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THE BATTALION
Friday, May 5.
Cinco de Mayo, Mexican
holiday turns into U.S. fiesta
SAN DIEGO (AP) —Americans will toss tortillas and
down shots of tequila Friday in honor of Cinco de Mayo, par
tying with a fervor that leaves many Mexicans scratching
their heads in wonderment.
Cinco de Mayo is a Mexican holiday, but a minor one. It
marks a May 5, 1862, victory by a small army of Mexican
patriots and peasants over stronger French forces, but it’s not
Mexican independence day — a common misconception
among Cinco de Mayo partyers in the United States.
In the United States, it’s become the Latin version of St.
Patrick’s Day — largely because makers of beer, chips, salsa
and tequila promote it heavily as a reason to party.
“When Mexicans first come to the United States and
somebody mentions that they’re all excited about some Cin
co de Mayo festival, they say, ‘What?’ ” said Carols E. Gra-
cie, president of a marketing firm
in Burbank that specializes in
Hispanic American consumers.
“It would be like,Canadians
making a big deal out of the
Boston Tea Party," she said. “It’s
a non-event made into a big deal
by marketing.”
In Mexico, Cinco de Mayo is
marked with sober battle re-en
actments and political pro
nouncements.
Since the 1960s, Cinco de
Mayo has evolved into a major
event in Hispanic-heavy Ameri
can communities because of a
push by Chicano activists who
wanted a Mexican cultural event
celebrated in schools. But the
marketing aspect of the holiday
has become undeniable.
Margarita sales will double Friday at an El Tort Mexican
restaurant in San Diego, where general manager Jacob Rivera
is organizing a tortilla toss — a chance to win free meals by
lobbing a com tortilla into a sombrero.
Rivera, who can't recall celebrating Cinco de Mayo dur
ing his childhood in Tijuana, is good-natured about the par
ty, seeing it as a chance to tell his mostly non-Mexican pa
trons a bit about history.
“When Mexicans first
come to the United
States and somebody
mentions that they're
all excited about some
Cinco de Mayo festival,
they say, 'What?' "
— Carols E. Gracie
marketing firm president
Cinco de Mayo is the biggest day of the year for avoca
dos. Americans will eat 17 million pounds of the stuff, or 34
million avocados, mostly as guacamole, according to the
California Avocado Commission. Super Bowl Sunday comes
in second.
Sales also will jump for Jose Cuervo, the world's top-sell
ing tequila, said Steve Goldstein of UDV North America, the
brand’s importers.
The company is dispatching a “Tijuana Taxi” to bars and
restaurants in the Los Angeles area; throwing a block party
with concerts and a “pub crawl” in Chicago; giving away T-
shirts in New York; and dropping a “margarita bar” into the
waters off Miami's South Beach in what is being billed as
the “Sink-0 de Mayo.” *
While some Hispanics feel
Mexican culture warrants a holi
day that promotes history more
than hangovers, others welcome
the merrymaking.
Maria Gisela Butler, a Chicano
history' professor at San Diego
State University, said she used to
ask students to list five things they
knew about Mexico. Common re
sponses were tacos, graffiti, crime
or drugs, she said. Cinco de Mayo
may promote superficial concepts
of Mexico, she said, “but at least
it’s something positive.”
Richard Griswold del Castillo,
chairperson of the university’s
Chicano studies department,
added that the day honoring a “mi
nor miracle” in Mexican history has resonance for today’s Mex-
ican-Americans.
“It showed valor and courage*of the Mexican people light
ing against a foreign invader,” he said. “For the Chicanes in the
United States, the same thing has existed for about 150 years,
where the Mexican people have fought to preserve their cul
ture, their language in the face of overwhelming odds.”
And besides, he said, “America is famous for commercial
izing stuff. 1 guess it’s a sign of success when you're being com
mercialized, too.”
Four students charged for frat death
WATKINSVILLE, Ga. (AP)
Four University of Georgia freshmen
who survived a car accident that killed
another student during a fraternity
prank were indicted Thursday on
charges of vehicular homicide
and involuntary manslaughter.
