Word: puerto
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These programs range form lecture-visits and student-discussion/meetings with such Foundation guests as United Nations Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, author James Baldwin, Cherokee Chief Wilma Mankiller, Governor of Puerto Rico Raphael Hernandez-Colon, National Science Foundation Head Walter Massey, Northern Ireland leader John Hume, Berkeley Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien, U.S. Surgeon General Antonia Novello, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, scholar-athlete Arthur Ashe (to name a few), to panel discussions, films and debates on every conceivable aspect of race relations...
...director and students, of the Harvard Foundation have also successfully petitioned the deans of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences [FAS] for several new Ethnic Studies courses in the curriculum (including Puerto Rico in the Twentieth Century, Asian-American Culture and history and Chicano Politics). In an effort to help increase the number of minority faculty of Puerto Rican, Mexican-American, Asian-American, African-American and Native American Indian backgrounds, the students and faculty of the Harvard Foundation have collected the resumes of dozens of professors across the nation, presented them to the Faculty and secured the appointment of numerous...
...Harvard Foundation was established in the spring of 1981 by the president, deans and Faculty of the University for the purpose of improving race relations among Harvard's increasingly diverse student population. Its formation followed widespread expressions of dissatisfaction among mainly Black, Puerto Rican and Native American Indian students about their treatment at Harvard...
...this academic year, homosexual student groups have approached the Foundation indicating that the "demographics of the University have changed over the last ten years and that just as Asian Americans, African Americans, Puerto Ricans, Mexican Americans and Native Americans are considered cultural minorities, so too should bisexual, gay and lesbian students be deemed a separate culture and given a place on the Harvard Foundation's Board...
Julia's fascination with the arts and theaterbegan at his Jesuit high school in Puerto Rico, hesaid, when his English class studied Shakespeare...