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Jesse Bojorquez, who got his MBA degree in June, founded the United Mexican-American Students (UMAS) of Boston, which increased Chicano enrollment from two to seven in the MBA program and from two to 12 in the College. Mexican-Americans comprise six per cent of the U.S. population...
Mexican-American students attended a conference at Yale last May and formed a National Alliance of Chicano Students representing more than 15 schools and 100 students. "To build this organization," Aragon said, "will be one of the main objectives of Chicano students this year...
...Silver Dollar Bar on Whittier Boulevard, deputies found the body of Ruben Salazar, 42, a militant Mexican-American journalist well known in the Chicano community. Salazar, for years a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, joined the Chicano-oriented television station KMEX earlier this year and continued writing a weekly Times column that often bitterly attacked racism among white Angelenos. Many of Los Angeles' Mexican Americans looked to Salazar as their spokesman and interpreter to the Anglos. There is a notable new militancy among Chicanos, inspired by the successes of Cesar Chavez in organizing California's farm workers...
support for the August 29 Chicano Moratorium...
...salaries. The Los Angeles teachers are demanding that their pay scale, which now runs from $7,200 to $14,350, be raised to a range of $10,000 to $20,000. But they are also making a major pitch for smaller classes, better textbooks, new courses, more teachers for Chicano students and free breakfasts for ghetto children. Before striking, the teachers rejected an offer of a 5% wage hike, claiming that no action was promised on their other demands for vital improvements...