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Feliz Cumpleanos Padre

For my dad who was born in 1951, Feliz Cumpleanos! Here with his favorite Ciua... whom knows him as Pancho Lopez.
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Regrese

The land of potatoes was good. Nice people, snow and beautiful scenery. Anyways here's a classic Ciuapilli picture. Annamaria you look good with a kid.

Out for work

Going to be away from the computer for a week. Out in Idaho, may make it to Yellowstone, but who knows. Please email and leave messages here and treat Julie nice. Please Pray for Irene's nana.

Happy Easter

Not for me but hope everyone else had a good easter here's some Pilli pictures.

Pilli and Lopez Blogging Friday

Chicana Pilli on Casador in Huejuquilla at El Rancho de la Estrella

Idaho

random thing is that I'm going to Idaho for a week, next week for my Lowe's Reset Job. Should be intresting, were suppose to drive I think to boise but not sure just yet. Funny I've never been to that part of the country and would be excited to go but I really would like to go to California for Easter but it would suck to drive to and from LA then fly out... But I might decide to do it anyways for la familia. I sometime miss things and wanted to share that I miss, Main Garden food, cobblestone walkways, crazy named plays and their intresting art work at full display. Walkby Billboards, with posters and plees, walking in to Yale Station. The echos of Commons.

to the echos of commons

Fan Mail

Before the fan mail I wanted to share this link, Pancho's Blog in Japanese.. I think http://blog.goo.ne.jp/pancho_gm/
Now to the fan....

Pancho:

Good times. An added sources of entertainment. Because reality TV, bling bling videos, and talking political heads aren't enough!!!!

I'm Joking my friend.

How's AZ? Oh, wait, is this the kind of stuff I can ask you through the blog?

-jd

Anwser- Of course this is my way to share a bit of my mind, life and overall struggle. AZ is ok right now, looking to build the foundation for bigger and better things, maybe even some camping on the 4th of July, but Mari is not really up for it.

Plus while addressing a fan I was wonder about selling out. You know those text ads on the sides of webpages, Google which owns Blogger and Blogspot offers me a way to make some money on this thing? So should I sell out for pennies everytime you click something? Please send me some input or else some Republicans may want to take my Green Card and Drivers license away. (The trick is not to have too much of an accent - I know HUH?) Plus don't forget to check out Julie at her color changing blog and her new stint at BlueLatino.org, just remember she blogged for me first before she went big time!

Naughty Girl!

Isn't this kinda naughty? Well that's what Angela asks (Her blog is on the right)

Pilli Blogging

So as I browse the blogsphere and read all the comments that keep me sane in this R rated world, I noticed that a bunch of bloggers, cat blog on fridays. So I though hmm... why not Pilli Blog. From now on I will post pictures of Ciuapilli on Friday or Saturdays depending on my avaliblity. Please feel free to send me Pilli pictures if you got them. Info on the right side. Once again good luck to Julie as she pushes through the Senior Essay blues and gets closer to the deadline. Well here goes...

First one...

Are those horns?

link of the day

http://grant.robinson.name/projects/montage-a-google/

try to find yourself....creepy

Back home

Flew in yesterday and about to pick up Wifey in a few minutes ... we had lots of fun and would enjoy living in DC. The white house would be a nice place to live. Who knows... lots of thanks to Senior Essay ridden Julie for posting while away from the computer. Much love to everyone we ran into and the like. Hope to see more of you commenting and viewing.

Francisco

Great News!

Ernie, Ciuapilli's Godfather got into Harvard Med. the day is good!!!

Packing and DC

no not the comic but the City... Pancho's going to washington, to work. Today is my official travel day for CLIO. Hope to chill out stop my bad mood and maybe read a bit. I really don't feel like going but it must be done in order to kill the evil credit card monkey on my back. Going to try and work on my essay. Listen to Ipod on the way over. Mini-BENK's first trip...Hoping to see Nnamdi and maybe some other friends. But my low adittude has me not really gung-ho but more in a whatever's clever mood. Mari joins me on thrusday which should be intresting, but hopefully fun. Funny last week I was missing the east coast... lets see if this lasts or was just nostalgia. Plus my hotel is a bit off from the Metro so I don't know how appealing the trips over to Ezra are going to be but they must be made. I will take pictures and post. Mucho mucho AMOR. Plus good luck to Little, Sis and her extra long day.

