Chicano Movement News Coverage

News coverage:
Chicano Studies at UW

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Here is a month-by-month digital archive of articles published in the UW Daily and other local newspapers between 1968 and 1979 on the struggles to create and defend the Chicano Studies program (click the titles to read the articles).

Chris Paredes initiated this database with help from Michael Schulze-Oechtering Castañeda, Edgar Flores, and Oscar Rosales Castañeda. These articles are courtesy of the UW Daily, Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer,

28-Jan-69	Daily	The Chicano group active part of campus
28-Jan-69	Daily	The Chicano group active part of campus (cont.)
23-Jan-70	Daily	Chicanos ask "immediate dismissal" of spanish TA
30-Jan-70	Daily	30 Chicanos March
3-Feb-70	Daily	Larios resigns after language hassle
4-Feb-70	Daily	Larios decision
5-Feb-70	Daily	MEChA attacks daily editorial
10-Feb-70	Daily	Professor asks for investigation of Larios incident
11-Feb-70	Daily	Faculty Senate to probe Larios investigation
13-Feb-70	Daily	Larios: Language department problem?
18-Feb-70	Daily	Larios wouldn't have been rehired anyway
29-Apr-70	Daily	Larios case may reopen
5-May-70	Daily	AAUP asks U senate to reopen Larios case
24-Feb-71	Daily	Chicano teacher on liberation
20-Apr-71	Daily	Washington state Chicano Studies organization plans conference
11-May-71	Daily	C.H.E.
12-Feb-75	Seattle PI	Failure to appoint Chicano social work faculty
13-Feb-75	Seattle Times	No racial bias regarding social work appointment
16-Feb-75	Seattle TImes	UW decides not to hire Chicano Law Professor
2-May-75	Daily	Gary Padilla: great for greek row, but brutal for Chicanos
2-May-75	Daily	Gary Padilla: great for greek row, but brutal for Chicanos (cont.)
14-May-75	Seattle Times	Chicanos ask for federal fund cutoff
15-May-75	Seattle PI	Chicano faculty challenge university to end racism
18-May-75	Seattle TImes	Chicano studies needs a hand
22-May-75	Seattle Times	down to black v. brown
22-May-75	Seattle TImes	down to black v. brown (cont'd)
30-May-75	Daily	Hogness makes proposal to Chicano faculty
31-May-75	Seattle PI	Chicano faculty decides not to quit
31-May-75	Seattle PI	Chicano faculty decides not to quit (cont'd)
5-Jun-75	Seattle PI	33 still out in Chicano dispute
11-Jun-75	Seattle PI	Chicano staff to stay
28-Sep-75	Seattle Times	Chicanos have fighting chance
19-Aug-76	Daily	Ethnic studies are part of the mainstream

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May 15, 1975