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Tuesday, January 24, 1984A'he Battalion/Page 5 tweal is but tiestfci itities. bsaid, 'lodes- ilwere tonse- b are bud," {roup on ike i plan- several te$ on lAttor- Horses td last lies jr. lunkeii. itk and lught inwide, lin-area J350a ntracis it com es bad Ifordie lusjlal !oreadt ! kept, said ab ters in- se. EDCI prof active in and out of class By KARLA K. MARTIN Reporter When Jesus Garcia arrived in College Station eight years ago, he was shocked by the huge cockroaches and the unfamiliar Texas accent. He has never grown used to the roaches, he says, but he has adjusted very well to the life of an associate professor of the educational curriculum and in struction department at Texas A&M. “I think Aggies are extremely intelligent individuals,” Garcia says, “and I think I would be doing them an injustice if I pat ronize them. So when I walk into a classroom, I make a lot of de mands on them.” Garcia is active not only in the classroom, but also at the local, regional and national levels of the National Council for the So cial Studies. The NCSS was founded in 1921 to promote the study of problems in teaching the social studies to the students’ best advantage. Today, with a membership of 17,000, the NCSS is the largest organization of teachers and su pervisors of social sciences, his- Itory and geography in the Un ited States. Garcia, a member of the Council’s Nominations Commit tee and a past chairman of the Committee on Racism and So cial Justice, recently held two workshops at the NCSS annual convention in San Francisco. The first workshop was about interest groups that influence the teaching of social studies. “A lot of us have been quite concerned about the cry of cen sorship,” Garcia said. “A num ber of groups from the left and the right have decided to set themselves up as gods to decide what should and should not be in textbooks.” He said that “left and right” refer to people like Mr. and Mrs. Mel Gabler of Longview who regularly criticise textbooks up- ption by the Texas State Board pf Education, and certain inority groups who also want ;o dictate textbook content. He said that interest groups ave a strong influence in the -nembei ^curriculum of teachers through- “1 kne» out the nation. " -'n “The Gablers are well and alive and do live in Longview bnd have tentacles that stretch from California to Boston,” he said. The second workshop cen tered on a discussion of the q U jt tlit treatment of blacks in past and present United States history him In textbooks. “I became interested in what is in textbooks while doing my aster’s work at Berkeley,” said arcia, who received his mas- and doctoral degrees in education from the University of California at Berkeley. '( “Since then,” Garcia said, “I’ve done numerous studies general, isn’t interested in bear- looking at the treatment of ing that. Also, it would portray women and minorities -- speci fically blacks — in secondary U.S. history books.” Garcia became interested in the treatment of minorities be cause, he said, there is enough America from a negative pros pective and publishers are hesi tant to suggest that Americans, in general, have done some things to other Americans that had some rather negative effects evidence suggesting that accu- on them.” rate portrayals of groups can Garcia said he feels that an lead to reduction in prejudice, entirely positive view of America “I’ve looked at these tex- with respect to blacks also pro- tbooks for the last 10 years,” vides youngsters with an inaccu- Garcia said. rate perception of the status of He compared five secondary blacks in the American experi- textbooks published between ence. 1956 and 1975 to 11 published The key, he said, is balance, between 1981 and 1984. In his attempt to combat in- “My gut reaction was that the accurate and stereotypic por- treatment of blacks in the ’80s trayals of blacks and other would be less than what it was in groups in textbooks, Garcia has the ’70s,” Garcia said, “but that written a new social studies tex- was not the case.’ tbook series. The series, which took three years to complete, will be nation ally marketed in 1984. It is writ ten for the elementary grades (kindergarten through grade 8). “It will be out in July and we will begin marketing the tex tbook during the 1984 annual convention in Washington D.C.,” Garcia said. Garcia, a nationally known fi gure in multiethnic education, is working with a graduate student to examine the treatment of minorities and women in the sci ence textbooks in secondary classes. Garcia says, even though he is involved in so much, his most esponsi nd CBS Phyll# ic Supet •ing ilii J beem Housioi: graph* Blinks, •ed who earn ami 50. ewiiM couldni = work; ag sprini practice “I think Aggies are extremely intelligent individuals,” Profes