Word: vasquez
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Josefina Vasquez, who coordinated the "Speak Out" sponsored by the Third World Coalition, said yesterday that Ed School administrators "won't throw rocks through your window, or burn your house down, but you still feel the racism in subtler ways...
...Vasquez cited James P. Breeden, associate professor of Education, as an example of the administration's refusal to hire progressive third world teachers and the Ed School's denial of tenure or renewal of contract to those whom the administration has hired...
...Vasquez said the percentage of non-white applicants admitted to the Ed School has declined this year and that "compared to last year, the number of Chicanos and Puerto Ricans admitted into the master's program up to date has been cut in half...
...people at Belmont and for millions watching on CBS, which put up $350,000 to televise the event. Then, 3½ furlongs and some 35 seconds into the race, with Ruffian slightly ahead, there was a sharp snap. "Like a pistol shot," said the filly's jockey Jacinto Vasquez. Ruffian's right front ankle had cracked. The cheering faded as the afflicted horse pounded on, then slowed to a stop with the fragile sesamoid bones above the hoof completely shattered. Within nine hours Ruffian was dead, put down with the assent of her owners, Mr. and Mrs. Stuart...
...cannon bones as thick as broomsticks, it is a wonder that such an accident doesn't happen more often." However, another compelling hypothesis emerged days after the tragedy, when a film showed four pigeons flapping off from the track as the two horses approached, seeming to startle Ruffian. Vasquez doubts the thes ory: "We see those birds every day. Most horses don't bother with them. No, this was a freaky accident. If she had shied away from the birds, I would have felt...