Word: cortese
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"It just shows Harvard isn't committed to the type of diversity that they preach to the students that come in, the students that are applying," said Efrain Cortes '93, former president of the Puerto Rican student group La O, last fall.
KNOW-IT-ALLS ARE fond of pointing out that the only true Americans are the descendants of the diverse tribes found by Columbus and Cortes when they first arrived in the New World. That's wrong, of course. Even North and South American Indians had immigrants for ancestors: northeastern Asians...
"The campus is already pulled apart by tensions," former LaO President Efrain Cortes '94 says. "It's not due to ethnic groups, it's due to the lack of commitment of the administration to make minority students feel more comfortable at this institution, and a minority center would help."
"A multicultural center would be a great thing, but if you have a Latino center for Latino students it would be very specific to the needs of those students," Cortes says.
Still, Cortes says, "I don't think we should be arguing about a multicultural center [versus] a Latino center."