. The men’s team is currently sitting 14th in the nation, and the women’s team is fifth. Read more »
