Latinos at University of Minnesota Struggle Finding Community

By Meghan Holden, Minnesota Daily

For Lila Downs, being a Latina at the University of Minnesota wasn’t easy.

The recent Grammy winner and 1992 University alumna said her experience during school was sometimes “painful,” as she didn’t have many other Latinos to connect with.

“I didn’t really have a Latino community,” Downs said. “I felt like I was quite alone.”

This can be the reality for many other Latino or Chicano students at the University, who made up 2.6 percent of the University’s population in fall 2012.

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