Word: chicanoes
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...ghetto humor all right, but it comes from a different part of town-the streets of the Latino section of Manhattan's Upper West Side, where a fat kid named Freddie Prinze lived for most of his 20 short years. Nowadays Freddie works another barrio. As the wisecracking Chicano hustler in the decrepit East Los Angeles garage in NBC's smash new series Chico and the Man, Prinze is the hottest new property on prime-time...
...Party. "If you're right on the issues, you may get in trouble with the politicians but not with the people," says Apodaca, who beat his closest opponent by just over 10,000 votes in a six-man scramble for the gubernatorial nomination last month. Supported by labor, Chicano activists and liberals, Apodaca favors establishment of ombudsman-like "citizen service centers" throughout the state...
...School courses, the others in a variety of special programs. About one-fourth of the regular students will be Harvard undergraduates, and the rest will come from all over--some from other Ivy League schools, some from other colleges in the Boston area and some from small black and Chicano colleges in the South and Southwest There is always a sizeable contingent of foreign students, mostly from Japan, as well as a chunk who live in and around Boston but go to college in other parts of the country...
...various groups interested in the program, including the poor whites and Freedberg. This year there will be ten poor whites in the program--if the admissions committee's guesswork as to the race of applicants is correct--and the med school group seems to have calmed down. Now a Chicano group is mad at the program and has written a letter of complaint to President Bok calling, once again, for Crooks's firing...
Because of Zayas, my past three years at Radcliffe will always be treasured; not for our discovery that much of what was taught as "VERITAS" was revealed to be "mientiritas" (Chicano word: "lies"); nor for our feelings of existential isolation in the midst of thousands of brilliant minds. They will not be endeared for anger experienced while listening to wealthy students with patches on their jeans complaining about the variety of cafeteria food--as I envisioned my tired parents eating frijoles, chile, y tortillas as usual...