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Priced Out Of USO, Mexican-Americans Say /',;{ 9 -7/ · I "th th' 't th h I d RelaTeJ··s, 0 ,y _ Page B-10 the college \uilt with Mexican- with the group," Dr. Hughes can-American neighborhoods in who is on the Ch1~ano com- wa~ wi 1.s s~i~i "ey e pe A · ddl " said th d s lh ts n n· g m1ltee negol!atmg with umver- build theumve1s1ty. Ml?x can 11 ·ican students mencan ars. · . sou an ou eas a ie O ·t ff' · I d th b' h Torres said in his opinion lhe j i.; ' ' ff' ' I 'd th A I O Aldana campus ' h' ' l 't SI y O ICJa s an e IS op claim they art . ing priced out mvers1ty~ 1c1a s sa1 e~e n om , . • . were m is canvassing ern o- also paid an assessment." 'university had benefitled upper f th u • 1 f s D' are 68 Mextan-Americans m MECHA th ,urnian, said th e ry / :rorres said Mexican-Amen- middle class "and there have 0 e mve.r 1 ) 0 . an iego the total student body of 2,271 program will need monel to :.I know how substantially the cans gave a substantial amount never been adequate programs althougb their fanuhes were as- and another postgraduates m implement its ,term_s a~d Mexican-Americans gave to the of money for construction of the for the minority ethmc s~ssed 23 years ago by the the umversitys law school.. I much of t~at none, s~~u d um,ersity funds,'' he said. college, then gave again in 1958 groups." .
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d "Mo~t of the Mex1can-Amcri- Rev. Leo T. Maher, bishop of longer received from th mo e!can kids Just don't have t~e the San Diego Catholic Diocese, ces.e to support the um~ersity, scssment levied on each family e 19 most 8 U money to pay the required $7~0 met this week with Chicanos which 1s runmng a def1c1t opcr- in the five-county diocese. the dio- c·harles Buddy through an as-
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'l'ht• public I s t, lked about bad teachers and good tca<•hcrs For ccntur1 s - but how you mf'a ·ure a teacher's instructional kill ha, b rr1 a mystt:>ry. ·ow it ca~ be a sc scd, an educator lllll h re y terday. That m •ans of m a urem nt 1s the ' teaching performancf' te t," W Jame· Popham, profcs or of education at UCLA tofd more than 650 educators attending a conference at the El Cortez Hotel. ' "Until n w me uremcnt tcchmq a,count th fal't that dif[crent ,-~--c==------- te, chcr pursu markedly d1f• terent goal , .ind therefore, compari on of te11chers with
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sh shrPwdnp•q with boml 1 He addc,d P s ;inr! th e DPmncr;its' rnvariahl.- failm1 ~ricing th m .out of an .educa- Chicanos. to hP rPndy for thPm arP hy now hl'rnmin_ lion at the umv,ers1ty theJr par- 'It amounts II Psi en q
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The Chicano delegation will r~nt protest groups trymg to ;\foxican-American building people with money now.. Most it's time the umvers1ty took its almost proverhial. Rut we ha\'e not 'Pt h 1 ents helped to 0111ld. both with present Dr Hughes and Bishop \\Ork out an. ethmc progrnm at contractor was assessed $500. o_f the oldei: ones work m t_he place m ~.he c~eme of things anything quitP like th th t . J a. money given through church Maher with names of members the umvers1ty said an 1mme- He pointed out that there has fish canneries, and at low-m- for them, he sa1~. . preparation e on: a i, no11· 1 assessments and through do- of a J1exican-American adviso- diale campaign will be never been a Catholic Church come jobs in the area. . . I Dr. Hughes said he _was m der th . at th e Tre~sur3 Department u nated. volunteer l~bor in the ry committee who will help put mounted to get the diocesan in the diocese built by an Mexi- "But they . are enthus1asllc sympathy with demand of th.e , e a,tute superv1•1nn of Secretary Joh actual con ruction. ' together a composite ethmc funds restored to USO. can-American contractor but he about education and the older Chicanos and will meet their Connally. "More ti), 50 per cent of the program for the university. Alex Torres, 1931 Wilson paid his assessment. pPople in the neighborhoods prog:am requests "as soon. as vntil th rl . • people in ·he San Diego Catha- "I thought their idea of the Ave.. :,.tatrnnal City. was a so- "Another man who is a ]um- will contribute all they can lo-I possible, as feasibly as possible . P ay for it comP~, ths fart of th lie Dioce~e are Mexican-Ameri- advisory committee was a good licitor during the fund drives ber yard worker paid a $1,300 ward anything that will help and wherever there are funds ~oming bomhshell may well bl! denier!. Th can yet their kids can·t attend one and I will work directly for the um\'ers1ty and the :Vlex1- assessment. Miss Helen Diaz, educate the younger ones. lt to finance the effort.
