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Friday. February 5, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Cultural diversity of Garden City part of national immigration project
By Kathleen Faddis
Kansan staff writer
For a KU anthropologist, the population of Garden City ranks right up with some of the largest cities in the United States.
Garden City, with a population of about 24,000, is included with Houston, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia and Miami in a $1 million, two-year project to study relations between established populations and immigrants.
Donald Stull, associate professor of anthropology and research associate at KU's Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, is leading the research team in Garden City, whose population has grown 33 percent since 1980.
Stull said Garden City's population was about 8 percent Southeast Asian immigrants, 16 percent hispanic, and 75 percent white.
The Garden City study is financed by the Ford Foundation.
"One of the things that drew attention to Garden City was the apparent smoothness in adjustment to large increases in immigrant population," Stall said.
Work on the project began in January and will continue until December 1989.
"The project is attempting to understand immigration, which has increasingly affected life in American communities," said Roger Sanjek, associate professor of anthropology at Queens College in New York and one of the national directors of the project.
Project leaders said they intended to publish results before the 1990 census began.
Garden City has an unusual cultural diversity for a small Kansas town, Stull said. All three major ethnic groups in Garden City - whites, hispanics, and Southeast Asians - have both established residents and newcomers.
Garden City began attracting waves of immigrants in the early 1980s because of job opportunities in the meat packing plants. Meat packing jobs are attractive because employees don't need to be highly skilled or speak English and the pay is relatively high, he said.
Garden City is the fastest growing city in Kansas, but it hasn't suffered
many of the social problems of other boom towns, Stull said.
The project's goal was to get a cross section of the United States. Garden City is in the middle of the country and represents both the Midwest and small-town America, Stull said.
"We will be living in the community and becoming as much a part of the community as we can," Stull said.
The research team will interview the residents, study records and immerse itself in the community by going to churches, high school basketball games, bars and Rotary clubs.
"The people have been very receptive and open." Stull said.
Other Garden City researchers include Janet Benson, associate professor of anthropology at Kansas State University; Ken Erickson, anthropologist for the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services in Garden City; Arthur Campa, anthropologist; and Jose Cintron, educational psychologist, both from the BUENO Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Colorado.
The project will use in-depth anthropological research methods that provide a richer type of information than social surveys, Stull said.
Stull said the study was not just an academic exercise.
He said it was exciting because most studies of ethnicity focused on just one group. This project will look into community and relationships as a whole.
Sanjek said, "There will be a strong effort to bring the results to people in public life."
The results of the national study will be reported in a book and possibly a television documentary. Information from the Garden City study also will be provided to the community's leaders.
The researchers will work closely with leaders of all three ethnic groups so that Garden City can develop community programs, Stuill said.
"This is also a richer, better study because of the inter-university cooperation," Stull said.
KU escapes flu bug so far this spring
Danger not over yet; caution, common sense urged to guard against sickness
By James Buckman
Kansan staff writer
The flu bug hasn't hit the University of Kansas At least, not yet.
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Hospital, said flu epidemics usually made the first two months of the spring semester the busiest time of the year for Watkins.
But Watkins has not been any busier than usual. Yockey said.
He said that in past years, Watkins had treated 50 to 75 patients each day during this time of the year for what is commonly called influenza, or upper respiratory flu.
Body aches, chills, a dry cough and a temperature of up to 104 degrees all are symptoms of that type of flu, he said.
"Influenza is very contagious. If the virus is not
"If we had a flu epidemic, we could be treating 850 patients a day," he said. "But we're not." We're not.
on campus, we are not going to see it here. We've been very fortunate."
But Yockey said that KU wasn't out of danger yet.
"I don't know why it hasn't hit," he said.
He said that if KU didn't have an epidemic by spring break, it probably wouldn't have one.
"I'm real optimistic," he said. "We should have had it four weeks ago, but we didn't. There is still a chance to get it in February."
Yockey said not having a flu epidemic didn't mean that KU students were any healthier than last year. He said that students most commonly were suffering from upper respiratory illnesses, such as sinusitis, bronchitis and pharyngitis.
Candyce Waitley, a nurse and health educator at Watkins, said that upper respiratory illnesses often gave people the sniffles, coughing and body aches. She said those types of illnesses usually did
not cause a fever.
Sharon Walburn, a medical assistant at the Lawrence Medical Plaza, Sixth and Main streets, said her office had treated more colds and sinus infections than last year.
"We have had some flu cases, but generally, we've had more colds with a cough that lingers," she said. "We have had lots of colds and sinus infections."
Kyle Taylor, Hoxie sophomore, said he thought students had been staying more healthy.
"Last year, a lot of people had the flu," he said. "I've seen a lot of people with colds, but I don't think there has been much flu this year."
Yockey said people could lessen their chances of picking up a cold by getting adequate rest, not drinking excess alcohol and by not smoking. He also said people shouldn't share eating and drinking utensils to avoid spreading germs.
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