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Spring 2013 - Vol. II No. 2Stanords Chican@/Latin@ Magazine

CeciliaBurciagasLegacy

Haas Center

Takes on theDREAM Act

Stanfords 42nd Powwo

plus Comics, Poetry and more!

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Edith Preciado 14Ileana Najarro 15

Alice Miano, SpanishLanguage Coordinator or ILAC

Stephanie Gutierrez 14adeo Melean 13Angela orres 13

Diana Gonzales 13Herbert Silva, third year

graduate studentAlemar Brito 15

Ever Rodriguez, StaSandra Rodrguez 14Johnathan Bowes 15

Leonardo Leal 15Alicia Hamar 15

Daniel Dominguez 16Brittany orrez 16

Spring 2013 ~ Vol. II No. 2

EL AGUILA is a Chican@/Latin@ Magazine produced by students at Stanord University. It is an idependendent quarterly publication thatcovers current cultural, economic, political and social issues aecting the Chican@/Latin@ community on a campus-wide, local, and nationallevel. Tis publication seeks to share the artistic expression o the Stanord Chican@/Latin@ Comunidad with the greater Stanord community

through articles, drawings, essays, poems and other submissions.

Many o El Aguilas contributors, ocers, and sta writers are also members o the Chican@/Latin@ community at Stanord. However, ourpublication welcomes any and all students to be potential contributors, ocers, and sta.

Please send any inquiries or comments to: [email protected] Visit us at: www.stanordelaguila.com

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Managing, Copy EditorNews Section EditorFeatures Section EditorPlumas Section EditorVoces Latinoamericanas Section Editor

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NEWS

5 ~ Cecilia Burciaga, Chican@ advocate, mentor dies aBy Alicia Hamar

6 ~ Hass Center or Public Service takes on DREAM ABy Stephanie Gutierrez

FEATURES

8 ~ Barrio Assistance tutors East Palo Alto youth as a By Daniel Dominguez

9 ~ Stanords 42nd Powwow ostered multi-cultural leaBy Angela orres

10 ~ eaching ethnic identication through history By adeo Melean

HEALTH

12 ~ Students eager to take on medical reorm in Oaxa By Brittany orrez

13 ~ First-hand look at maternal health in Copper Can By Erin Inman

EL NIDO

14 ~ Casa Zapata Resident Fellows reect on years o s By Daniel Dominguez

VOCES LATINOAMERICANAS

16 ~ Lo que me perdi pensando en ti By Alemar Brito 16 ~ Las mujeres que criaste By Laura Pulido 17 ~ Luna By Leonardo Leal

PLUMAS

18 ~ Composition With Frida By Cesar orrez 19 ~ Focusing on the uture o U.S. and Mexico relation

By Leonardo Leal20 ~ L.A. Hat

By Gustavo Gonzalez

Spring 2013 ~ Vol. II No. 2

Front cover: El Aguila sobre un nopal ~ Photo by Daniel DominBack cover: owards Te Main Quad ~ Photo Art by Ever Rodri

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Cecilia Burciaga, ormer advocate o Latino aairs atStanord University and ounding dean o Caliornia StateUniversity Monterey Bay, passed away on March 27th at age67 and is remembered as an inspiration to the community.Burciaga held several administrative positions at while atStanord, starting as Provost or Chicano Aairs in 1974.

Her advocacy or civil rights in the Latino community,alongside her position as a mentor, cemented her image as astrong Latina who aided countless students. Alongside heradministrative duties, Burciaga and her late husband, JoseAntonio Burciaga served as Resident Fellows or Casa Za-pata, the Chican@/Latin@ themed dorm, starting in 1985and are remembered or establishing a strong amily ori-ented community.

[Burciaga] was a powerul woman, and she was a rolemodel or other women in the dorm. She was there to care

or people, said Donnovan Somera Yisrael 89 M.A. 90, aormer Residential Advisor o Casa Zapata.

Burciagas compassion and wisdom helped those havingtrouble adjusting to the rigors o Stanord. Julia GonzalezLuna 94 M.A. 95 recalls going to s ee Burciaga during her

reshman year when she was considering dropping out ocollege due to not tting in.

I remember walking in and she had this huge redwooddesk, and I had never seen a Latina sitting behind such a bigdesk, Luna said.

She looked straight into my eyes and said, or every-one that makes it into Stanord, there are a thousand whodont make it, so then you are responsible or the thousand,Luna added.

Burciagas words and inuence helped Luna graduaterom college.

People thought it was okay to be at Stanord because Ce-

cilia was there. We elt like she made us belong there, she said.Burciaga was red rom Stanord in 1994, allegedly due

to budget cuts. Tis resulted in a multiple day hunger strike,where students camped out in the main quad, devastatedby the Universitys decision. Eva Silva 94 M.A. 95, now aprogram coordinator at CSU Monterey Bay, was involved inthe hunger strike and remembers Burciaga telling the pro-testors that she did not want them to carry out the hungerstrike or her sake.

o gain things or the students here and i you can,use this to give you more strength, but dont do the hungerstrike or my position, Silva recalled her saying.

Te strike led to the ormation o multiple comdevoted to race studies which eventually led to ation o the Department o Comparative Studiesand Ethnicity. Afer Stanord, Burciaga became a administrator at CSU Monterey Bay where she coher work helping the Latino community at the newlished university. According to Silva, many studenthe Monterey County area were rst generation aciaga served as their mentor and advocate.

In 2002, Burciaga played an important part in that was settled with the CSU Montgomery Bay ovregarding policy and diversity.

She demanded that they have a scholarshipincome students and thats something to show to tthat she had, and how well she knew the communshe was working with, Silva said.

Te lawsuit was settled and a scholarship undmillion dollars was established to aid the low-incodents rom the area.

