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University of California, IrvineSchool of Social SciencesChicano/Latino Studies Program3151 Social Science Plaza BuildingIrvine, CA 92697-510091

CLSP NEWSLETTER STAFF Director & Editor- Leo Chavez Associate Editor- Stella Ginez

Assistant Editor - Ramon Munoz Staff Assistant: Rosa Erandi Zamora

(949) 824-7180 (949) 824-1019 FAXwww.socsci.uci.edu/clstudies

Chicano/Latino Studies is charging full forceintothe future. Everyquarterwehavemoremajorsand minors, which is a testament to the excellent

Chicano/LatinoStudies classeswe offer and tothepassionCLSfaculty bring toundergraduatee d u c a t i o n .F r o m m ydiscussionswithstudents, theyfind the classes inte l lectual lys t i m u l a t i n ga n d f a c u l t y

accessible. This bodes well for the future ofChicano/Latino Studies here at UC Irvine. Thishasalsobeenanexceptionalyearinmanyotherways.CLSfacultyhavepublishedupastorm,asthelistofauthorsinthisnewsletterattests.PleasejoinuswhenweacknowledgetheauthorsofnewbooksattheeventtobeheldattheCrossCulturalCenterthisSpring.Ondisplaywillbenotonlyanimpressivedisplayofthefaculty’s scholarly productivity, but also the breadthand range of important topics they have examined. Chicano/LatinoStudieshasalsoorganizedanincredibly stimulating colloquia series. I would liketo thank thecolloquiacommittee–RaulFernandez,DeborahVargas,andCynthiaFeliciano-foralltheireffort in bringing such stellar scholars to UCI (SeePage2).Inaddition,TheCenterforLatinosinaGlobalSocietyhasco-sponsoredanumberofpresentationsthathavehelpedbringscholarsworkingonLatinosintheU.S.tocampus.TheChangingOrangeCountyspeakerseriesorganizedbyVictorBecerra, inparticular,hasbeenasourceoftimelyandengagingspeakers.Finally,theCenteralsoco-sponsored theconferenceLatinosandJews:HistoricalandContemporaryConnections.I would like to thank Vicki Ruiz and Louis DeSipiofor their invaluable contributions to the conference.

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Onasadnote,welostAlfred“Fred”FloresonNovember25,2005.Ihavehadthepersonalpleasureof talking with Fred and his wife Bonnie at manyChicano/Latino events over the last eighteen years.He helped develop Los Padrinos and Las Madrinas,a community support group for Latino students oncampus.Hewasalwaysapositiveandcheerfulpersonwho was intensely dedicated to improving accessto education for Latinos. He will be sorely missed. AftersixyearsdirectingChicano/LatinoStudies,itistimetostepdownandletotherstakeover.Ithasbeen an exciting time. It was personally satisfyingtosee theProgramgetamajorand(“ifyoubuild it,theywillcome”)thepositiveresponsefromstudents.Moreover,IbelievewehaveassembledthebestgroupofscholarsinthenationexaminingtheChicano/Latinoexperience, both past and present. I only hope thatbeforeImoveontootherchallengesthatIcanwitnessthe birth of the department and graduate emphasis.Thesewouldbethegreatlegaciestotheenergy,abilities,anddedicationoftheChicano/LatinoStudiesfaculty,staffandstudents. IthasbeenagreatexperiencetohavebeenapartofChicano/LatinoStudiesduringsuchaphenomenalburstofcreativeenergy.Hastapronto,

LeoChavezDirector,ChicanoLatinoStudiesProgramProfessorofAnthropology

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April 22, 2006 ReceptionforNewlyAdmittedRazaStudent is part of the Celebrate UCI scheduled activities, anannualeventtowelcomenewly admitted students.LeoChavez,Director of CLSP; Manuel Gomez, Vice Chancellor StudentAffairs; Juan Lara, Assistant Vice Chancellor of EnrollmentServices;andLeticiaOseguera,AssistantProfessorDepartmentofEducationarethescheduledspeakers. A p r i l 2 6 , 2 0 0 6 P a u lMenendez,Cuban Musician, will presenta talk titled “Walking in Two Worlds,”at the Jeff Garcilazo Conference Room(SocialScienceTower318)from03:00to05:00PM. What are the common elements in the histories of the US and Cuba, the similarities of the mixture of African and European ingredients and the history of the inter-relationship of both cultures, both pre and post revolution. May 19, 2006: Chicano/LatinoFacultyBookForumatthe Cross Cultural Center from 12:00 to 02:00 PM followed by a book signing, authors scheduled to present:

