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PRESIDENT'S CORNER
Dr. Ramon H. Dovalina
Dr. Adriana Barrera
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2 EL NOTICIARIO DE TACHE December 1989
Editor's Column
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TACHE OFFICERS
PRESIDENT
Dr. Adriana Barrera
Assistant to the President
Austin Community College
P.O. Box 140526
Austin, Texas 78714
512/483-7612
PRESIDENT-ELECT
Ms. Linda Rodriguez
Dean, Extended Services & Continuing
Education
St. Philip's College-SW Campus
800 Quintana Road
San Antonio, Texas 78211
512/921-4616
PAST PRESIDENT &
PUBLICATIONS OFFICER
Dr. Ramon H. Dovalina
Vice-President, Community Resources and
Services
Austin Community College
P.O. Box 140526
Austin, Texas 78714
512/483-7543
TREASURER
Dr. Rosario Martinez
Program Director
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
P.O. Box 12780
Austin, Texas 78714
512/462-6405
SECRETARY
Mr. Rudolf Sandoval
Director of Student Services:
Riverside Campus
Austin Community College
P.O. Box 140647
Austin, Texas 78714
512/389-4015
MEMBERSHIP COORDINATOR
Ms. Margaret Hernandez
Assistant Director of Admissions
Southwest Texas State University
San Marcos, Texas 78666
512/245-2657
REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES
CENTRAL
Rene Mendias
American College Testing Program
512/345-1949
Ms. Florine G. Fuentes
St. Philip's College
512/735-6024
FAR WEST
Dr. Enrique Solis
El Paso Community College
915/594-2191
GULF
Ms. Sylvia Rodriguez
Houston Community College
713/926-4646
NORTHEAST
‘ Dr. Juan Maldonado
Tarrant County Jr. College
PLAINS
Mr. Julio Lianas
Texas Tech University
806/742-3627
Ms. Marlene Hernandez
Texas Tech University
806/742-1480
SOUTH
Dr. Elias Villarreal
Del Mar College
512/886-1134
Dr. Rosario Torres-Raines
Texas A&I University 512/595-2701
OH FOR ELEVEN, ZERO, NADA,
NI UNO .....El Noticiario has made it
into many public information mailing lists.
Consequently, we've gotten quite a few press
releases about board of trustees or regents ap-
proving their institutional opportunity plans.
Every Texas public college and university
had to develop and submit to the Texas
Higher Education Coordinating Board
(THECB) a five year plan that describes cur-
rent and new initiatives dealing with educa-
tional opportunities. The (THECB) will
oversee the state plan. There's just one prob-
lem. Who's going to oversee the THECB?
There are no Hispanics in the top eleven ad-
ministrative positions at the THECB! I
wonder if the THECB wrote a plan for their
own agency.
HELPING YOUR OWN .... Hispanic
students at The University of Texas at Aus-
tin have started a new program called the
Hispanic Student Scholarship Initiative. The
deal here is that the students are trying to
raise scholarship moneys for U.T. students.
The scholarship recipients will be required to
tutor Hispanic students in Austin public
schools a few hours a week. The aim is to
have seven $750 scholarships and each of the
recipients will tutor four to six seventh grad-
ers. They’re asking for $25 donations pay-
able to The Univesity of Texas at Austin/
HSSI. Send checks to Hispanic Student
Scholarship Initiative, Texas Union #160,
P.O. Box 7338, Austin, TX 78713.
TOMMORROW MANANA MORN-
ING, ORDENO LA VACA COW,
ME LLEVO LA LECHE MILK,
ADENTRO LA CASA HOUSE ....
My dad taught me that bilingual poem when
I was in the first grade and there was no bi-
lingual education. I was reminded of it when
I was invited to attend the annual conference
of the Texas Association for Bilingual Edu-
cation this past October here in Austin. It
was their EIGHTEENTH annual conference -
- estan mas viejos que TACHE! Being
there was like being with TACHISTAS -
they have the same drive, the same cause, the
same agenda that we do, the betterment of
Hispanic Texans through education.
OTROS LATINOS ..... Another great
organization that has been in contact through- 817/232-2900
their newsletter is ASPIRA Association,
Inc. They "promote education and leadership
development and advocate on behalf of Puer-
to Rican and Latino Youth".
