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...major considerations of these proposals, Oscar S. Rodriguez '80, a member of the Apache tribe, said yesterday, should be to "try to give the Indians a chance to make their own lives, to do something with their land and not to be dependent on the government or anybody but themselves...
...Rodriguez added that money involved with Penobscot and Passamoquoddy Indians would only be good for the next ten years. The type of lands the Indians do get will greatly determine the number of jobs and money available to the Indian reservations, he added...
...such as grade averages, college board scores and geographical distribution. Harvard sets its minimum levels at a B-minus grade average and a 900 SAT score. The Admissions Office treats the Search List as a starting point for recruitment, sending letters to all students on its Search List. Oscar Rodriguez '80, one of the student recruiters, says the function of the letters is both "to tell the Search students what Harvard is about, and to try to sell Harvard to them as best...
Everyone seems to agree that recruiting trips are what the students do best. Yet the Admissions Office's response to student travel seems rather unenthusiastic. A trip to several South Dakota Indian reservations planned by Rodriguez last fall is a case in point. "It took politicking for me to get access to the reservations," Rodriguez says. "The people at the reservations saw me as another flunkie for the whites. At first they told me not to plan on spending the night, because I would be with a white man [Gus Reed, the admissions officer who was to accompany Rodriguez...
...movie "Fighting for Our Lives". There were many beatings and arrests, and even spraying from a helicopter at one point. It was during the strike that Juan de la Cruz and Nadji Daifallah, who are two official martyrs to the union, were killed. One young woman, Marta Rodriguez who used to drop by the Ortizes' home on some evenings, was beaten and arrested during this strike. Francisco Ortiz told me how he was arrested during that summer and kept in jail in a crowded cell for sixteen days, fed on cold rice and water, and allowed to wear only...