{"id":224,"date":"2013-10-02T21:40:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T01:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vista\/?page_id=224"},"modified":"2013-10-03T21:02:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T01:02:11","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vista\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Vista<\/strong><\/span> is an organization created\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">for students by students<\/span>. In the 80&#8217;s and 90&#8217;s Williams College began to actively recruit Latina\/o students, leading to a direct increase of Latina\/o students at Williams. Although, there was an increase of Latina\/o students, there were very few institutional measures taken by the college to help these students adjust to the academic and cultural environment at Williams. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">They failed to make Williams a space that was receptive and comfortable for Latina\/o students<\/span>. Seeing that the institution had little in place in terms of a support network, Latina\/o students took it upon themselves to create a <strong>group<\/strong> in which they could speak openly and freely about issues that were relevant to their experience as Latinas\/os on campus. Initially, <strong>Vista<\/strong> started as a social and cultural group that supported Latina\/o Students in their adjustment to the Williams culture, what was often times <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">drastically<\/span> different from their home cultures. However, Vista quickly undertook political and activist components as well. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Vista students<\/span> have led and been involved in a variety of activist and social justice causes including the<strong> hunger strikes of 1991 and 1993<\/strong>, which demanded the creation of a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Latino\/a Studies program<\/span>. Now, Vista is a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">multifaceted<\/span> organization with cultural, social, political, and academic components. Vista is highly involved within the Williams community but also beyond it as it engages with broader U.S Latina\/o issues. Vista\u2019s primary goal is to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">serve as a network for Latina\/o students and their allies at Williams College<\/span>. Though this aim does not change, the focus of the group adjusts each year to reflect the wants and needs of its changing constituency. <strong>Vista, is a dynamic entity, a reflection of both its constituency and its dedicated members.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Written by Alejandro Rosales &#8217;15<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">ar3@williams.edu<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>Alejandra is a Mellon Mays fellow. Her research project focuses on the deconstruction of Latina\/o Student activism and consciousness at Williams.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vista is an organization created\u00a0for students by students. In the 80&#8217;s and 90&#8217;s Williams College began to actively recruit Latina\/o students, leading to a direct increase of Latina\/o students at Williams. Although, there was an increase of Latina\/o students, there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vista\/history\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":780,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-224","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/780"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}