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Guizar is very active in Chicano student organizations. He is a member of La Raza, and plays Mexican folk music on WHRB every other week. Guizar said, "I think Harvard has the effect of opening people up, of making them more aware. For instance, people use the word Chicano more often here." But, he adds, while Harvard made it possible for him to escape what he calls the confines of his environment, it also sometimes makes it hard for him to retain his "cultural identity...
Task force member organizations include Organization for the Solidarity of Third World Students, the Radcliffe Union of Students, the Chicano Law Students Organization, La Organizacion, H-R coalition of Asian Americans, February 1st Movement, Women's Law Association, R-H New american Movement, H-R La Raza, R-H Women's Center, Law Students Asian coalition and the School of Design's student hiring committee
Occasionally, themes promoting la raza are carried too far for sponsors...
Coles's preoccupation with economic problems ignores the rich vitality of Chicano culture and the stubborn optimism of the people, which survive stubborn optimism of the people, which survive despite all the injustices dealt them. He also neglects to mention the growing strength of the Raza Unida political party. But then Coles, like King, is more intent on demonstrating his moral purity than on understanding his subject, and the Chicanos get lost in the shuffle...
...addition to its recruitment programs, Raza hopes to publish a booklet for Chicanos interested in Harvard, Garcia said yesterday...