Word: garcias
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nevertheless, a few stories have emerged. The Boston Globe (5/5/76) estimates the number of Argentine detainees to be about 7500. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the well-known Colombian novelist, estimates that there were about 10,000 foreign detainees as of April 22 (N.Y. Times, 5/8/76). Some individual cases can be recounted here: Emilio de Ippola, a Paris and Montreal educated Argentine sociologist, disappeared on April 4 along with his wife and Eduardo Molina y Vedia, a reporter from La Opinion. A prompt international campaign of telegrams to Videla inquiring about the disappearances made the junta aware that the news had somehow...
...attitude of the admissions office can be illustrated by the case of Los Angeles. A steady source of Mexican-American students for Harvard in past years, Los Angeles and its suburbs contain 36 high schools with Chicano populations exceeding 50 per cent, Garcia says...
...admissions office viewed the matter otherwise. "Jewett [L. Fred Jewett '57, Harvard-Radcliffe dean of admissions and financial aid] claimed that L. A. should be cut out completely because he had already sent two admissions officials there," Garcia says. But only two of the high schools covered by the officials--Montebello and Loyola, a Jesuit school--had predominantly Chicano populations. The compromise that ultimately emerged: one student recruiter would be funded by the admissions office in Los Angeles, and Garcia had to raise private contributions from individual Chicano undergrads to pay for the $300 plane fare...
...Garcia finally won approval of the revised budget in early November, and the operation now entered its second phase--the face-to-face recruitment of Chicano seniors in Sunbelt high school, conducted shortly before Thanksgiving. For many Chicanos who volunteered to make the trips out west, the experience involved several hardships. The group visited four or five high schools each day for seven days. There was no studying and there were no wages. Viola Canales '79, who recruited in the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas says "when I went down to the valley, it was no vacation...
...Garcia appears relatively satisfied with the recruitment system in its present structure. Student recruitment is more effective than alumni efforts, he argues, adding that "students can talk to each other on a peer level." Jewett concurs, saying "The students' activities have in fact increased the number of applicants. Places where students have travelled have produced more applications...