Burciagas legacy lives on through her actionsuniversities, as well as in the hearts o the students stored. Silva still remembers her relationship with Bas her mentor when she attended Stanord.

She was like my mom away rom home. She trall like her kids, Silva said. I think she understoodall looked up to her, and she modeled the behaviorwould like to see in us as well.

One conversation Luna had with Burciaga begraduated stands out in her memory.

I used to think I was going to graduate o being brown, and now I think Im going toate because Im brown, she recalled telling BShe was so impressed and hugged me and she Tats exactly it.

Cecilia Burciaga, Chican@ advocate, mentor, dies atBy Alicia Hamar

NEWS

ony and Cecilia Burciaga with background o onys mural Te Last Supper o the Chicano Heroes.Photo courtesy o Rebeca Burciaga.

Afer a quarter interlude rom ourll issue, El Aguila is back or the secondue o the 2012-13 academic year.

Tis quarter we received an in-eased amount o online submissions inmparison with previous issues. Tisowed or the novel addition o comicsEl Aguilas repertoire o artistic content.

ogether, the written content withinis issue o the magazine alongside thetistic submissions, mark the versatilityimagination and artistic talents in our

omunidad. We are grateul to those whontributed and we hope to continue this

adition o giving space to the creativityour community.

Furthermore this quarter our group,

hich revived El Aguila or the 2011-12 school year afer having beenunct since the 90s, will experience itsst ocial ocer transition.

Tis is an incredibly important mo-ent or the uture o El Aguila. We arendent that our current and uture stall pull El Aguila orward with care anddication or years to come.

We will miss our rst round o gradu-ing seniors but we hope that they con-nue to be linked to our Comunidad, es-cially through the magazine itsel. One

o the major purposes o our magazine isto oster a connection between current,potential, and uture members o ourcommunity.

For this issue we are also implement-ing a slight change in our layout designor a look that we hope proves more trueto a magazine style. We hope that thischange reects a series o modicationsto layout by our uture layout teams thatcontinually improves the visual aspects othe magazine, making it more amenableto the sight and more enjoyable to ourreaders.

In the next pages, the reader will ndstories ranging within our usual sectionso News, Features, Health, Voces Latino-

americanas, El Nido and Plumas.Tese stories, as always, highlightdierent issues that pertain to StanordsChican@/Latin@ Comunidad. Within thisissue especially are represented a serieso important transitions or Comunidad,including key changes and new program-ming that aect Casa Zapata, supporterso the DREAM Act, and those interestedin community health, respectively.

o begin, in our News section werecount the lie o the late and belovedCecilia Burciaga, whose contributions to

our Comunidad have been immense. Wedescribe how her lie work touched thelives o countless students in this com-munity and how it continues to be seen inthe work o Chican@/Latin@s at Stanordtoday.

Our Features section covers the con-tinued signicance o Barrio Assistance,Stanords oldest student group, both onand o campus, as well as reactions toStanords 42nd annual Powwow.

Our Health section covers the impor-tant reversal o the travel ban to southernMexico that has allowed students to onceagain partake in the Bing Overseas Stud-ies Programs Community Health pro-gram in Oaxaca.

Tis quarters El Nido section holdsan especially important story dedicated toCasa Zapata Resident Fellows, Chris Gon-zalez-Clarke and Gina Hernandez-Clarke,who will leave Zapata afer this year.

We also encourage you to read thisissues artistic content.

We hope that you nd the contentwithin enjoyable and pertinent!

Sincerely,

Te Editors-in-Chie

A young Cecilia Burciaga. Photo courtesy o Rebeca Burciag

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he Haas Center or Public Service has selected theevelopment, Relie, and Education or Alien Minors

DREAM) Act as its next Commonwealth Challenge, aoject through the Haas Center that takes on a new goal

very two years.he DREAM Act is a bill that would have provided

onditional permanent residency to certain undocu-ented immigrants, including students. According toe Center or American Progress, every year about

5,000 undocumented high school graduates ace lim-ed work and education opportunities because o theirgal status.

Students involved with the Commonwealth Chal-nge have created the DREAM Act team, a Stanordoup that ocuses on working with community leaders

nd the Haas Center to address needs surrounding theREAM Act.

Originally, the DREAM Act eam planned on mak-g a video database through which undocumented im-

igrants could share their stories, said Sean Wang 15ho is involved with the DREAM Act team.

However, the team discovered that an organization

called the Emerson Collective had already created thedatabase.he Emerson Collective, ounded by Laurene Pow-

ell Jobs, the widow o ormer Apple CEO Steve Jobs,developed heDreamisNow.org, a website where un-documented students can share their stories through

vide os.he site also has a petition that people can sign to tell

Congress to make a pathway to citizenship or undocu-mented youth who pursue military service or a collegedegree.

Its a very inluential group and theyre already do-

ing a great job o it [the video database], so were lookingto approach it [the DREAM Act] rom a dierent anglenow, Wang said.

he team has instead decided to create a mentor-ship system that will connect undocumented studentsentering college with others who can help guide themwith their career paths, Wang wrote in an email to ElAguila.

We hope to beneit undocumented students whohave been hesitant to reach out or help, he wrote.

om Schnaubelt, executive director o the Haas Cen-ter, said rom his perspective there are two goals or theproject: raising awareness about the DREAM Act thatwould help inluence its passage and the skills studentscan gain through this experience.

As an educatorI hope the students can learn a va-riety o skills that mightbe related on how to in-luence public policy, howto organize, how to lead,

Schnaubelt said.Schnaubelt said that

the goal chosen or thechallenge has to meet a seto criteria.

his included a proj-ect that would be measur-able and achievable withintwo years, could tap intoresources at Stanord, and address a signiicant commu-nity need.

he biggest thing though is that we wanted it to bea single ocused goal, Schnaubelt said.

he task or the irst challenge, 100K Cheeks, o-cused on creating a large-scale bone marrow registrantdrive. he goal was to get 100,000 people to sign up orthe national bone marrow donor registry.

he groups campaign surpassed the initial goal inthe irst year with over 100,000 registered bone mar-row donors. Beore deciding on the next Common-wealth Challenge goal, Wang said that the team metwith hrive, the Alliance o Nonproits or San MateoCounty.

