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Occasionally, a pheasant explodes out from the dry grasses under the cottonwood trees nearest to the Rio Grande, startling the humans who come too close. In springtime, great croaking flocks of sandhill cranes swirl so high over the campus that, while their calls are clear, they are difficult to see against the washed-out blue sky. The campus also provides a home to pocket gophers, their noses peeping out from their burrows close by the classroom buildings; jackrabbits and cottontail rabbits guarding their young from hungry roadrunners; alien-looking large red and yellow striped centipedes; muskrats; bull snakes and rattlesnakes; and a resident family of coyotes.
Even then, it is difficult to discern, as the top of the head is not aligned with north, but rather with southeast. e. within the campus road) except for the on-campus Indian Health Services dental clinic. The clinic is so poorly placed in relation to the overall design that it appears to be a recent addition to the campus, although it is not. In the aerial photos, the clinic sits like a tumor growing out of the eagle’s beak. The centering of the buildings leads to a sense of isolation from the West Side of Albuquerque.
Commencing in 2004, many of these student services were moved to the gymnasium, so the SUB could be reconfigured as a onestop-shop student tutoring and services center. It is now officially labeled on the campus map as the Student Support Building. The SUB, though, was central to student social life for most of the school’s history. Its centrality was reinforced by the choice to bury the school’s two time capsules in a grassy area in front of it in 2001. A ceremony was held on September 20, 2001, during SIPI’s thirtieth anniversary celebration, to bury both the capsule reflecting SIPI’s thirty years, and the capsule that had been assembled, but never buried, for the twenty-fifth anniversary.
