Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these hard-hats belong to the New York Coalition of Black and Puerto Rican Construction Workers, and that ten-foot-long "Beat Back Bakke" sign they're holding up removes any doubt. You start talking to one of the hard-hats, and find that he is more than willing to explain his concern about the Bakke case. "Bakke is not only affecting the schools, it is affecting us," he says. "Ours is a job that the average person could do without a high school diploma or college degree, and still make a decent wage. Right now, minority hiring in construction...
...minorities are discriminated against in the workings of this university, who is to decide which ones, and to what degree? According to the constitution presented, a black woman is entitled to three times as much say in the government as a white male, and three-halves that of a Puerto Rican male. Are these ratios supposed to be a quantitative measure of discrimination? Furthermore, religious minorities such as Jews and Catholics, and gay men and women, have been completely excluded from the privileged class of the oppressed. There is certainly just as much and perhaps more evidence of unfair treatment...
Then there was Sullivan, plagued by poor practices since the Puerto Rico trip where he could not even clear 6 ft., who painted his face for "psyche," and walked away with the high jump...
...Classics traveled to Puerto Rico and Portugal during spring recess the last two years. Although John Harvey, organizer and coach of The Classics, has been unable to work out a trip next week, appears The Classics will need their passports in June...
Several members of the Committee have asked that special attention be given the issue of Mexican and Puerto Rican representation in the College, and that the Committee also monitor its recommendations. It has agreed to both requests...