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After completing her thesis this past March, for instance, Monica Huerta ’03 can probably now locate the best bargain on a beef burrito in the entire city of Chicago. A History and Literature concentrator, Huerta used her thesis to explore how Mexican culture is portrayed in Mexican restaurants...
...read a book by Jos Limn that had a chapter which encouraged further study of Mexican-American culture,” Huerta says. “I knew that’s what I wanted to do, and after some research I decided to focus on restaurants...
...Huerta was interested in the language that people use to describe Mexican food, rather than any specific aspect of the cuisine. “I noticed the way that food critics use language to critique Mexican restaurants,” Huerta says. “From the 1960s to the 1990s, the language that critics have used demonstrates a tendency of theirs to evolve into cultural experts that have the ability to decide what’s authentic in regards to Mexican food...
...Phil Donohue, who toured the table with a microphone for toasts; to Bette Midler, who sang; to an all-woman orchestra. The guests were divided between people who were always at the Waldorf and people who'd never dreamed of going there. Rosa Parks came, Bella Abzug, Dolores Huerta for the farm workers and many movement people...
...Dolores Huerta Elementary School in Norwalk, Calif., Juan Carlos Ledezma's third-grade class was visited by Amanda Donohue and Antonio Garcia, two Whittier College students who had come to tell the roomful of 10-year-olds all about their college. The Whittier pair also invited the kids to visit the campus and to stay in touch with them and other Whittier undergrads who could answer questions ranging from what the food is like to how easy it is to make friends at college. It was, plain and simple, a recruiting mission. "By letting current students tell their stories," says...