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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.
Knowles' response to the Latino groups' concerns was brief: he had no time to meet with them and referred them to Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. The student groups met on the night of October 3, and their response to the perceived brushoff was angry and quick. "It...
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...
"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."