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...Chicano students come out to the East coast and find it difficult to assimilate," said Raza member Carlos Perez '91. "At Harvard, Raza offers moral support, but there needs to be more Hispanic leadership on Eastern campuses. That is something that the forum will encourage...
Twenty-six members of Raza, a Harvard support group for Mexican-Americans, plan to attend the conference. Raza became involved in the forum only last year. But at this meeting, Harvard students are expected to comprise about one-third of the conference which will include representatives from all Ivy League schools...
Chicano students often miss family life, said Sylvia Torres '88, one of Raza's five presidents...
...without assistance. Levodopa, the most common treatment for the debilitating illness, had ceased to work for one man and could not be tolerated by the other. Nor were other drugs of use. Facing further deterioration, the two agreed to become guinea pigs in a remarkable experiment conducted at La Raza Medical Center in Mexico City and reported in last week's New England Journal of Medicine. The results: one man, previously confined to a wheelchair, can now play soccer with his son and hopes to return to work; the other is no longer incapacitated by incessant trembling and can speak...
While individual organizations sponsor events and festivals of their own, such as La Raza's Cinco de Mayo festival and the Asian American Association's recent Chinese New Year celebration, Cultural Rhythms is the only cooperative event between student cultural groups...