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...September 19, a joint letter demanding full minority recognition for Asian Americans was sent to Dean Epps from the Coalition of Asian Americans, La Organization, the Task Force on Affirmative Action, H R Raza, the Association of Black Radcliffe Women, the Black Students Science Organization, Diaspora and the Kuumba Singers. Dean Epps has yet to respond. On October 15, the Coalition of Asian Americans presented their demands to Dean Epps. Again, Dean Epps failed to respond. The letter sent on October 28 by Josephine Lok and Bet Har Wong, the women excluded from the Minority Banquet, has not been answered...
...This year was by far the best recruitment year ever for us," Frank Garcia '76 says and he should know. As president of RAZA (the campus Chicano organization), Garcia supervised the entire operation from beginning to end, drawing up the original budget proposals for the recruitment program, signing up Chicanos here for trips to targeted areas in the Southwest last fall, and lobbying for the admission of individual applicants...
Separated from the barrios of Los Angeles and San Antonio and the strife-ridden fields of the San Joaquin Valley by 3000 miles, politicized Chicanos encounter a dilemna at Harvard--the absence of issues that directly concern their community. While some RAZA members do participate in UFW-sponsored pickets of local supermarkets, the organization has chosen to focus its energies on recruiting to expand the size of the Chicano community on campus...
...year-long process begins in the early fall when RAZA officials submit the annual budget for recruitment to Byerly Hall. Then the hassles begin. "We have to justify our budget each year to the admissions office," Garcia says, and he points to the delay produced by the present system. "You can't get started until you get the funds, and it took us a long time this year...
...original recruitment budget RAZA submitted this fall called for $7000 to cover traveling and food expenses that the student recruiters incur during the week-long visits to high schools in California and the Southwest. Garcia's proposal would have sent 12 Chicano undergrads to 11 targeted areas (the Los Angeles area required two recruiters in Garcia's judgment). Byerly Hall balked; by the time the haggling ended, the budget had been nearly halved to $3600, and three areas--San Antonio, Tex., Denver, Colo., and San Diego, Calif.--entirely omitted from the scope of the recruitment effort...