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...subcommittee, composed of members of the assembly, RAZA and La Organization Estudiantil Boricua, a campus Puerto Rican group, is also contacting political figures to encourage them to write letters to University deans advocating the establishment of Hispanic-oriented courses...
George Sanchez, the assembly's special representative from RAZA, a Mexican-American campus organization, asked the assembly to send the letter to Dean Rosovsky, President Bok, Archiv C. Epps III, dean of students, and Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean for undergraduate education...
...neglected to stress the cult of machismo as one of the biggest drawbacks impeding the advancement of our people. Its evil locks men into self-styled pride, exploits and subjugates women and lures youth into the self-destructive violence of gangs. Eradicate machismo from latino culture and la raza will flourish as never before; mujeres and hombres alike will then move forward in equality...
...election of Jim Deutsch '80 over RAZA minority representative George Sanchez '80 for the vice-chairmanship cleared remaining doubts about the nature of the assembly. Deutsch, who favors Faculty recognition of the assembly, said during the question and answer period, "If we're not taken seriously by the Faculty and administration, then we're not being responsible to the people who elected us." Deutsch's other responses also seemed to place him to the right of Sanchez, who pleased the "Anti-Junior-Politico" sect by his response to a question as to whether he was a Government concentrator: "I came...
More mundane than those demonstrations, but ultimately more fruitful, may be the timeconsuming, door-to-door work of men like Willie Velasquez. A former activist with La Raza Unida (The United Race), a chicano social and political movement founded in the late '60s, Velasquez, 34, now heads the San Antonio-based Southwest Voter Registration Education Project. Says he: "Every immigrant group that's come to this country has gotten involved in the political process as a major part of their advancement. We keep giving the same message: political participation is indispensable to any minority group." Last year the project registered...