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With Prefrosh Weekend looming, minority groups have started their spring scramble to secure hosts for Harvard’s newest admits. It starts every April, when each of the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program’s (UMRP) five divisions—for African American, Asian American, Latino American, Mexican American, and Native American students—host phone-a-thons to call admitted students. “At the end of our conversation [with these students] we ask if they’re coming to Prefrosh Weekend, and particularly with the Asian students we ask if they?...
...Latino experience is really rich and very unique. We are very disappointed," Rivas-Rodriguez said. "This is the story of not only our parents, our grandparents, but our tios and tias. This is not a Puerto Rican issue, not a Mexican issue, not a Cuban issue, but all Latinos and Latinas. This is one of the few times we all agree on something...
...criticism mounted in Latino media, Burns issued a statement saying he was "dismayed and saddened" by an assumption that anyone was intentionally excluded. "For thirty years we have made films that have tried to tell many of the stories that haven't been told in American history" and he went on to ask viewers to "refrain from passing judgment on our work until they have seen...
...Congressional Hispanic Caucus has added its weight to the criticism of the publicly funded network, and PBS has responded saying it is taking the "situation very seriously" and is "now working intensively to determine how best to proceed and have made a commitment to respond to Latino leaders soon...
...There was no shortage of material if Burns had chosen to include Latino subjects: A quick glance at the University of Texas web site U.S. Latinos and Latinas and World War II reveals the stories of numerous veterans, from farm-worker families in South Texas to famed members of the so-called Aztec Eagles, the 300-member Escuadron 201. The Eagles were an all-Mexican expeditionary force, organized after Mexico declared war on the Axis powers, which trained in the U.S. and then flew combat missions in the Philippines. Only five members of the squadron are still alive...