Maybe Julie will blog while I'm gone... but that reminds me I was suppose to tap Irma for a society... oh well

New cosas

I have a brand new co-blogger on my site... Julie... I hope she writes good things... but along with that new development I will also be updating my webpage which is linked over by the picture. Mad props to Julie for joining me in this blog thing.. although her blog is much better then mine right now I'm just trying to latch on to her stuff.

Funny stuff

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My beautiful wife. 

The adorbable Monster. 

A battle won

For those that know me they know I was very active in the financial aid reform department. now after some intresting developments which you can read about here (at Julieah's Blog). It seems Yale has bowed a bit.. its a small victory in the war towards affordable education but a victory nonetheless.

Yale University Follows Harvard's Lead to Lure Poorer Students

March 3 (Bloomberg) -- Yale University President Richard Levin said he will follow Harvard's lead and reduce costs for lower-income students, a week after Yale students closed the admissions office to protest financial-aid policies.

``Sometimes we innovate, and sometimes we bow to best practices,'' Levin, 57, said in an interview from the New Haven, Connecticut school. ``We have seen Harvard being pretty successful with their attempt to reach out and become more accessible.''

Levin said Yale was influenced by Harvard University's program of recruiting and easing costs for students whose families earn between $40,000 and $60,000 a year. The move comes as other schools, including the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provide more financial aid to low-income students.

Yale will spend about $3 million a year to help poorer students, saving their families an average of $2,500 annually, Levin said. As it recruits lower-income students, Yale will eliminate parental contributions for families earning under $45,000 a year, and reduce payments from those making less than $60,000.

Harvard

Harvard, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, changed its aid policies last year and next month will decide who qualifies for the program. Dean of Admissions William Fitzsimmons said that applications for the class of 2009 rose 15 percent in part because of the new efforts.

``We are really pleased to learn about the changes Yale made,'' Fitzsimmons said in a phone interview yesterday. ``Any time this kind of a message comes out from the most competitive institutions, it helps all of the colleges and sends a wonderful message of hope.''

Fifteen students held a sit-in at Yale's admissions office on Feb. 24, while 150 others outside called on Levin to ease costs for students on financial aid. The annual cost of attending Yale is about $41,470.

Levin said the sit-in came after he addressed students at a forum on financial aid and listened to their concerns.

``This is a strong signal, an advertising message, that Yale is affordable,'' Levin said of the new financial-aid program.

Endowments

Douglas Bennett, president of Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, said Yale's move does little to help make higher education accessible and affordable to all students.

``Only a small handful of colleges and universities have endowments that allow them to do what Yale is doing,'' said Bennett, chairman of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Washington, D.C.

``The real battle over access to higher education for students from low-income families is being waged in Washington D.C., where the Congress is considering whether to increase Pell Grants and whether to fully fund all the federal financial aid programs for low-income students,'' Bennett said.

Yale has a $12.8 billion endowment. Levin said the university will pay for the initiative using savings achieved in the last year through administrative reductions. About 42 percent of Yale students qualify for financial aid.

Some students had complained to Levin that they must take out large loans to pay for the costs not covered by aid. Princeton University in New Jersey and Amherst College in Massachusetts already have programs to protect students from debt, said Amherst President Anthony Marx.

Ensuring Access

``Amherst, Harvard and Yale and schools like them recognize that we are not and have not been doing enough to ensure access to the best universities and colleges in the land regardless of ability to pay,'' Marx said. ``There are still lots of really smart kids from poor backgrounds not applying to these schools because they think they can't afford it.''

At the nation's most selective colleges and universities, only 3 percent of students come from families in the lowest 25 percent of income. About 75 are from families in the top 25 percent, Harvard President Lawrence Summers said last year.

Levin said 15 to 17 percent of Yale's 5,240 undergraduates come from low-income families. Like Harvard, Yale will recruit students from rural areas of the U.S., and it will pay for one trip home each year for international students who are on financial aid. Yale expects its financial aid budget to grow to more than $52 million for 2005-06, Levin said.

``Yale is making a serious commitment to remaining competitive on low-income financial aid,'' said Andrew Cedar, 20, president of Yale College Council, the student government.

Tom Mortenson, an education consultant, said the initiative may not benefit enough students.

``Yale has a very long way to go to enroll an average share of already underrepresented population in higher education,'' he said.

Last year, Yale had its most selective year ever, with 19,682 applicants. Only 9.9 percent of applicants were admitted, the lowest rate in the school's 303-year history. This year, applications are down 1.2 percent, admissions director Richard Shaw told the Yale Daily News.

At Harvard, a record 22,717 students vied for about 1,650 spots last year, Fitzsimmons said.

Viva MEXICO a picture from Cancun a few years ago.