Latin@s at Dartmouth College

Latin@s seen through The Dartmouth Newspaper

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Latin@ Community Class of 2014

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"My freshman class at Dartmouth is 7 percent Latino. Many would view this as evidence to Dartmouth’s homogeneous student body. And yet, I could not disagree more. Whether or not we choose to acknowledge it, Dartmouth is diverse. "

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NEWS: Students debate offensive nature of canceled 'Phiesta'

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CoFIRED’s event, titled “Drop the I-Word,” addressed the use of the word “illegal” to refer to undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. Speaking to an audience of over 50 students and other community members in Collis Common Ground, CoFIRED leaders and supporters said they seek to eliminate the use of the word both at the College and nationwide. 

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NEWS: Students release 'Freedom Budget,' outline demands

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"Last week, a Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) altar

by Los Angeles-based artist Rigo Maldonado was installed in Baker-Berry Library. Dia de los Muertos, a Mexican holiday celebrated around the world, honors deceased friends and family members through various festivities, with a special focus on altar-building."

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"Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz will speak Today in celebration of Latin@ Heritage Month at Dartmouth. Díaz’s address also represents a culminating event of the Office of Pluralism and Leadership’s (OPAL) “A Week of Community” this week. The talk will take place this Friday, October 18 at 5 p.m. in Filene Auditorium."

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Eddie Zapata '14 - Soy Latino 

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President Barack Obama's executive order allowing the children of illegal immigrants to defer their deportation for two years went into effect Aug. 15, due in large part to the efforts of Daniela Pelaez '16, a Miami resident who moved to the United States with her parents illegally when she was four years old, according to Nera Shefer, Pelaez's immigration attorney and an advocate for undocumented youth.

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Drawing on personal experience and a "strategic" viewpoint, College President Jim Yong Kim voiced "strong support" for the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act in a letter addressed to Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. on Monday, Kim said in an interview with The Dartmouth.

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Salas was one of 12 students who planned a 36-hour hunger strike to raise awareness and elicit a more vocal response from the College administration for the DREAM Act, he said. Organizers called off the strike which was scheduled to end on Tuesday morning at around 5:30 p.m. on Monday after College President Jim Yong Kim's Chief of Staff David Spalding sent an e-mail to organizer Irvin Gomez '14 assuring the students that Kim would make his already existing support for the Act more clear.

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ARTS: Students tell of 'balancing worlds' in College-centric books “Many of the experiences recorded in these books illustrate the conflicts inherent in being multi-cultural. Questions of cultural allegiance, tradition versus assimilation and privilege all arise.” 

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NEWS: College hosts Latino conference “Dartmouth hosted the fourth annual New England Latino Student Leadership Conference on Friday and Saturday to promote Latino student leadership, scholarship, activism and cultural embracement.” 

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NEWS: Magazine ranks Dartmouth 10th for Latinos “Hispanic Magazine named Dartmouth tenth on its list of the top 25 colleges for Latinos in its March 2006 issue. The College was selected for its variety of Latino student programs and overall commitment to diversity.” 

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NEWS: LALACS program finalized at meeting “Dartmouth’s only temporary academic program, the Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies program, became permanent Monday after a vote during a quarterly faculty meeting. Better known as LALACS, it has existed for 13 years but did not officially shed its temporary status until yesterday.” 

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NEWS: Latino alumni group recognized “The Office of Alumni Relations, following a recommendation from the Committee on Alumni Diversity, officially recognized the Dartmouth Association of Latino Alumni as an affiliated group of Dartmouth College.” 

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NEWS: Latino adviser returns after stint in Texas “Alex Hernandez-Siegel, assistant dean of student life and adviser to Latino students, returned to his position this week after spending three months at a college in southern Texas, where he initially intended to fill a permanent post.”