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The New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division is looking into registration of New Mexico State University athletics department vehicles. = The statement made by the MVD follows a The Round Up investiga-tion that found coaches and athletic administrators were using vehicles with demonstration permits. According to the New Mexico Motor Vehicle Code and university police, demonstration permits are only to be used on vehicles being demonstrated to customers. The Round Up discovered coaches and athletic department offi cials were driving vehicles on loan from deal-erships with demonstration per-mits and not dealer plates, as the law prescribes. “Demonstration plates are sup-posed to be used for test drives,” said NMSU Police Lt. Lyn Hodg-

es. “It [state law] says exactly that demonstration permits are for the purpose of demonstration for re-sale.” Both the law and the university police department’s interpretation of the law seem to be inconsistent with the way coaches are using the vehicles. Personnel from NMSU Athletics said they are not in con-trol of how the cars given to them are plated. “We don’t make the decisions; it is the dealer’s choice,” said Assis-tant Athletic Director Steve Macy. Though the Athletic Department lacks control over dealer practices, members of the university com-munity are expected to be aware of and comply with relevant laws and regulations, according to the New Mexico State University Policy Manual. State law does allow dealerships to lend cars to university athletic

departments. The New Mexico Motor Vehicle Code grants permis-sion to dealerships to lend full-time coaches and athletic directors ve-hicles registered with dealer plates, not demonstration permits. During the investigation, The Round Up observed one athletic department vehicle with a dealer plate. NMSU coaches and athletic ad-ministrators are given cars off of dealer lots to drive as part of the Aggie Wheels Club, Macy said. Dealers loan the cars to the coaches and administrators to drive, but the cars remain in dealer inventory and can be bought at any time. Ap-proximately 12 cars are currently on loan to the department, he said. Dealerships participating in the program include Bravo, Desert Sun Motors, Jack Key Motors, Enter-prise, Garcia Subaru, Sisbarro and Whitehead Chevrolet, Macy said.

During the month-long investiga-tion, The Round Up observed cars from Bravo, Desert Sun Motors, Sisbarro and Jack Key Motors. “It is Sisbarro policy to adhere to whatever New Mexico state law requires,” said Rick Nezzer of Sis-barro. For its vehicles in the Ag-gie Wheels Club, Nezzer said the dealership uses plates intended for coaches when they are available, but uses demonstration permits temporarily. Desert Sun Motors and Jack Key Motors did not return phone calls from The Round Up, but an em-ployee at Bravo Cadillac said she was unaware of the plate require-ment for coaches. “Coaches are not dealers, they have the cars for demonstration purposes,” said Marian Stevens of Bravo Cadillac. Stevens also said she was unaware of any law that would prohibit the use of demon-

stration permits on cars given to coaches. The Aggie Wheels Program is an important retention tool for coach-es and administrators, and the university is already behind other schools in terms of cars loaned to the athletics department, Macy said. The club has been in existence even before his tenure at NMSU began in 2007. Both the University of New Mexico and the University of Texas – El Paso have similar ar-rangements with local dealerships and the practice is common around the country according to several dealers, Macy said. “I have seen [these programs] in a lot of different places around the country,” Macy said.

Jon Blazak and David Livingstone contributed to this article and can be contacted at truprint@nmsu.edu

New Mexico MVD ‘looking into’ NMSU athletics vehicle registration

Demonstration Permits Explained

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Section 66-4-1 of NMSA 1978 states “demonstration permits shall be used to allow the operation of vehicles for the limited purposes of testing, demonstrating or preparing a vehicle for sale or lease.”

Section 66-3-401.1A of NMSA 1978 states “a dealer may register a vehicle in the name of the dealer for the purpose of providing the use of a vehicle from the inventory of the dealer to a full-time coach or athletic director.”

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The vehicles pictured above are part of the “Aggie Wheels Program” and all have demonstration permits.