We got a chance to talk to a lot o the nonproits inSan Mateo and we surveyed them on what issues are veryimportant, especially in the next two years, that we couldpotentially help with at Stanord, Wang said.

He said many o these nonproits mentioned theDREAM Act as an important topic, especially or thenext couple o years.

he team then sent out a survey with multiple top-ics to the undergraduate population via the Service4allemail list.

he most popular issue students casted their vote orwas the DREAM Act. hey also had a chance to speak

with Stanord Alum, Fermn Mendoza 11, who is

documented immigrant.

We got to hear his perspective on it and it so

us, Wang said.

Mendoza said he was excited when Wang reac

to him, and ound out that Stanord students are

terested in immigration issues.

He also noted the importance o the Haas Cen

ing on this challenge.

he Haas Center is one o the places on cam

represents the public service spirit o Stanord

it is important that it plays a role in taking up a

endeavor to work on these issues, Mendoza said

Mendoza said he spoke to the team about p

areas that they coul

on, such as proessio

velopment or undoc

ed students.he DREAM Act

ues to be a present

Stanord, as well as

o national concern.

In January, P

Barack Obama spoke

Vegas High School

o comprehensive immigration reorm.

[W]e took up the cause o the DREAM

young people who were brought to this cou

children, young people who have grown up he

their lives here, have utures hereBut beca

change isnt permanent, we need Congress

Obama said.

Wang said Obamas announcement helped r

morale o the team.

Its pretty inspirational to know that the to

were working on right now is a hot legislative to

said.

he next step to making the Commonwealt

lenge project a reality is building the mentorship

since the team now has a sponsoring organizati

cators or Fair Consideration (E4FC), said Wan

email to El Aguila.

[he students] have tosee what resourc

and what niche they can play in terms o movin

orward, said Schnaubelt. hats whats excitin

where theyre at right now, theyve got to look

and discover and explore.

Haas Center or Public Service takes on DREAM ActBy Stephanie Gutierrez

aas Center or Public Service at Stanord University. Photo by Stephanie Gutierrez.

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t is likely that everyday hundreds o students walk pastthe headquarters o one o the oldest student groups onmpus without even noticing it. Te small door o Barriossistance lies discreetly beore the entrance to the Jaimeiranda Lounge in El Centro Chicano.

Barrio Assistance has a simple mission and has used antegrated approach to ensure a continuing longevity, which

as helped countless lives rom the local area. It has beenoviding one-on-one tutoring to children o East Palo Alto

nce its ounding in 1971 by members o Movimiento Es-dantil Chicanos de Aztln (MEChA).

Te programwhich provides mentorship to mostlywer income Latino students aliated with the East Paloto Stanord Academy and transportation to and rom theildrens homesbrings them to Stanord campus to ex-

ose them to the academics and extracurriculars o college

e.Te program currently has about 30 to 40 members

mposed o active tutors, drivers, and coordinators. In re-nt years the program has gained the support o the Haasenter or Public Service, which coordinates its nonprotpects and provides opportu-ties or ederal work-study toose who volunteer to serve asivers or the tutees.

Shayda Zarashar 15, whoined the program as a tutor all

uarter o this year, noted that,her than its ties to the Haasenter and El Centro Chicano,is a group that on a day-to-daysis runs independent o the

niversity.She explained that the ma-

rity o the tutees are either rstsecond generation and that

eir parents are involved to thetent they can be. Recognizing their own limitations o

me and educational background, these childrens parents

unt on the tutoring program or support.Tey are very intelligent, they are very motivated, but

ere are just some things that they dont have the oppor-nity to hear about in their daily routines, Zarashar said.

Barrio Assistances long waitlists or tutors support theoups reputation o having such a positive eect on stu-nts.

In addition to academic support, the program has arong commitment to community.

Zarashar notes that since many o the tutors and tu-es come rom similar backgrounds it is very easy to buildrong ties and keep the program going. Furthermore, she

states that the general air o social activism and commu-nity out-reach surrounding the Stanord campus adds to thewillingness o students to get involved and aid those whodo not have access to opportunity outside o the classroom.

Te act that were college students in and o itsel is ahuge advantage, Zarashar said. Just to have them be ableto spend time with us and I can tell them yeah when I wasin high school I was thinking about this college. What areyour thoughts? or say to them, Im going to ask you somequestions that you probably havent been asked beore andI really want to hear your answers. Tose are the conversa-tions that they really wouldnt have otherwise, she added.

Family is a key community value that the program em-phasizes and members try to ensure that amilial connec-tions stay strong.

Zarashar noted that i one amily member gets in and

another member o that amily applies they would also re-ceive the mentorship to ensure that opportunity is equallyspread across the amily. Such amilial connections evenextend to the tutors themselves.

Shahrnaz Zarashar 14, a Barrio Assistance tutor co-ordinator and older sister oShayda, said that she beganmentoring winter quarter oher reshmen year afer hearingtheir older sister discuss the pro-grams on her visits back home.Shahrnaz then welcomed heryounger sister into the group tocontinue on the amilial tradi-tion.

Regarding the uture o Bar-rio Assistance, Shahrnaz saidthat she is condent about thegroups continuing success, cit-ing the built-in community sup-

port, the resources provided to itand the willingness o Stanord students to volunteer theirtime.

Barrio Assistance is always looking or new tutors andkeeps its application process open year round so that thosewilling to help the local community have the opportunityto do so.

