Word: latinos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the generally rosy picture the administration paints of campus life, Brown is not without its troubles. A recent incident in which two students threw snowballs at a Latino student and allegedly yelled racial slurs at the woman has high-lighted racial tensions on campus...
Chicago has always been a city of ethnic neighborhoods. Politicians have naturally capitalized on these divisions, building power bases along these lines. The Irish, Polish, Black, and Latino communities have vied for political clout, which has ultimately remained in the hands of the first two, more organized groups...
...year later, after a flurry of violent attacks on homosexuals by Latino youths, the commission on social justice of Quinn's archdiocese appointed a Task Force on Gay/Lesbian Issues. Among its 14 members were nine laymen, two priests, one brother and two nuns (one of whom was associate director of the archdiocese's office of religious education). Some members were homosexuals. The chairman was Psychotherapist Kevin Gordon. After 17 months of deliberation, the task force produced a 132-page report, "Homosexuality and Social Justice," published last week. The commission endorsed the document for study but warned that...
...smog, or terrorists, or a socialist government. Real estate prices are not out of sight. So, as Maggy Scherer, a third-generation Californian, who with her husband Allan a few years ago sold their Beverly Hills home to move their 36 ponies to a rustic compound called La Chacra (latino Spanish for Little Farm), points out: "People are leaving France. They're leaving Italy. This is the place." Some concede that cosmopolitanism can go too far. When the band struck up the Star-Spangled Banner before a recent match, one woman demanded loudly: "Whose national anthem is that...
...Traveller moves between the civilized U.S. and subjugated, sunstruck islands. Walcott can find a lasting home in neither place. In the U.S. he catches signs of "the galloping hysterical abhorrence of my race." In Port of Spain, he discovers that "junta and coup d'état, the newest Latino mood/ broods on the balcony." He takes on the identity of Spoiler, a dead man allowed briefly to leave hell and revisit his old haunts. He improvises, calypso style...