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In this issue of The Round Up, we investigate the use of demonstra-tion permits on cars given to coaches and athletic administrators for their personal and professional use. The partnership between local dealer-

ships and our athletic department is not unusual. What is unusual about our atheltic department’s partnership with local dealers is most parties invovled seem completely uninterested in run-ning the program legally. As soon as we began questioning athletic department personnel about the use of these demonstration permits, they immediatley defl ected responsibil-ity to the dealerships that loan them the cars. When we began questioning deal-erships, the majority of them were not aware of any law that would point to the fact that demonstration permits should only be used on vehicles for the purpose of test drives. With similar such partner-ships existing around the country, it is amazing to me no one bothered to pick up the phone and ask how to permit the vehicles in a correct manner. UNM coaches do not use demonstartion plates on their vehicles. Imagine if every administrator in charge of university vehicles did not bother to properly register the vehicle for which they were responsible. Think

about the hundreds of thousands of tax dollars that would not go to the state because of that error. It may be the dealerships who are giving the cars to the university, but the athletic adminis-tration has a repsonsibility to ensure the program is being run in a correct man-ner. The aim of the investigative piece released today was not to target the ath-letics department or local dealerships. Throughout our investigation into this matter, it became increasingly appar-ent many of the key decision makers within the “Aggie Wheels Club” are not interested in following the laws you and I have to everyday. In 2010 there were 78 citations given out because of expired or missing registration on campus. Not one of those tickets were given to a coach driving one of the cars plated with demonstration permits. If students have to abide by the laws, shouldn’t coaches and administrators?

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Gov. Susana Martinez an-nounced Monday graduate student Christopher Dulany, brother of ANMSU Presi-dent Travis Dulany, will be the next New Mexico State University student regent. Dulany graduated from NMSU in 2005 as a Crimson Scholar with a bachelor’s degree in finance. Similar to his younger sibling, Chris-topher Dulany served as an ASNMSU senator during his undergraduate years and was also involved in the Las Cruces Rotary Club and the Greater Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce. Christopher Dulany’s younger brother Travis Dulany was elected ANMSU president in May 2009. “Being an ASNMSU sena-tor gave me an opportunity to see first-hand how stu-dent opinions are an impor-tant part of the university,” Dulany said. “As the student regent, I want to make sure the student perspective is brought to the board.” Dulany is working towards his master’s in business and works as a financial advisor. Though Dulany’s appoint-

ment has sparked some controversy for the NMSU community due to his stand-ing as a grad student rather than an undergrad, Dulany said he remains comfident he will represent the student body effectively. “I think it is important that all student perspectives are represented through the student regent,” said Du-lany. “It’s crucial that the Board of Regents work with undergraduates, as well as our nearly 4,000 graduate and 17,000 community col-lege students to help meet their needs.” Martinez also appointed Jacob Wellman, an under-graduate, as the University of New Mexico student re-gent. “These talented young people will play an impor-tant role in providing a link to their student bodies, their board of regents and my administration,” Martinez said. Dulany is replacing Chris Anaya, whose term ended in Dec. 2010. Dulany is set to serve a two-year term pend-ing approval from Senate.

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By Santa Nava | Staff Writer

With 28,759 students spread across five campuses, enrollment is up a total of 1.4 percent this semester at New Mexico State University. On NMSU’s main campus, enrollment reached 17,225 students this semester, com-pared to 16,187 in the spring of 2009 and 15,557 during the spring of 2008. Both the Alamogordo cam-pus and Dona Ana Com-munity College experienced enrollment growth of 5.3 percent from last year. The Grants campus had an in-crease of 7.4 percent, while the Carlsbad campus had a decrease of 9.1 percent from the previous spring, accord-ing to the NMSU website. “Generally, enrollment at colleges and universities in-crease when the economy is bad,” said Valerie Pickett, director of university admis-sions at NMSU. “Students may be returning to school in order to gain additional train-ing, or knowledge that helps them becomes more competi-tive in a tight job market.” This semester the university

experienced a slight increase of incoming freshmen com-pared to 2010. In addition, high school seniors are elect-ing to enroll at the university during the spring semesters, and many freshmen are non-traditional students who did

not apply for college after graduating high school, Pick-ett said. With transfer student en-rollment also rising, NMSU has developed a guide to allow prospective transfer students to view what course credits

can be transferred from their university. The Office of Admissions has extended its recruitment to the states of Arizona and California, Pickett said. The

