October 2000
To All Those Whom the Status of
Dartmouth's Psi Chapter of La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity,
Incorporated, and the Dartmouth Latino Community in Regards to the Greek
Letter System at Dartmouth May Concern:
I.
Introduction
For as much as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a
declaration of those things which are most surely believed,
practiced and even present among us, it seemed
more
than wise and appropriate to us also, the Hermanos of La
Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, Incorporated
(LUL), both undergraduate and alumni, having
had
experience as well as an understanding of all such things
that pertain to the status and condition, institutionally,
organizationally and personally, of the Psi chapter
of LUL at Dartmouth, to share all of these with you in
order that you might come to understand our mission, our
history, where the needs of our organization, members and
community have been and have not been met, to what extent
our leadership has been of service to the community as well
as how Dartmouth and LUL can jointly increase that capacity
for service, and finally, to set forth a proposition
for the continued evolution of the relationship between
Dartmouth and LUL to meet the demands of our 21st century
educational family.
II. Background
When
the founding members of Dartmouth's LUL Chapter had met
with representatives of the College administration that
specialized with Greek Letter Organizations in 1997, it
was
conceded that the administrators had no experience with
Latino
Greek Letter Organizations, despite our organization's existence in the
Ivy League since 1982, and that they had a limited knowledge
of the needs of the Latino students
in higher education. In addition, when the President
of Dartmouth's LUL Chapter and the representative of
Dartmouth's LUL Alumni Executive Board met with the assistant
Dean of the Office of Residential Life (ORL) who specializes in the needs of
Greek
Letter
Organizations (Deborah Carney) in June of 2000, it was once
again conceded by the ORL administrator that the needs of an organization
of
our
type that has been active on Dartmouth's campus for three
years and that the educational experience and struggle
of
Latino students, a population of
Dartmouth students whose size
augmented by ~76% in the class of 2003, were equally alien
and foreign. Lastly, in June of 2000, when the President
of Dartmouth's LUL Chapter and the representative of
Dartmouth’s LUL Alumni Executive Board met with both the outgoing
and the replacement assistant Deans of ORL specializing
in Greek Letter Organizations (Deborah Carney and
Cassie Barnhart), it was once again conceded that the needs of
the said organization and said people continued to elude them,
including the newly hired assistant Dean.
It is
more than prudent at this juncture to explicitly state that the purpose of
this letter is NOT to attack any Dartmouth administrator,
newly hired or otherwise, nor is it any other purpose
than to take the opportunity, offered by Assistant Deans
Carney and
Barnhart,
to continue to strengthen the relationship between
Dartmouth and LUL. While we have sought to understand
the ignorance of certain Dartmouth administrators in
regards to the Latino/Hispanic Diaspora and while we have
even
sought to enlighten them with the work of the award winning
sociologist and honorary LUL Hermano Dr. Felix Padilla
called The Struggle of Latino/a University
Students: In Search of a Liberating Education as
well
as with the web page of our national organization (http://www.launidadlatina.org), a
balance must be struck and we, the Dartmouth LUL Alumni, have a
vested interest in Dartmouth to help establish that
balance. For we are the first to concede that issues of
race and ethnicity, especially those concerning the
multiracial and multicultural Latino/Hispanic
population, are complex, with complex needs and approaches
necessary to make Dartmouth the premier
institution of our rapidly changing 21st century nation.
Our 231 year old institution cannot afford to even appear,
neither in thought nor in practice, to lack a comprehensive
institutional focus to meet the needs of students
of color generally and Latino/as specifically, as can
unfortunately
be said when many who administer to the Greek Letter
System (a group which is composed of a large percentage
of the student body and a group that has historically
had and to this very moment continues to have severe,
scandalous and notorious problems with issues of race
and multiculturalism {to name a few} to the point of international
media attention) have had no comprehensive institutional
training, staff or experience with such issues.