Its a really rewarding experience to just ask themWhat college do you want to go to? and its ne that theydont have an answer, its just important to open up and havethat conversation with them, Shayda said.

On a similar note, her older sister said the aim o theprogram is simple. Te ultimate goal o the Barrio Assis-tance is to show students that college isnt only a dream butsomething that they can really achieve.

Barrio Assistance tutors East Palo Alto youth as a amilyBy Daniel Dominguez

FEATURES

he grounds at Stanord Universitys 42nd annualPowwow brimmed with vivid sights the weekend oMay 10 as colorul dancers took center stage or a

dance contest and the enticing smell o rybread lled theair.

Each year 20,000 to 30,000 visitors, including thoserom out-o-state, ock to Eucalyptus Grove to attend thelargest powwow in the U.S where the sense o multicultural-ism both in coordination and presentation o vendors andperormers is palpable.

Katie Cromack, 13, co-chair o this years Powwow, de-ned the event as an opportunity or amilies and riendsto learn, understand and celebrate the diverse indigenoustraditions o dance, craf, music,and ood.

Tere are over 500 tribes

in the United States all uniquelanguages and cultures andthis is just a way or everyoneto come together and celebrateindigenous tradition, Cromacksaid.

Despite the association opowwows with Native Ameri-can culture, Cromack explainedthat powwows are in act nottraditional to many NativeAmerican tribes.

Te resurgence o pride andcelebration o Native heritage inthe 60s and 70s led to the adop-tion o the custom by many oth-er indigenous tribes.

Cromack recognized the recent inclusion o Aztecdancers in the Powwow dance contest as an acknowledge-ment o a Pan-American indigenous culture that must beincluded in the narrative o the indigenous people.

She added that international borders separate relatives,cause political conicts that divide many tribes.

Kim McCabe, 14, publicity chair or Powwow, said di-verse representation at the event resonates with guests.

Weve had Aztec dancers come and I think that drawsa lot o people and theyre like really excited to see the Aztecdancers, McCabe said.

Its another part o native culture that people orgetaboutthe greater Native America includes a bunch opeople that when things like Powwow happen, can cometogether, she added.

Not only did the event unite tribes across borders, butit also brought together the students on Stanord campus inthe exploration o indigenous culture.

Tis is really a chance to explore indigenous in general usually the Polynesian group does a sometimes the Native Alaskans will come out andMcCabe said.

Cromack also noted Powwows eorts to smulti-culturalism.

Last year we had alisman come out and sinsongs, both Arican songs but also Native AmericaCromack said. So especially when it comes to the campus and the Stanord multicultural communpowwow in particular tries to bridge that gap.

Volunteers or Powwow came rom all over ca200-300 were needed to make sure the three-day e

smoothly. When asked about cross-community ction between volunteers and sta, Los Hermanos wtinually mentioned as a source o help in the aferPowwow or at least the past 20 years as the cleanup

In addition to a community o volunteers, thwow publicity committee ocused their outreach e

include dierent departments, graduate students, annational students as well.

According to McCabe, the graduate student cnity in particular responded well and showed a greest in learning about indigenous culture and attenPowwow.

According to Yaya Campbell 14, a sta membvolunteer committee, Powwow provides a unique populations that have endured a dark history.

[Powwow] brings the community together soshare with others and also learn rom each other aberent cultures, Campbell said.

Stanords 42nd Powwow ostered multi-cultural learniBy Angela orres

Photo courtesy o Shahrnaz Zarashar.

Flag bearers at Eucalyptus Grove or the 42nd annual Stanord Powwow. Photo by Ever Rodriguez

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students beore and afer being exposed to Chicano Stud-ies.

Te young adults interviewed and observed or thisthesis demonstrated remarkable development in the shortsix weeks o study.

While the changes and eects on their ethnic identi-cation and historical thinking, and ultimately critical con-sciousness, were not monolithic, it was clear that this typeo material, one which is rarely present in the classroom,motivated and intrigued the students in ways mainstreamhistory and literature courses could not. Some o the stu-dents literally mentioned an increased sense o duty in theclassroom.

In light o this evidence, I recommend teacherscontinue the use o the Mexican American history unitto continue developing critical consciousness in theirstudents.

he only room or improvement that was ob-served was the need to tie the history unit moreconcretely to students current circumstances. Whilesome students did this themselves without urtherhelp, others could have beneited rom additionalexplicit instruction.

he results roresearch in this thcoincides with preindings in that ethidentiication is ceinluenced in varioways when studenexposed to what cconsidered theirtory.

It is only by addtorical consciousneethnic identity analwe are more ully cao observing and asstudents experienceclassroom.

he point o exing Mexican Amerchildren to their his not so that they mcollect a series o the back o their mso that they may ondisplay it proudly acocktail party like o trophies.

It is also not ththat these children should be exposed to this mso that they may incorporate yet another label itheir vocabulary.

Rather, in teaching this material we hope chiwill develop an acute sense o historical consciouness which includes, as demonstrated by several students in the study, a deep and critical questiontheir current circumstances along with a sense oand purpose in their studies.

Based on the results o this research, I encoura

urther work and research to be carried out on the between historical thinking and ethnic identicatioconduits to overall critical consciousness developmSeparating these two dilutes the analysis o the expo any student in a classroom.

Finally, I urge state boards o education across United States to include the history o their marginresidents in their curricula as a means to address iso inequality as well as to provide students a ramethrough which they can truly ourish as members communities.

eaching ethnic identication through historyBy adeo Melean

Tis is a condensed summary oHistorical Consciousnessnd Ethnicity Among Latino/a Students in a Spanish-or-ative-Speakers Course, a thesis submitted to the Graduatehool o Education o Stanord University.

