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...HARVARD OFFICIAL was quoted in a Yale senior thesis which charted the impact of affirmative action in admissions on Hispanic enrollment at Ivy League and Seven Sister schools. Three weeks ago at an annual all Ivy Chicano recruitment conference in Philadelphia, Yale senior Cathy Kisee-Sandoval shared her findings with about 75 undergraduates and administrators from 10 schools...
Asian, Latino, Chicano, Black and Native American student representatives agreed on three specific minority concerns for Spence, including...
...bred, Andover-and Yale-educated Anglo, who was a Hollywood screenwriter before being blacklisted by McCarthyites in 1951. James took on his ethnic nom de plume (Santiago is used in Spanish for James) shortly after he and his wife began a 25-year stint as social workers in predominantly Chicano East Los Angeles. James says that his intention was never to deceive but simply "to write about Mexicans from the inside. I wasn't trying to jump on the ethnic bandwagon." Besides, he liked being the impudent young Santiago who is "like me when I'm drunk." That...
...exceptionally well in the Puerto Rican community, very well with Asians and with Chicano groups in California," said Connolly...
When we demand that Harvard desegregate, we speak of all components of the University. One would also be hard pressed to argue that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is integrated, with only seven tenured Blacks and no tenured Chicano or Puerto Ricans. If Harvard wants to become a truly desegregated, multi-racial institution, each of its components--from administration to course offerings--must incorporate perspectives other than those of white males...