Tuesday, October 10.2000
The University Daily Kansan
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Monthlong event celebrates Hispanic-American culture
By Leita Schultes
writer @kanson.com
Kansas staff writer
The past few weeks provided many Hispanic-American students an opportunity to demonstrate their culture as part of Hispanic Heritage Month.
The events will come to a close this week.
The celebration started Sept. 15, said Gloria Flores, associate director of the Freshman Sophomore Advising Center and staff adviser for the Hispanic American Leadership Organization.
It starts midmonth because most Latin-American countries celebrate their independence on Sept. 15 or 16, she said. Because the date symbolizes independence, it also has become symbolic in promoting the Hispanic culture.
Alexander Morales, Kansas City, Mo., senior, helped plan the month's activities.
"It's really a celebration of where we're at, what we're doing," he said. Morales said celebrating culture and diversity provided the entire campus with an opportunity to learn what it meant to Hispanic. A Fashion Finale will hit the run.
A Fashion Finale will hit the run way at 7 p.m. Thursday at the
Kansas Union Ballroom. Mica Rosales, Olathe senior and event organizer, said the goal was to mix traditional fashions with contemporary styles and showcase the beauty of Latin women.
Along with the fashion show, 10 dancers with the Ballet Folklorico of Topeka will perform.
An art show sponsored by the Hispanic American Leadership Organization also is new this year, and Morales said about 10 Hispanic artists displayed their work at the Student Union Activities Gallery in the Kansas Union. The display will continue until Friday, Oct. 20.
Other activities were repeats from past years. Flores said Latino literature readings on Wescoe Beach had been part of the celebration for several years. Other activities included potlucks, making traditional Hispanic crafts at the organization's meetings and movie showings such as Stand and Deliver.
Morales said he thought event participation had been good, but Rosales said she thought more publicity of Hispanic Heritage Month could have increased participation. For example, posters advertising the events were posted late, she said.
HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH
The awareness month will end
Make Mexican Sugar Skulls to celebrate the Day of the Dead: 6 p.m. today at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union.
Fashion Finale: A Night of Latin Beauty at the Kansas Union Ballroom: 7 p.m. Thursday at the Kansas Union Ballroom
Community service with Habitat for Humanity: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
Latino Cultural Art Show, all day until Friday, Oct. 20, at the Student Union Activities Gallery in the Kansas Union.
Call the office of Multicultural Affairs at 864-4351 with questions
Sunday, but Flores said students still would have a chance to learn about Hispanic culture.
"We're trying to balance our Hispanic heritage activities throughout the year," she said, adding that the month provided an emphasis, but not an end to recognizing different cultures.
- Edited by Warisa Chulindra
City raises downtown trash issue
Complaints about trash along Massachusetts Street have the sidewalk vending window of Pyramid Pizza under scrutiny from the city.
By Matt Merkel-Hess
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Pyramid Pizza, located inside Fatso's, 1016 Massachusetts St., opened the window about two years ago, said Kathryn Dodson, who owns the business with her husband Mark.
She said without the outside window, they would not be able to keep the business open.
"Eighty percent of our sales are through the outdoor window," she said. "It turned out to be an incredible success — that's why we keep that business open over there."
Dodson, who works at the Massachusetts Street location on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, said she made sure the sidewalk in front of the store was cleaned when the establishment closed at 2:30 a.m. In addition to cleaning up pizza plates, she said she often picked up beer bottles, cups and litter
She said Pyramid brought its trash cans inside at night, but a permanent city trash can could be used by the people who were usually still hanging around after 2:20 a m
from other businesses.
"I can't force kids to use the trash after we leave," she said. "I say on customers to help me out a little bit. It common deceynity not to litter, but I can't force them. There's not a lot of control after everything is closed."
Kennedy said the city permitted the outside dining/vending area with the understanding that the business would keep the area clean.
Marty Kennedy, city commissioner, said the issue was raised when upon review of the file for sidewalk dining, the city discovered the business had not provided a copy of the Kansas Food Service Establishment License, proof of insurance or the $147 fee for 1999 to 2000.
"We're probably just going to visit with them to see how they could assist the city and other businesses in keeping our downtown clean and keep plizza plates off the streets," he said. "We've had some problems with that."
CITY COMMISSION
Edited by Casey Franklin
6:35 tonight
City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St.
The commission will receive a staff report concerning the sidewalk-dining license for Fatso's and Pyramid Pizza, 1016 Massachusetts St. The city has received complaints about trash in front of the business.
A report on traffic control on Louisiana Street will be presented. The report contains a five-year phased plan that the commission could follow, which includes building medians, roundabouts and additional sidewalks. Both the
Traffic Safety Commission and the Planning Commission said they felt implementation of the whole plan was premature. The Planning Commission made no formal recommendations, but the Traffic Safety Commission recommended implementing phases one and two, which would mean the additions of a sidewalk between Parkhill Terrace and Eighteenth Street, and a roundabout at 27th Terrace and Louisiana Street
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