University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, January 24, 1990
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Engineering group offers support, aid to Hispanics at KU
By Sandra Moran Kansan staff writer
When Teresa Montes-Fong came to KU from Mexico City and entered the School of Engineering, she had no idea that three years later she would establish a group for Hispanic engineers.
The KU chapter of SHPE, the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, is the newest addition to the KU minority engineering society, ScORMEBE, said Florence Boldridge, director of ScORMEBE.
SCOREMEB, the Student Council for Recruiting, Motivating and Educating Minority Engineers, comprises all minority engineering organizations. SHPE, which was established last semester, offers financial aid and support to Hispanic engineering students.
Montes-Fong, president of the KU chapter, said she established the program at KU to give Hispanic engineering students support with their major.
The goal of the organization is to expand engineering opportunities for its members through workshops and conferences, she said.
Montes-Fong said she thought it would be good for Hispanic engineer-ing students at KU to have a link with other Hispanics around the nation.
"We saw a definite increase of Hispanic in KU," she said.
Scott Barron, Topeka senior and member of SHPE, said the organization helped him most by offering peer support.
"Each year, the higher you get in the curriculum, the more you are able to interact with other members." he said.
Barron said SHPE and SCoRMEE also helped their members find summer positions with corporations.
Barron said he worked for Phillips Petroleum Company last summer
'We saw a definite increase of Hispanics in KU.'
— Teresa Montes-Fong president of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
after getting the position through SCORMEBE.
Boldridge said there were 73 students involved in SCORMEBE.
The KU chapter of SHPE has 25 members, with only 35 percent being American citizens. The other member is a German-American country. Montes-Four said.
Boldridge said SOcRMEBE members were Black, Hispanic and Native American and the decrease in affect at KU had little effect on the group.
Funds for the program come from larger corporations. Boldridge said.
Montes-Fong, said SHPE was founded in Los Angeles in 1974 by a group of engineers whose objective was to form a national organization of professional engineers to serve as role models for the Hispanic community and to provide a network for Hispanic engineering students.
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WASHINGTON — Jesse Jackson yesterday kept mum about his plans, silent at the center of attention in a political vacuum created in the nation's capital by the incumbent arrest of Mayor Marion Barry.
Jackson silent about D.C.race
III with the flu since the weekend, Jackson was said to be "going over all the options" out of the public eye.
Barry was in a clinic in Florida and aides said that while he had turned over day-to-day operations of the District government to city administrator Carol Thompson, he was giving no thought to resigning.
"I think Jackson might get into the race if he felt a groundwell of support from the voters," said Charles Dewar-Jivers, a city councilwoman and another declared candidate for mayor.
Speaking only on condition of anonymity, one Jackson intimate described his wife, Jacqueline, as he entered him entering the race for payer.
"He will let this thing play out a
"He thinks it needs to cook a little," said another associate. "I'm not sure he's really zeroing in it yet."
little bit," said a Jackson associate.
Clarke said many national Democrats would like to see the former civil rights leader seek the office in a government get him out of presidential politics.
Jackson received 80 percent of the District of Columbia vote in the 1988 Democratic presidential primary, and early surveys of voter turnout found that he far ahead of all other potential candidates, including Barry.
"The Democratic leadership would very much like to see Jackson win the race and then flunk as mayor," said Clarke. "If the Democratic National Committee could choose any spot in America, from the vice presidency on down, to put Jesse Jackson and have the best chance to rope him in, it would be as the mayor of the District of Columbia. He's too smart for that, and I know he can see through
that."
Jackson faces no early deadline to commit himself to the race. The filing deadline for the Sept. 11 mayoral primary is July 5.
Barry checked into the Hanley-Hazelden Treatment Center in West Palm Beach Monday. Lurma Rackley, a spokeswoman for the mayor, said that details about his health would be kept private but "the most serious problem is alcoholism."
Barry was arrested Thursday night and charged with possession of crack cocaine. Law enforcement officials said the mayor was observed smoking the cocaine and that blood and urine samples taken after his arrest tested positive for the drug.
Rashedea Moore, the one-time model described by sources as the person who called Barry to the hotel room where he was arrested, appeared before a federal grand jury. The 38-year-old woman entered the courthouse under tight security and said nothing to reporters.
Lawvers contest Noriega documents
MIAMI — The government yesterday sought to protect top secret intelligence files prosecutors feared would be compromised by prosecution of Manuel Noriega, a move that prompted protests from defense attorneys.
A motion filed in U.S. district court stated that investigators anticipated discovering Noriega-linked CIA records classified top secret, secret, confidential and "sensitive compartmented information."
"The unauthorized disclosure and uncontrolled dissemination of such information would cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security of the United States," the motion stated.
But a defense attorney called the motion little more than an effort to avoid embarrassment for the government, which cultivated the deposed Panamanian dictator as an intelligence source for more than two decades.
"It would restrict the public from seeing all the evidence that's going to be presented for the defense," said Kemeth Swartz, a federal public defender representing Noriage codedefendant Luis del Cid. "It's overbearing and unnecessary and a step in the wrong direction."
The government requested a hearing on its motion, but no date had been set.
The move was prompted, the government said, by a Classified Information Procedures Act notification from Michael O'Kane, a defense attorney for indicted pilot Daniel Miranda, another Noriega co-defendant in the February 1988 drug-trafficking indictment.
O'Kane has been outspoken in calling Noriega a tool of the United States who acted with CIA approval. He conceded that his search for sensitive documents was designed to force the government's hand, a practice often referred to as graymail.
"The hidden agenda of the government is not to release any of this stuff." "O Kane said yesterday." "The administration doesn't want any of it released."
The government's unwillingness to release sensitive information could help his client go free, he said.
Meanwhile, Norigea's attorneys submitted addresses of two homes and three military offices raided by U.S. troops during the invasion of Panama last month and asked for an inventory of all materials taken from them.
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