Word: sepulveda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cheerleaders don't like us," Chaparro says. "They thought we were doing this to get dates." The boys on the team weren't wild about it initially either. "We thought they were trying to make us look silly," says middle linebacker Roger Sepulveda, 16. But Sepulveda, who hits like a truck, once knocked Macias out of her shoes. "And she just popped right up," he says admiringly. "I see the girls as a little better than some of the guys on the team...
After months of debate and a raucous school-board meeting, supporters of detracking, like science teacher Ray Sepulveda, won out. On his own, Sepulveda had detracked his classes a decade earlier, eliminating prerequisites so that any student who wanted to take college-prep or honors courses could do so simply by signing up. "I think everybody should be exposed to the good stuff," he says. To ease the transition to the new, detracked environment, principal Antonio Gaitan organized after-school tutoring and Saturday enrichment classes for 700 former standard-track kids. "It's vital to build in curriculum support," Gaitan...
There was a reason for that. "Drugs, drugs, drugs--that's all she was interested in," says neighbor Doris Sepulveda, who watched the Lopezes trying to sell a child's tricycle outside their building. Another neighbor, Eric Latorre, recalls seeing the whole family out at 2 a.m. as Awilda sought crack. Awilda had reportedly come to believe that Elisa, whom she called a mongoloid and filthy little whore, had been put under a spell by her father--a spell that had to be beaten out of the child. Neighbors, some of whom say they called the authorities, later told...
...have a lot of uncles and aunts," said Alejandro Sepulveda '98, whose mother is a first-generation Mexican-American, and whose father is a native of Mexico...
Epstein and his sometimes business partner, Beverly Hills attorney Harold Klein, did not return phone calls seeking comment for this story. But he insisted in interviews last spring that his role in the companies run out of Sepulveda was minimal...