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...described in stark terms the living conditions among Chicano farm workers in California and the Southwest, decrying their "poverty and indignity." He cited high child mortality rates and extremely low life expectancies for farm workers as evidence that the migrant farm system is unjust...
...dean of the Nicaraguan school invited the students for the two-week visit after he spoke to Chicano and Puerto Rican student groups at a Med School conference last spring...
...Chicano population on Ivy League campuses faces a dilemma in trying to recruit students from the Southwest to the East Coast where there is no Chicano community and where the Chicano population at most Ivies is very small. Chicano students coming to places like Harvard do so knowing they face cultural isolation. So the dilemma, from the perspective of student recruiters and others working towards increasing Harvard's minority population, centers on the competing and frequently circular goals of attracting students by building Harvard up, while chastising the University with the hope of improving support services...
THERE'S AN INHERENT CONTRADICTION: How can one ethically recruit students to Harvard knowing that the College does not support--financially or philosophically--a counseling network aimed at Chicano students? How does one convince College officials that moral, academic, social financial and other forms of support for minority organizations help students provide without "proving" that that minority students are failing? (This is especially difficult because the University does not compile with-drawal and graduation statistics by racial and ethnic breakdowns.) If minority students are struggling at a rate different from their majority counterparts, how do student recruiters argue...
Without institutionalized support services or minority groups to foster cultural awareness or celebration, the Chicano student will soon melt into the Harvard pot. It would be silly to indict proponents of the integrationist--really, it is assimilationist--philosophy as intentionally malevolent or racist; they probably geuinely believe that such ideology and subsequent University action is in the minority students' best interest...