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...Mexican-American leaders found Lindsay "too generalized" in his comments and "quite evasive" on specifics. One specific: a request for a commitment to appoint a Chicano to the U.S. Supreme Court. "Lindsay told us only that we 'ought to participate' in the judicial process," said Armando Rodriguez, head of the Mexican-American Political Association. "Hell, we already know that...
Given last year for the first time, Afro-American 105 was the only course listed in the catalogue that was explicitly concerned with Chicano and Puerto Rican history...
Dean Dunlop described the move as standard procedure in cases where degree requirements are not complete. However, Chuck Aclula, a second-year law student who is head of the Harvard chapter of Movimiento Estudentil Chicano de Aztlan (MECHA), an organization of Chicano students--called the Faculty's decision "selective application" of academic regulations to minority groups. Dunlop called this impression quite wrong...
MECHA was active last year in attempts to boost admissions of Chicano students, and in negotiating with WHRB for two hours of broadcasting per week aimed at the Spanish-speaking community. MECHA leader Benjamin Moya, an instructor at the Law School last year, resigned in protest in June after being denied permission to teach a symposium on "Chicanos...
...from under the lizard's chin, then, since the iguana offered no objections, repeated the performance for local cameramen. The beast departed hurriedly only after Trevino picked it up and dunked it in the pool. When the subject of being Mexican was brought up, Trevino, a Dallas-born Chicano, allowed that he is "making too much money to be Mexican." The poor, durable iguana, he said, is "real Mexican...