Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today Vicki is the Mexican Hat. Sherie, a massage therapist when she is not performing, will be the Winter One. Vicki's trunk, overflowing with costumes and masks, stands in the ravine about ten feet from the Galisteo creek. Sherie, doing a little dance in her robe and mask, suddenly slips on a flat, wet rock and falls hard on her back. "I'm O.K.! I'm O.K.!" she shouts through her mask, and she gets back up. Suddenly an old Subaru cuts down into the ravine, and Ifan Evans, 47, who is driving, brings the car to a sharp...
...some t'ings, je n'sais pas, I don't t'ink dey oughta got: like Mexican food. Which border we at, anyway...
...surge of unrest among Mexican students may have tapped a swelling current of discontent throughout the population. The main target: the De la Madrid government, synonymous in the minds of most Mexicans with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), which has ruled Mexico without interruption for 58 years. Party officials were said to be stunned by the size and force of the student movement. Says Political Analyst Adolfo Aguilar Zinser: "There's no way of knowing what will set the people off. The government can squeeze salaries, raise prices, cut services, cheat in elections, and nothing happens. Suddenly they...
...enrollment: about 400,000) share many of the same concerns with their French and Spanish counterparts. Last April newly appointed Rector Dr. Jorge Carpizo McGregor warned that government belt tightening would require an end to U.N.A.M.'s open admissions policy and a hike in tuition. Last week protests from Mexican students forced Carpizo to back down...
Several weeks ago, The Crimson printed an editorial by Laurie Grossman on Mexican immigrant workers in California ("California Contradiction," January 14). later, Saied Kashani '86, a native Californian, wrote The Crimson to "take exception" to the examples of racism and economic oppression mentioned in the article. Apparently, Mr. Kashani felt the article exaggerated the amount of racism inflicted upon immigrants and the rest of California's Mexican-American population. Now, as both a California and a Mexican-American, it is I who find it necessary to take exception to the remarks of Mr. Kashani...