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Aside from the Afro-American center, Yale has a center for Puerto Rican students, while Asian-Americans and Chicanos share one. They all receive operating funds from the budget of the dean of student affairs, and programming funds from membership fees. It costs an undergraduate $26 per year to join the Afro-American center. Romney is responsible to the dean, and a board composed of faculty, administrators and students governs the center...
Suzanne Lipsky, head of minority recruiting at the GSAS, said yesterday that she--along with representatives from Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania--visited three Puerto Rican campuses between September 29 and October...
...members of the newest GSAS class, six are Black, one is Puerto Rican, and one is Chicano. Last year's class included 11 Blacks, six Puerto Ricans and two Chicanos...
...Puerto Rican officials fear that the Cubans may become as big a headache for them as they were for Miami's Dade County, where many schools may have to hold double sessions to accommodate the children of refugees who settled in the county. Jackson Memorial, the county's only public hospital, is so overcrowded that its maternity ward has put 20 new mothers on stretchers in the halls. Police report that chiefly because of the refugees, the crime rate in Miami's Little Havana has soared: robbery was up 775% and assault up 109% over the previous...
Gloria Swenson (get it?) was once a chorine and a mobster's moll. Now she's on the lam from her old pals, with a neighbor's Puerto Rican son in tow. For two hours of screen time, Gloria and tough little Phil (and the movie) meander around Manhattan because the Mob has covered all the bus, train and air terminals and the fugitives never think to rent a car. But nothing fazes Gloria, who smokes Salems down through the filters, talks cheekily with hoods and, in defense of her ward and for the sheer hell...