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...eight Puerto Rican students (the entire Puerto Rican population at Harvard at that time) had walked into the dean of admissions' office and demanded that more Puerto Rican students be accepted into the College. This resulted in the establishment of the Puerto Rican sector of student recruitment. In 1973 the Chicano recruitment program was established, also with the pressure of students...
Again, tokenism characterizes Hispanic student recruitment. It was apparent in the hiring of "Latin" assistant admissions officers. These officers, one Chicano and one Puerto Rican, did over 40 hours of work while only getting paid for 15 of them. At the same time, these officers were full-time graduate students, and although they were working in the capacity of admissions officers, they were not allowed a vote on the admissions committee...
...only Native American recruiting trip was arbitrarily cancelled. After students had been promised input into the hiring of Third World admissions staff, such input was ignored. The Puerto Rican students were asked to suggest candidates for a part-time admissions position that would be concerned with Puerto Rican admissions and recruitment. Several candidates were recommended, but the recommended were ignored in favour of a candidate hand-picked by L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions and financial aid, who did not even have to go through the normal application process...
Institutionally, the key to the Costa Rican electoral system is a five-member group of independent jurists known as the Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones, or T.S.E. Six months before voting day, and after the parties have made their nominations, the T.S.E. takes over the election machinery and assumes operational control of the country's 6,000 civil and rural guards; on election day, it dispatches some of the guards to the polls to maintain order but confines the rest to their barracks. The tribunal also oversees a highly refined campaign-financing system. Before the campaigning begins, the treasury distributes...
...Costa Rican border, is thought to be among the world's largest. Bananas are the country's biggest export, and there is ample room for more plantations if money can be found to continue clearing the green jungle. Shrimp is already big business, and the World Bank is financing the construction of a fishing port at Vacamonte on the Pacific coast. Though Panama's lone cement plant, which is privately owned, is now operating at only half of its capacity, the government is finishing up a new $68 million plant of its own that is scheduled...