Events

Swipe Out Hunger Donation Drive

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Stop by the Mustang Dining Hall to donate an unused meal plan swipe to another student in need. Your donation will be made available in the One Stop (food pantry) for students who need access to meals at the Dining Hall. For more information, contact Abe.Villarreal@wnmu.edu. Thank you for your generosity! What: Swipe Out Hunger Donation Drive When: Monday, March 2 - Thursday, March 5 / 11:00am to 1:00pm Where: Mustang Dining Hall Learn more about the One Stop...
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Courage and Compassion: Shared Stories of New Mexico’s Japanese American WWII Experience

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Courage and Compassion: Shared Stories of New Mexico's Japanese American WWII Experience will be held in the Miller Library. The performance is free and open to the public. The WNMU History Program in the Department of Social Sciences and Cultural Sciences and J. Cloyd Miller Library present COURAGE AND COMPASSION: Shared Stories of New Mexico’s Japanese American WWII Experience, by the New Mexico Japanese American Citizens League. The free event is in Miller Library on Thursday, March 5, from 6 to 8 p.m. During WWII, 120,000 men, women and children of Japanese ancestry were removed from the West Coast and placed into barbed wired camps in desolate areas of the United States. In New Mexico, about 5,000 Japanese immigrant men were held in Lordsburg, Santa Fe, Fort Stanton, and Old Raton Ranch. COURAGE AND COMPASSION combines music, slide photography. and readers theater to dramatize the experience of New Mexico’s Japanese Americans during WWII. Playwright/director Nikki...
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