The University's Hispanic community will celebrate Latino Heritage Month by holding an inaugural dinner Saturday at the Third World Center.
The dinner will last from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. and feature Spanish and Portuguese professor Lucia Melgar. She will address the effects of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Two Hispanic dance teams, Ballet Folklorico, an organization that performs traditional Mexican dances, and Grupo Liberdale de Capoetra dos Palmares, a group from Newark that specializes in Brazilian dance, will also perform. The evening's events will conclude with a salsa dance for all guests."I think it's important for Hispanics on campus to get together," Cynthia Romero '04 said. "It's important for people to be aware of a common history [between Hispanics and all Americans] and that this is a culture that's part of us and always has been a part of us."Romero is a member of Accion Puertorriquena, a student organization sponsoring the dinner along with the Chicano Caucus and Ola.
Accion is dedicated to creating a cohesive Puerto Rican campus community with a strong interest in culture.
In addition to sponsoring Latino Heritage Month, Accion participants share their culture with the greater Princeton community through the International Festival, Communiversity and Noche de Cultura. At these events, Accion members serve Puerto-Rican food, perform Latin American dances and display cultural art.
Recently, the organization also invited Surgeon General Antonia Novello and San Juan, Puerto Rico, mayor Hector Luis Acevedo to give lectures on campus.
Academically, Accion has fostered a close relationship with the Latin-American studies program. This led Juan Flores, director of the center of Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, to agree to teach a class at Princeton on cultural music and Puerto Rican migration.
Romero feels that Accion serves an important purpose at Princeton.
"A lot of people in Accion are not from the United States but come from Puerto Rico," she said. "They don't always get to go home for every break so [Accion] provides some cultural events here."
Chicano Caucus is a club that offers academic and social support for Mexican-American students. It features annual holiday celebrations, and through a program called La Mesa, allows Hispanic students to meet and share their heritage.
In the future the Chicano Caucus hopes to work with faculty, students, Chicano alumni and other Ivy League schools to promote their ideas at Princeton.
Saturday's inaugural dinner costs $3 and is open to the University community.
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