CAS projects, North American Day, Theatre, Soccer, Global Issues...
Lots of photo albums with pictures taken by PR intern Gareth Smit '09 have been uploaded to our Facebook page! Check it out!
Orientation @ Ghost Ranch
For four days, the school packed up and moved to tremendously scenic Ghost Ranch, where teachers and students attended workshops, went on expeditions, relaxed, and became friends. Photos taken by Gareth Smit'09 are in an album on UWC-USA's Facebook page.
Welcome Back Student Fiesta
On Friday, August 22, the local community held a fiesta for all area students with free barbecue, music, and information booths from local agencies and businesses. Photos taken by Margaret McKinney from New Mexico Highlands University's University Relations Department are in an album on UWC-USA's Facebook page.
Grad 2008
On May 24, we celebrated the Class of 2008, with special speakers Jenny Thapa of Nepal and Eboo Patel from the Interfaith Youth Core. Pictures of the event can be found in an album on UWC-USA's Facebook page.
Earth Day
Swap Out
On
April 22, College maintenance staff swapped out hundreds of incandescent
bulbs throughout the Castle and changed them to low-watt, high-lumen
CFLs. Having installed an energy meter in the building some weeks
prior, the College will now be able to measure the amount of energy
saved by this simple move.
The bulb replacement was made possible by the BTU Do It Center
of Las Vegas and PNM through their discounting and donation of CFL
bulbs to United World College-USA.
The Iraq Project
Claudia Nagel '09 (Germany) and Lukasz W. Niparko '09 (Poland),
members of the IPG (Iraq Project Group), describe the Iraq Project:
In the fall 2007 semester, one of the Group 2 English assignments
was to prepare a presentation about a chosen global issue. Zahraa
Mohsin Al-Janabi (Zizo) from Iraq made her presentation about
Iraq.
Because of this presentation, many people discovered that our
knowledge about Iraq was dominated by the politicized information
we got from the media. We decided to create a special project
for our College to raise the awareness about the human side of
this terrible conflict.
With endorsement from President Lisa Darling, we dedicated February
as a month for Iraq. One of the actions was to prepare a magazine
to present the testimony of our Iraqi friends Zizo and Rulla Mohammed
Al Saedi and also our point of view about this issue.
CLICK
HERE to read their magazine (pdf, 984 kb)
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