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Article: Filipino-American students honor heritage.(The Orange County Register)
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- January 30, 2002
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SANTA ANA, Calif. _ There were a few tense moments after class, when the money was counted. Could they afford to pay the teacher? Would this underground class be able to keep going?
Then, 19-year-old Michelle Garcia did a little dance of happiness.
"Yaay, we have enough to pay his salary," she exclaimed, launching a collective sigh of relief in the room. "We got 43 paid students so far."
Unable to convince University of California-Irvine administrators to give them classes this year, a group of Filipino-American students decided to launch their own guerrilla class in Tagalog and Filipino history and culture, complete with syllabus, homework and ...