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"It helps us to recognize there are other consequences [to the Columbus discovery]," said Efrain Cortes '94, president of La O, the campus Puerto Rican organization.
La O President Efrain Cortes '94 said he wasupset that Knowles seemed to classify thestudents' requests as an issue of race relations,not of faculty hiring. Raza President LiliaFernandez '95 said she was "kind of disappointed"by Knowles' answer.
Cortes has said that he and Fernandez plan todo all they can through official channels. But hedoes not rule out the possibility of a protest incollaboration with other minority organizations.
For argument's sake, let's say Knowles' refusal to meet with Raza President Lilia Fernandez '95 and La O President Efrain Cortes '94 last week isn't totally incomprehensible. Let's grant that Knowles is a busy man who had already filled his schedule with important meetings for the...
Cortes said La O will probably continue to work through official channels, but he has already been in contact with the leaders of other ethnic organizations and says some action of protest is possible if authorities are uncooperative.