Y HACU ... which reminds us that Sena-
tors Lloyd Bentsen (Texas) and Jeff Binga-
man (New Mexico) introduced legislation to
provide $70 million in federal grants to his-
panic-serving institutions. S. 1669 is the
Senate version of a bill (H.R. 1561) that al-
ready has been introduced to the House by
U.S. Rep. Alberto Bustamante.
my daughters for not recognizing the
struggle the woman was experienc-
ing in trying to communicate in
English. I was disappointed in them
for not valuing their material posses-
sions or their educational advantag-
es.
I recalled my own childhood,
until my entrance into the school
system. I remembered the loneliness
I felt at facing a non-Spanish speak-
ing environment. Sensing my
mood, my oldest daughter asked,
"Are we in for one of your lectures?"
In affirmation, I simply said, "Yes,
but later, after I've had a chance to
think things through." To my
amazement, she said, "Mom, I'm
sorry. I know it was wrong to laugh
at that woman." We talked, hugged
and cried together. Maybe I hadn't
failed my daughters after all.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
As I began thinking about this is-
sue's "President's Corner,"
I thought that I should write an article
about Thanksgiving and the start of
the holiday season. Then, I pondered
for a while not knowing where to be-
gin.
Quite coincidentally, an incident
occurred which made me stop to con-
sider how much I do have for which
to be thankful. My family and I were
at a local fast-food restaurant when
we overheard a customer ahead of us
order "three bacon cheeseburgers, but
on two of them no bacon please."
The woman spoke with a heavy
Spanish accent and she committed all
sorts of English grammatical errors.
After what seemed like an eternity,
but was probably not more than five growing up speaking only Spanish
minutes, the woman completed her
order asking, "Did you understand
that?" My daughters giggled, I snick-
ered and we poked each other in the
ribs over the comedy taking place be-
fore us. The young man at the cash
register maintained his composure pa-
tiently taking the woman's order.
We left the restaurant still joking
about the woman's crazy, mixed-up
English. With the passage of time, I
became angry with myself for encour-
aging and contributing to my daugh-
ters' display of ignorance and feelings
of superiority. I became angry with
New studies look
at immigration
policy
AUSTIN,Texas—When Americans celebrat- immigrants tend to take jobs no one else
ed the Statue of Liberty centennial in 1986, wants. If the current economic expansion
one matter of stark irony received little notice, continues—or even if it is interrupted by no
Several of the workers who had just refurbished more than a small recession—a lot of service
to world's most famous momument to free im- jobs are going to be created."
migration, it seems, were illegal aliens. Both "Opening and Closing the Doors,"
Though unlimited immigration as it as published jointly this month by the Rand
practiced in 1886 hasn't been a reality for dec- Corp, and the Urban Institue, and "Mexican
ades, federal policy has changed many times on and Central American Population and U.S.
how many immigrants should be allowed into Immigration Policy," published by The Uni-
the United States, and from what county of ori- versity of Texas Press, indicate that the demo-
gin. Two new studies assess the early effects graphic and economic conditions of Latin
of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control America virtually assure a continued large in-
Act, the shift in U.S. immigration over the flux of people into the United States.
last 20 years from a European out-migration to Although"Opening and Closing the Doors"
Latin American one, and the possibility that an concentrates primarily on the effects of the
increase in the Latin American influx could 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act,
even be a boost to the U.S. economy. the book from UT Press adresses several is-
"The U.S. is currently reassessing the im- sues pertaining specifically to legal and illegal
pact of immigration on the future economic immigration from Mexico and the Central
well-being of the country," says Dr. Frank D. American countries.
Bean, a co-author of both studies and professor Bean explains that the boom in financial
of sociology at The University of Texas at and business services during the 1980s has
Austin. Bean is on leave from UT Austin this created new professional level jobs, and this
year and is serving as director of the Urban In- in turn has allowed janitorial, clerical and oth-
stitute’s Population Studies Center and co- er low-level services to ride the crest.
director of the Institute’s Program for Research "Any time you have higher-level services,"
on Immigration Policy. "A lot of people Bean says.
think that we’ll actually profit from an increase
in immigrants since the birth rate is down and See Immigration Policy, P3
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