-Gilbert Conchas -Gilbert Gonzalez -Cynthia Feliciano -Rodrigo Lazo -Raul Fernandez -Vicki Ruiz -Lisa Garcia Bedolla

June 18, 2006 RazaGraduationisanintimateeventheldtohonorgraduatingstudentsandtheirfamilies.IfyouareinterestedinparticipatingcontactKarinaEnriquez,kenrique@uci.edu,orOliviaRodriguez,omrodrig@uci.edu.

C A L E N D A R

FALL 2006 DEAN’S HONOR LIST Christian Anguiano Ismael Herrera Jacqueline Arreola Aida S. Macedo Karina Enriquez Joseph Macias Dulce Garcia Rodolfo Mondragon Roberto Gomez Jr. Cindy Villanueva Violeta O. Gonzalez

WINTER 2006 DEAN’S HONOR LIST Graciela Arguelles Joseph Macias Edgar Barba Rodolfo Mondragon Irene Bobadilla Christian Morales Joel Crespo Eliana Olivarez Karina Enriquez Yadira Ortega Dulce Garcia Wendy Osuna Ismael Herrera Aracely Villanueva Aida Macedo De Partida Laura Zavala

ALFRED “FRED” FLORES(1930-2005)

Community Servant Alfred “Fred” Flores, 75, president of the McNeese Alumni Association, died at the Valley Inn in Mancos, Colorado on Friday, Nov. 25, 2005. The cause of death was congestive heart failure. Mr. Flores was born to

Diego and Susana Borrego Flores on Aug. 22, 1930 in Wharton, Texas. Hewasthefirstpersoninhisfamilytograduate from high school and earn a college degree. Mr. Flores supported a “stay-in school” program and was a member of the parents association at UCI. He also helped establish “Los Padrinos and Las Madrinas,” a community support group for Chicano medical students at UCI. Mr. Flores was the keynote speaker at a UCI graduationandreceivedacertificateofmeritforcommunity service by Chancellor Aldrich. Active in politics and community service, Mr. Flores marched with Cesar Chavez and was a pallbearer at his funeral. He is survived by his wife, Bonnie Flores ofDurango,fivechildren,threesiblings,thirteengrandchildren and one great-grandchild.

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COLLOQUIA SERIES

Abel Valenzuela, Associate Professor and Director UCLA Center for the Study of Urban Poverty: “Day Labor Worker Centers: Restoring the Floor in Urban Labor Markets,” November 29, 2005.

Mary Ann Villarreal, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Utah, “Raising the Bar: Cantinas and the Women Who Managed Them, 1940-1990,” January 17, 2006. Patricia Zavella, Professor, Latin

American and Latino Studies Department, UC Santa Cruz, “La Casa Dividida: Migration and Family Disruption, “ February 9, 2006.

Denise Segura, Professor of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara, “Civic Engagement and Latino Student Empowerment: The ENLACE Undergraduate Research and Mentorship Program at UCSB,” March 1, 2006

LATINOS & JEWS CONFERENCE January 23, 2006 the UC Irvine Centerfor Research on Latinosin a Global Society co-sponsored Latinos andJews, a conference onhistoricalandcontemporaryconnections, co-sponsoredby The American JewishCommitteeandUCIStudentAffairs. The conferencewas comprised of threesessions:SessionI:HiddenConnections: New Mexicoand Colonial Migration;Session II: Boyle HeightsandLosAngeles,1930-1950Connections; Session III:ContemporaryConnections:P o l i t i c s , E d u c a t i o n ,Immigration a conferencewith the American JewishCommittee.Theconference,titled“Latinos and Jews: A Conference on Historical and Contemporary Connections,” exploredpast,presentandpossiblefuture connections between Jews and Latinos. Thefocus was on the history of crypto-Jews in colonialMexico, and the intermixing of Jews, Latinos andothers in Boyle Heights. Prominent communitymembers from the community spoke at the threesessions. TheConferencewas“standingroomonly”andwellreceivedbythecommunityatlarge.Speakersincluded:DanielSchroeter,StanleyM.Hordes,CarloxVelez-Ibanez,GeorgeSanchez,KennethC.Burt,ShanaBernstein,SteveSass,ArturoVargas,LouisDeSipio,SteveWindmeuller,andDinaVanSiegel.

