Word: arciniega
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...single tongue, Spanish. The new metaphor is not the melting pot but the salad bowl, with each element distinct. The biculturalists seek to use public services, particularly schools, not to Americanize the young but to heighten their consciousness of belonging to another heritage. Contends Tomás A. Arciniega, vice president for academic affairs at California State University at Fresno: "The promotion of cultural differences has to be recognized as a valid and legitimate educational goal." Miguel Gonzalez-Pando, director of the Center for Latino Education at Florida International University in Miami, says: "I speak Spanish at home, my social...
...Parolees are almost as bereft of rights as prisoners. So lower federal courts declined to intervene when Raymond Arciniega's parole was revoked. After serving nearly eight years of his ten-year sentence for selling heroin, Arciniega went to work booking acts into a Torrance, Calif., nightspot. Unfortunately for him, two other ex-convicts also worked there, and his parole board decided that he was violating the rule against associating with former prisoners. The Supreme Court unanimously found that conclusion unacceptable. Occupational association is not enough to send a man back to prison, said the court. "To so assume...
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