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...groups share one overriding tactic, it is probably just educating the wider public about their particular viewpoint in an attempt to dispell myths about the groups. La Raza, the Chicano group, held a series of cultural celebrations last year, primarily to introduce the Harvard community to Chicano culture, Patricia Corrales '84, a member of the group's steering committee, says. ABLE is working on a slide and video presentation to be shown in the Science Center this fall, dispelling myths about the disabled perpetuated in the popular culture. And the GSA again last year held Gay and Lesbian Awareness...
...that would be required of any American who wanted a job. Under pressure from civil libertarians however, Simpson and Mazzoli gave up that idea, and the worker ID issue remains unresolved. S. 2222 merely directs the White House to come up with a workable solution within three years. Meanwhile, Chicano organizations worry that the confusion over worker ID will lead some smaller employers to exclude anyone who "looks" Mexican...
...cliché of crime reporting that the murderer is described as polite, gentle and law-abiding. Richard Herrin, a courteous, religious chicano who had made it through Yale, certainly fit the nice-guy stereotype-at least until July 7, 1977. That morning, at the Scarsdale, N.Y., home of his girlfriend, Bonnie Garland, 20, Herrin, 23, smashed Bonnie's skull with a hammer as she slept. A few hours later, half-naked and covered in her blood, he surrendered to police in upstate New York, confessing that he had killed...
Participating in the coalition are the Black Law Students Association, the Asian-American Law Students Association, L' Allianza--representing Chicano students--the Native American Law Students Association, and La Sociedade Inter-American--representing Caribbean and Latino law students...
...Dave, Otis Redding, the Beatles, the Four Tops and Bob Dylan all in the space of an hour. Nowadays, says Neil Bogart, president of Boardwalk Entertainment Co., "they play music for the 14-to-18 audience, the 30-to-35, the 50-to-60, or for white, black, chicano. And only two out of five stations are willing to play new records...