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...first Juan Corona seemed an unlikely suspect. He is married and the father of four daughters who have achieved the Chicano dream of middle-class American respectability. His stucco-and-wood ranch-style house in Yuba City proudly boasts a front-window trophy that Corona won last year for float decoration in the annual Our Lady of Guadalupe parade. He is deeply devoted to the Roman Catholic Church and is a member of the Cursilistas, a group trying to revive religion among Chicanes. Said his distressed wife Glo-rida: "He was always a good husband. He treated us right, without...
...organizing Chicago's "Back of the Yards" neighborhood (Upton Sinclair's Jungle ) in the late '30? and more recently, in organizing the black ghetto of Woodlawn in Chicago, the ghetto of Rochester, N. Y., Chicano groups in Southern California, or Indians in Canada. Alinsky and the staff of his Industrial Areas Foundation have worked repeatedly for the same ends. His commitment is to "a free and open society." a society based on values like "freedom, equality, justice, peace," "a deep concern for the preciousness of human life" and the right to dissent: a society where people will realize that "morality...
...find the present admissions policy toward Chicanos abhorrent." Garay said. "We [Chicano undergraduates in the College] recruited extensively to increase the number of Chicano applications this year, but there was no increase in acceptances despite the larger pool...
Peterson explained the number of Chicanos admitted to the Class of 1975 in terms of the candidates' strengths. "The number of strong candidates in the Chicano pool simply did not correspond to the increase in the size of the pool." he said...
...five Chicano suggestions, Peterson said the number of transfer openings for next year has not been determined, and that "no admissions officer deals with specific racial recruitment, and frankly, we don't want one because of the necessary limitations which would be placed upon such a person...