Hispanic Friends: ACHIEVERS
Dr. Gloria Contreras, professor of teacher education and administration at the University of North Texas, was given the 1996 G. Roland Vela Award from the Hispanic Friends of the University of North Texas for her "outstanding work in promoting education for Hispanics." Dr. Contreras, a social studies education expert and former Fulbright lecturer, was assistant vice president and director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs (now the Center for Cultural Diversity) at...
Hispanic Friends: State effort attempts to improve Hispanics' academic peformance
Isaias Rodriguez of Springfield, a 23-year-old college student, says public schools failed many of his Hispanic friends. "A lot of my friends I grew up with are dead or in jail or out there barely getting by," Rodriguez said.That is why he has joined a grassroots effort to help improve educational opportunities for Hispanics in Springfield.The program, called the Massachusetts Education Inititative for Latin Students, was unveiled yesterday by the governor and...
Hispanic Friends: Gina: Probation, Drug Treatment
Gina Feliciano, the Bensonhurst teen whose plans to invite black and Hispanic friends to her birthday party set the stage for the killing of Yusuf Hawkins, was sentenced to three years probation and ordered to enroll in a drug treatment program yesterday for her arrest on drug charges. Feliciano, 19, was sentenced as a youthful offender for her May 23 arrest at a Flatbush, Brooklyn, subway station, where police found her with 15 vials of crack.She was charged initially with felony and...
Hispanic Friends: HISPANIC DUO NOT AT FAULT IN DISPUTE, WOMAN CONTENDS
HAZLETON- Jennifer Walter says a neighborhood is wrongly blaming her Hispanic friends for a disturbance last month that ended with a man bleeding, false shouts about a "Puerto Rican" shooting someone and lingering unease.Walter, 21, of McAdoo, claims her boyfriend, 34, and his roommate, 33, both Mexican men, have been the target of the neighbors' scorn ever since they moved to an apartment at 105 S. Pine St. Walter declined to identify her friends or...
Hispanic Friends: Fence Post
Quit making big deal of Larkin assembly Yo, Eric Isom, get a life.You've written some pretty good stuff over the years, but this obsession you and so many others have with the Larkin High assembly, and with any showing by our Hispanic friends and neighbors of pride in their original homeland is getting weird.I see Ozzie Guillen draped his Venezuelan flag over his shoulders while accepting Chicago's thanks for his magnificent season.Are we going to...