Transfer students, incoming freshmen push enrollment to record levels

Record enrollment continues at New Mexico State University. NMSU now has over 28,000 students system-wide. Neal McRae / theRound Up

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By Kendra Slown | Staff Writer Specialists from New Mexico State University have been in Afghanistan for the past three years, working to improve ag-ricultural technology through the Afghanistan Water, Ag-ricultural and Technology Transfer program (AWATT). AWATT is a collaboration between New Mexico State University, the Afghanistan Ministry of Agriculture, Ir-rigation and Livestock and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). AWATT focuses on many aspects of agriculture in Afghanistan, with current ac-tivities focused on water man-agement. NMSU professor Roger Beck is the project director. Beck said he has been living in Afghanistan and working on this project since its start in March of 2008, and oversees approximately 70 Afghan staff located in four major cities. “Afghanistan is unique-- its culture, its people, its prob-lems, its potential,” Beck said. “However, the agro-climatic conditions and topography are very similar to New Mex-ico. Probably this is a reason USAID awarded AWATT to NMSU.” “NMSU could not accom-plish what we are doing in a conflict zone without these dedicated Afghan staff,” Beck said. Beck said a large part of his days are spent preparing re-ports for USAID, including weekly, biweekly, quarterly and financial reports, as well as reports of activity by prov-ince, district, village and gen-der. “USAID calls it ‘feeding the beast’ back in D.C. and, of course, it falls on us to help the people in the Kabul State Department complete the dai-ly and even hourly cables that get sent from Kabul to D.C.,” Beck said. “We are part of the mix and I am pleased to say a very important part of the to-tal U.S. Government strategy for Afghanistan.” According to the website of the program, www.awatt.nmsu.edu, several notice-able changes have taken place since the implementation of the program. These changes include a 50 percent increase in wheat production, double yields of rice harvested while using half as much water, the creation of new jobs, im-proved farming techniques

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Protestors take to sidewalkAs a chain of protests continue in the Middle East and North Africa, a group of New Mexico State University students from places such as Libya and Egypt displayed their grievances against the violent oppression taking place in Libya by hold-ing their own protest in front of Corbett Center and chanting, “42 is enough! Gaddafi leave us!” Monday afternoon.

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For those students consid-ering applying to graduate school, note that changes to the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) are begin made and the revised exam will be given to test-takers this Au-gust. The GRE, which evalu-ates the readiness of a stu-dent for graduate school or business school, measures a student’s analytical writing, verbal reasoning, quanti-tative reasoning and criti-cal thinking skills. People all over the world will take the exam this year in hopes of getting into the graduate program of their choice.

Students can expect a lot of changes in the revised version of the GRE, includ-ing adjustments to the con-tent, design and scoring of the test. In the analytical writing section of the test, students will now be asked to pro-vide more focused answers in order to demonstrate their skills more accurately. Changes to the verbal rea-soning section will place a greater emphasis on cogni-tive skills. The quantitative reasoning section will still test the same basic math-ematical concepts, but will also emphasize data inter-

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Anarrest foraDWIwill leaveNewMexicoStateUniversitystu-dents less thancomfortableafterspendingsometimeat theDonaAnaCountyDetentionCenter. Director of Public Informa-tionJessWilliamsandDetentionLieutenant of Doña Ana CountyDetention Center Patrick Howieexplained the bleak process of-fendersmustgothroughafterbe-

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aids inmanaging inmates in thedetention center so theymay beplaced in proper custody areasandcanreceiveanyneededatten-tion,Howiesaid.Inclassificationinmatesarealsogiventheappro-priatelycoloreduniform. Williamssaideducationclassesareavailabletostudentswhoarebeingdetained, thoughaccess toclassesthroughBlackboardisnotpermissible. ThemajorityofDWIarrestees

