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...very fact that an African and an Argentine are even being mentioned as papabili is to the credit of Paul, the supposedly timid Pope. It was Paul who appointed the first black and Chicano bishops in the U.S. in this century, 19 black African and Asian Cardinals and, earlier this year, the first black archbishop in South Africa. He made unprecedented papal visitations to honor Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific islands. In these regions his landmark utterance was not the divisive 1968 Humanae vitae, the birth control encyclical that caused such an uproar in the West...
...Harvard Med School was one of the first in the nation to begin an affirmative action program, when it established the minority admissions subcommittee in 1968. The subcommittee screens all black, Chicano, Asian, native-American, and Puerto Rican applicants and makes recommendations to the central committee...
Cinco de Mayo Chicano Celebration: Latino Health Conference--Countway Library...
Harvard's Chicano population will celebrate Cinco De Mayo, a Mexican holiday analogous to the Fourth of July, this weekend with a three-day symposium commencing this evening and finishing with a fiesta Saturday night...
There are many, many reason to justify this arrangement. The idea is not that regular elections will fail to produce, for example, black or Chicano representatives, but that these groups have, in many cases, special needs vis-a-vis Harvard. Their representatives will specifically address those issues, those needs. Student associations at Brown and at Brandeis failed because at critical times they lost student unity when they lost the support of their campus minority communities. Minority representation in the new student assembly will help guarantee student unity here at important junctures in the future...