Word: mexican-american
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...Mexican-American student at the Business School organized a student group last Fall which successfully recruited 40 additional Chicanos for Boston-area universities...
Jesse Bojorquez, who got his MBA degree in June, founded the United Mexican-American Students (UMAS) of Boston, which increased Chicano enrollment from two to seven in the MBA program and from two to 12 in the College. Mexican-Americans comprise six per cent of the U.S. population...
Narciso Oano, a second-year MBA candidate and UMAS member, criticized "the reluctance of some schools to be sensitive to the problems of the Mexican-American." Cano cited "the language problem, ingrained as a result of the Southwest's educational system," and said that some universities fail to notify UMAS when UMAS-recruited applicants file incomplete admissions applications...
...Silver Dollar Bar on Whittier Boulevard, deputies found the body of Ruben Salazar, 42, a militant Mexican-American journalist well known in the Chicano community. Salazar, for years a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, joined the Chicano-oriented television station KMEX earlier this year and continued writing a weekly Times column that often bitterly attacked racism among white Angelenos. Many of Los Angeles' Mexican Americans looked to Salazar as their spokesman and interpreter to the Anglos. There is a notable new militancy among Chicanos, inspired by the successes of Cesar Chavez in organizing California's farm workers...
This week 100 San Francisco boys are escaping the city's chilly August fogs for a week of fishing, swimming and hiking in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. They are not the sons of the middle class off with collegiate counselors; they are black, Mexican-American and Chinese youngsters of the city's ghettos -and their camping instructors are U.S. Marines...