The Latino Body: Students Pressure Princeton for Latino Studies Program

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Matt’s parents, his Nana and auntie and uncle gathered at our place for the occasion. For afternoon tea, I served up the zucchini pickle that I made the previous summer. Matt’s Nana loved it so much that she requested the recipe. She thanked us for lunch but most importantly, she wanted the zucchini recipe. Sometime that week, there was a phone message from Nana.
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Hispanic Scholars, Students Pressure Princeton for Latino Studies Programby Ibram RogersFor more than 30 years, students have been urging the administration to bring Latino studies to Princeton University. “The university has had the opportunity since the ’70s to begin to increase the number of Latino faculty and to build Latino studies and they just haven’t,” It appears that Princeton may finally defer to the three decades of demands due to the latest efforts by Hispanic students, aided by a group of Latino alumni. A Center for Latino Studies with a certificate program modeled after Princeton’s nationally renowned Center for African American Studies could come on board as earlier as the fall of 2009, says Victoria C. “It is undeniable now that not having Latino studies would really leave Princeton students in a deficit in terms of their education.” The most recent efforts to initiate Latino studies began in the fall of 2006 when Latino students were discussing their frustration with Hispanic Heritage Month. That discussion mushroomed into in a series of meetings in which students talked about the lack of resources, lack of knowledge about how to access resources and not having a Latino studies program, among other issues. Over the summer of 2007, the students took those notes and wrote a 16-page report on the state of Hispanics at Princeton, mentioning the lack of access to mentors and the meager 1.9 percent of Hispanic full-time faculty at Princeton, Laws says. The group of alumni, many of which conduct research in Latino studies, has presented itself as a resource that Princeton officials can use as they develop the center.
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