Because of the limited training, knowledge and
experience
of administrators in ORL with Latino issues and because
of the lack of adequate initiative on the part of ORL to
live up to the Board of Trustees’ commitment to multiculturalism
in every facet of Dartmouth life (as articulated in the Committee on Student
Life Initiative Recommendations) by training all staff on these
issues and by recruiting experts, the
burden has been placed on our organization too often, particularly
the undergraduate officers of organizations such as
LUL and La Alianza Latina, to undertake the important
task of briefing the said administration on our organization
and our people, despite the undeniable fact that an
undergraduate has no qualifications and little clout
to
administer to an administrator in such a fashion, as if a
few
conversations with an over-scheduled, under-represented, under-privileged,
disadvantaged, discriminated against group of
undergraduates will wave the proverbial magic wand to make our "problem"
people disappear, accept the current situation and
assimilate,
simply fail academically out of Dartmouth and therefore
cease to be a bother or miraculously un-teach 20 years
of racial stereotyping and culturally reinforced racializing
among many Dartmouth students overnight. Although it is ideal for an educational
partnership to exist between
a student and administrator, between a student organization
and an administrative department, there is a serious
concern that the current relationship does not do justice
to the importance of these issues to Dartmouth's commitment
to the education of ALL its students, including to the
education of students of color, specifically Latino/Hispanic Dartmouth
undergraduates.
All this having been said however, in the three
years
of LUL's presence at Dartmouth, a great deal of progress
has been made, none of which would have been possible
without the good will and general willingness of ORL's
Assistant Dean Carney and Dean Redman to learn about our
experience, to develop our leadership initiative and to guide
us in learning to exist and succeed in the complex political
environment of the Greek Letter System, especially for a
group such as ours which has been historically so underrepresented
and even cruelly ridiculed as well as persecuted by Dartmouth Greeks.
Although the assistant Dean has no formal training on Latino
Greeks, our relationship has been based on the principle that,
despite not knowing how LUL fits exactly into the
institutional structure of the Greek Letter System, we
would approach it with an open mind and constant
reflection as well as evaluation for the purpose of evolving
our relationship so that the potential of LUL and the Greek
Letter System are maximized.
While this empirical approach has provided us
with
a
great deal of first hand experience with the structure and
leadership
culture of the so-called Greek System, it has been a
grueling process marked by acts of bigotry, obdurate exclusion
of any voice expressing cultural norms outside of the
alcohol-based, party focused and un-citizenly culture that
characterizes the lifestyle and code of conduct which members
and leaders of the CFSC continue to pass for leadership;
all of which, by virtue of our being targets of
such
bigotry and exclusion, served to threaten the mental health
of the LUL undergraduates as well as to produce an environment
virtually intolerable for the academic and even biological
livelihood
of our organization. Indeed this has been an annus
horribilis for LUL/CFSC relations, and the
indignities,
abuse and insult that we have suffered make it
intolerable
and a vile violation of our basic human and civil
rights to be continued to be coerced to suffer CFSC meetings.
For truly it is easy to encourage our undergraduates
to "work with and be a part of the Greek community"
and to employ the empty rhetoric of a "Greek Family,"
especially when one is speaking from the comfortable
position of not having to attend those
meetings,
not having to suffer the awful stares and murderous comments, to be
disrespected
and ridiculed, to have one's race, heritage and
culture
denigrated and, after meetings are over, to suffer verbal
and physical harassment for being who we are and upholding
the principles to which we have sworn to adhere.
Examples of such offences against humanity perpetuated
by the so-called Co-Educational Fraternity Sorority
Council are unfortunately not limited to, but certainly do include:
explicit resistance by both members and executive officers
of the CFSC to the inclusion of the only Latino Greek
Letter Organization fully recognized at Dartmouth (LUL) and therefore
they have actively perpetuated the de facto segregation in the
institutional
structure of the Greek System as well as been privy to a conspiracy
to perpetuate the continued denial of resources that
are deemed as rights and privileges of Dartmouth Greek Letter
Organizations to the Psi Chapter of LUL, the denial of our voting privileges
in
CFSC
meetings by the CFSC executive council as well as countless
other breaches of the CFSC constitution, the promotion
of the banned and racially/culturally insensitive Indian mascot
by member fraternities on fraternity jackets and t-shirts
including one depicting a stereotypical Indian receiving
oral sex from a bulldog, the common use and tolerance
of sexist language and racist innuendo during formal
CFSC meetings by both officers and members, the explicit
conspiracy within formal CFSC meetings to cover-up behavior
that included excessive alcohol consumption and distribution
via "don't ask, don't tell" policies among CFSC
whistle-blowers
as well as the appointment of unofficial troubleshooters
to deal with the specifics of the incidents and
subsequent cover-ups, the refusal of the CFSC and its member
organizations to ever actively participate beyond token
co-sponsorships in any discussion regarding issues of race,
gender, multiculturalism or ethnicity, and lastly, the sending
out of secret minutes and the organization of secret
meetings
that included every Greek Letter Organization excluding
LUL.
