UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, September 23, 1993
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Hispanics have long state history
By Shan Schwartz Kansan staff writer
Hispanics are the first and most recent immigrants to Kansas, and the Hispanic history in Kansas should not be overlooked, a Kansas Hispanic official said yesterday.
Eva Pereira, executive director of the Kansas Advisory Committee on Hispanic Affairs, spoke in the Kansas Union about early Hispanic history in Kansas.
Pereira cited a Kansas history textbook published in 1931 as an example of a poor representation of the Hispanic culture in history.
The book referred to the expeditions of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, a Spanish explorer who visited Kansas in 1541. Pereira said the book implied that Coronao's team left Kansas because it had not been
"But that's simply wrong," Pereira said. "They did make property claims and came back to the area."
strong enough to settle the land.
Juan Padilla, a priest who accompanied Coronado's expedition, was fond of the area and requested that Coronado permit him and a few others to return to Kansas. Pereira said.
Coronado granted Padilla that request, Pereira said, and Padilla returned to Kansas in 1542 to work as a missionary with American Indians.
"He was the first immigrant resident of Kansas," Pereira said.
have established large missions in Kansas had he lived. Padilla died, however, in the winter of 1542 before he could establish a mission.
Pereira said Padilla probablv would
"The great missions might have been in Kansas instead of California if he would have lived." Pereira said.
Pereira said that Kansas was now home to large Hispanic populations, predominantly in Kansas City, Wichita and Garden City.
Immigration first began with westward expansion in the 1800s when Mexican traders came to Missouri and Kansas to sell goods, she said.
Hearing elicits different views on GTAs
By Kathleen Stolie Kansas staff writer
Yesterday, University witness testimony became the focus of the graduate teaching assistant status hearings for the first time.
The University, represented by Karen Dutcher, assistant general counsel, asserted its stance that GTAs are not public employees but students who benefit from the teaching experience.
The GTAs have tried to prove they are public employees entitled to pursue collective bargaining with the University for benefits.
The Public Employer-Employee Relations Act of the Kansas statutes,
or PEERA, states that anyone employed by any public agency, such as a state university, is a public employee. Public employees are allowed to organize or unionize.
Under questioning from GTA representative Scott Stone, both university and GTA witnesses testified that the University relied heavily on the services of GTAs and could not function well without them.
"If you are going to be a gainful member of the faculty on down the road, you should have a graduate teaching assistantship," testified University witness Eric Sexton, a political science GTA.
Howard Mossberg, dean of the graduate school and wjiness for the Umi
versity, confirmed that, according to statistics, GTAs teach about one in every four credit hours.
"What would happen if all the GTAs walked out tomorrow?" Stone asked.
We are invited, Misssong and Stone's first witness, Jane Garrett, an administrative officer in the department of English, testified that 100- and 200-level English courses were taught primarily by GTAs. She said economics was a factor in the growing number of GTAs in the department.
"There's no money to hire senior staff, and GTAs are much cheaper to hire," she said.
Mossberg said that the growing number of GTAs was a concern and that as a result of program review
funds were being shifted to hire more faculty.
He said the University could hire lecturers who already are trained and could carry larger work loads than GTAs but that the University wanted to offer GTAs teaching experience.
"We bear the responsibility as a research institution to produce the faculty of the future," Mossberg said.
Hearing examiner Monty Bertelli pressed Mossberg to distinguisht between public employees and GTAs.
Mossberg responded, "I believe the University's position, and therefore my position, was that they are not so classified under the PEERA classification, but there are aspects of their positions of an employee nature."
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