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...enclose this quote from the 1975-76 edition of the booklet entitled "Medical School Admissions Requirements," page 302 (on the University of Washington School of Medicine): "Future classes are expected to consist only of Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming residents as well as American Indians, black Americans, and Chicano students regardless of residence...
...inquisitive, well-schooled officials cast much in his own mold-administrative inexperience included. (It also helped if a person had been a classmate of Brown's at Berkeley or Yale Law.) He hotly pursued affirmative action: the Governor's seven-person cabinet includes two women and one Chicano; one of his California state police bodyguards is Penelope Cravens, 27, a former stewardess. Helped mightily by a $768 million black-ink bequest from Predecessor Ronald Reagan, Brown honored his pledge to hold the line on taxes for individuals while keeping state spending growth to sub-Reagan rates. He signed...
...many, the issue of a full-time Chicano admissions official may seem a peripheral one; but the Yale administration doesn't think so. Yale's commitment to the Chicano community has always served as the model among the Ivies. Consuelo Gaytan has worked in the admissions office for several years, and is presently director of transfer admissions and Yolanda Gonzalez is the assistant to the dean of student affairs. The college offers courses in Chicano history and literature, both taught by Chicano faculty members. And Yale provides its Chicanos with approximately $10,000 each year for recruitment efforts, a speakers...
Compare all this with Harvard: no Chicanos in the faculty, the administration, except Arrequin, no courses offered on the Chicano community and no facilities set aside for its Mexican-Americans. The differences shows in the Chicano population; 110 Chicanos are pursuing their undergraduate studies in New Haven, as opposed to 62 in the College...
Jewett is frank about this area. He says "there is no question that in the area of Chicano recruitment, they [Yale] have done a better job of recruiting than any other Ivy school...