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Here is a month-by-month digital archive of articles published in the UW Daily and other local newspapers between 1968 and 1979 on the struggles to create and defend the Chicano Studies program (click the titles to read the articles).

Chris Paredes initiated this database with help from Michael Schulze-Oechtering Castañeda, Edgar Flores, and Oscar Rosales Castañeda. These articles are courtesy of the UW Daily, Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Year Publication Article
28-Jan-69 Daily The Chicano group active part of campus
28-Jan-69 Daily The Chicano group active part of campus (cont.)
23-Jan-70 Daily Chicanos ask "immediate dismissal" of spanish TA 
30-Jan-70 Daily 30 Chicanos March 
3-Feb-70 Daily Larios resigns after language hassle
4-Feb-70 Daily Larios decision
5-Feb-70 Daily MEChA attacks daily editorial
10-Feb-70 Daily Professor asks for investigation of Larios incident
11-Feb-70 Daily Faculty Senate to probe Larios investigation
13-Feb-70 Daily Larios: Language department problem?
18-Feb-70 Daily Larios wouldn't have been rehired anyway
29-Apr-70 Daily Larios case may reopen
5-May-70 Daily AAUP asks U senate to reopen Larios case
24-Feb-71 Daily Chicano teacher on liberation
20-Apr-71 Daily Washington state Chicano Studies organization plans conference 
11-May-71 Daily C.H.E. 
12-Feb-75 Seattle PI Failure to appoint Chicano social work faculty
13-Feb-75 Seattle Times No racial bias regarding social work appointment 
16-Feb-75 Seattle TImes UW decides not to hire Chicano Law Professor
2-May-75 Daily Gary Padilla: great for greek row, but brutal for Chicanos
2-May-75 Daily Gary Padilla: great for greek row, but brutal for Chicanos (cont.)
14-May-75 Seattle Times Chicanos ask for federal fund cutoff
15-May-75 Seattle PI Chicano faculty challenge university to end racism
18-May-75 Seattle TImes Chicano studies needs a hand
22-May-75 Seattle Times down to black v. brown
22-May-75 Seattle TImes down to black v. brown (cont'd)
30-May-75 Daily Hogness makes proposal to Chicano faculty
31-May-75 Seattle PI Chicano faculty decides not to quit
31-May-75 Seattle PI Chicano faculty decides not to quit (cont'd)
5-Jun-75 Seattle PI 33 still out in Chicano dispute
11-Jun-75 Seattle PI Chicano staff to stay
28-Sep-75 Seattle Times Chicanos have fighting chance 
19-Aug-76 Daily Ethnic studies are part of the mainstream
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