Wednesday, August 21, 1974
University Daily Kansan
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New Assistant Dean for Chicanos
By KENN LOUDEN
Kansas Staff Reporter
Dean Appointed to Help Chicanos
To promote understanding between minorities and the University, Donald K. Alderson, dean of men, has appointed E. Garcia an assistant to the dean of men.
Alderson recently said that he didn't even know how many Chicanos were at the University of Kansas, and that the Kansas Census Bureau didn't know how many Chicanos were in the state. Both the University and the state have overlooked Chicanos, he said.
"But the word is out," Alderson said. "The news is traveling that Ernie is here. Through him we are meeting a lot of people."
Alderson said García's job would consist of program planning for minority students, identify student needs, such as financial aid and minority recognition, assigning community organizing MECHA—the Chicago minority organization—and creating special programs.
García said he wanted to pursue numerous ideas. The task has no precedent. His role was to help students.
"I want to act as a focal point between the administration and Chicanos," he said. "I want a Chicano to be able to walk into service directly from the administration."
García, who is working on his master's
degree in the History of the
University and has a B.A. in Sociology.
Garcia said he was born in a barrio in Garden City. "Barrillo" is a Chicano term for community or ghetto. In the barrio los niños retain much of their native culture.
The community is very close, Garcia said. When someone dies the barrio shares the sadness. The community usually awakens to the crowing of a rooster. And cacti are planted to make it seem more like Mexico.
Spirits Fall as Beer Prices Rise
"I want to create a line of communication between the barrios of Kansas and the
Students could be crying in their beer this semester—the price of the sudsy liquid has gone up.
Packaged beer has increased about 25 cents a case and keg beer has gone up between 18 and 22 per cent, according to local salesmen.
Tavern patrons will be paying about a nickle more for a glass, can or bottle of almost every brand of beer, says Cliff McDonald, owner of McDonald Beverage Inc., which distributes Anheiser-Busch products locally.
For the first time in six or seven years, breweries have raised their prices to the
wholesaler, says Steven Foland, routeman for Lapek Inc., the area district for Kroger.
And the wholesaler must pass the in-
voice to the customer, who passes it on to the customer, he says.
Freight costs have gone up 18 per cent this year, he says.
McDonald attributes the increase to the
costs of grain, shipping and
packaging.
The Anheiser-Busch brewery sold more beer during the first two quarters of this year than it had in the past but it showed less profit. McDonald says.
Busch-Bavarian Beer rose 25 cents a case
in June, he says, and the key price of Michelob went up in July.
Coors and Budweiser just increased their prices in the last few weeks.
Tavern employees say it's too early to tell whether the increased prices have affected them.
Before this last increase in prices, Larry Hogan, manager of Louise's bar, says he absorbed the price increases passed on by the wholesaler's but that this time it was too great an increase. All his prices were raised a nickel.
Jeff Cotton, pubmaster at The Stable, has also paid this price a nickel for a can, bottle and jug.
University of Kansas," he said. "I want Chicanos to realize they can go to KU.
"It was like a dream when I first attended the University of Kansas. I want to provide this opportunity for other Chicanos. I want to tell me help you 'as one Chicano to another.'
Garcia said he became interested in attending the University when he was a little boy. His father was an avid KU sports fan and Garcia said he could remember falling asleep in his father's arms while listening to basketball and篮球 games on the radio.
Garcia said he made many sacrifices to attend KU. He was drafted out of college service while being time in the military service he went on to graduate and was successful. Eventually, however, he decided he needed to go to college to fulfill his goals. To UKU to complete his bachelor's degree.
"When I returned to KU, I met people who were concerned with the barrios and I turned on to the idea of helping other Chicanas," he said. "Education is what we need to pursue and I intend to help Chicanos become more educated."
Since his return to KU Garcia has worked for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and with a Spanish-speaking lobby group in Washington, D.C. Both of these jobs were designed to help Cincinnatus in the area of education.
He worked in Topeka two summers ago teaching political awareness to Chichanos and last summer he be worked for the Kansas Summer Migrant program in Ulysses. He was with Chichanos with Kansas City, Kan., promoting improved excursion and equal rights.
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