As the Dartmouth administration
and anyone else acquainted with the recent
history of the CFSC know, these incidents and the many others
that have occurred are unfortunately well steeped in the
traditions of Frat. Row, yet it provides no excuse for any
individual or group, such as LUL, to be coerced to remain as their
prey. Accordingly,
therefore,
it will come as no surprise that at the June 2000
meeting
mentioned above, it was agreed that LUL would no longer
be forced to suffer the CFSC meetings nor the inapplicable
CFSC programming standards, and that we would work together
to establish LUL's place institutionally (hence this letter).
III. The Paradigm Governing LUL
At this point it seems fitting to share what has
already
been discussed in prior conversations about the shortcomings
of the CFSC's so-called programming standard, and,
with special significance to our purpose in this letter,
to set forth how unfulfilling they fundamentally are to
LUL. That these programming standards are meant for organizations
that are primarily social drinking clubs is the
basic reason why they do not complement the needs of our
organization,
for LUL is primarily focused on community as well as
personal empowerment, as expressed in the following national
mission statement:
La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon
Lambda Fraternity, Incorporated, a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization
established in 1982, exists to bring men together in Brotherhood
and to unite the Latino community.
In its
pursuit to fulfill this mission, La Unidad Latina will:
Provide Latino students with the
academic, cultural and social support necessary to excel in
institutions of higher learning;
Increase opportunities for Latino children and adolescents to
achieve in elementary and secondary schools;
Develop leaders that shall provide, develop and implement the
tools for community empowerment;
Inspire ethnic pride and cultural awareness in the Latino community;
Support the efforts to enhance the growth and well-being
of the Latino community;
Collaborate with individuals, organizations and institutions
that
will join our efforts to improve the conditions of the Latino
community.
Furthermore, in practice, our organization organizes
students and events with the intent of sharing our
rich
cultures and histories, leading through service, learning
more about the current political realities of our people,
networking and mentoring to aide in attaining effective
study skills, research, career development and quality
of life. As students of color in New Hampshire, especially
as Latinos, the environment on campus has made us
feel
alienated, out of place and intimidated for reasons that
include our coming from large, diverse urban areas where
rampant bigotry and intolerance are not as common nor as
unchecked, especially among members of our own generation
and
classmates. However, we know that Dartmouth is potentially
a wonderful place to learn, and that there are many
advantages to being at an Ivy League Institution in NH with a
strong tradition of community learning.
IV. The Need for an Institutionalized Focus
on the Latino Community
Nonetheless, our
struggle must not only be understood by the administration,
but our needs must be proactively met. Although we hold cultural and
educational programming throughout the year to celebrate and
share our history with others and although every day is a
difficult lesson for us in dealing with incessant attempts to
assimilate us into the mainstream,
willingly or not, it is not our role, especially as
underrepresented, underprivileged and disadvantaged as we
are,
to educate the largely homogenous student body. LUL was
created to empower Latino students and to guide campus administrators
to pay serious and much needed attention to their
needs, rather than Latino students being used simply and
only for the purpose of educating Anglo-American students. LUL was brought
to Dartmouth in order to give the Latino
community access to the resources of the Greek Letter
system
and to begin the full racial/ethnic integration of that
system, not for the purpose of our being an opportunity for
archaic
and outmoded frats already established on campus to appear to do cultural
programming via token/quota co-sponsorships nor to once
again oppress the Latino people by lumping us with another
group, denying who we are and forcing us to assimilate
to the detriment of our great 231 year old institution.
For although the empty terms "Greek Family" and
"Greek Community" (They are empty because we have lived and
continue to live in the reality of how false those terms
are,
by being the ones outcast to the fringes of that group)
have
often been used rhetorically to compensate for the patriarchal,
xenophobic and amoral reality of Dartmouth “Greeks,” our collective
experience
has been the ultimate proof that the current CFSC is
incongruent with an organization that seeks to fulfill
principles such as ours.