Participants pictured above from left to right:

Professor Leo Chavez, Dean Barbara Dosher, and

Professor Vicki Ruiz .

Chancellor Michael Drake, speaker at conference.

CASA CESAR CHAVEZ (CASA) Nowinits11thyear,continuestoliveuptoitslegacyofcommunityinvolvement.LastfallagroupofstudentsfromCenturyHighSchool inSantaAna visited CASA, where they hadtheopportunitytointeractwithCASAresidents.Thestudentswatchedthevideo “Yo Soy Joaquin” and CASAresidents spoke to them about theimportance of a higher education.The CASA residents proved to begreat sources of inspiration for thehighschoolstudents,whoattheendofthetripexpressedtheirmotivationbysaying,“seeyouin3yearsCASA!”GreatjobCASA!

A m b a r R a m o s , w h o g r a d u a t e din June 2005 with a double major in Chicano/Latino Studies and Criminology, Law & Society, continues to excel in her endeavors. Ambar, chosen as the School of Social Sciences student speaker during UCI’s 40th annual commencement is a research assistant within a research directorate of the Defense Department (Institute for National Strategic Studies) in Washington D.C., where she will be working on Latin-American-US foreign policy.

Juan Buriel, doctoral candidate, UCI Comparative Literature received the Brython Davis Dissertation Fellowship for Spring 2006. Recently, Buriel also co-authored an article with Dr. Rodolfo D. Torres, entitled “Latin@ Los Angeles: The Representation of Labor, The Labor Representation,” to be published in THE CULTURED CITY: BUILDING IDENTITIES IN URBAN LATINA/O AMERICA, Amanda Holmes and Richard Young, eds.

FACULTY NEWS

Cynthia Feliciano,AssistantProfessorofSociologyandChicano/LatinoStudies,participatedin the UCI Department of Education’sDistinguished Speaker Series. The talktitled “Upwards or Downwards? Pre-immigration Origins and EducationalMobility Among Second-Generation

Latinos”presented inNovember,wasopentoall faculty,staffandstudents.

Lisa Garcia Bedolla, hasbeen promoted from Assistant Professorto Associate Professor of ChicanoLatino Studies and Political Science.Congratulations!

Alejandro Morales , effectiveJanuary 1, 2006, ProfessorMorales’ appointment will beheld as 50% in the DepartmentofSpanishandPortuguese,andthe remaining 50% held in theChicano/Latino Studies, withCLSPdesignatedashis“homedepartment.”

Louis DeSipio, Associate Professorof Chicano/Latino Studies and PoliticalScience participated in Fall 2005conference hosted by the WoodrowWilson International Center for Scholarsand the University of California, SantaCruz. The conference, entitled MexicanMigrantSocialandCivicParticipationintheUS,”broughttogether scholars and community leaders to examineand analyze the role of Mexican migrant hometownassociations in U.S. and Mexican politics. DeSipio’slatestpublication(co-authoredwithUCIPoliticalSciencegraduate student Natalie Masuoka) analyzed Latinoparticipation in the 2003 California recall race and theCruzBustamante2003gubernatorialcampaign.Entitled“Opportunities Lost? Latinos, Cruz Bustamante, andCalifornia’sRecall,”itappearedinShaunBowlerandBruceE. Cain, eds. Clicker Politics: Essays on the CaliforniaRecall (2006, Prentice Hall). In early 2006, DeSipiopresented a paper at the Center for Research on Latinosin a Global Society Conference on Latinos and Jews: AConferenceonHistoricalandContemporaryConnections.

Michael Montoya, AssistantProfessor, Chicano/Latino Studiesand Anthropology, has received 2006-07 Social Science Assistant ProfessorResearch Award, which recognizesresearch excellence and strong projectproposalsbytheschool’s junior faculty.

Montoya’sproject,“EthnographicResearchforDiabetesinLatinoCommunities,”willreceive$5,000funding.

