Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Open Admissions, the figure is 76%. The new policy was set up as a result of pressure from blacks; ironically, two-thirds of the students admitted under its terms were white-the sons and daughters of hardhats and the working poor. Even so, the number of black and Puerto Rican undergraduates enrolled full time in the-? university increased from 14% in 1969 to 23% this year. If nothing else, Open Admissions helped lift morale in the high schools whose failures made the program necessary in the first place. At Benjamin Franklin High in East Harlem two years ago only...
...series' seven-member repertory troupe features Rita Moreno, the Puerto Rican-born actress who won an Oscar in West Side Story, and Bill Cosby, who after five seasons gave up Hollywood TV series to pursue a doctorate in education at the University of Massachusetts. Cosby is not unfamiliar with academic slow starters-in worse days he had to do a rerun of tenth grade. The second bananas are all first-rate, notably Judy Graubart, whose roles include Julia Grownup; Skip Hinnant, the Don Adams-style sleuth, Fargo North; Lee Chamberlin, as Rosalie the fortuneteller; and Morgan Freeman, the elongated...
Tenuous Alliance. For his project, Corry zeroed in on 85th Street between Central Park and Columbus Avenue on the Upper West Side, largely because of its diversity. A kind of Manhattan in microcosm, the block includes among its 1,500 black, white and Puerto Rican residents a number of welfare families, a man who owns his own ad agency, some composers, some middle-class types, and a few hookers and junkies. Corry rented an apartment on the street, then set out to find "The Real City" from the stoops and sidewalks...
Given last year for the first time, Afro-American 105 was the only course listed in the catalogue that was explicitly concerned with Chicano and Puerto Rican history...
Members of Harvard MECHA and PRSU--the Puerto Rican Students Union--met last Friday in a last-minute attempt to salvage the course in some form for this semester. According to MECHA member Zayas, Afro-Am 105 is "vital for our organization and informational needs...