The Santa Fe New Mexican from Santa Fe, New Mexico • 9

IANTAFE INSIDE M0V1ESTV BUSINESS B-3 B-5 cm IL BCT10NB bill signs comDromise I Lists of signed and vetoed bills Page B-2 By BARRY MASSEY The Associated Press and I hope will remove some of the resentment toward New said John Crenshaw a spokesman for the Game and Fish Department everybody is going to be completely happy but everybody got Under the new law the 22 percent of licenses set aside for nonresidents will be split: 12 percent for those using local guides or outfitters and 10 percent for those not using them Residents hunters will be guaranteed 78 percent of the licenses Out-of-state hunters would be guaranteed 22 percent of the licenses to hunt elk deer and other big game in New Mexico under legislation signed into law Wednesday by Gov Gary Johnson Other measures enacted would: quota of licenses for hunts then those will become available to New Mexico hunters The 1996 restrictions on out-of-state hunters stemmed from a high demand for licenses in certain areas with trophy elk such as the Gila National Forest in southwestern New Mexico Out-of-state hunters challenged the restrictions in a court case that has yet to be resolved Local hunters and outfitters were pitted against each other but compromised on the final version of the bill The outfitters had wanted more licenses for out-of-state hunters who are more likely to use a guide when lion budget package Require life imprisonment without parole for the second conviction of a violent sex crime involving children under the age of 13 The new law effective July 1 for the first time in New Mexico allows a life without parole sentence Currently life imprisonment means serving at least 30 years before becoming eligible for parole The measure was sought by Attorney General Tom Udall and state prosecutors to prevent the possibility of paroling serial child molesters Clear the way for the start of a tuition scholarship program for New Mexico students The hunting law which takes effect immediately was a compromise to quiet critics and respond to a lawsuit-over a 1996 law that established a 17 percent quota on licenses going to nonresidents wanting to hunt on public lands in New Mexico The 1996 law also required out-of-state hunters to hire a guide or outfitter The legislation signed by Johnson will ease the guide and outfitter requirement and increase the license quota for nonresidents The new provisions will apply during the upcoming hunting season think it will give the nonresidents some relief that they are not going to be required to contract with an outfitter Appropriate $58 million to provide for an average 25 percent salary increase for classified state workers state police employees of district attorneys judicial system workers and permanent legislative employees The pay measure came in response to a request by the governor after he had vetoed money for salary increases in a $3 bil The quotas will apply to each hunting period in each of the designated areas or For elk there are more than 200 separate hunts rifle bow and muzzleloaders If nonresidents end up using their full Please see BILLS Page B-2 Remembering the fallen Students plan IAIA walkout Greg Toppo In the schools By RICHARD CHANG The New Mexican Teen gives prize money to his mom Talk about doing the right thing When Gabriel Roybal a sev- enth-grader at Ortiz Middle School learned won $500 by creating an award-winning public service ad in the national of contest he spend the money on a Nintendo 64 system or a pile of compact discs The 13-year-old told his mother give her $200 for rent The rest he'll spend on school clothes Roybal submitted the top poster in a nationwide water-conservation campaign sponsored by Chicago-based EcoWater Systems His design will be included in a calendar of winners He also won $1500 worth of art supplies for Ortiz Middle School Abel UnbeThe New Mexican Mike Lucero 73 right a World War II veteran looks through a those known as the bastards of Bataan' and survivors of series of historical military posters Wednesday afternoon at the the Bataan Death March The museum has more than 100 aerial Bataan Museum The museum hosted a commemoration In honor of photographs of the 60-mlle march route Institute for American Indian Arts students are planning an allday walkout from their classes today to protest administration policies About half the students voted Wednesday night for the walkout at The College of Santa Fe campus on St Drive to highlight their dissatisfaction with president and board of trustees The students hope to call attention to a proposal signed by 73 students to reform the two-year arts college having a walkout to show support for the proposal and to show the administration the current situation working and unhappy with said Sarah Chewiwie president of the Associated Student Government at IAIA matter in there if the structure isn't Students submitted the five-page proposal to President Beatrice Rivas Sanchez on April 1 The student plan recommends that the faculty receive tenure and become the primary governing body of the institute It also suggests that the board of trustees be chosen by an independent American Indian educational organization such as the American Indian Higher Educational Consortium The board is appointed by the President of the United States with advice and consent of the US Senate Many members of the present board were appointed during the Reagan and Bush administrations In addition the proposal states that the institute is violating its enabling legislation which says IAIA must give preference to American Indians in hiring practices and should "preserve support revitalize and disseminate Indian art and culture and Native Hawaiian art and Because of cutbacks in faculty during the past few years cultural classes at the institute have decreased American Indians now comprise a minority of the present faculty and the president is not a member of a federally recognized American Indian tribe Students hope to go before the New Mexico Congressional delegation and the Congress to present their reform proposal Last week the board announced that tuition would be cut to $4800 a year or $2400 per Area loses alternative rock station By STEVE TERRELL The New Mexican look now but your next teacher might not a greenhorn graduate from the local college but a disillusioned refugee from the Rodey Law Firm Merrill Lynch or San-dia National Laboratories A Thesday story in The Wall Street Journal says growing of