UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Fridav. October 1. 1993
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Interest in union's causes grows after Chavez's death
By Tracl Carl Kansan staff writer
By Tracl Carl
Carmen Urdanela, Topeka senior, has not bought grapes since she saw Cesar Chavez speak at the Kansas Union Ballroom in the fall of 1991.
Urdaneta is one of many KU students whose interest in Chavez's causes grew because of the event. And now, after his death on March 22, she is one of many keeping his dream alive.
"It's a big loss for us and we're going to have to continue his vision," she said. "People who were in the union 20 years ago came back when they heard about his death."
Chavez started the United Farm Workers union in 1962 to fight for better conditions and better wages for grape migrant workers through collective bargaining. The movement has encouraged some consumers to boycott grapes in order to force grape producers to stop using cancer-causing pesticides.
B Rebecca Harrington, director of the United Farm Workers union in Texas, said the union had continued to grow after Chavez's death.
The union's new president is Arturo Rodriguez, who has been a member since 1972. Harrington has worked with the union since 1975. Harrington said that she started as a farm worker in Texas.
Cesar Chavez
The most recent boycott on grapes
began in 1984 and has been successful in lowering producers' sales. Harrington said.
"When they can't sell their grapes, they put them in cold storage, and all of their cold storage is full."
Harrington said. "It's been really successful, and it's just a matter of time before we win."
A later boycott was successful in banning the cancer-causing pesticide Dinoseb, she said.
Harrington helped coordinate Chavez's speech at the University of Kansas. She said that she received many calls from people in Lawrence about the union after Chavez spoke.
Urdaneta, who is now vice president of the Hispanic American Leadership Organization, is one of the KU students whose interest in the union grew after Chavez's speech.
"I'd heard about Chavez, but I didn't know exactly what he was about," Urdaneta said.
The thing she said that she remembered about the speech was the film shown before it. One child in the film was born without arms or legs in a town near grape farms, where water supply had been contaminated by the
--pesticides.
"When he spoke he put words with the images you had in your head," she said.
Kathy Healy, Lawrence junior and HALO adviser, said Chavez had an impact on her life before he came to KU.
"He is to us what Martin Luther King is to the Blacks," she said. "He was awe-inspiring considering where he came from."
Like Chavez, Healy is a second generation Hispanic American. Her parents were migrant workers in the sugar beet fields of New Mexico, Colorado and Nebraska. Chavez's parents were grape migrant workers.
"My mother would talk about how she got up when you could hardly see and work until you could hardly see," she said. "I think it's humiliating for a person to work like that."
She said that it was hard to understand Chavez's impact without seeing or experiencing the problems migrant workers face.
By Shan Schwartz
Kansan staff writer
"I know that he made a lasting impression," she said. "The question is how long that impression lasts."
Since construction was completed at the Lied Performing Arts Center, the parking lot outside the center has become a busy trafficway.
Traffic hassles plague Lied Center
Because of cuts in the original bid for the center's construction, three roadways originally planned around the center have not been built, said Jim Modig, director of design and construction management.
The absence of those roads means that passing automobiles use the lot as an alternate route to avoid busy intersections on Iowa Street, Modig said.
"People are passing through the lot to get from 15th and Crestline to 19th and Iowa." he said.
The roads were included in the original bid package for the Lied Center but were cut from the final bid agreed upon for the center's construction, Modig said.
The roads to Lied
Modig said that the roads would
Lack of funding prevented the construction of access roads into and around the Lied Center parking lot. These roads may be constructed later next year.
A proposed service road would allow trucks and other large vehicles to bypass the lot and give a direct path to the back of the center, Modig said. The two other roads would improve traffic flow around the center during the day and out of the parking lot after performances.
Micah Laaker/KANSAN
Source: KANSAN Staff Reports
cost from $80,000 to $100,000 or he said. He said the roads were included on the University's repair and rehabilitation list and could gain recommendation from the list's review committee this fall for construction next summer.
However, the repair and rehabilitation list contains more than 200 items with a total price tag of more than $13 million, Modig said. He said the priority of the roads around the center,
compared with other needs on campus, was uncertain.
Donna Hultine, assistant director of parking, said it was difficult to maneuver from one side of the lot to the other. The lot contains circle drives, several grass islands and concrete gutters which prevent a quick, straight path through the lot.
"It wasn't designed to be a passageway," Hultine said. "It's difficult to see where you turn to get out to the road."
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