sor Garcia says, “and I think 1 would be doing them an injus tice to patronize them. So when I walk into a classroom, I make a lot of de mands on them.” Garcia said that with the pub lication in 1968 of A Land of the Free: a History of the United important activity is with his States, things turned around. family. That book is considered by “Little did I know that when I Garcia to be a landmark tex- arrived here eight years ago that tbook because, he says, one of my wife would be an Aggie,” the major authors was a black Garcia said. His wife, Diane, is a historian. “There are many illustrations in textbooks today,” Garcia said. “I found some textbooks had as many as 40 pictures that had a figure that was black in it.” He compared this with one of the 1950’s textbook that had only two illustrationsof blacks in it. “I think the textbooks need to deal with the question of institu tional racism, why groups con tinue to find themselves at the lower ends of society,” Garcia said. “I think textbooks don’t portray thatjjecause society, in December graduate of Texas A&M. His children include Francis co,6, and Victoria, 10. “But, to me,” said Garcia, re turning to his professional views, “the bottom line is that the kids do learn something in the classroom. I want to make sure that they begin now, at this part of their career, formulating their educational philosophy. This is so that when they go out to teach, they’ll have something which all teachers should have — a sense of purpose, a sense of direction.” 1X01 ★ Endowed Lecture Series announce! intsztjLzvji foz c]znzza£ committzz, nzznzljzzitzLfi. cAf-jifiCicatLont now aouiCakrCe. at t/ie. Ae-cretarij i ffsHand (<=f^oom 216 dommLtte. intexoLs-Kn to He HietJ. jJ.anv.a'Uj 30 cXtzcl 31 Glenn recruits Hispanic voters United Press International EL PASO — Sen. John Glenn of Ohio — former astronaut and Democratic presidential hopeful — brought his campaign to the border Monday to woo Hispa nic voters. “I’m in favor of the Simp- son-Mazzoli immigration re form bill if it can be amended to eliminate parts which may be discriminatory,” Glenn told approximately 300 sup porters at El Paso Interntional Airport. Glenn accused Reagan of creating a $200 billion military deficit and sending Marines and other military forces to Lebanon and Central America. “We are certainly not drift ing toward peace,” he said. The candidate praised Mex ican Americans for their pat riotism and loyalty to the Un ited States. “Mexican Americans have the greatest number of ser vicemen who are recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor — 37,” he said. Glenn, 62, said he would negotiate for peace in the world. “I have been through two wars and I have written more than my share of ‘next-of-kin’ letters,” he said. “I don’t want to see war ever again.” The presidential hopeful said he would like to set a na tional goal of eliminating illiteracy in the United States. In the international educa tional assessment scores, he said, the United States ranked 10th. “We ought to be ashamed of ourselves.” He said Reagan has no one to blame for the nation’s de ficits but himself. The economic recovery is a false recovery, Glenn said. “Our children will be paying for it.” Arraignment set in Chagra case United Press International SAN ANTONIO — Con victed drug smuggler Jmmy Chagra was scheduled Tuesday for arraignment on federal charges that he conspired to kill assistant U.S. Attorney James Kerr. Chagra, 38, and Richard Kearns, 44, were indicted by a federal grand jury last Novem ber for the Nov. 21, 1978 attack on Kerr, who was only slightly injured. Both men were indicted for conspiracy to murder, while a second count charged Kearns with assaulting a federal pro secutor. Chagra was scheduled to appear Tuesday morning for arraignment before U.S. Magis trate Robert B. O’Conner. Kearns’ arraignment hearing was scheduled for later T uesdav. Chagra is currently serving a 30-year sentence, without parole, for conducting a con tinuing criminal narcotics enter prise. He was also sentenced to 15 years for conspiring to ob struct the investigation of the May 29, 1979 shooting death of U.S. District Judge John Wood Jr. Kearns is currently serving an 18-month sentence in Concord, N.H., for theft from an inter state shipment. The indictments alleged that Chagra arranged through an associate, Robert Piccolo, to pay Kearns to kill Kerr, who was in vestigating Chagra’s drug deal ing activities. Kerr, an administrative law judge whose whereabouts have not been disclosed, was slighly injured by Hying glass in the 1978 attack near his home in the Alamo Heights district of San Antonio. is getting around... CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST A dynamic opportunity to grow in your Christian faith. 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