Due to the need or Chicano Studies in higher edu-cation, in 1969, the Chicano Coordinating Com-mittee on Higher Education organized a coner-

nce in UC-Santa Barbara.El Plan de Santa Barbara that resulted rom this con-

rence was a historic document.Tis plan not only addressed the need or Chicanoudies but also the need or diverse aculty and or a spe-al plan or Chicano student recruitment.

he Mexican American Movement sought to indays to advance the Mexican American community,pecially through education. Decades ater theseovements, we ask, how is it that Chicano Studies canect present-day Latinos to encourage them in theirudies?

It was this question that inspired my interest in thispic and thesis question: the degree to which, i at all, a

Caliornia high school Chican@/Latin@ history unit caninuence Latino students (a) identication with a Latino/Chicano culture, ethnicity, or narrative; (b) historical senseo the struggles o the Latin@/Chican@ people, includingthe personal relevance o this history; and (c) interest inhistory and culture courses.

In essence, I wanted to look into the eects and theexperience these students have had in being exposed toa material that is ofen not included in mainstream cur-ricula. As the thesis question demonstrates, there are two

main themes o ocus: the question o ethnic identicationand historical consciousness.Ethnic identication reers to the manner in which

people sel-identiy with ethnic and racial groups (Chi-cano, Latino, Hispanic, etc.).

Historical consciousness is a lesser known concept. Itreers to the ability o people to situate themselves contex-tually in historical events. In order to observe the role oa Chicano Studies unit on Mexican American students, Icarried out interviews and the Multigroup Ethnic IdentityMeasurement (MEIM) orms, which measures the level towhich people identiy with their ethnicity, with high school

ural o Cesar Chavez at University o Caliornia San Diego. Photo courtesy o Flickr user Jay Galvin.

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Afer a our-year absence, the Bing Overseas Studiesrogram or Community Health in Oaxaca returns thismmer, despite areas o northern Mexico still under advi-ry warning.

15 Stanord students will be identiying local healtheeds in Oaxaca as well as in the immigrant community oountain View. Te return o this summer oering is partthe Oce o the Vice Provost or Undergraduate Educa-

on and the overseas programs eorts towards a specializedpproach to study abroad in Mexico.

We want students to be able to better serve the under-rved communities in this area, said Ann Bancho, di-ctor o Education Programs in the Oce o Communityealth.

Bancho, a ormer resident o Oaxaca, does not see theate as unsae despite civil unrest regarding the teachers union

Oaxaca that crippled the citys tourism industry in 2006.Oaxaca in my personal experience has been a very saend welcoming place, Bancho said.

Even considering the more recent concerns in Oaxacaregards to a ederal travel warning, students in the pro-am, like Preet Kaur 16, are unconcerned.

I knew that there was a lot o violence surrounding thevalries between the drug cartels, Kaur said. But, I wasntally concerned.

Kaur said she was more excited or the communityealth aspects o the program and to have the chance toavel to Mexico.

Although neighboring areas still under a general ed-al travel warning over Mexico are heavily restricted orudent visits, administrators also understand that the spec-city o the new travel warning guidelines warranted a veryse-by-case approach to certain locations.

Its a very, very individualized approach to these kindsprograms, said Harry Elam, Vice Provost or Undergrad-

ate Education.Jorge Olarte 13, a co-ounder o US-Mex FoCUS, agreed

at as the state moved away rom the blanket policy, Stan-rd is taking a similar stance. US-Mex FoCUS is a group that

artners with students and uture leaders in both Mexico andStanord to accurately amiliarize students with issues suchillegal immigration and violence and provide opportuni-

es or open discussion and working together.Tese exceptions have to be case by case, Olarte said.In March, the provost authorized a planned FoCUS trip

Mexico City, reiterating their new case-by-case policy oravel to Mexico.

I think the university is moving in the right direction,larte said.

However, other areas o Mexico are still weighed downy the burden o violence and the heavy hand o the drug

cartels.Rodolo Dirzo,

a proessor o Biol-ogy wishing to givestudents hands-onexperience in theeld o ecology inthe state o Veracruz,had his program cutafer the issuing othe ederal travelwarning. He has notreapplied or approv-al since then. How-ever, considering anuptick in violence

between rival crimeorganizations in Ve-racruz two years ago,Dirzos program isunlikely to be reap-

proved soonrestrictingstudents access to a rich and diverse ecological site but ulti-mately keeping them sae.

One o the cartels wanted to monopolize the city o Ve-racruz, Dirzo said, reerring to incidents in which tensionsbetween the military authority and drug cartels in the portmade it an unsae travel destination or students.

However, Dirzo also recognized that specic areas inMexico, such as Mexico City, are sae or tourists and Stan-ord students.

Te problem in Mexico is not homogeneous, Dirzosaid.

Political conict aside, students gearing up to go toOaxaca are preparing to battle health concerns and experi-ence cultural immersion, not violence and uprising.

I want students to have an in-depth, personal, on-the-ground interaction with Mexico itsel, said Ramon Saldi-

var, director o the Bing Overseas Studies Program.Saldivar said Oaxacas indigenous heritage and multi-

cultural demographic make it an extraordinary acet o thecountry.

I want students to get that sense o the diversity andcomplexity o contemporary Mexican culture, he added.

O course, along with the rich culture, students will beequally mindul o health concerns in Oaxaca and cultivat-ing a community o wellness through both direct educationand constructing a culture o a politically alive community.

We go to Oaxaca not simply to take rom them knowl-edge and experience, Saldivar said. But to give back some-thing to the community in a way that is useul to them.

Students eager to take on medical reorm in Oaxaca tripBy Brittany orrez

HEALTH

First-hand look at maternal health care in Copper CanBy Erin Inman

Te view o the orest trees bumped in and out o thepop-out windows view as I jostled along in a 14-seat util-ity van, down into the depths o Mexicos Copper Canyon.Wemy two bosses, two local healthcare providers, twostate employees, mysel, and another internpulled o thenarrow, bumpy road and into the expansive dirt lot in ronto an old building.

