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...especially the Northeast, have been rather oblivious to them. But this past fall, some sparks jumped from the Southwest, across Middle America, and landed, of all places, at Harvard. In the short period of two semesters, the University has begun to feel the impact of the Mexican American or Chicano Cansa...
Originally La Cansa received much of its energy from the farm worker movement led by Cesar Chavez, but it has grown to engulf the struggle of nearly all seven-and-a-half million Chicanos, eighty per cent of whom live in cities. It is a monumental struggle-social, economic, political, educational, and psychological in nature-which has the no less ambitious goal of providing full self-determination for the Chicano people. It is a struggle which, though it wants to attain a fairly universal goal, will have to develop new forms and means to achieve it. It is not like...
...ROAD building that took place at Harvard began, rather appropriately, with a farm worker cause early in the fall. Working along with the United Farmers Organizing Committee (UFWOC) representative in Boston, a group of students, both Chicano and Anglo, decided to press Harvard into buying only UFWOC picked lettuce. The Ad Hoc Committee to Stop Scab Lettuce at Harvard designed a petition asking for only union lettuce, collected 1100 signatures, and presented it to the Harvard Administration. The petition was dismissed because it represented the wishes of only a small group of students. After some long-winded meetings with Administration...
...same time that the Ad Hoc Committee was negotiating with the University, the United Mexican American Students of Boston (UMAS), an organization representing all the Chicano students in Boston area schools, was beginning its second recruiting drive. Receiving funds from a number of Boston universities, including Harvard, UMAS was able to send some 18 recruiters to the Southwest, the Northwest, and some cities in the Midwest. Though not promised any specific quotas by the various universities, admissions officers did imply that Chicano applications would receive special consideration. In order words, the admissions committees would try to look at a Chicano...
...GOOD faith, UMAS expected the various universities to respond positively to the additional Chicano applications generated by the intensive recruiting efforts. The University response was, as it turned out, mixed. Some schools cooperated with UMAS requests, while others-particularly Harvard's GSAS, the College and Radcliffe-arrogantly manhandled both recruiter requests and prospective applications. There were several instances of impatience and discourtesy on the part of all three admissions offices...