End the Brain Drain: Vote for Prop 4

Put forth by XicanoPwr

Oct 03

Just a reminder since today is election day here in Texas. Vote for Prop 4 Currently, Texas loses more than 10,000 high school graduates per year who leave the state to attend doctoral granting universities in other states, while attracting only about 4,000 students from other states to attend doctoral granting universities in Texas. This [...]

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Harvard’s Royal Treatment

Put forth by XicanoPwr

May 27

It must be good to know the President or the President’s daughter. When a break-up happens, usually parents would take the side of their children. Not in the case of Jenna Bush and Blake Gottesman, the current personal aide and body man to Dudya. In Ronald Kessler‘s book, Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the [...]

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Justicia ⇒ “Because we have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to survive, we are ready to give up everything - even our lives - in our struggle for justice.” — César Chávez

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Libertad ⇒ “Ignorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny.” — (Emiliano Zapata's letter to Pancho Villa)

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