TheCRLGSheldaGraduate Student Symposium featuring graduate students awarded the 2004-05Graduate Student Fellowship Awards of $1000 eachto conduct dissertation research. On November18, 2005 four students presented their researchprojects to audience of faculty, staff, and students:

Juan Buriel: “Overview of Dissertation Research of Chicana/o Textuality: Narrative and Criticism in Aztlán.” Carmen Serrano:

“The Value in Higher Education as seen by Mexican-American Families.”

R o s a u r a Tafoya-Estrada: “ T h e M e a n i n g o f S e l e c t i v e A c c u l t u r a t i o n i n t h e L i v e s o f Second Generation Immigrants.”

Guadalupe Vidales: “A Comparative Trans-N a t i o n a l E c o l o g i c a l Study of Latina Domestic V i o l e n c e : B a r r i e r s to Seeking Services in Mexico City and Orange County, Cal i fornia.”

CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON LATINOS IN A GLOBAL SOCIETY (CRLGS)

Vicki Ruiz , Professorof Chicano/Latino Studies andHistory,has been voted President-Elect of the American StudiesAssociation. Chartered in 1951, theAmerican Studies Association nowhas more than 5,000 members.

As one of the principalinvestigators Ruiz receivedfromTheFord Foundation a $180,000 award for

the production of “Latina History in the United States: A CD-Rom and Interactive Website,” that will be geared to middle and high school students and distributed free of charge through arrangement with the University of Illinois Press and the History Cooperative. The two other principal investigators are Virginia Sanchez Korrol and Carlos Cruz of Brooklyn College. In Fall 2005 Ruiz served as the Martin Luther King, Jr., Cesar Chavez, and Rosa Parks Visiting Professor in American Culture at the University of Michigan. And, also this past Fall Ruiz was the Howard and Natalie Shawn Lecturer for the History Department at Columbia University.

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COLLOQUIA SERIES

Abel Valenzuela, Associate Professor and Director UCLA Center for the Study of Urban Poverty: “Day Labor Worker Centers: Restoring the Floor in Urban Labor Markets,” November 29, 2005.

Mary Ann Villarreal, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Utah, “Raising the Bar: Cantinas and the Women Who Managed Them, 1940-1990,” January 17, 2006. Patricia Zavella, Professor, Latin

American and Latino Studies Department, UC Santa Cruz, “La Casa Dividida: Migration and Family Disruption, “ February 9, 2006.

Denise Segura, Professor of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara, “Civic Engagement and Latino Student Empowerment: The ENLACE Undergraduate Research and Mentorship Program at UCSB,” March 1, 2006

LATINOS & JEWS CONFERENCE January 23, 2006 the UC Irvine Centerfor Research on Latinosin a Global Society co-sponsored Latinos andJews, a conference onhistoricalandcontemporaryconnections, co-sponsoredby The American JewishCommitteeandUCIStudentAffairs. The conferencewas comprised of threesessions:SessionI:HiddenConnections: New Mexicoand Colonial Migration;Session II: Boyle HeightsandLosAngeles,1930-1950Connections; Session III:ContemporaryConnections:P o l i t i c s , E d u c a t i o n ,Immigration a conferencewith the American JewishCommittee.Theconference,titled“Latinos and Jews: A Conference on Historical and Contemporary Connections,” exploredpast,presentandpossiblefuture connections between Jews and Latinos. Thefocus was on the history of crypto-Jews in colonialMexico, and the intermixing of Jews, Latinos andothers in Boyle Heights. Prominent communitymembers from the community spoke at the threesessions. TheConferencewas“standingroomonly”andwellreceivedbythecommunityatlarge.Speakersincluded:DanielSchroeter,StanleyM.Hordes,CarloxVelez-Ibanez,GeorgeSanchez,KennethC.Burt,ShanaBernstein,SteveSass,ArturoVargas,LouisDeSipio,SteveWindmeuller,andDinaVanSiegel.

Participants pictured above from left to right:

Professor Leo Chavez, Dean Barbara Dosher, and

Professor Vicki Ruiz .

Chancellor Michael Drake, speaker at conference.

