Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unofficial speakers at the end of the meeting included representatives of SDS, PL, a Puerto Rican liberation group, and the Young Socialist Alliance...
...Arcy thought that students from Boston had circulated in and out of the school, and added to the tension generated by the attack of two Puerto Rican students by bands of black students earlier in the week...
Zayas was also acting as a representative of La Organization, a group of Puerto Rican Ed School students which is supporting the class in its demands...
...York's Puerto Rican barrio, a 32-year-old woman, born into a welfare family, has lived through an unremitting succession of misfortunes to herself and her five children. She takes some pride in having manipulated public and private welfare agencies to produce benefits of $368 a month. She has never had a stable family life with a man. She finally finds one: a neighbor with a steady job who wants to marry her. But he cannot: she and her children would lose all aid, and they are beyond his means of support...
Peterson said that 130 of the 1200 members of the class of 1974 are black, Puerto Rican, or American Indian. Another group Peterson said his office is trying to find more of is scientists. Since plans were first made for the enormous undergraduate science center currently under construction north of the Yard, the number of students concentrating in the Natural Sciences has dropped considerably...