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constitutes an excused absence,suchassanctionedschoolorath-letics events, illnessor thedeathofafamilymember. “I think the best approach isto have a consistent attendancepolicy to allow for fairness to allstudents,”Jonetsaid. A24-hourstayinthedetentioncenter results in a $90 charge,Williams said, and where thatcharge goes depends on the ar-resting agent. If aDWI offenderisarrestedbyNMSUpoliceortheLas Cruces Police Department,thechargeforthedurationoftheinmate’sstayisDoñaAnaCoun-ty’sresponsibility. “We don’t get reimbursed forthatcharge,”Williamssaid.Howiesaidinmatesarefedmealsprepared in the kitchen threetimes a day. There are camerasinstalledinthecells.Inmatesareconstantly beingwatchedbydif-ferent control centerswithin thedetention center to make suretheydonothaveanycontraband.Forthemostpart,inmatesshareacellwithatleastoneotherinmate.However, if an inmate showstroublesome behavior, he or sheisplacedintoasingularcellinthedisciplinaryroom. Howie said it is the behaviorthatmatters,notthecharge.Evenifan inmate isdetainedonDWIcharges,heor shewill beput inthedisciplinaryroomifdisplayingbehaviormisconduct.

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“I think it’s a great ap-pointment,” Anaya said. “The amount of leadership roles [Christopher Dulany] has tak-en as a grad and undergrad is going to play a big role in his appointment as a regent.” Along with Dulany, Marti-nez also announced Tuesday Las Cruces bank official Mi-chael Cheney will be joining the Board of Regents, filling the position of Blake Curtis, whose term also ended in Dec. 2010. Cheney, an NMSU graduate, will serve a six-year term. According to the regents’ mission statement, the board is made up of five members and is responsible for over-sight of the university.

Dulany will begin his term amidst what could be up to 4.5 percent budget cuts next semester. According to the Legislative plan, NMSU should receive $293 million depending on state funding. Anaya said as a regent, he was working on several proj-ects including updates in stu-dent and family housing and working with President Travis Dulany to keep fees low; he said Christopher Dulany will hopefully pick up where he left off. “I’m glad Chris is there,” Anaya said, “He’s a very smart guy, and knows his issues.”

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is UNIV 300. Lopez said she thinks any student planning on taking the GRE should take this course first. Lopez also said she believes students should either go to graduate school or profes-sional school after obtaining undergraduate degrees. At NMSU, 51 master’s de-gree programs and 24 doc-toral programs are offered in the colleges of engineering, business administration and economics, education, agri-cultural, consumer and envi-ronmental sciences, arts and sciences, and health and so-cial services. Most seniors agreed that graduate school can help stu-dents better understand the subject matter of which they are going into and can help students resumes look better

for when they apply for a job. Esteban Camacho, a senior government major, said he will be looking to go to gradu-ate school in the future, but not right after college, so he will not be taking the GRE anytime soon. “Graduate school, I think, is for more job security,” Ca-macho said. “If one excels at what he or she does, graduate school is not necessary except for professional fields that require more specific educa-tion.” To learn more on the chang-es to the GRE, visit www.ets.org/gre/revised_general_in-stitutions.

Amanda VanVeen is a staff writer and can be contacted at truprint@nmsu.edu

and improved research tech-niques observed at universi-ties. Current activities of AWATT include working with village “mirab”, or water masters, to set national irrigation stan-dards, manage livestock graz-ing in sustainable and effi-cient way and working with farmers to irrigate areas even-ly. The group is also working on including women by allow-ing them a means of income through nurturing fruit and nut tree seedlings in their homes. Water management is a pre-dominant theme of AWATT’s efforts to improve Afghani-stan’s agricultural industry. Even seemingly unrelated things, such as management of livestock grazing, tie back into water management, Beck said. Centuries of free-range grazing have damaged the upper watersheds in Afghani-stan. AWATT has worked with farmers to teach them how to manage livestock grazing so both land and water will sus-tain minimal damage. AWATT is scheduled to end in March unless USAID offers and NMSU agrees to an exten-sion. Whether or not the pro-gram continues, AWATT has set a foundation for the future by training staff of the Minis-try of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock, and helping farmers improve productivity.

