Wolofbamanaigbo Ovimbundumakua

Wolofbamanaigbo Ovimbundumakua, a graduate student at Oregon State University, right, is one of few non-Hispanic students who belong to MEChA club.Here he participates in a regional MEChA conference. (Photo by Motoya Nakamura)c.2008 Newhouse News Service

PORTLAND, Ore. , For much of the past 40 years, the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan , or, Movement of Chicano Students of Aztlan , has been criticized as racist and radical.
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One of those was Wolofbamanaigbo Ovimbundumakua, an African-American student at Oregon State University.Ovimbundumakua grew up in Alabama and noticed Latinos and African-Americans often live in the same conditions, face the same problems, he says.

MEChA's push to diversify is spilling into other aspects of his campus, he says.In May, the Latino club will co-host an event with the African Student Association to bring the two groups together, he says.

Castellon hopes similar intertwining will permeate Sam Barlow soon.This year, he says, an Asian student said to him, "I wish we had a club like that."