It is not our ambition to convert any
individual
or organization to become more like LUL and we do
not
call upon the administration to do so, for such rhetoric
and such an agenda once again remove the focus and
resources
of the administration away from the Latino community
and towards the various privileged and mainstream groups
already long-established institutionally on campus. The current structural problem is rooted
in that the paradigm of LUL is not the same paradigm that
governs the CFSC. Therefore, what we
are calling on the Dartmouth administration to do is
to
undergo a paradigm-shift to account for LUL
because, as it stands now, there is either the assumption or the
implicit
hope/misunderstanding, as implied by how LUL is supported,
that we are just a Latino version of what goes on
every
night on Frat. Row. Beyond the mission statement and the
political conflicts in the CFSC, the non-mainstream paradigm
that governs our organization manifests itself in our
meetings, community service, networking, leadership, events,
political initiatives and alumni interaction.
V. The Current Structure of the Psi Chapter
of LUL
In our meetings, unlike on Frat.
Row every Wednesday night, alcohol is never present and the way our meetings
are structured follow the type of organization that we are.
They begin with a period of exchange among the Hermanos
sharing the personal experiences of the week, as well as our
individual hopes and dreams.
Then it becomes more formal with reports from each Hermano
on their ongoing projects as well as a discussion of
new
business. Because we have no space, although we are the
only
Greek Letter Organization without any space, despite not being the youngest
Greek Letter Organization on campus (c.f. Alpha Xi Delta
which co-sponsored the now notorious Ghetto Party and Cuban
Party in the Fall of 1998 and Winter of 1999, respectively) and despite
the fact that the CFSC constitution states that it is the role of ORL
to assist in the acquiring of a space for Greek Letter
Organizations, these meetings are held in the Chapter
President's
dormitory room. Beyond formal meetings, we also
have
weekly chapter dinners, regular study hours and chapter
retreats.
VI.
Community Service and Leadership
Although we do not have any
permanent space and although we lack many privileges, rights and support
systems
that mainstream Greeks squander, we initiated our own,
independent community service outreach program for the growing
Latino population of the Upper-Valley and the greater VT/NH
area. ORL has supported our program financially, specifically
through the office of the above-mentioned assistant
Deans, and it has been of great value for us in our
primary stage of outreach. As of this summer of 2000 we
have
held seven community dinners, several community dances and one
community volleyball game over seven terms. However, we have
come to the threshold of our next level of developing this
program. We are in the process of finalizing our Latino/Hispanic
community
Hermano Jason Guagliardo Memorial scholarship (to be raised at our Annual Noche
Dorada
and awarded at our annual Latino Awards banquet), developing
a community Newsletter and regular community mailings
(for the Upper-Valley and Manchester) and the initiation
of a series of community workshops, in addition to
our
community fostering dinners/BBQ's. What is needed is support
from ORL in terms of resources, both in terms of finance
and space, for our community work to reach the highest
and most unprecedented levels of empowerment through service.
Although we do not have any permanent space
and although we do not dominate the campus social scene, dole
out
free beer or have the privilege of applying for UFC funding,
we have developed a network for Latino students. Our
initiative begins within our national fraternity through our
communication with Hermanos and Chapters from NH down to
Florida
and out to California and Washington State. It continues
with our support of First year student receptions targeted
at Latino students to let them know about the six Latino
campus organizations as well as our advisors and allies,
both on and off campus. We also provide workshops on how
to succeed at Dartmouth as well as encourage the formation
of productive study groups. Although it might not
be
widely known, we are aware of the unfortunate fact that at least 5
Latino/Hispanics students were placed on leave
from campus by Parkhurst due to academic reasons this passed ’99 – ’00 academic
year, the unfortunate result of the struggle we face daily on
campus. To enhance our networking efforts, we
need more resources, both in terms of space and finance, to
fund regular community study sessions with food and prizes for
those who study the most and make improvement. This
demand might seem odd coming from a Greek Letter
Organization, but as stated above, we function under a
paradigm focusing on empowerment and
community involvement, rather than on alcoholism, egoism and social
irresponsibility.
