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Raza and the Puerto Rican student group La O are working with University administrators for the appointment of visiting professors in ethnic studies, leaders...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Campus Minority Activism Marked By New Consensus and Organization | 2/1/1989 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Review Board Takes on New Cases | 12/13/1988 | See Source »

Perched on a stool at the front of the room, Rochester teacher Michael Pugliese, 30, looks down on a clamorous gaggle of third-graders sitting cross- legged on the floor. After quieting them, he begins reading Joey, a book about a Puerto Rican boy whose family moves to New York City. The book's hero has just found needles on the street. Pugliese asks his listeners if they know what kinds of needles the story means. Many of the children do. One boy says he saw two drug addicts in front of his apartment building just the day before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Who's Teaching Our Children? | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

...would. She went on to shock East Germany's imposing Heike Friedrich, accelerating astonishingly in the last 50 meters of the 400 freestyle, to break her own world record by 1.6 sec. with a 4:03.85. But the first four women's silvers went to two Chinese, a Costa Rican and a Rumanian, while a French gamine named Catherine Plewinski was a tick away with a bronze in the 100 free. The once-every-four-years fan wonders, When did all these people learn to swim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Splashes Of Class And Acts of Heroism | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

...Juan, 1979, the Pan American Games. Bobby Knight, coach of the U.S. team, publicly insults the host country of Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rican team is mad, mad enough to reach the finals against the Americans...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Nerf Balls and Olympic Dreams | 9/27/1988 | See Source »

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