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Jewett recognizes the need, but nonetheless defends the admissions proceedings. "We haven't hired any admissions personnel this year, due to the merger of the two admissions offices," he says, adding "when we've had openings in the past, we've never had a Chicano applicant. Hiring Arrequin on a part-time basis was the best available alternative...
...attitude of the admissions office can be illustrated by the case of Los Angeles. A steady source of Mexican-American students for Harvard in past years, Los Angeles and its suburbs contain 36 high schools with Chicano populations exceeding 50 per cent, Garcia says...
...Jewett '57, Harvard-Radcliffe dean of admissions and financial aid] claimed that L. A. should be cut out completely because he had already sent two admissions officials there," Garcia says. But only two of the high schools covered by the officials--Montebello and Loyola, a Jesuit school--had predominantly Chicano populations. The compromise that ultimately emerged: one student recruiter would be funded by the admissions office in Los Angeles, and Garcia had to raise private contributions from individual Chicano undergrads to pay for the $300 plane fare...
Garcia finally won approval of the revised budget in early November, and the operation now entered its second phase--the face-to-face recruitment of Chicano seniors in Sunbelt high school, conducted shortly before Thanksgiving. For many Chicanos who volunteered to make the trips out west, the experience involved several hardships. The group visited four or five high schools each day for seven days. There was no studying and there were no wages. Viola Canales '79, who recruited in the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas says "when I went down to the valley, it was no vacation...
...Chicanos are most vocal in their criticism regarding the third phase of the process--the actual admission of Chicanos. Calls for institutionalization of the system always focus on one specific demand, the hiring of a full-time Chicano admissions official. Harvard has only chosen to hire Esteban Arrequin, a third-year student at the School of Education, as an assistant to the Committee on Admissions. While Arrequin does exercise a vote on each Chicano applicant, he is the first to acknowledge the inadequacy of Harvard's gesture. Arrequin works on a part-time basis at. Byerly Hall, spending...