Word: chicanoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most galling rejection came from the nearby University of California at Davis. Established in 1968, the medical school had enrolled only two blacks and one Chicano in its first two entering classes. So the faculty authorized a special admissions program for "individuals from disadvantaged educational, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds"; soon it reserved 16 of 100 slots for them in each class. By 1974, the university was using application forms that asked for racial identification; the results made it clear that only blacks, Chicanes, American Indians and Asians need apply for the 16 places. The university never denied that...
...Davis admissions record prior to establishing the special program supports Lowrey's testimony. The Medical School opened in 1968, and during the two years in which the school had no special program, only three minority students--two blacks and one chicano--were admitted...
...America's social conscience instead of reading for Gov 30. Paco played his role to the hilt, all Viva Zapata and Man of La Mancha and Impossible Dream--socialism, cliches and stereotypes and fiery speeches like he'd seen out in California. He picked his favorite target, the other Chicano on the floor--a rich kid from L.A. whose father owned a big factory that built tanks and had put him on the company's board of directors so he could deduct his flights back home. One time Paco heard the rich kid had gotten into a special seminar...
Paco always knew it was the stereotypes that matter--like the fiery Chicano stereotype that had taken out of the migrant's school outside of San Francisco and had put him in the gringo school outside of Beacon Hill. But gradually that year he understood it was that other stereotype, that Harvard-Fly-Club-air-of-casual-scholarship phantom that was going to take him even further in the gringo world as soon as he could climb out of the long black robe on Commencement. Hell, he figured, there's Ropes and Gray and Rose Guthrie and Alexander...
Besides, by the time he went back to California for the holidays, Paco had learned something else. He learned that there were an awful lot of pretty young ladies who had gone to prep schools along with all the squash players, and that the young ladies found fiery Chicano revolutionaries interesting. Interesting as long as they weren't really revolutionaries, of course, but only looked fiery enough to be. Interesting enough to take skiing during reading period and into Boston for the theater and drinks on the weekend. Interesting enough to argue over with their friends who had gone...