Posted on 08/02/2004 2:05:50 PM PDT by 4.1O dana super trac pak
Fresno State can soon boast having a professor who is also a Mexican state legislator on its faculty.
Professor Jesus Martinez-Saldana, 43, of the Chicano and Latin American Studies Department says he will soon become legislator Martinez-Saldana in the state of Michoacan in west central Mexico.
Martinez-Saldana says he was offered a legislative seat by the Party of the Democratic Revolution, which he says will make him the first voice for migrants in a Mexican legislature.
In fact, Martinez-Saldana says he is a migrant himself, one with a doctorate in ethnic studies from the University of California at Berkely.
(Excerpt) Read more at fresnobee.com ...
Somehow I knew he wasn't in the Math or Physics department.
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