CASA CESAR CHAVEZ (CASA) Nowinits11thyear,continuestoliveuptoitslegacyofcommunityinvolvement.LastfallagroupofstudentsfromCenturyHighSchool inSantaAna visited CASA, where they hadtheopportunitytointeractwithCASAresidents.Thestudentswatchedthevideo “Yo Soy Joaquin” and CASAresidents spoke to them about theimportance of a higher education.The CASA residents proved to begreat sources of inspiration for thehighschoolstudents,whoattheendofthetripexpressedtheirmotivationbysaying,“seeyouin3yearsCASA!”GreatjobCASA!

A m b a r R a m o s , w h o g r a d u a t e din June 2005 with a double major in Chicano/Latino Studies and Criminology, Law & Society, continues to excel in her endeavors. Ambar, chosen as the School of Social Sciences student speaker during UCI’s 40th annual commencement is a research assistant within a research directorate of the Defense Department (Institute for National Strategic Studies) in Washington D.C., where she will be working on Latin-American-US foreign policy.

Juan Buriel, doctoral candidate, UCI Comparative Literature received the Brython Davis Dissertation Fellowship for Spring 2006. Recently, Buriel also co-authored an article with Dr. Rodolfo D. Torres, entitled “Latin@ Los Angeles: The Representation of Labor, The Labor Representation,” to be published in THE CULTURED CITY: BUILDING IDENTITIES IN URBAN LATINA/O AMERICA, Amanda Holmes and Richard Young, eds.

FACULTY NEWS

Cynthia Feliciano,AssistantProfessorofSociologyandChicano/LatinoStudies,participatedin the UCI Department of Education’sDistinguished Speaker Series. The talktitled “Upwards or Downwards? Pre-immigration Origins and EducationalMobility Among Second-Generation

Latinos”presented inNovember,wasopentoall faculty,staffandstudents.

Lisa Garcia Bedolla, hasbeen promoted from Assistant Professorto Associate Professor of ChicanoLatino Studies and Political Science.Congratulations!

Alejandro Morales , effectiveJanuary 1, 2006, ProfessorMorales’ appointment will beheld as 50% in the DepartmentofSpanishandPortuguese,andthe remaining 50% held in theChicano/Latino Studies, withCLSPdesignatedashis“homedepartment.”

Louis DeSipio, Associate Professorof Chicano/Latino Studies and PoliticalScience participated in Fall 2005conference hosted by the WoodrowWilson International Center for Scholarsand the University of California, SantaCruz. The conference, entitled MexicanMigrantSocialandCivicParticipationintheUS,”broughttogether scholars and community leaders to examineand analyze the role of Mexican migrant hometownassociations in U.S. and Mexican politics. DeSipio’slatestpublication(co-authoredwithUCIPoliticalSciencegraduate student Natalie Masuoka) analyzed Latinoparticipation in the 2003 California recall race and theCruzBustamante2003gubernatorialcampaign.Entitled“Opportunities Lost? Latinos, Cruz Bustamante, andCalifornia’sRecall,”itappearedinShaunBowlerandBruceE. Cain, eds. Clicker Politics: Essays on the CaliforniaRecall (2006, Prentice Hall). In early 2006, DeSipiopresented a paper at the Center for Research on Latinosin a Global Society Conference on Latinos and Jews: AConferenceonHistoricalandContemporaryConnections.

Michael Montoya, AssistantProfessor, Chicano/Latino Studiesand Anthropology, has received 2006-07 Social Science Assistant ProfessorResearch Award, which recognizesresearch excellence and strong projectproposalsbytheschool’s junior faculty.

Montoya’sproject,“EthnographicResearchforDiabetesinLatinoCommunities,”willreceive$5,000funding.

TheCRLGSheldaGraduate Student Symposium featuring graduate students awarded the 2004-05Graduate Student Fellowship Awards of $1000 eachto conduct dissertation research. On November18, 2005 four students presented their researchprojects to audience of faculty, staff, and students:

Juan Buriel: “Overview of Dissertation Research of Chicana/o Textuality: Narrative and Criticism in Aztlán.” Carmen Serrano:

“The Value in Higher Education as seen by Mexican-American Families.”

R o s a u r a Tafoya-Estrada: “ T h e M e a n i n g o f S e l e c t i v e A c c u l t u r a t i o n i n t h e L i v e s o f Second Generation Immigrants.”