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Whether it is nepotism, favoritism or any other of the “isms”, the recent selection of Christopher Dulany as the next New Mexico State University Student Regent certainly raises some questions. Christopher, older brother of current Associated Students of NMSU president Travis Du-lany, is a 29-year-old fi nancial advisor and MBA student who graduated from NMSU with a degree in fi nance in 2005. With Gov. Martinez’s appointment, the Dulany family has been given an opportunity few others have had to leave a lasting mark on this university. For a student body president who has spent a lot of time serving a select group of students, it is fi tting that his last major effort in of-fi ce may have been ensuring his brother could pick up where he left off. For the past two years, Travis Dulany and company have made some question-able decisions. For a university with a Greek population that makes up less than 1 percent of the student body, our student government is predominantly Greek. Almost every director and assistant director in the executive branch is a member of a sorority or fraternity, and many are members of the same one. One of President Dulany’s latest appointments was a student representative for the media board, who just happens to be a member of the same fraternity Travis was in during his undergrad years. The favoritism does not seem to stop at just employment.

For the past two years, stu-dent organizations have had to jump through hoop after hoop because of an ineffective and ineffi cient government set up to serve an “inner circle” and punish anyone outside of it. The Hispanic Council recently waited over two months for ASNMSU to approve a proposal to bring in the head of the Gov-ernment Accountability Offi ce to speak to students as part of Fiestas Latinas. While their proposal got held up, propos-als for anything and everything Greek meet little resistance. President Dulany seems to have spent much of his time in offi ce serving those closest to him while avoiding confron-tation with administration. Maybe this was why adminis-tration was so comfortable sub-mitting elder Dulany’s name for student regent consideration. As a non-voting member of the NMSU Board of Regents for the past two years, Travis has also had ample opportunity to talk up the many redeeming quali-ties of his older brother. Travis even introduced Christopher to board members; Regent Javier Gonzales told The Sun News he met Christopher through Travis. How many other regent candidates had that opportu-nity? Setting aside the ties Christo-pher Dulany had to the Board of Regents prior to selection, his personal history also dis-connects him from the student body. At 29 years old, Christo-pher is far from your average student. Christopher has not paid undergraduate tuition since 2005 and has not been a typical college student in many years. There is a reason many

cities and states have laws preventing candidates from running for public offi ce if they have not lived in the territory for several years, and the same principle applies here. How can someone who has not been a member of this student com-munity for much of the past decade really understand the challenges students face? Christopher Dulany is sure to have some impressive creden-tials; he has spent the past fi ve years gaining professional and leadership experience outside of this university. The other un-

dergraduate candidates for the regent position were most likely less professionally qualifi ed, and how could they not be? Isn’t that the point of a student regent? The goal is not fi nd a “student” with exceptional pro-fessional experience, the goal is to fi nd a student ready to stand up for the needs and concerns of our population. Maybe Christopher can and will be that champion, but it is hard to imagine how someone who has spent the better part of a decade outside the student realm can.

Time will only tell if Christo-pher Dulany’s term as student regent will be spent serving students or a select group of people deemed worthy of support. It does seem appar-ent Christopher had access to important people within the system an “ordinary” candidate would not have. As one Dulany exits, another one enters; let’s hope this time around the ser-vice to students is a little more all-encompassing.

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games in the past six seasons and according to www.nmsta-tesports.com, Rudolph is the longest tenured coach in NMSU softball history. The team is comprised of seven seniors, five juniors, five sophomores and four freshmen, making a total of 21 women alto-gether. Last weekend, the ladies par-took in the Troy Cox Classic, an annual weekend of softball lined up with more than 10 games from Friday to Sunday. Beside NMSU, teams who competed in the Troy Cox Clas-sic included the University of Oklahoma and University of Louisiana at Monroe amongst others teams from the region. Jones did not seem to be wor-ried about any of the competi-tion still to come. “We have a lot of seniors and juniors and everybody kind of knows what to expect; since we know what to expect we know what we need to work on and we just need to go for it,” Jones said. Jones acknowledged this would be her last season and said she feels no added pres-sure, but is motivated to do her best and go out with a bang. She also said students will enjoy themselves attending a softball game. “I think they’re fun, we go out there and compete and do our best, I think it would be enjoy-able to watch,” Jones said. For more information on Ag-gie softball, visit www.nmstate-sports.com to check out stats, bios, schedules and more.

