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...This year was by far the best recruitment year ever for us," Frank Garcia '76 says and he should know. As president of RAZA (the campus Chicano organization), Garcia supervised the entire operation from beginning to end, drawing up the original budget proposals for the recruitment program, signing up Chicanos here for trips to targeted areas in the Southwest last fall, and lobbying for the admission of individual applicants...
...figures invite a certain amount of back patting among all involved parties including Chicano activists, admissions officials, and the administration. Harvard has now established itself as an attractive college for Chicano high school seniors. Specific areas and high schools are becoming reliable sources of applicants, promising a solid pool of Chicano students that Harvard can always draw upon...
Separated from the barrios of Los Angeles and San Antonio and the strife-ridden fields of the San Joaquin Valley by 3000 miles, politicized Chicanos encounter a dilemna at Harvard--the absence of issues that directly concern their community. While some RAZA members do participate in UFW-sponsored pickets of local supermarkets, the organization has chosen to focus its energies on recruiting to expand the size of the Chicano community on campus...
...original recruitment budget RAZA submitted this fall called for $7000 to cover traveling and food expenses that the student recruiters incur during the week-long visits to high schools in California and the Southwest. Garcia's proposal would have sent 12 Chicano undergrads to 11 targeted areas (the Los Angeles area required two recruiters in Garcia's judgment). Byerly Hall balked; by the time the haggling ended, the budget had been nearly halved to $3600, and three areas--San Antonio, Tex., Denver, Colo., and San Diego, Calif.--entirely omitted from the scope of the recruitment effort...
...organizations will include the Black Law Students Association, the Women's Law Association, the Chicano Law Association and the Asian Law Students Association, Hollis said...