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DENISE L. PARRA Gladstone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 8, 2006 | 4/30/2006 | See Source »

...course, comedy is a language that's already very familiar to them. "We're the first generation to grow up with an all-comedy TV channel - Comedy Central," says Grace Parra, 21, who is president of Columbia University's Fruit Paunch improv group. "We grew up watching Nickelodeon at Night. We saw kids doing comedy for kids. That kind of stuff sticks with you." Their sense of entitlement to humor was honed further by shows like The Simpsons, South Park and the improv series Who's Line Is It Anyway? as well as by edgy comics like Dave Chappelle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hear the One About the Boring English Teacher? | 4/13/2006 | See Source »

Maria Luisa Parra de Leroux, a teaching assistant in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures who herself emigrated from Mexico and entered bilingual education programs, says she attended a rally to protest the Unz petition...

Author: By Claire A. Pasternack, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bilingual Education Question Looms for Local School Programs | 11/1/2002 | See Source »

...recent parent teacher association meeting at her son’s school in Somerville, Parra de Leroux gave a presentation in Spanish at an otherwise English-dominated forum...

Author: By Claire A. Pasternack, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bilingual Education Question Looms for Local School Programs | 11/1/2002 | See Source »

...Parra de Leroux says the educational system will let down students who do not speak English if it bars them from bilingual programs...

Author: By Claire A. Pasternack, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bilingual Education Question Looms for Local School Programs | 11/1/2002 | See Source »

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