differing in tructlonal empha • s v1elded little more than con• fu 1011," Popham aid at the op •ning s s ion of the last day of the 23rd Annual State Con· Fl•rcnce. 2"DAY CO, FERE:,./CF. Th m of the two-day confer ence. spon ored by the Cali• fornia Advtory Council on E%1cation, I Re ar ·h (CA Cr;H) an agency of th Cali- fornia T!'ach •rs Associat1on (GTA), wa " crountab11ity 1and the Curriculum." The tea ·hmg p('rformance tt•st asse SI' · a teacher's ability to produce pecified behavior · change 111 a group or stud •nts. l Teach r re gtven an obJcc- tlv to rh1eve and tim to plan ' a I . on to r nch !pr! gok They then III truct students in the ubJ ct 1tny time from 15 min• ute to 10 hour~ and the stu• dents are mca un"
;,.y may not rom", moreovPr, until th"J ~rhe~ul!'d report in Parly February of th, pre~1den!Jal mmm1ss1nn now .studying ths srhool problem under ths rhalrmanship of former Secretary of Defl'n; • ·eu ?>fcE!roy, This w11J be a multipurpose bombshioll in truth, calculated tn hrin"' down a perf t • vey f h' .,. , . 6 ec co- . 0 irr,, in a ,,1ngle thunrlerclap, But ons mu,t bei;:in ;it Ihe heginning, with the valu,,_ arlrl"d t 'l If · . , , - ax I se · This JS sometimes call~d a transactions" tax; and it is loathed by all the llheral faithful because its impact resem- bles that of a simple ~ales tax. •. 'ro hP _sure, the Scandinavian countrie~, w tth th~1r strongly ~ncial-minder! g1Jvern. IDPnts, l11·e quite romfortahly with v;i.lu,._ ;,rlded taxPs at thP rate of l-5~. At ths Vi'Pst ~~e;hmalnh _lP,·el or 11-;, with e ·rpptlon, frir · 1tti;:s as foorl , 11 A · arlrlPd . . . • " merican value- ) lax w·oulr! ra,~e an additional -o b'l !On of revenue each year, •J 1 • * _.\Ir. ··:,on·~ proposPd \'alue-added tax bill will hP far mnre modest . h - . hoori of 3, . v h •. in t e neighbor. . ' er.y ,u stant 1al remission- and rxrer,11ons ,1"11 hp inclur!Pri fn mak·P th: t Pvenue ktP~~ 5 "'t,}Y the 1 sug1
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American students in California schools have better educational More stnkmg than the per- opportunity than in any of five centage loss in Califorrna is the Southwest sta_tes studied by the actual number of students u ..s. Commission on CiviJ jinvolved. if the present hold- i Rights. , . . mg power rate m the California l J comhmission study released survey area persists throughout 0 ay, owever, said all of the/ th t 1 states investigated _ Arizona f s a e, about 36 per cent will California, Colorado, Texas: a to graduate. (This finding and ew Mexico - has less than was based. on a review of/ adequate programs to improve 33 o,ooo_ Mexican American stu- educations for such students dents III the first through sixth "T . . . · grades m 1968.J he basic fmdmg of this re- " port 1s that minority students in d Of about 190,000 black stu-1 the Southwest do not obtain the r~nts m the same grades, benefits of public education at a / ughly ~0.000 will never re- rate equal to that of their anglo ce1ve a high school diploma." classmates " the reported In Califorrna, the commission noted. ' !reported that Negro students have a better chance of attend mg college than in any othe; The report said deficiencies So_uthwestern state. However it / were ~oted at all levels or /said the potential rate of p~st educal!onal evaluation _ abili- high school education for Mexi- ty ~o stay in school, reading can-Americans is still below achievement, repetition of that forecast for Negroes. grades. over age levels in l - grades, and participation in ex- tra curricular activities. pEFICIENCES NOTED
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The report showed that Cali-1 fornia schools have a better record of retammg Mexican- American stµdents until the j 12th grade than any of the other states. NUMBER OF STUDENTS '·Even so, fewer than two out of every three Mexican-Ameri- can students, or &I per cent, ever graduate," the report noted. lt said that by the eighth grade, about 6 per cent of Mexi-1 can-American students m Cali- / fornia have left school.
