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Chicano/Latino Native American Cultural Center 25th anniversary celebration, December 14, 1996
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sweet, round a pit, tooth-breaker for the unwary, the lazy, the cruel. His hands knew about the harvest, tasted the laborer's sweat in the sweet cantaloupes he sliced. he knew how to use laughter to remove stubborn roots of bitter weeds: prejudice, indifference, the boy from Crystal City, Texas not a legend to be shelved but a man whose abrazos still warm us yet, "Now you." "Now you." Two words that hold so much meaning. And I say them to you in regards to the future of the Center. Now you. It is your time and your responsibility to keep alive the dreams and values the center was founded on. The strength and the future of the Center is dependent upon the students that it was designed to serve. Without student participation and leadership the Center will not grow. The responsibility is now yours! 1996 is a different time than when I was a student and there should not be the expectation that the Center represent what it did yesterday. Had I stayed here, I would have asked that we work towards fostering linkages with other programs such as; WRAC and 17
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sweet, round a pit, tooth-breaker for the unwary, the lazy, the cruel. His hands knew about the harvest, tasted the laborer's sweat in the sweet cantaloupes he sliced. he knew how to use laughter to remove stubborn roots of bitter weeds: prejudice, indifference, the boy from Crystal City, Texas not a legend to be shelved but a man whose abrazos still warm us yet, "Now you." "Now you." Two words that hold so much meaning. And I say them to you in regards to the future of the Center. Now you. It is your time and your responsibility to keep alive the dreams and values the center was founded on. The strength and the future of the Center is dependent upon the students that it was designed to serve. Without student participation and leadership the Center will not grow. The responsibility is now yours! 1996 is a different time than when I was a student and there should not be the expectation that the Center represent what it did yesterday. Had I stayed here, I would have asked that we work towards fostering linkages with other programs such as; WRAC and 17
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