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Veronica Rosales '94, a former president of Mexican-American student group Raza, voiced the concerns of student advocates for ethnic studies curriculum representation...
Robert Rodriguez, the film's writer, director, co-producer and editor, describes his action comedy -- about a singer-guitarist mistaken in a Mexican border town for a killer who totes his artillery in a guitar case -- as "a taco Western." We'd call it a rough, funny Mad Mex. Now all Hollywood is calling Rodriguez because Columbia Pictures is distributing his movie. Not bad for a 24-year-old who raised nearly half the film's budget (okay, $3,000) by serving as a "lab rat" in a medical-research project in his hometown of Austin, Texas...
...nice, you may be thinking. A Mexican-American filmmaker -- not enough of those. And thrifty too. Rodriguez, the third of 10 children of a nurse and a sales manager for a cookware firm, does seem an exemplary gent. To impress on his younger siblings the value of an education, he has resolved to take the last three courses he needs for his University of Texas degree. But goodwill doesn't make a good film. And one of El Mariachi's zestful pleasures is that you can enjoy it without awarding it affirmative-action points. It's a real movie, high...
...Mexican American applicants jumped 21.4 percent over last year to 329, while Black applicants grew by 20.9 percent from last year's total to 834. The number of Asian-American applicants increased by 5.9 percent from last year...
...Mexican education is being successfully reformed through policies of decentralization and renewed government orientation towards industry, Mexico's Minister of Education said in a speech at the Kennedy School last night...