Word: chicano
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Others, like Rosa Rios '87, a member of the Chicano student group RAZA, offer a more positive assessment of the Foundation and say the Foundation's progress in improving race relations in a relatively short time is often overlooked. "We should feel lucky that we have an organization like the Foundation here, because it is only recently that minorities have had exposure at Harvard," Rios says...
Coles has a nettlesome habit of segueing into awe at the exact moment that analysis is desperately needed. He devotes 22 pages to a stoical chicano girl named Marty, whose father and brother were killed by a drunk driver. Writing of Marty and another brave child, Coles declares, "One can only try to fathom how children like those two have managed so far to do as they've done. One thereby nudges theory toward human experience, hoping that the latter brings the former to life, and the former helps arrive at a persistent, comprehensible aspect of the human scene...
This is simply the wrong question to ask. And asking it can be paralyzing. TWSA does not purport to speak for every minority student on campus. It is an alliance of some members of five organizations which represent some Asian-American, Black, Chicano, Native American and Puerto Rican students...
Sara L. Cazares '86 tutors young girls from a Chicano working-class neighborhood four days a week. "The stipend allows people from similar backgrounds to provide role models for kids from the projects. As a Latino, I can really relate to them and their problems," she says...
...seem to be on the way out everywhere. And all states must raise their minimum drinking age to 21 by 1987 or risk losing federal highway funds. Even the insurance industry is now effectively part of the lobby against drinking and driving. Like many other groups, the Chicano Humanities and Arts Council in Denver had to cancel a party this year because no insurance was available if beer was sold to raise funds. "High court awards have scared underwriters to death," says Gene Glascock of the Colorado state division of insurance. One Denver eatery had its rates raised from...