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...Chicano, I also know the value of having a sense of culture. And to have ethnic diversity called "petty difference" is to say that retention of cultural identity is not worthwhile. Well, just because there are some who choose to lose their culture does not mean we have to conform and give up ours as well. My culture is everything to me, and if I were to lose it, I would die inside...
Raza's role on campus also provoked discussion last night. Navarette's recently published book, A Darker Shade of Crimson: Odyssey of a Harvard chicano, criticizes Raza as ineffective and internally conflicted during his stay at Harvard...
...devotional art of the all-but-forgotten Sister Corita Kent, a liberal nun of the '60s. I AM USELESS TO THE CULTURE, BUT GOD LOVES ME, one of | Kelley's banners reads. He is as deeply immersed in the religious aura of his infancy, pre-Vatican II, as any Chicano postmodernist doing lurid Madonnas...
...funeral of Chicano hero Cesar Chavez last April, UCLA Chancellor Charles Young announced that the school had decided against creating a separate Chicano studies department. No other ethnic group had its own department, a university task force on the subject noted, and there was not enough academic substance to justify adding that one. Within days, however, 300 students -- equivalent to a tenth of the school's Chicanos and about 1% of total enrollment -- staged a protest that escalated into a window- breaking skirmish with police. Next came a hunger strike by five students and one faculty member. In June UCLA...
...Pachanga conference, which is held at a different area school each year, originated in the early 1970s as a way for Chicano students far from home to spend the holiday together. About 270 students attended this year...