Guadalupe Vidales: “A Comparative Trans-N a t i o n a l E c o l o g i c a l Study of Latina Domestic V i o l e n c e : B a r r i e r s to Seeking Services in Mexico City and Orange County, Cal i fornia.”

CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON LATINOS IN A GLOBAL SOCIETY (CRLGS)

Vicki Ruiz , Professorof Chicano/Latino Studies andHistory,has been voted President-Elect of the American StudiesAssociation. Chartered in 1951, theAmerican Studies Association nowhas more than 5,000 members.

As one of the principalinvestigators Ruiz receivedfromTheFord Foundation a $180,000 award for

the production of “Latina History in the United States: A CD-Rom and Interactive Website,” that will be geared to middle and high school students and distributed free of charge through arrangement with the University of Illinois Press and the History Cooperative. The two other principal investigators are Virginia Sanchez Korrol and Carlos Cruz of Brooklyn College. In Fall 2005 Ruiz served as the Martin Luther King, Jr., Cesar Chavez, and Rosa Parks Visiting Professor in American Culture at the University of Michigan. And, also this past Fall Ruiz was the Howard and Natalie Shawn Lecturer for the History Department at Columbia University.

University of California, irvine ChiCano/latino stUdies volUme 9, issUe 2

University of California, IrvineSchool of Social SciencesChicano/Latino Studies Program3151 Social Science Plaza BuildingIrvine, CA 92697-510091

CLSP NEWSLETTER STAFF Director & Editor- Leo Chavez Associate Editor- Stella Ginez

Assistant Editor - Ramon Munoz Staff Assistant: Rosa Erandi Zamora

(949) 824-7180 (949) 824-1019 FAXwww.socsci.uci.edu/clstudies

Chicano/Latino Studies is charging full forceintothe future. Everyquarterwehavemoremajorsand minors, which is a testament to the excellent

Chicano/LatinoStudies classeswe offer and tothepassionCLSfaculty bring toundergraduatee d u c a t i o n .F r o m m ydiscussionswithstudents, theyfind the classes inte l lectual lys t i m u l a t i n ga n d f a c u l t y

accessible. This bodes well for the future ofChicano/Latino Studies here at UC Irvine. Thishasalsobeenanexceptionalyearinmanyotherways.CLSfacultyhavepublishedupastorm,asthelistofauthorsinthisnewsletterattests.PleasejoinuswhenweacknowledgetheauthorsofnewbooksattheeventtobeheldattheCrossCulturalCenterthisSpring.Ondisplaywillbenotonlyanimpressivedisplayofthefaculty’s scholarly productivity, but also the breadthand range of important topics they have examined. Chicano/LatinoStudieshasalsoorganizedanincredibly stimulating colloquia series. I would liketo thank thecolloquiacommittee–RaulFernandez,DeborahVargas,andCynthiaFeliciano-foralltheireffort in bringing such stellar scholars to UCI (SeePage2).Inaddition,TheCenterforLatinosinaGlobalSocietyhasco-sponsoredanumberofpresentationsthathavehelpedbringscholarsworkingonLatinosintheU.S.tocampus.TheChangingOrangeCountyspeakerseriesorganizedbyVictorBecerra, inparticular,hasbeenasourceoftimelyandengagingspeakers.Finally,theCenteralsoco-sponsored theconferenceLatinosandJews:HistoricalandContemporaryConnections.I would like to thank Vicki Ruiz and Louis DeSipiofor their invaluable contributions to the conference.

