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Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanity Robert Coles '50, who supervised Cruz's independent research in the Sociology Department, says that Cruz has helped educate Harvard students. "Remy gave Harvard and example of someone who wants to offer a personal, individual, and moral example to lots of kids who need it and to other Harvard students," Coles says...
...Cruz's determination to resist assimilation at Harvard has not been easy. "Remy is his own person. He isn't like other students who have assimilated into the cultural mainstream. He held back and that has caused personal difficulties," explains Coles...
...most public of these personal problems has been Cruz's encounters with University police. By spring of his junior year, Cruz alleged that he had been stopped six times by the police, "because I didn't fit their image of a Harvard student...
After the fifth incident, Cruz filed a formal complaint with officers of the University--including President Bok--and the police. In addition, Cruz and representatives of the Black Students Association pushed the University to investigate police harassment of minority students and consider implementing racial and cultural "sensitivity training" for officers...
Vice-President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54, who oversees the University police, dealt with Cruz's complaints. Several months later he established a student-administrator committee to consider problems of police harassment. Cruz has served on the committee. "I feel very positively and very warmly about Remy. When we first met we had a somewhat antagonistic relationship, but over a few meetings, I came to like him," Steiner says of Cruz...