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Yale Record aims to be less offensive following outcry over alleged racism last year
Last fall, Benjamin Gonzalez ’09 was reading the Yale Record’s “Blue Book” — a parody of the Yale College course catalogue — when one description stopped him cold.
“Practical Applications of Spanish for WASPs” promised to teach students “how to interact with gardeners, housekeepers and other low-income workers” using phrases such as “Rosa, are you stealing change again?” Although the Record is a humor magazine, Gonzalez, the political action chair of the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or MEChA, was not amused.
“They’re talking about my mother,” Gonzalez said....
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