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I Chicanos celebrate heritage By Shawn Hubbell Staff Reporter Nebraska Chicanos will celebrate their culture and ancestry during Nebraska’s Mexican Heritage Days beginning Friday at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Dan Paez, president of the Mexi can-American Student Association at UNL, said the event’s purpose is to spark an interest in Mexican culture and to help Nebraska Chicanos be come more aware of their ancestry and history. The three-day event is in “honor of those who survived,” Paez said, meaning the first Mexicans who worked and settled in Nebraska. He said a significant portion of the first Mexicans in Nebraska were migrants employed as farm hands in the beet industry, meatpacking industry or on the railroads. Paez said the event commemo rates those Mexicans who “fought through hell,” endured the hardships, and kept their families together so that their children could lead better lives. Although the event has been cele brated before, Paez said this year is a renaissance. He said several years ago people just lost interest and participa tion declined. Interest is back, Paez said, and “we’ve made the commit ment for it to be an annual event.” The event starts Friday in the Nebraska Union with a panel discus sion at 10 a.m. on “Nebraska’s Mexi can Heritage.” The panel will be made up of UNL faculty members including Miguel Carranza, associate professor of sociology; Ralph Vigil, professor of history and ethnic stud ies; Ralph Grajcda, associate profes sor of English; Lisa Sauccdo, a Lin coln elementary teacher; and Marga Christina Geiger/Daily Nebraskan ret Rodriguez, regional manager of the Scoltsbluff office of the Nebraska Association of Farm Workers. At 1:30 p.m. another panel of minority students will discuss racial diversity on campus. While racism may be an issue, Paez said, he hopes the positive aspects of racial diversity will emerge from the discussion as well. Both panel discussions are free. IScholar will speak on homelessness Friday By Jamie Pitts Staff Reporter A visiting scholar will speak on homelessness and criminality at 12:30 p.m. Friday in Oldfather Hall 707 at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. David Snow, professor of sociol ogy at the University of Arizona, will give the colloquium, sponsored by the UNL sociology department’s Devi ance and Social Control study group and financed by the UNL Research Council. Snow is working on a book about the homeless and has published sev eral articles in sociology journals, such as “Identity Work Among the Homeless,” which appeared in a 1987 issue of the American Journal of Sociology, Benford said. Benford said Snow will talk about his research on the homeless. Snow will focus specifically on the extentof criminal activity among homeless people and how they arc treated by the criminal justice system, he said. The social-control study group invited Snow to speak so it can learn more about the problems of homeless people and Snow’s research. Benford said the study group wants to know more about the number of homeless people, what factors contribute to homelessness and what various institutions are doing to deal with the problem. The study group is also interested in what such institutions as the Salva tion Army, state employment com missions, missions and state mental health agencies arc doing to decrease the number of homeless people, Benford said. Benford said anyone is welcome to attend Snow’s lecture. He will be available to talk to students after the colloquium. W(L'S Thursday NijMSpfi'CioJ Domestic LonspccK5 only X^vT £.ls Po»J»T*ic>i<Jn 1228 *P lwi i oraer your ring unm you see josieris setetuun ui ring uesigns. See your Jostens representative for more details. J( )STEXS AMERICA S COLLEGE RING*** Open Moncldy fr«day 6-*> 30 Saturday 9 5 30 More than ever, m _ more than a Bookstore. B 97*i * Offer good thru mdSr (2^ Sat., April 9, 1988. 13000 street (402) 47&-0111 UNION II & TRUST COMPANY We have money to learn! Union Bank & Trust Company can help you finance your education through a variety of loan programs, including: • Guaranteed Student Loans (GSL) • Supplemental Loans for Students (SLS) • Parent Loans (PLUS) • Consolidation Loans See us in the University Bookstore! ! Call us today for more information about our loan programs. We have money to learn! jTTJUNION BANK LLL* * TRUST COMPANY 1944 O Street In January see us in the Lincoln, Nebraska 68S10 Student Union Location across (402) 488-0941 from the University Bookstore.
