Word: chicanoes
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...admired. "They don't have a beach, but they ought to," snipes Neil Smelser, a sociologist at Berkeley, Stanford's archrival across the bay. "It's a snootsie private institution where rich white people send their kids to school." (In fact, 33.5% of the current freshman class is black, Chicano, American Indian or Asian American -- more than three times the average at other major private universities.) Even from within the Stanford community, there are those who feel that the place is perhaps a little "too California," as one faculty member puts it. Senior Andrew Patzman points to an intellectual schizophrenia...
Egar said the defense would address the psychological effects of the gap between Razo's Chicano heritage and the affluent, predominantly white environment at Harvard...
...Babbitt proved more fox than fowl. He dated the prettiest cheerleaders, while quietly befriending everyone from chicano gang members to red-necks and jocks, some of whom he tutored in their problem subjects. Despite his gawkiness and good grades, Babbitt was elected student body president...
...sports owners, become caught up in bidding for a few known stars, they may stint on finding creative ways to build a team. Cornell's Palmer worries about developing a two-tier system of gold-plated prima donnas and underpaid working stiffs. Furthermore, says Mario T. Garcia, chairman of Chicano studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, "one campus gains at the expense of another." This is what disturbs N.Y.U.'s Rice, as he ponders the consequences of too much raiding. "It terrifies me out of my wits," he concedes. "I worry either about having a faculty...
...Edward Kennedy (D-MA): In Judge Reinhold's America there is no room for handicapped, lesbian chicano construction workers. There's no room for underprivileged Malaysian immigrants with torn rotator cuffs. There's no room for Slavs with corns on their feet. There's no room...