Word: chicano
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...Chicano students come out to the East coast and find it difficult to assimilate," said Raza member Carlos Perez '91. "At Harvard, Raza offers moral support, but there needs to be more Hispanic leadership on Eastern campuses. That is something that the forum will encourage...
...Chicano students from Eastern colleges plan to gather for a student forum on higher education issues for Mexican-Americans at Columbia University on October...
...Chicano students often miss family life, said Sylvia Torres '88, one of Raza's five presidents...
...explains, are Yale's radical-chic lesbians; the latter, 'the granola dykes who have old-fashioned ideas about feminism.' Then there are the assimilationists, gay men mostly, who don't want to draw attention to their sexuality, and a growing number of special-interest factions, like the new Chicano-lesbian group. Suddenly Yale has a reputation as a gay school: Last spring, while most campuswide social activities withered away under Connecticut's new legal drinking age of 21, 1000 students attended the annual gay-lesbian ball...
...Sweet Dreams were good movies. But . . . La Bamba? Ritchie Valens was only 17 when he, Holly and J.P. ("Big Bopper") Richardson died in 1959. His music is surely worth remembering; his life is hardly worth dramatizing. So Writer-Director Luis Valdez shapes facts into fable. Valens' family is a chicano caricature; death forever stalks our shooting star; chunky Ritchie is made over into winsome Lou Diamond Phillips. Even the music (by Los Lobos) sounds thin next to the originals, with their booming bass lines. Only at a concert with Jackie Wilson and Eddie Cochran does La Bamba come alive...