University of California, irvine ChiCano/latino stUdies volUme 9, issUe 2

CHICANO/LATINO STUDIES PROGRAMCLSP

UniversityofCalifornia,Irvine

Volume9Issue2 April2006

Onasadnote,welostAlfred“Fred”FloresonNovember25,2005.Ihavehadthepersonalpleasureof talking with Fred and his wife Bonnie at manyChicano/Latino events over the last eighteen years.He helped develop Los Padrinos and Las Madrinas,a community support group for Latino students oncampus.Hewasalwaysapositiveandcheerfulpersonwho was intensely dedicated to improving accessto education for Latinos. He will be sorely missed. AftersixyearsdirectingChicano/LatinoStudies,itistimetostepdownandletotherstakeover.Ithasbeen an exciting time. It was personally satisfyingtosee theProgramgetamajorand(“ifyoubuild it,theywillcome”)thepositiveresponsefromstudents.Moreover,IbelievewehaveassembledthebestgroupofscholarsinthenationexaminingtheChicano/Latinoexperience, both past and present. I only hope thatbeforeImoveontootherchallengesthatIcanwitnessthe birth of the department and graduate emphasis.Thesewouldbethegreatlegaciestotheenergy,abilities,anddedicationoftheChicano/LatinoStudiesfaculty,staffandstudents. IthasbeenagreatexperiencetohavebeenapartofChicano/LatinoStudiesduringsuchaphenomenalburstofcreativeenergy.Hastapronto,

LeoChavezDirector,ChicanoLatinoStudiesProgramProfessorofAnthropology

From the Director’s Desk...

First-Class MailU.S. Postage

PAIDSanta Ana, CA

Permit No. 1106

April 22, 2006 ReceptionforNewlyAdmittedRazaStudent is part of the Celebrate UCI scheduled activities, anannualeventtowelcomenewly admitted students.LeoChavez,Director of CLSP; Manuel Gomez, Vice Chancellor StudentAffairs; Juan Lara, Assistant Vice Chancellor of EnrollmentServices;andLeticiaOseguera,AssistantProfessorDepartmentofEducationarethescheduledspeakers. A p r i l 2 6 , 2 0 0 6 P a u lMenendez,Cuban Musician, will presenta talk titled “Walking in Two Worlds,”at the Jeff Garcilazo Conference Room(SocialScienceTower318)from03:00to05:00PM. What are the common elements in the histories of the US and Cuba, the similarities of the mixture of African and European ingredients and the history of the inter-relationship of both cultures, both pre and post revolution. May 19, 2006: Chicano/LatinoFacultyBookForumatthe Cross Cultural Center from 12:00 to 02:00 PM followed by a book signing, authors scheduled to present:

-Gilbert Conchas -Gilbert Gonzalez -Cynthia Feliciano -Rodrigo Lazo -Raul Fernandez -Vicki Ruiz -Lisa Garcia Bedolla

June 18, 2006 RazaGraduationisanintimateeventheldtohonorgraduatingstudentsandtheirfamilies.IfyouareinterestedinparticipatingcontactKarinaEnriquez,kenrique@uci.edu,orOliviaRodriguez,omrodrig@uci.edu.

C A L E N D A R

FALL 2006 DEAN’S HONOR LIST Christian Anguiano Ismael Herrera Jacqueline Arreola Aida S. Macedo Karina Enriquez Joseph Macias Dulce Garcia Rodolfo Mondragon Roberto Gomez Jr. Cindy Villanueva Violeta O. Gonzalez

WINTER 2006 DEAN’S HONOR LIST Graciela Arguelles Joseph Macias Edgar Barba Rodolfo Mondragon Irene Bobadilla Christian Morales Joel Crespo Eliana Olivarez Karina Enriquez Yadira Ortega Dulce Garcia Wendy Osuna Ismael Herrera Aracely Villanueva Aida Macedo De Partida Laura Zavala

ALFRED “FRED” FLORES(1930-2005)

Community Servant Alfred “Fred” Flores, 75, president of the McNeese Alumni Association, died at the Valley Inn in Mancos, Colorado on Friday, Nov. 25, 2005. The cause of death was congestive heart failure. Mr. Flores was born to

Diego and Susana Borrego Flores on Aug. 22, 1930 in Wharton, Texas. Hewasthefirstpersoninhisfamilytograduate from high school and earn a college degree. Mr. Flores supported a “stay-in school” program and was a member of the parents association at UCI. He also helped establish “Los Padrinos and Las Madrinas,” a community support group for Chicano medical students at UCI. Mr. Flores was the keynote speaker at a UCI graduationandreceivedacertificateofmeritforcommunity service by Chancellor Aldrich. Active in politics and community service, Mr. Flores marched with Cesar Chavez and was a pallbearer at his funeral. He is survived by his wife, Bonnie Flores ofDurango,fivechildren,threesiblings,thirteengrandchildren and one great-grandchild.