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Chicano/Latino Native American Cultural Center 25th anniversary celebration, December 14, 1996
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- Through experiences at the cultural center we witnessed first hand the important role student voices play toward insuring that campuses and more diverse. I also believe that my experiences here as a student were pivotal in the decision I later made with regard to how I serve students and my community today. i say this to you now so you might see the relationship between what you are doing right now and to what you could be doing in the future. The early "70s" (when the center was coming into form) as many of you most likely know were turbulent times. The civil rights movements were fully engaged, Movements that included the Chicano Movement, American Indian Movement, Women's Movement and student protest against the Vietnam War. As college students from many of the communities who had organized during the period in history, various aspects of these movements acted as catalysts for us. Jose Angel Guiterrez renown Chicano leader of the movement participated in the first Chicano conference in the midwest that brought over 3,000 Chicanos and Latinos from every corner in the U.S. to Iowa City in 1973- Imagine all these people trying to dance to Daniel Valdez, the featured artist for the conference, in the cultural center. I thought for sure the center would explode as every space was filled - the house and the university rocked for four days and there were only 19 of us who were actually from the U of I . 7
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- Through experiences at the cultural center we witnessed first hand the important role student voices play toward insuring that campuses and more diverse. I also believe that my experiences here as a student were pivotal in the decision I later made with regard to how I serve students and my community today. i say this to you now so you might see the relationship between what you are doing right now and to what you could be doing in the future. The early "70s" (when the center was coming into form) as many of you most likely know were turbulent times. The civil rights movements were fully engaged, Movements that included the Chicano Movement, American Indian Movement, Women's Movement and student protest against the Vietnam War. As college students from many of the communities who had organized during the period in history, various aspects of these movements acted as catalysts for us. Jose Angel Guiterrez renown Chicano leader of the movement participated in the first Chicano conference in the midwest that brought over 3,000 Chicanos and Latinos from every corner in the U.S. to Iowa City in 1973- Imagine all these people trying to dance to Daniel Valdez, the featured artist for the conference, in the cultural center. I thought for sure the center would explode as every space was filled - the house and the university rocked for four days and there were only 19 of us who were actually from the U of I . 7
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