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Guizar is very active in Chicano student organizations. He is a member of La Raza, and plays Mexican folk music on WHRB every other week. Guizar said, "I think Harvard has the effect of opening people up, of making them more aware. For instance, people use the word Chicano more often here." But, he adds, while Harvard made it possible for him to escape what he calls the confines of his environment, it also sometimes makes it hard for him to retain his "cultural identity...
...November Guizar went on a two-week minority recruiting trip for the University. He termed it "a success," but added that "Chicano recruitment should not mean just going to the suburban high schools and talking to upper class Chicanos. I'd like to see them get out to Roosevelt High in Fresno, where people are who never thought of going to Harvard...
Other episodes take place, as on Sesame Street, in neighborhood settings. Because black and Hispanic children are a special concern, many of the shows are filmed in black areas or in the barrio. For example, at "Julio's Panaderia," a bakery in East Los Angeles, a Chicano family solves everyday problems with math. Coolidge Cool Breeze, a disc jockey on Factory, is a character designed to appeal to blacks. Dialing a number, Cool Breeze croons: "Might this be the home of Olive Crabtree? Can you tell me for one hundred big smackers what the answer is to eight times...
...course, there are exceptions; among hundreds of thousands of black, Chicano and Indian families, among many of Appalachia's people and in our urban ghettos, which seem to grow and grow, one finds children who are hungry, malnourished, plagued by a variety of untreated illnesses and certainly not catered to-not at home, not at school, not in the neighborhood. There are even children in this country in this century who are born in circumstances no better than those obtained in 1775. If medical knowledge was, at best, primitive at the time of the American Revolution, the first-rate...
...evaluate their lives and their patterns. Some, like the hookers, see little way out, but we also find women who have radically changed their direction, and we see a new generation growing with more hope than their mothers ever had. At the close of the film a young Chicano girl is asked what she wants to become. Whe she answers, the interviewer demands, "But what if they won't let you?" She thinks for a while, smiles, and cooly replies, "I'm going to fight...