engineers military officers lawyers and business people are dumping their former careers and getting into teaching Alternative certification programs including the much heralded University of New MexicoSanta Fe Public Schools Intern program are prompting professionals in record numbers to give teaching a try In California 1900 of the 30000 new-teacher hires next fall will come from the new alternative certification system which includes mostly The state of New Jersey estimates that 40 percent of its new teachers are teachers coming to the classroom after leaving another field In many states the story says teachers' salaries nearly rival those of high-paying professions Connecticut teachers for instance average $50254 Unfortunately have to come a long way in Santa Fe where the average salary is about $29000 a bit less than the $37685 national average But the rewards can be great A 45-year-old Boston attorney who quit her firm to enter an alternative certification master's program at Boston's Simmons College told the paper daughter said 'Thank God I have to be embarrassed by what my mother does for work' ball They can play with it as they audience seems to dig what doing and the clients are spending money" Robinson said Robinson said the Adult Alternative format is one that not a quick-fix format It takes time to get people's attention And it takes money to market and promote it" This is the second Santa Fe station Robinson has worked for that changed formats to win a bigger share of the Albuquerque market In 1995 he worked for KIOT which was bought by a Salt Lake City corporation and changed to a Rock" format It moved its operation to Albuquerque Previous stations to suffer similar fates were the original KBAC which in 1994 fired all local air personalities and switched to satellie programming before going off the air for more than a year In the early 1990s Santa KLSK became a classic-rock station Among shows that will end is The Phantom Power Hour which plays music only by local acts Host Jono Manson himself a local musician said Wednesday this is a drag for Santa Fe musicians I think every station should have time set cast he said The station as well as KNYN-FM a local country music station is owned by a Bakersfield Calif company called AGM-Nevada The company operates stations in California Nevada and Texas Sena said He noted that KTMN which began its current format about two years ago was one of the three or four top-rated stations among Santa Fe listeners However in the Albuquerque market Sena said just say we even in the top 10" "Albuquerque and Santa Fe have become one market" Sena said To win a larger audience in Albuquerque his station needed music with more mass appeal The oldies format is and true" he said The soon-to-be-defunct format which is Adult Album Alternative with an emphasis on rock had many devoted listeners in Santa Fe Sena said However he said numbers haven't generated enough revenue to make it work" KTMN program director Rich Robinson said Wednesday that he first heard rumors about the impending format change several weeks ago He has sinfce lined up a job with a music promotion company in Austin he said don't quite understand their he said of AGM's decision it's their Tori Amos and Counting Crows are on their way nut at "The Mountain" radio to make way for Three Dog Night and Gary Puckett The Union Gap Joining a long list of Santa Fe radio stations that changed musical formats in an attempt to win wider appeal in Albuquerque KTMN will pull the plug on its alternative rock" format and start playing oldies Station manager Fred Sena said Wednesday that the change is expected to occur in early May coinciding with the station switching to a new radio tower in the Jemez Mountains The new tower is designed to give the station better reception in Albuquerque said Sena Sena a long-time fixture in the Santa Fe radio business said research shows Albuquerque listeners will be more receptive to the Gold" format Top 40 hits from the '50s '60s and early 70s than they were to more experimental sounds Sena said that about 80 percent of the programs at the new KTMN will be live The rest will be programs from a satellite broad Please see RADIO Page B-3 Please see IAIA Page B-2 Non-Indian lawmakers form Indian caucus By BARBARA FERRY States News Service "Tribes were angry because they weren't consulted Anecdotes rather than an understanding of sovereignty was pushing the legislation" said Kildee spokesman Chris Mansour serve in Congress since its inception Nevertheless representatives of the new group said that by convening briefings on such issues as sovereign rights and tribal trust lands they can help offset proposals that tribes consider anti-Indian A spokesman for Rep Dale Kildee D-Mich the Democratic co-chair of the caucus gave the example of a proposal Rep Deborah Pryce R-Ohio last year to amend the Indian Child Welfare Act which would have limited tribes' ability to define their membership The proposal passed the House but failed to reach the Senate floor those who represent what was once Indian Country is incumbent upon those of us who currently represent Native Americans to help educate members of Congress about the obligations the federal government has to tribal governments" The new committee will be organized along similar lines as caucuses representing blacks women and Hispanics with one difference: It contains nary a member of the group it represents Theonly Indian member of Congress is Colorado Republican Sen Ben Nighthorse Campbell He is the eighth Indian to The announcement of the caucus came as a surprise to pueblo leaders in New Mexico For Roy Bernal chairman of the All Indian Pueblo Council the proof will be in deeds not words WASHINGTON Arguing that their colleagues often arrive in Washington ill-informed about Country" a bipartisan group of House lawmakers said they will form a special caucus to focus on American Indian issues "There are two types of representatives serving in Congress" said Rep JD Hayworth R-Ariz who will serve as co-chairman of the new Native American caucus "Those who represent Indian Country and Quote of the week also from The Wall Street Journal A Wednesday story profiled Independent radio station owners who refuse to sell out to big corporations for big profits Said Philadelphia station owner Jerry "The 104th was not exactly nice to native people" Bernal said "So if they really want to have people educated I'd be glad to work with them" Please see TOPPO Page B-3.