Word: rican
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part of Black History Month, other Ivy League schools have already begun forming such coalitions. Despierta Boricua, a Puerto Rican students group at Yale, will feature two talks in celebration of Black History Month. And at Cornell, Asian-Americans, Latinos and Native Americans will each sponsor a month highlighting their culture, said Donald Wade, an executive with Cornell's Black Students United...
...difficulties that lie ahead still loom large, given past obstacles, leaders at Harvard say. La O, Harvard's Puerto Rican students' association, and Raza, the University's Mexican-American organization, announced they have been negotiating with Harvard for more than a year to provide courses on Hispanic studies. According to La O leader Wendell C. Ocasio '90, La O even presented Harvard officials with the name of a professor at Puerto Rico University who could teach such a course...
...tied to the departure of several hundred U.S. military personnel in Honduras and El Salvador. That amounts to no small condition, but the continued presence of U.S. advisers in Central American countries that are allies of Washington would also be prohibited under the regional peace plan devised by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez and signed in 1987 by five heads of state...
Raza and the Puerto Rican student group La O are working with University administrators for the appointment of visiting professors in ethnic studies, leaders...
However, Golon said yesterday that of the 16 cases the board has heard since it began functioning fully this spring, none involved charges of racism, and only one complainant--a Puerto Rican teenager--belonged to a minority group...