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...relies again on individuals," says MSA member Edith I. Ramirez '89. "The fear is that if the individuals don't take a real serious interest in the issue, that very little will really be done...
...Edith Ramirez '89, who met last Friday with Spence to discuss the new program, said she thought the ethnic studies program was too broad in scope to address students' requests for changes in the curriculum...
...addition, she said the burden of recruitingvisiting professors would fall on studentsconcerned with the issue, because departments havehistorically ignored scholars in the field ofethnic studies. In the meeting with Spence lastweek, Ramirez said she brought a list of sevenpossible visiting scholars to the administrators...
Gonzalez found the perfect canvas: a gray concrete-block wall just off Cheesbrough's Lane in the parking lot of El Mercado, a Hispanic gathering place for shopping, food stalls and mariachi bands. Olmos grew up in a house just down the street. Gonzalez and fellow Muralists Tony Ramirez and Xavier Quijas got to work with their acrylic paints. Then Photographer Harry Benson captured the image that appears on the cover...
...last, of course. In the '80s it came apart like wet Kleenex. America has no single culture, but cultures. And so it should, since diversity is better than monotony. In any case, many ethnic Americans are still exiles within the dominant, white matrix. One painter in this show, Martin Ramirez (1885-1960), epitomized the extreme fate of the Hispanic as outsider. A migrant railroad worker from Mexico, Ramirez lost his powers of speech and became a catatonic schizophrenic in Los Angeles in 1915, was committed in 1930 and spent the last three decades of his life in a California madhouse...