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...laudable goals every day. I sometimes wonder which organization has a bigger impact on improving race relations at Harvard: the Foundation, or the Harvard Aids Coalition (HAC). On one hand, the Foundation gives out about 130 grants every year, of varying size, for events like an intercollegiate conference for Latino students. On the other, HAC brings together 50-plus students of all colors to work for the same cause. The Foundation celebrates difference. The HAC and similar organizations transcend it.None of this is meant to demean the mission of the Foundation, nor the soon-to-be women?...
...Turner says. They have begun taking the first steps towards engaging the broader community—the club has performers in both Cultural Rhythms and ArtsFirst. But these Irish artists still seem far from achieving the popularity or unity of other cultural performance groups on campus like the Latino Candela dance troupes or the annually sold-out show of the South Asian Association, Ghungroo...
...fifth column of people trying to take back portions of Mexico that were lost. But the reality is different. There is assimilation. The 2000 Census showed that 71% of third-generation Mexican-American immigrants speak only English. And yet even mainstream media tend to make the mistake of equating Latino with Spanish speaking. One of our columnists, Gregory Rodriguez, likes to make the point that nobody would ever think of scolding Rudy Giuliani for not speaking fluent Italian, but everyone seems surprised that the Latino mayor of Los Angeles speaks broken Spanish, but they shouldn...
FLANAGAN: But what's going on that we're seeing the Latino community in Los Angeles move so quickly from poverty to middle class, often with no help from the government, when we see people stuck in intractable poverty who have been in America for generations...
...certain phenotype or physical characteristic,” said Felipe A. Tewes ’06, former president of Fuerza Latina. “What’s sad is that they’re probably going to be looking for a certain type of image of what a Latino criminal would look like. I don’t believe that would be helpful.”According to Conley, the issue of protecting oneself looms large. “One constantly has to be aware,” he said. “You don’t have...