VII. Synergistic Quality
Campus-Unifying Events
Although we do not have a free-standing building
that bears our letters as a constant presence on campus
and as a monumental embodiment of our principles as well as
commitment to Dartmouth, and although we have not succumbed
to entice people to attend our events through the widespread
distribution of free alcohol, we have had some
success
in holding events (cultural, social, political, fraternal,
and academic) that achieve our mission in a synergistic
way and have drawn some large audiences. While there
have been many temptations and even pressures to over program,
either in attempting to educate the whole world on what it
means to be Latino or in trying to increase our presence
on campus to promote understanding, there is no greater
virtue in an individual or organization than the ability
to strike a balance among the basic spiritual, social,
physical and mental needs of its members and community. Our greatest success in
striking
this balance in our programming, while reaching an audience
of ~200 people, was our First Annual Noche Dorada during the
campus celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month. It
was a formal banquet with authentic foods representing Latino culture,
a keynote address by honorary Hermano Dr. Felix Padilla on
Cultural Literacy, a live
Mariachi band, a performance by the socially conscious poetry/jazz
group known as the Welfare Poets and a preliminary drive for our
community scholarship campaign, bringing students, faculty,
alumni, staff, clergy, members of the Upper-Valley community,
representatives from other LUL New England Chapters and even was
featured in an article reviewing resources for Latino students in the Ivy
League in the May issue
of Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education magazine. We strive
to set the opportunities for growth each year in the fall
with these types of events so that channels can be open
for
interaction from the start. It is our goal to hold an event
similar in scale to Noche Dorada in the winter and spring, but it
necessitates added resources in terms of both space and finance.
Although ours is an organization that was spearheaded
by our involvement in the Latino community, the realities
of Dartmouth's strong tradition of community as well as
the increasingly globalized nature of our 21 century
nation's
population and economy have all made it necessary to
undertake political initiatives to deal with groups outside
of the Latino community. Our primary principle has been to
proactively attempt to understand all student and administrative
groups with which we interact by constructively engaging them.
With other communities of color and the GLBT community, we have tried
to create trust and means of communication so that we
can all struggle together at Dartmouth. With mainstream
organizations we have been willing to partake in candid
dialogue and attempts at coalition building, but
remaining mindful of the complexities of the campus' political
climate, especially in terms
of race and gender, where de facto segregation continues
to challenge us. However, we have never rushed into
any relationships without laboring through the long, but
vital process of building trust. With the administration
we have always sought to avoid polarized relationships, but have striven to
create educational partnerships from which Hermanos and
institutions may grow, but at the same time weary of being used
as a means of simply educating the majority or of not
having an open relationship, for the needs must be
perceived and understood before
they can possibly be met. We have tried to find trustworthy
people of all groups, both on and off campus, for
support, understanding, guidance, to build coalitions with, as resources
and even for friendship. We firmly believe that by expressing
our rich cultural heritages and living out our principles
we will complement and enhance the educational experience
of our shared institution. For the coming year, our next
major political drive will be focused on admissions
in
an effort to increase the matriculation rate of prospective
Dartmouth students by holding an event in many ways
similar to our Noche Dorada in the spring on a weekend when
the prospective Latino/Hispanic students are flown to campus.
IX. The Tradition of Latinos/Hispanics at
Dartmouth
Although our alumni group has not yet been recognized
by Dartmouth and although the long tradition of Latino
Dartmouth students is not widely known, our organization
has had a history of alumni involvement through advisement,
financial contributions, moral support by meeting
with student groups and administrators as well as counseling
in the areas of career development, life's choices
and personal growth. We have alumni attend chapter events
as well as our annual spring retreat. It is a goal of our Dartmouth LUL Alumni
Executive Board to work with the College on long term issues, such
as the securing of a permanent space with a mission and
charter of Latino community empowerment, the establishment
of a Latino Greek council that enjoys the same privileges
of the other Greek councils (including applying for UFC
funding) and recognizes the paradigm governing LUL, the
continued support of the development of our undergraduate chapter
and the modernization of the substance of the Greek system,
as well as greater Dartmouth, to fully incorporate
such values as diversity and community involvement, from both the
students and administration, as well as all other such issues
that complement and enhance the Educational
Mission Statement of Dartmouth College and its Board of Trustees,
beginning most naturally with the immediate recognition
of Dartmouth's LUL Alumni Executive Board by the College.
The
drafting of this letter was called upon over a series of conversations
that culminated in the recent request
to establish "standards" for our undergraduate chapter,
in order to guide, evaluate, award and hold it accountable.