Script above the main door read Hospital Mision ara-humara. o the side o the door sat a pregnant arahumarawoman in a plastic chair, clad in the traditional arahumarashawl and straddled on either side by a toddler and a man,presumably her husband.

I was interning or One Heart Worldwide (OHW), anonprot that leads maternal health programs in some othe most inaccessible parts o the globe, specically the Hi-malayas o Nepal and the Copper Canyon o Mex-

ico. Te Copper Canyon is both deeper and largerthan its amed sister, the Grand Canyon. Te ara-humara live throughout the canyon, mostly in ruralmakeshif dwellings apart rom the mesitzo popu-lated villages. O a dierent ethnic background,the arahumara have little in common with theirneighbors neither language nor culture nor reli-gion. Tey preer seclusion rom the Mexican state.Consequently, their access to and use o healthcareis limited.

Te Mexican government relies on a system oclinics to manage healthcare needs at the rural lev-el, reerring more intensive cases to one o the ewmunicipal hospitals in the canyon. Troughout our trip, we

visited these clinics and hospitals to better understand thebarriers to healthcare usage by the arahumara and deliveryby the state.

At Hospital Mision arahumara, we entered into a wait-ing room. Beore us sat a makeshif ront desk, pew-likewaiting benches, a handul o doors leading into closet-sized exam rooms or oces, and a large television, turnedo but still looming over us on a rolling V stand. Te hos-pitals director led us through a largely unused and underequipped operating room and lab, but also through a sur-prisingly new delivery warda large room with two pa-tient beds and an ultrasound machine.

Afer the tour, we were preparing to continue on downthe canyon to a clinic, when a doctor rom the hospitalpulled my boss aside. Te rest o the group lingered, swel-tering in the summer heat o the canyon and eager to returnto the air-conditioned van.

We surveyed our surroundings and noticed that thepregnant woman had abandoned her chair to stand staringindierently o into the eld, the toddler still by her side.

My boss rejoined the group. Tey want us to trher, she gestured at the pregnant arahumara womwas in her third trimester and had walked ve hourbeore to arrive at the hospital or a check-up.

Te doctor noted her history o preeclampsia yellow in her eyes and eared a high-risk pregnanhospital lacked the lab resources to run the necessand the doctors concern was not substantiated en

validate the use o limited unds to transport her tonicipal hospital equipped with labs and obstetriciable o diagnosing her. Te doctor had resorted tomonitoring her or now.

We presented a new option to the doctor. Swould return to the municipal hospital later that could squash everyone into the van and transport

her husband and son) to the hospital. Afer asking bands permissionas is arahumara tradition thatmake all decisionswe boarded the van once again

Tis is how I ound mysel squashed in the mido said van, bumping along, up and out o the canwe drove, my boss talked with the husband. His wmarried and bore their rst child young, but the couatypical in that they had a amily plan.

Ater the birth o this baby, the wie wouldtubal ligation. hey were actively seeking heaWhen we arrived at the hospital, the wie was adiagnosed with acute atty liver o pregnancy, anduled or a C-section to ensure a sae delivery or band her baby.

Te mother received the healthcare she needwanted, but only ortuitously afer the rural hospitnot spare enough gas money or the two-hour cTere is still unmet need in the Copper Canyon, rothe mothers and the healthcare systems perspectivorts rom OHW presents an opportunity or inteand hope.

Photo courtesy o Flickr user Daniel Lobo.

Photo courtesy o Flicker user El Alvi.

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EL NIDO

As they sit on a living room couch in their cottage in theasa Zapata dorm Resident Fellows (RFs), Chris Gonzales-larke and Gina Hernandez-Clarke. share a ond memory one o their Noche de Xocolatlt dorm talent nights wheree couple served hot chocolate and cookies while students

ung out and perormed.One time they were just singing musical afer musical

nd I was just blown away, Gonzalez-Clarke said. About hale crowd knew the words and we could all just sing along.Afer six years o serving as RFs, the duo and their two

ns will move out o the dorms rst oor cottage this yearaving behind a legacy or the dorm and greater Chican@/atin@ student community.

Tey open up their home to the dorm just like any oth-RFs but conversation-wise they are able to discuss topicsat are deeper than most others RFs, said Monica Alcazar3, an Ethnic Teme Associate (EA) in Casa Zapata.

Both Gonzales-Clarke and Hernandez-Clarke receivedndergraduate degrees rom Stanord and have held vari-us important roles in nearly all acets o lie on Stanordsampus.

Hernandez-Clarke is currently the director o Arts inndergraduate Education at Stanord. Additionally, sherved as the executive director o the Institute or Diversitythe Artsa position that she held rom its creation in

001 until 2011. She was one o the leading student activ-

ists during her time as an undergraduate and was one othe leaders o the spring takeover o the Presidents Ocein 1989. Her activism has even been immortalized in themural on the rst oor o Casa Zapata titled Te Spirit oHoover.

Gonzales-Clarke served as the rst Associate Director oEl Centro Chicano rom 1993 until 2005. He is currentlypursuing a Ph. D. in the Graduate School o Education.When they accepted the oer to serve as RFs, the two had adistinct goal in mind. We wanted to make sure that it wasstill the kind o place that was a amily or students rom thisbackground, mainly low-income, rst generation, Latin@,Gonzalez-Clarke said.

Hernandez-Clarke also wanted to invigorate the artisticspirit o Casa Zapata, a residence known or the plethorao murals that cover its walls, most o which were commis-sioned or painted by ormer RF ony Burciaga.

For me having an arts background and that being mymain proessional work at Stanord, it would be an oppor-tunity to honor that aspect o ony in particular, she said.

