Word: alvarenga
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...Raquel O. Alvarenga ’07, a joint classics and government concentrator, says that government’s low ranking on satisfaction surveys is “primarily” a function of its sheer size. “I don’t think it’s really anything fundamental to the department,” she adds...
...classics classes, “you just got a lot more personal attention,” Alvarenga says. But in several-hundred-person government courses, “there’s very little interaction with the professor outside lecture unless you take the initiative...
...communication barrier is what’s preventing lots of Latinos from different communities from exercising the political clout commensurate with their numbers,” said Dems Political Director Raquel O. Alvarenga ’07, who is the first person in her immigrant family from El Salvador born...
...People were happy that somebody was...trying to get them involved in the political process,” Alvarenga said of her phone-banking experiences with Spanish-speaking voters in New Mexico, where 29 percent of residents speak Spanish at home, according to a 2000 U.S. Census Bureau report...
...discussion was informal, with students exchanging points and counterpoints. For example, Raul A. Campillo ’09 argued that Latinos should work harder to be respected and recognized as Americans, but was immediately countered by Alvarenga, who contended that as Latinos, “you can still take pride in where you come from and participate in the democratic process...