Word: cruz
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...another PBH activist insists adamantly that protest is not the way to go. "People who organize protests have really good intentions, but they haven't seen that many results, at least not at Harvard," asserts Remigio Cruz '86, who spends several afternoons a week and lives summers in a predominantly Puerto Rican neighborhood in Boston's South...
...Cruz's philosophy is an outgrowth of his experiences as director of PBH's Keylatch program in the Villa Victoria housing project, where he says he "learned how politics works...how to get along with people to get money and to get things done...
...order to reach kids and affect real change, Cruz says, ideology sometimes has to be compromised. "I hope to be some sort of leader, one who gets things done, whether it's with the Republicans or the Democrats...
Every time Cruz takes the T to West Newton St., he says, he is making a political statement. Moreover, that's often more effective politics than a campus sit-in or rally, he adds: "Sometimes protests build animosity. It's more effective to be diplomatic, to organize a debate...
This is especially true, Cruz asserts, when you are dealing with Harvard. "The administration is very powerful. You can't move them with emotional ploys...What people need to do is have an irrefutable argument for divestment, and until that comes about, the University won't change its policy [which all but precludes divesting...