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NMSU alum’s feature fi lm premieres FridayBy Roy Berkeley | Staff Writer New Mexico State University alumnus Nick Chamberlin will pre-miere his fi rst feature fi lm, “Bomb Squad”, this Friday at 9:40 p.m. at the Cineport 10 in Las Cruces. The fi lm is about a group of four siblings who discover they have in-herited superpowers from their im-prisoned father. The four are forced to go on the run to escape from an evil military general bent on cap-turing them. After discovering their father was once a super villain, the family’s bonds are tested, Chamber-lin said. Chamberlin wrote, directed, pro-duced and edited the fi lm. He also spent a considerable amount of time creating the special effects and producing the music for the fi lm. Chamberlin majored in graphic de-sign at NMSU, where he gained the knowledge to design the effects for

his fi lm. Chamberlin said he developed the story about seven years ago, with the help of his sisters. He said he began writing the script in 2008, and the entire process took about two and a half years. Chamberlin said he actually began putting the fi lm together while he was still a student at NMSU. The majority of the fi lm was shot on campus. “We shot in Milton Hall, Corbett Center, the duck pond and the fi -nale was fi lmed at the Corbett load-ing dock,” Chamberlin said. “There was a crew of about 70 at the load-ing dock. We shot at Mark Medoff’s house as well.” Medoff is the artis-tic director of the Creative Media Institute. “I shot it in seven days,” Cham-berlin said. “The budget was out of my own pocket. It was about $12,000.” The movie was shot on

a JVC GY-HD100 camera borrowed from CMI. The crew was comprised of fi lm and animation students from CMI and Dona Ana Community College’s Creative Media Technology pro-gram. Derek Fisher, CMI’s direc-tor of animation and visual effects, and Ed Kruis, a theater professor at NMSU, also participated in the pro-duction. The cast and crew will be present at the premiere on Friday. Chamberlin released the movie under his and partner Dustin Rich-ardson’s production company, Des-ert Storm Productions. For more information and for a trailer for the fi lm, visit www.des-ertstormfi lms.com. The fi lm is also showing on Sat-urday, Feb. 26 and is open to the public. Tickets are $6.

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By Antonio Lucero | Staff Writer Not many people can say they auditioned for American Idol, and of those who can, only one can say he auditioned dressed as a squirrel monkey. What was supposed to be an after-graduation summer trip be-came what was probably one of American Idol’s quickest elimina-tions for Kenneth Berba, a New Mexico State University alumnus. “I dressed as a rockin’ monkey to have fun and show my delightful

[and] humorous candor to Holly-wood and on the show,” said Berba, who sang “Monkey Around” from “Seussical the Musical” during his audition. Berba said his costume was com-pletely handmade. “Some people around me dug into my fashion get-up and even took some pictures, including morning interviews with radio sta-tions,” Berba said. “So I guess I had my share of stardom.” “Originally, it was supposed to be a trio, but the other two bailed

out bananas,” Berba said. “I won’t name names, they do go to NMSU as well.” Berba said he waited in line for six hours before facing the judges. After jumping through the door and straight into the song, Berba was stopped midway through his fi rst line with an abrupt “no” from Randy Jackson and a “no” from Jennifer Lopez. Berba said the audition was not as short as the Feb. 9 episode of the show portrayed it to be. “The audition itself was about three to four minutes,” said Berba. “It’s all about the magic of cutting and editing.” Berba said after hearing the judges’ “no’s”, he quickly resorted to his back-up song “Close to You” by the Carpenters, because he said he thought it would be “cute” and the judges would like it. But they didn’t. Despite being eliminated, Berba said his experience was copacetic. “I like to think I’m part of Ameri-can Idol history,” Berba said. “After I was cut, I wondered if my audi-tion was going to show. Then I got a little nervous and apprehensive on how they would show my audition, if they showed it.” But the reaction from his fellow friends and family were not as bad as he thought. “My media attention spread throughout El Paso and the world,” Berba said. “One of my dad’s friends saw me on CNN. I found various comments online and Facebook statuses cheering and jeering at me.” Although he was eliminated, Berba said he did not have any re-grets. “I was a man with a plan and that plan was to rock on as a free-will monkey,” Berba said. “Certainly it did backfi re,” he said. “But, like any other artist, I will change my tastes, style from time to time and will very likely

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