Aracely Mondragon 13, another EA in the dorm, canattest to their success in ostering such an artistic spirit.

Tey created an environment that values art and em-phasizes itChris with his music and Gina with her vastknowledge o art in general, she said. Tey made Zapata agreat place to appreciate and create art.

According to Alcazar, their devotion to ostering an ar-tistic community tapped into the dorms cultural history aswell.

Art and artistry are so important to the Chican@ move-ment that it is very important that they succeeded in bring-ing to the table, Alcazar said.

Hernandez-Clarkes eagerness to restore art in Zapataplayed into many o the already established artistic tradi-tions at Casa Z apatamost notably the annual productiono Luis Valdezs play Zoot Suit.

Tinking back to his rst year as RF, Gonzales-Clarkeremarked that the play had radically changed since they hadbeen students in the audience.

It was like a shell o its ormer sel. It had become onepersons vision o a thing that they were going to call ZootSuit but they were basically rewriting the whole play, Gon-zales-Clarke said.

We had to tell them that basically they couldnt do that.Tey couldnt represent their own story as something thatLuis Valdez wrote, he added.

Tough they aced backlash rom students who had beenperorming the reinvented play or a ew years, the coupleassured that their vision o what the play was and alwayshad been was realized.

Tere are probably some students who are mad to thisday who saw us as stepping on something that was theirtradition, but it wasnt the long history o Zoot Suit that weknew, Gonzales-Clarke said.

Te play celebrated its 25th anniversary run last yearwith estivities galore.

It was a week lled with amazing events that reallybrought attention to the dorm and it really wouldnt haveoccurred without their leadership, Alcazar said.

Beyond their contributions in traditions and artistry,many current dorm sta members noted that as RFs they

both went above and beyond in their ability to inteonly with sta but also with normal residents. Calson 13, a current Resident Assistant who has liveyears in the dorm recalled how they made her eelhome when she arrived or her New Student Orien

Laura Pulido 13, Peer Health Educator or Casanoted that they are eager to talk with other residenmore than other RFs and they regularly eat with resthe dorms section o the Stern Dining Hall.

Tey make themselves approachable and reaabout the residents. Teyve really created a amilpata and that surprised me, Pulido said. All the rare very close, especially reshmen.

Hernandez-Clarke recognized the immense comthey cultivated over the years.

Your amily gets bigger every year. Being here the group o people you know just mushrooms, sHowever, her husband noted that while the aura o nity is strong and incredibly worthwhile, it is not its challenges.

Te work is hard, especially i youre balancinraising children, it becomes dicult. I admire peoare able to give it a long time. Six years or us elt likamount, Gonzales-Clarke said.

Both noted that they will continue on in their othon the Stanords campus and will certainly not beers to the dorm they called home or so long. For iHernandez-Clarke hopes to involve hersel in a reproject o the dorms murals. Reecting on how hemember Casa Zapata, Gonzales-Clarke recountednature traditions that made his home stand out.

Day o the dead, thats Zapata. When you heashowering someone or their birthday thats Zapwhen you hear the mariachi playing in the basemeballet [olklorico] practicing thats Zapata or me.

Stern Hall, entrance to Casa Zapata. Photo by Ever Rodriguez.

Casa Zapata Resident Fellows reect on years o serviceBy Daniel Dominguez

hris Gonzales Clarke and Gina Hernandez Clarke with their two children. Photo courtesy o the Clarke amily.

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Me gustara poder decirle al yo del pasado que no se debe esperar,ue cada segundo que pasa, es un segundo para sa lvar.ue el sentimiento de la elicidad, nunca es por casualidad,orque es tu corazn diciendo que despiertes a la posibilidad.

unque a veces me siento conundido.Qu es la alegra y que es lo que siento?

es lo que siento cuando te veo pasar,es saber que t sin me puedes progresar.

unque no se la respuesta, me enseaste que es mejor no darse cuenta.orque cuando dudas tus emociones, te salen errores.ebes seguir a tu corazn para que mejores.

pesar de lo que he aprendido,odava sueno contigo.uento con una alsa esperanza,e ser capaz de retroceder cuando me das tu mirada.

ero jams va a pasar,asta cuando dejo de mirar atrs.ue bien hace cambiar o pensar en el pasado,uando mi uturo sigue ilimitado.

te hubiera visto rente a m,o hubiera estado junto a ti.

Las mujeres que criaste

By Laura Pulido

Lo que me perdi pensando en tiBy Alemar Brito

Lovestoned sculpture by Tai Bui.Photo by Ever Rodriguez.

hoto courtesy o Flickr user Carlos Smith.

VOCES LATINOAMERICANAS

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Luna, con tus misteriosos ojos cuidas todos mis pasosOjala pudiera con mis tmidas manos dibujar todos tus trazosCon hermosa luz rerescas las alas de cada lucirnagaY das esperanza al que nauragaodas las tardes espero verte desde mi ventanaPara que puedas entrar bella sabanaQue cobija a todos, a los de ojos urtivos y ojos heridosA los que lloran, a los que duermen y a los que no venNunca dejes de mover los bellos maresNi de cambiar cada noche de caraAveces llena a veces nada, aveces media y aveces ovaladaHay luna me haces reirCada cambio te hace mas bella, nunca dejes de existirVen conmigo luna acompameodos los das de mi vidaNo dejes de emitir tu resplandorSin ti nunca podre ser jugador, perdedor, o vencedorSin ti yo no soy nada

