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Sociologist says
Chicanos still cling to traditio nal Spanish
THE
Wednesday, March 10, 1071
BATTALION
College Station, Texas
Page 5
Southwest Mexican-Americans
will cling to Spanish as their No.
1 language, a sociology professor
here predicts.
Processes fostering Spanish
over English appear unlikely to
change soon, says Dr. R. L. Skra-
banek.
The acting head of the Soci
ology and Anthropology Depart
ment has studied comparative
day-to-day use of Spanish and
English by Mexican-Americans of
South Texas.
His findings were published in
an article, “Language Mainte
nance Among Mexican Ameri
cans,” in the current issue of the
International Journal of Com
parative Sociology.
He said numerous factors con
tribute to the Mexican-Ameri-
cans’ billingual tendency and re
sistance to full assimilation in the
U. S. cultural melting pot. The
tendency, he notes, has persisted
for more than a century.
Skrabanek cited “La Raza” —
the race — as the concept most
strongly solidifying the social
structure of these people.
La Raza is “perhaps clearly
understood only by Mexican-
Americans,” Skrabanek wrote.
“Broadly defined, the term re
fers to a special kind of unity of
all Mexican-Americans who are
united by cultural and spiritual
bonds derived from God.
“Use of Spanish is the primary
symbol among Mexican-Ameri
cans of loyalty to La Raza.”
The sociologist said other fac
tors are a standard socio-eco
nomic status, steady immigra
tions from Mexico and movement
between that nation and the
Southwest United States.
Also at work, Skrabanek went
on, are persistence of a well-
defined Mexican-American sub
culture, differing value orienta
tions of Mexican-Americans and
the dominant American culture
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Over house named top soph
Jeff Overhouse, the Texas Ag
gies’ prize sophomore from
League City and Clear Creek
High School, was swarmed with
honors this past weekend as the
Southwest Conference basketball
race came to an end.
senior center, was the only other
A&M eager to received mention
on any of the postseason All-
Star units when he was named to
the second team District 6 All-
Star team.
Overhouse bucketed 23 points
and grabbed 11 rebounds against
Arkansas Friday night to close
out his sophomore season with
the second-highest number of
points ever scored by an A&M
sophomore, 345.
Steve Niles, the Aggies’ 7-0
That announcement was made
by Joe Vancisin of Yale, chair
man of the All-America commit
tee of the National Association
of Basketball coaches.
Overhouse was practically a
unanimous choice as sophomore
of the year, first receiving the
honor on the televised basketball
game of the week selections
named during the halftime of Sat
urday’s Baylor-Tech game.
Then came Sunday morning
and he was named Sophomore of
the Year by the Dallas Morning
News, Dallas Times-Herald and
The Associated Press.
These publications and the wire
service also named Overhouse to
a spot on the second team All-
SWC.
The Times-Herald poll is select
ed by the players and the AP
squad is picked by the league’s
coaches.
Photo salon being planned
A&M’s Intercollegiate Photo
Salon, which has rewarded ef
forts of photographers through
out the Southwest more than 15
years, is building toward Salon
'71 in late March.
Open to members of photo
groups sponsored by U. S. col
leges and universities, the annual
competition is sponsored by the
Memorial Student Center Com
mittee at A&M.
Chairman Greg Gray of Hous
ton said entries in 11 categories
will be accepted until March 24.
Information sent to student
unions, camera groups and visual
aids departments of Texas and
Southwest colleges and universi
ties indicates judging will be con-
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entries in pictorial, experimental,
news, portraiture, sports, human
interest, nature, landscape, still
life, fashion and advertising cate
gories.
Entries to the Camera Commit
tee, MSC, College Station, should
be limited to eight per person
with no more than two per cate
gory, Miss Adam added. An entry
fee of 50 cents per print is re
quired.
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toward most basic human prob
lems and the people’s isolation in
ghetto-type neighborhoods.
He said Mexican-American
youngsters who grow up speak
ing mostly English achieve high
er education levels, higher in
comes and better jobs. They then
tend to move away from Mexi
can-American population pockets,
he added.
“This practice severely limits
the chance of contact” with the
less educated Mexican-American
youngster, he said, and takes
away “visible and tangible evi
dence that more use of the Eng
lish language . . . will result in
substantially increasing their in
comes, status positions and gen
eral well-being.”
Senior aerospace major
named member of institute
James D. Kocurek, senior
aerospace engineering major of
Alvin, has been appointed to the
educational activities committee
of the American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics
(AIAA), announced Dr. Balusu
Rao.
Kocurek, 22, was appointed as
a representative from AIAA’s
student membership by Martin
Goland, Institute president.
He will serve on the committee
chaired by Prof. David C. Hazen,
Princeton vice president-educa
tion, with appointees from aca
demic, government and industrial
communities.
The committee recommends
programs for AIAA in the field
of education and student activi
ties. It meets several times an
nually, usually in conjunction
with an AIAA national meeting.
Vice chairman of Texas A&M’s
AIAA student chapter, Kocurek
serves on the Student Engineers
Council, is treasurer of Sigma
Gamma Tau, aerospace engineer
ing honor society and president
of Tau Beta Pi, engineering
scholarship society.
He was assistant editor of the
“Engineer,” College of Engineer
ing publication, last year.
Dr. Rao is faculty advisor for
the student chapter of AIAA.
ROTC center still open
despite explosion damage
ST. LOUIS (A*)—Classes were
held Tuesday at a Reserve Offi
cer Training Corps center de
spite heavy damage from two
explosions Monday night. The
center was opened last fall to
replace facilities burned by stu
dent demonstrators.
A third explosion about three
hours earlier damaged a build
ing in a federal records center
in another part of the city. Win
dows and glass doors were shat
tered.
Seven police officers and sev
en firemen investigating the in
itial blast at the ROTC center
suffered minor injuries when the
second, more powerful explosion
wracked the building.
An FBI spokesman said a pre
liminary investigation did not de
termine what kind of explosive
was used.
“But whoever used it knew
what he was doing. It was a
very professional job,” he said.
Col. James Kudrna, command
er of the Army ROTC program,
said a telephoned bomb threat
was received in October but
there had been none since.
Kudrna said classes were held
in the damaged building Tuesday
for cadets who were “disgusted
at the destruction” and the ap
parent attempt “to deny them
the right to pursue their educa
tion as they wish.”
Both the Army ROTC building
at Washington University, which
served all colleges in the St.
Louis area, and the Air Force
building were burned in a series
of student antiwar demonstra
tions beginning in late 1968.
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