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Patrisia Gonzales, the first Latina syndicated columnist in the country, and Roberto Rodriguez, author of the books La RAZA and Codex Tamanchuan: On Becoming Human, shared a discovery they had recently made on the origin of Mexican-Americans...
...author of witty and mysterious curiosities, Cathleen Schine, takes an unexpected, wrong turn to the Galapagos Islands with The Evolution of Jane. The existential questioning of the protagonist, Jane Barlow Schwartz, is based on Charles Darwin's Origin of Species. With the additional layering and listing of the names of famous thinkers such as Freud, Marx and Nietzsche, Schine sets out to prove, as she stated in an interview, that she "is a pseudo-intellectual. And [she's] really good...
...Advice for Cornell," The Crimson Staff attacks randomization on the grounds that it has eroded the "individual character" and "distinguishable flavor" of the Houses. This critique would been more convincing had it not been based on a flawed conception of the origin of the House system...
...young men entering college were allowed to choose their houses, those coming from the same school, or from schools of the same type and from similar early surroundings, would naturally select the same House; and thus there would be a segregation among the Houses on the basis of origin--certainly a most unfortunate one." The House system drifted away from these ideals in the later years of the century, and the present assignment system has largely restored Lowell's vision, with many new dimensions added to each "cross-section" just as they have been added to the College...
...prepare to enter the workplace. New York City's Fujian association estimates there are 500,000 illegals from the province in the U.S.; the CIA puts the undocumented influx at 100,000 a year. (In comparison, the 1990 U.S. Census estimates there are 2.3 million American residents of Chinese origin.) What is certain is that for reasons both global and local, the illegals, their transporters and their employers are forgoing the boomtowns of the West Coast and homing in on New York City...