There is no group of principles to which we hold
ourselves accountable or to which anyone else should hold us
accountable other than those stated above in our national
mission statement. In fact, each year we report to nationals,
along with the other LUL chapters, how our chapter
and our Hermanos have fulfilled our mission and goals,
for which the Copa Dorada (golden cup) is awarded to the
most impressive Chapter overall. This letter outlines in no unfamiliar or
uncertain terms what we, both undergraduates and alumni alike,
would like to achieve for the future of Dartmouth and it is a
continuation of the process of understanding and evolving
LUL's place at Dartmouth. It is time and long overdue
for formal letters stating our full recognition, of both
the undergraduate chapter (which has already been fully recognized, but never
formally declared as such by ORL) and the alumni group, to be
issued once and for all. It is time for LUL to be granted the
full rights and privileges that
all other Greek Letter Organizations on Dartmouth's campus
enjoy: a Latino Greek Letter Council, a permanent space
dedicated to and adequate for accomplishing our mission,
a College recognized alumni group, correction for any and
all inadequate organizational and personal support for LUL
and its Hermanos as well as continued outreach by the
department of ORL to develop the educational experience of Latino
Dartmouth students. These needs as well as continued communication
are necessary for establishing a prosperous future
for Latinos at Dartmouth. We hope that you will give the
above words much thought, consideration and an adequate
response coupled with decisive action.
Yours
truly and always with the future of Dartmouth College
in
mind,
The Hermanos of La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda
Fraternity
Incorporated:
Dartmouth LUL
Alumni Executive Board
Hermano
Federico Rivera, ‘95
Hermano
Tyonek Ogemageshig, ‘97
Hermano
Ernesto Ceuvas, Jr. ‘98
Hermano
Daniel Rivera, ‘98
Hermano
Gerardo Carfagno, ‘99
Hermano
Fernando Diaz, Jr. ‘00
Hermano
Rolando Lopez, ‘00
Hermano
Omar Rashid, ‘00
Hermano Rolando Lopez, ‘00
Hermano Genaro Bugarin, ‘01
Hermano Ali Rashid, ‘01
· A
permanent budget for our events based on the itemized budget of ’99 – ‘00
· A
permanent budget for our community outreach service project for community newsletters and
workshops
·A
permanent budget for workshops, study sessions and networking opportunities
focused on the empowerment of Latino/Hispanic students and the Latino/Hispanic
community academically, professionally, politically and culturally
·A
permanent space dedicated to the empowerment of Latino/Hispanic students and
the Latino/Hispanic community culturally, academically, politically and
professionally, not simply an “academic” center
·More
resources in terms of space for our community service and for the empowerment
of Latino/Hispanic students as outlined above
·More
economic and political clout institutionally for the Dartmouth Latino/Hispanic
community by giving us the privilege of applying for funding from the
Undergraduate Finance Committee as well as the recognition of our alumni group
·A
Latino/Hispanic Student Recruitment Weekend
·The
immediate integration of a multiculturalism training program for all staff in
the administration, especially for Deans and assistant Dean
·The
recruitment/establishment of multiculturalism experts to provide continuing
education for faculty, staff and students
·The
formation of an initiative to promote the entry of Latino/Hispanics students
into the sciences (biological, physical,
engineering, computer and mathematical sciences)
·The
formation of a Latino Greek Letter
Council with all the rights and privileges of all the other Greek councils,
including and certainly not limited to the privilege of applying for UFC
funding and permanent administrative support from within ORL
“There is no group of
principles to which we hold
ourselves accountable or to which anyone else should hold us accountable other
than those stated above in our national mission statement….these goals can only
be achieved through a proactive, educational partnership with the Hermanos of
LUL and the Dartmouth administration for the betterment of the entire Dartmouth
community.”
·Noche
Dorada and Fall Festival in recognition and celebration of National Hispanic
Heritage Month
·Latino/Hispanic
Student Recruitment Weekend (Spring Term)
·LUL
Latino/Hispanic Community Outreach Program Event Each Term
·Latino/Hispanic
Community Awards Banquet, including the presentation of our annual
Latino/Hispanic Community Hermano Jason Guagliardo Memorial Scholarship (Spring
Term)
·First
Year Latino/Hispanic Student Reception (Fall)
·Leadership
& Empowerment Workshops Each Term
·Uniting
the Latino Community through support, involvement and leadership in:
La
Alianza Latina, MEChA, Nuestras Voces, Hijas de La Esperanza, Society of
Hispanic Professional Engineers and any other Latino Organization that might
form
·Working
with various religious communities, including the St. Thomas Aquinas House, to
provide moral and spiritual support for our efforts of community building and
unity.
·Regular
meetings with campus administrators to enhance the access of Latino Students to
College Resources
·Build
coalitions with other groups on campus, both mainstream and of color, in order
to unite the larger Dartmouth community and to promote greater understanding
and growth
·Hold
Chapter Retreats Each Term & an annual Undergraduate/Alumni Retreat
(Spring)
·Hold
Weekly Chapter Dinners