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Records were set in two demographic categories: 54 Hispanic students will enroll, up from the previous high of 50 in the Class of 1995; and 325 Asian-Americans plan to attend, up from 322 in the Class of 1996.
Consider for a moment our beloved Undergraduate Council. Roughly 11 percent of its 80 members are Asians, in stark contrast to the 20 percent of the overall Harvard community who are Asian. Compare this to the fact that 23 percent of the council is African-American, an impressive number especially...
And according to a recent study by Linda Chavez, Latinos seem to be climbing and assimilating just the same. "Hispanics are succeeding as most other groups before them did," writes Chavez. "In fact, a careful examination of the voluminous data on the Hispanic population gathered by the Census Bureau and...
This is happening again with Asians and Latinos. A vast majority of Asian and Latino-American families now live among whites. Both groups are fast assimilating into the socio-economic mainstream. According to the Census Bureau, now almost a quarter of all Asian-Americans' marriages are marriages with whites (the...
Yet none of the larger experiments has followed suit. In Alamogordo, Inez Moncada, whom a 1987 cumulative vote turned into the 24%-Hispanic city's first Hispanic councilperson in decades, was re-elected handily in each subsequent vote. (The cumulative arrangement ended this year, however, and it remains to be...