Word: chicanos
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...academic challenge that Raul Perez '90, a minority activist and a member of the steering committee of the Chicano student organization RAZA, has in mind. It's the challenge of being a member of an underrepresented ethnic group at a school with a reputation for stasis...
...from California, you've got Stanford in your backyard with Chicano faculty and a Chicano studies program," Perez says. "Why go to Harvard where you don't know what it's like?" He says many minority students, himself included, are afraid of Harvard because it seems so different from their own culture...
...contribution." During his time in Cambridge he has worked to aid understanding between people of different races, cultures and classes. One way of achieving this goal is to recruit more minorities, and Perez will be helping the admissions office do just that next year by trying to allay Chicano students' fears of the 352-year-old institution...
...situation may be improving in East Asian Languages and Civilizations as next year's chairman, Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy Wei-ming Tu, is Chinese. But the University's overall record in hiring Hispanic and Chicano faculty members has not been particularly good, professors agree...
...dearth of Hispanic and Chicano faculty members is especially distressing, Professor of Government Jorge I. Dominguez says, because Harvard has succeeded in attracting more Hispanic undergraduates in recent years. He says he is often asked to advise students studying Hispanic or Chicano issues, even though the subject is not in his field...