ROUGH A, ·o T lUBLE-Women stud011ts at the University of San DiPgo play a rugged game of football during college' homc- ('Ommg e0lebration. Carrying the ball fol' the White team is "ally .Storc·h with Blue team pla~ er :Rozzi C!'andall ready to ·top her.-Evening 'l'ribune Staff Photo by George s;mith
USO, Chicanos ~J~n,J,9,,jnt AdvisoryCommittee Chicanos and off1c1als of the Istructive positive encounter " would lik t h t f L'niversity of San Diego will He added, "I believe ·we do about 1t.? ;~fs ~s ~h!:a cai~ ei~~al to !be univer.sity. diocese and depehds on student work together on Mexican- made headway and we were should be done and we liste~ed live a~tio for an afflrma- tuition payments and state and Afne:ican affairs thr~ugh a told to start getti~g together to them very closely." a five-ye:r P~ 0 f{t~~ ~~~med b~ federal funds and scholarship special advisory committee to lour pro~osed Mex1can-Ameri- The student group presented lingual program ~ompli~c~ ~~nts. . . be set up by the students. c~n advisory bo~? t~. work Bishop Maher with a letter stat- administrator, a full time bi- The un!v~rsity has about Formation of the committee with uruvers1ty o!f1c1als. ing their points and demands lingual recruiting officer to $225,000 def1c1t nnw and we are was _the result of a lengthy Dr;, Hughes said the meeting including the liaison advisory seek Mexican-American stu- te~kmg,,money to balance t_he meetrng Tuesday at the univer- was lengthy and resulted in a board. dents and staff, and a bilingual ..u get, Dr. Hughes said. s1ty between Chicano action healthy exchange of expression "Futhermore, when the com- admissions officer. Some of the Mexican-Amer!• groups and Dr. Author Hughes I by both sides. mittee is formed I will work "We a e 1 k' can. requ~sts will have to wait USO president. and Most Rev'. "The students expressed directly with the grou ., he am le fu:;d af so as mg for / until we fmd money." Leo T. Maher, bishop of the San themselves freely about their added. P, cou~selin bs or t~or:al ao d Dr. Hughes, who came to the Diego Catholic Diocese. needs. In a classical sense, they The Chicanos asked for I ocese mo~ie:: a~i et r~i:n di- university four months ago Antonio Aldana, 24, chairman were dissen_ting and they did it representation on the ca:i;s cially support ;~ from Flagstaff., Ariz., said he of MECHA, one of the student I most effectively. _ 76 of the 2 271 USD t d t action progr ., Aid 'd met two weeks ago with con- groups at the meeting, de- "They were saying to us are Mexican-American s II e:;,: am, . ana sai · gressmen in Washington, D.C. scribed the session as a "con• 'This is our problem and w~ ,ferent ratio of distr'b -t. a J f. ·tDr. Hlughes _said the umver- and Ford Foundation officials _ u 1011 o s1 Yno anger 1s funded by the to try to obtain more aid
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h In additi?n, since the value-added ta~ will drv~de:!:ys~~d tlohaldper capita subsidy for fn. . ' no c I ren it may be p 'bl to include the Cath l ' h oss1 !I larger ,hare-out T; ic c ool systPms In the teri n . . ese systems are now tot- ! ;{ toward disaster. Saving them will :/o save nst sums for the genPral taxpay. It r.an hP ,Pen then th t b • coveys of hirds· i~ith a• . al ~!ngm;{ dow_n rPall_y a very mild wa smg e t u_nderclap Ill tn1e-hluP liberals f Y of P~ttin,g 1t. The sand deaths ·1 . '. o Murse. will die II. thou. as th" leg~~d~:; 1~~l;~i~ai; colors of ra~e you think about it this . . agony. Rut if not merely bold an'rl I, ilxon bo1!1h,hel! is c every contrn·ed. It fu rthf'r promi - • · Pquitable s;lutions t;s/l ~hnosltble, practical, "ent n t· al 9 SPne1 of ur- 1:' . a Inn prc-blem . .And it will 1 i~teustm£' tn ""e the hoer 1 a so bt nmg a£' in t b a l"mocnt run. erty taxes. ii ig cut in homeo er ' prop.
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A new ('our c designed to strc:;s th cnn'ributions of '.\.fexi· can-American to the natrnn w1Jl be offered .•t uSD be inning Jan. 31, according to Dr. Raymond Brandes, chairman of the history departmenl. Officially designated History 161, Mexican-American Cul- ture, the course will mclude study of philosophy, literature, music. anthropology, political science, r~ligious studies, edu- cation, and history as they relate to the Mexican-American culture. It will be.open to both un- dergraduate and graduate students.
an entire class. The purpose of the new approach is to alioYt: the students to learn how to show their own works. This is the third year stu• dent art has been shown in the library, but it is the first time the class approach to exhibitions has been used. Individual students from the department are selected to assist professional artists, who display their works in the Founders Gallery. By workmg with the profes- sionals, Mrs. Hanafin said, t e students learn about hgh ing d !gn, t afflc pat- terns, v1e',\ing angl a i p1c• tu angtng vi 1mg the profes·
Reunion will be the theme for e annual Holiday Open House set today by University of San Diego Alumnae of the Sacred Heart. amnae mem rs and their hu,b'.ands ha, e qeen invited for cocktails and potluckhors d'oe- uvre,, from 7:30 p.m. to 10·30 p.m. at one of hree locations. Cl4sses of 1952 to 62 and all alumnae of Sacred Heartj schools will gather at the Point 1 Loma home of .'\lrs. Joseph 0 'Conner. Classes of 1963 and '64 will meet at the home of 21.lrs. William Doi n in Mission Hills. and Ir and Mrs. Shawn Quinn will rntertain the classes ·of 1965 to I. Class seer taries have worked to coord'nate arrange- ments with :\lr . John Evenson, alumnae chairman.
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