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...emphasis of recruiting efforts has been to sharpen the message that higher education is affordable for students from low-income backgrounds, said Fitzsimmons. Melanie B. Mueller '01, the director of HFAI, told the Gazette that the preliminary increase in African-American, Latino, and Asian-American applicants is partially due to the work of the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program...
...heart of internationally-influenced Adams Morgan, savor Latino flavors here at Habana Village and salsa through the night. No clue how to dance? Take a lesson. Sample their signature mojito, made with what seems like an island's worth of crushed spearmint leaves and real sugarcane, a yummy, juicy product of the tropics. Sitting amid painted murals on stucco walls and brightly lit palm trees, it's cake to forget the winter and be whisked away to a white, sandy beach under the beaming sun. In the event of one too many mojitos, return for brunch...
...political career of renowned Panamanian salsa singer Rubén Blades. Blades graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1985, and ran for the Panamian Presidency in 1994. He is currently Panama’s outgoing minister of tourism. The collection adds significantly to the library’s Latino music collection that has in recent years lagged behind collections of African or East Asian musical history. “There’s been a growing interest in Latino music, and this acquisition is an important step in that direction,” said Donna M. Guerra, the curatorial...
...Election Commission declared Flores, the first Latino or Latina president in the UC’s 26-year history, the winner less than a day after suspending her campaign for forging a signature on a list of campaign staff members...
...Minnesota counties started sorting the rejected ballots into five neat little piles, in case the state canvassing board decided (as it did Friday) that the ballots should count. One of those fifth-pile votes, the Franken camp discovered, belonged to Erick Garcia Luna, the chairman of the state Democratic Latino caucus, who voted absentee because he was volunteering the day of the election. Like many people from Latin America, Garcia Luna has two last names, and Minnesotans aren't used to Latin Americans. So it seems logical that some election official looked up his last name under Luna instead...