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Pathos is not usually associated with the Mexican-American, i.e. Chicano in the era of Radical and Ethnic Chic. Tragedy, oppression and broken promises, yes. But this week, in the Letters to the Editor column of Tuesday, (Dec. 14) a disappointing sense of the pathetic seemed uniquely...
...Supreme Court to stay the California court's decision until it could prepare an appeal. Last week it granted that stay for 30 days. Paradoxically, however, many civil rights leaders opposed the appeal for fear that the Supreme Court might strike down many affirmative action programs. Explained a Mexican-American civil-rights official, Frank Cronin: "Virtually all of the court decisions that have ordered goals or quotas or affirmative action as remedies have been based on a judicial finding of past discrimination. The university didn't produce any history of discrimination. Tactically, this case is kind...
...attitude of the admissions office can be illustrated by the case of Los Angeles. A steady source of Mexican-American students for Harvard in past years, Los Angeles and its suburbs contain 36 high schools with Chicano populations exceeding 50 per cent, Garcia says...
...indefinite about what he would like to do in the future, but he doesn't think he will go back to California. "The prejudice is very subtle there, especially after you acquire some education," Guizar said. He added, "It takes the form of 'I understand the problems of the Mexican-American community'--and you realize it's all bullshit...
...Jadot's arrival in the U.S. show a distinct trend that the Vatican favors. They tend to be pastoral leaders, "holy men with intelligence," as one bishop puts it, who get out among the people−such men as Santa Fe's Robert Sanchez, 41, the first Mexican-American archbishop in the U.S.. The more remote and authoritarian administrators of past decades are a gradually vanishing breed...