Igual que el sol que nos da dia tu me das alma luna miaPrisma de vida que reeja eternidadSerena tarde, calida verdadNunca mientes ni me olvidasSiempre estas hasta en escondidasHay luna que voy a hacer contigoe regalo o te olvidoQue cruel seria al hacerte eso amiga miaNi que ueras mi enemigaSolo digo tonterasMuchas veces te olvidamos que crueles los humanosNi el dinero ni la plata cubren tu honesta bondadNi mansiones o caviar equivalen a la ertilidadQue dejas en nuestros sueosNi al amplio camino que abres a los que no tienen luzUn gran aro en la noche eres tuGuiando nuestros pasos, iluminando nuestros miedosAlimentando nuestros sentimientos con tu armonaMsica que no se escribe que solo podemos verAl verte reejada en el rocio de la madrugadaO en el cantar de las aves y bhos que s aludan tu presenciaHe notado querida luna tu apresurada estanciaPor que a las 5 de la tarde te puedo ver

Es que me extraasSi es verdad lo que yo digoNunca sientas eso estimada lunaEl que te extraa siempre soy yoEl que no puede dormir sin ti soy yoAnda ve y corre por el manto estelarY brinda tus abrazos a todos sin cesarAbrazos que no se miden con uerza sino con clida amistadYa que nos diriges como guaBella luna, bella amigaHaz que todas las noches parezcan daLuna

Luna By Leonardo Leal

Photo by Ever Rodriguez.

El Aguila Spring 2013 Voces Latinoam

Me mecas cuando nia

Me peinabas el peloMe enseaste a tortear,A cocinar y a coser

Ahora te cuido, ancianaYo te pinto el pelo.

Yo te limpio y te abrazoMientras tu sangre corre.

Me llevaste al NorteMe enseaste a ser uerte

A cuidar a mis hermanitos,A luchar por mis hijos siempre.

Ahora te veo dbilCon tu carita gastada

e veo y te sonro pero,Ya ests muy cansada

Me enseaste a rezarAntes de la comidita

Me aconsejaste y contasteMiles de tus historias

Pero ahora rezo por ti,Le pido a Dios que te cuide,

Que te abrace y te dejeIr en paz. Y no se te olvide:

Que tu lucha an sigueEn las mujeres que criasteQue te quiero y te admiro

Y ojal y que en paz descanses.


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Focusing on the uture o U.S. and Mexico relatioBy Leonardo Leal

El Aguila Spring 2013

PLUMAS

Composition with Frida (2012)

oplaner series. Vinyl print by Cesar orres.ach drawing represents a time period where a gurine was visually memorized and then drawn. Te bottomght drawing represents the rst iteration, while the top lefmost drawing represents the last iteration. Te

eries demonstrates how visual memory develops and how shapes and orms become encoded.

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As the plane descended into the valley, my heart jumped with happiness as I entered my native country oHowever, this past spring break, I was not in Mexico just or un. I was there rom as a sta member o the rst suthe U.S.-Mexico FoCUS conerence at the Mexican Autonomous Institute o echnology (IAM) in Mexico City, AI learned o the reedom and responsibility students carry to shape international relations.

FoCUS is a student-run organization dedicated to promoting constructive, bi-lateral U.S.-Mexico relations bing communication and mutual understanding among uture leaders in the U.S. and Mexico. As part o the U.S. stathe task o supervising the 30 FoCUS delegates and helping with additional coordination details like picking upand inviting IAM students to the conerences various public events.

Even though I was preoccupied with event planning, I had a great time. Not only was I able to interact with mo the conerences Mexico sta and their delegates, but I was able to meet important political gures such as the IGuajardo, the Secretary o Economy, and Ambassador Anthony Wayne during the inauguration. In his speech,sador Wayne spoke o our generation and its commitment to the uture.

Te greatest resource o any nation is its young people, and strong nations know the value o investing in generation, Wayne said. His words impacted me prooundly given that I am a student who believes in education ato progress. Te youth in every generation serve as the energetic motor in society that generates new and eclecIt is because o our ingenuity that companies like Facebook, Instagram and Apple were ounded. It is because omusic has changed over the years rom Jazz to Hip-Hop to Electronica. It is also possible or us to strengthen interelations at the individual level.

How can we, as students, revolutionize bilateral relations? In my opinion, it should be natural that strengtheriendships as global students should reinorce cooperation in the uture once we step into the real world. As stucan openly express our opinions without the ear o political scorn or publicity. Tat reedom allows us to thinproblems in innovative ways. While a politician might not want to talk about the break up o PEMEX (a Mexicowned petroleum company) or ear o political backlash, a student can reely express his opinion in a blog and pror her reasons publicly.

Students o both countries can modernize the relations between the U.S. and Mexico through mutual solidaunderstanding. Like a Chinese proverb says: i you plant a good seed today, tomorrow you will eat rom its luscioTat is exactly why I joined FoCUS. I wanted to start riendships between students that would last a lietime. Im ally interested in the issues that aect the U.S. and Mexico such as security, trade, and immigration. I was born in MI have lived in the U.S. or seven years. Ever since I came to the U.S. I witnessed how public opinion about Mexictainted by clichs and stereotypes. For example, Ive been asked several times i Mexico has electricity, or i we use and horses as a common method o transportation. Such sentiments seem ridiculous, but many are clueless to whlike across the border. Tose views on my home country have prompted me to change the perception o Mexico too the world, especially to our closest and most important neighbor, the U.S.

Mexico is a developing economy and in uture years it is crucial that we understand its strengths, limitationsture possibilities. As the Secretary o Economy Guajardo said in his speech: We have to realize that i we do not gball, here in this region, and we integrate ourselves as a competitive region in the world in a more proound waytrade relation we have today...we will not win the world competence.

We ought to unite both countries and show uture generations that Mexico is not just tacos and estas. W

united as brothers and sisters in this world? o truly develop the uture leaders o both countries we must enriendships rom the earliest age possible. From s occer games to a stroll along the busy historic center o Mexico Cstep we make together as riends brings both countries closer. Never underestimate the power o youth, or we moves the world.


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