Org. Report Chicano Caucus by Oscar Castro, Chicano Caucus, Princeton '09

Org. Report Chicano Caucus by Oscar Castro, Chicano Caucus, Princeton '09

Princeton’s Chicano Caucus has been involved in many on-campus
activities and community outreach programs throughout the past school
year. Our fall activities include a back to school “Diez y Seis” party,
a joint “Black and Brown” barbecue with the Black Student Union to
promote interaction and communication between our groups, a Welcome
Dinner to provide an opportunity for our new freshman members to meet
other Caucus members and to learn what our group is about, a fall break
barbecue for our members who were not able to return home, and our
traditional Thanksgiving dinner. Caucus has also worked to increase
discussion on important issues in Mexico at Princeton by holding
speaking engagements with the Director of a Crisis Center for the women
of the Maquiladora factories in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. We were also able
to bring Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s political advisor, Manuel Camacho
Solis, to speak about the results and aftermath of Mexico’s most recent
presidential election.

Our tentative spring activities, most of them annual, include hosting an
informative panel for Californian high school students from the Parlier
Ivy League Project, our Easter Egg Hunt celebration for local Latino
children and their families, a campus Latino Worker’s Appreciation
party, our Pre-Frosh weekend study break, and the Chicano Graduation
ceremony to show our appreciation for our graduating seniors and their
families.

A lot of our efforts this school year have also been devoted to the
formation and expansion of the Latino Coalition, a group comprised of
other undergraduate Latino organizations at Princeton and the newly
formed Latino Graduate Student Association. The Coalition aims to
achieve greater recognition for the Latino community on campus, gain a
social, administrative, and support facility for our community, initiate
a Chicano/Latino studies program, and increase the number of Latino
faculty and staff on our campus.