A grand jury indicted the dri
ver, David Penn of Marietta, and
three surviving passengers in the
March 30 death of Ben F.
Grantham III of St. Simons Island.
Vehicular homicide carries
up to 15 years in prison; invol
untary manslaughter can bring
up to 10 years.
Penn and the surviving pas
sengers were pledges of Alpha
Tau Omega; Grantham, 20, was a
full member.
Authorities have said the
pledges traveled from Athens into
rural Oconee County on March 30
with Grantham handcuffed and perhaps
blindfolded in the cargo hold of Penn’s
sport utility vehicle.
Troopers estimate that Penn reached
speeds of 45 mph or more before losing
control of the truck and careening off
the rural gravel road.
“This is based on the
boys causing Ben
Grantham's death by
driving recklessly. As
tragic as it was, it
shouldn't have
happened?'
— Flarry Gordon
District Attorney
University officials have said Penn
was driving up to 90 mph. Tests of Penn’s
blood alcohol level were negative.
Also indicted were Stephen Ashley
McNally of Richmond, Va.; Gregory
Scott Lakas of Lawrenceville, and
Robert Walter Dailey of Dalton.
i Penn’s lawyer did not return
messages seeking comment.
It was unclear whether the oth
er students had lawyers who could
edmment on the case.
District Attorney 11307 Gordon
said the case was a prank among
friends that turned tragic.
“This is based on the boys
causing Ben Grantham’s death by
driving recklessly,” Gordon said.
“As tragic as it was, it shouldn’t
have happened.”
Since the accident, the frater
nity has voted to dissolve its char
ter. Penn was suspended from the
university for a year and 11 other
students implicated in the prank
but not directly involved in the acci
dent have faced sanctions in universi
ty conduct court.
News in Brief
Microsoft to ash
judge to intercc
REDMOND, Wash. (AP)-||
crosoft Corp. may ask a fedeil
judge to throw out the Justia
Department’s plan to breakij
the company, arguing that!
government improperly bS
its proposal on evidence I
wasn't presented at trial,!
cording to people close tol
antitrust case.
Microsoft objects to
statements of five outsidee
perts in the plan submitted^
U.S. District Judge Thomasf
field Jackson of Washington
D.C., by the Justice Departs
and 17 states, accordingtod
sources, who spoke on coin
tion of anonymity.
The software company i
tends those experts address
issues that were not brought^
in the nearly yearlong trial.
On April 3, Jackson ruledd
Microsoft had violated stateaoj
federal antitrust lawsbyusip
monopoly power in personi
computer operating systems:
crush rivals. The governmr
then asked the judge to break! 1 -
crosoft into two rival compantej
Microsoft must respond!)
May 10. and the sources saw
filing is still being drafted.Hi
company has already saidiU
then ask for substantial delays'
the proceedings before hearrc
are held. Jackson’s planscallt
hearings on May 24.
Kovacic added that if Jacks!'
does not honor Microsoft’s!:
quest to toss the government
remedy entirely, he would have:;
allow Microsoft to have aneqti
chance at rebutting the ne.
claims, possibly including aero;;
examination of the government
experts and providing expertte
timony of its own.
Student admrtsfe
killing landlady
SAN FRANCISCO (AP;-’
27-year-old college studenta|
legedly told police that heieef
his landlady, dismembered
body and discarded the pa' ,
throughout the city.
Vadim Mieseges was arret
ed at a San Francisco-areami
after he tried to hit secunij
guards with a wooden dowel,pi
lice said. Later, he “suddenl
blurted out” that he had kill®
the woman with whom he sha%
an apartment, police DepL;
Chief Richard Flolder said. E
Police said he led investigated
to at least three locations, inelni
ing Golden Gate Park, where a'
man torso was found Wednesdi
Police did not.disclose whetfi
other body parts were found.
Forensic tests will detemr-
whether the torso belonged:
Ella Wong, 47, from who§
Mieseges sublet a room, poC
said. A family member of Won!
reported her missing April 30,1
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