Word: raza
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...left to wander randomly through their college years with the blind hope of stumbling across others who share similar cultural experiences and can lend them a sympathetic ear. While other minorities have places to turn to for understanding, such as the Asian American Association, Black Students Association or RAZA, students whose backgrounds encompass more than one ethnicity are faced with a dilemma--assimilate or choose just one race to identify with...
Even racial advocacy groups such as the National Council of La Raza and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People testified before Congress that a new multiracial category on the census would be detrimental to government programs that target minorities...
...Making RAZA more accessible to freshman, through big brother/big sister programs was also a predominant theme...
...addition to president and vice-president, nine other board positions were up for vote, all of which were filled by "energetic" RAZA members, according to Ramirez...
...RAZA chose Patricia R. Ruvalcaba '03 as secretary; Brian A. Sandoval '03 as publisher; Reyna P. Hernandez '03 as treasurer; Roberto Gradilla '03 as community liaison; David Montes '03 as social chair; Michael J. Lopez '03 as finance commissioner; Ruben Marielarena '02 as Latino Political Committee chair; Ali A. Valenzuela '02 as East Coast Chicano Student Forum representative; and Alejandro R. Rodriguez '03 as Student Advisory Committee representative...