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...population expected to be 25% Hispanic by 2050, hitting the Hispanic sweet spot isn't just politically correct, it's a business necessity. Even as big companies like Hershey's, Citibank and Proctor & Gamble roll out products just for American Hispanics, advertisers already see the next frontier to be Latino-centric mainstream marketing, the same way hip-hop, urban culture has pervaded the general ad market in the past decade. Crest, P&G?s flagship toothpaste, has just named 5-year-old Cuban-born girl Enya Martinez its new ?Crest Kid,? the all-American advertising icon represented in the 1950s...
...school's $643 million budget. But its approximately 400 students, who all get scholarships, enjoy an enviable student-professor ratio of less than 15 to 1, compared with about 25 to 1 for regular students. And while more than 80% of Miami Dade's honors students are black or Latino, students in similar programs at other community colleges have been predominantly white females. "We have to be careful that in the scramble for prestige we don't lose our most important focus--open access," says Richard Romano, director of the Institute for Community College Research at SUNY/ Broome Community College...
That same year, Summers is criticized for refusing to establish a Latino studies center. Around the same time, the faculty responds angrily to reports that Summers called a law professor’s question “stupid” during a lecture...
Around the same time, a public disagreement with faculty members over the foundation of a new Latino Studies center arose, and the Globe reported an incident in which Summers called a question asked by a law professor “stupid” during a lecture...
...month, it took just six court days for lawyers to settle on 12 jurors and eight alternates. There were surprises too in who was picked--and who was not. Of the eight women and four men sworn in as jurors, none are African American, seven are white, three Latino, one Asian and one race unknown. There is one African American among the alternates...