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...anticipation of next Tuesday’s midterm elections, the Harvard College Democrats have been pooling efforts with Fuerza Latina and Harvard RAZA, targeting Spanish-speaking populations to help address the nationwide problem of low turnout among Hispanic voters...
Dems Events Director Erika C. Helgen ’08 said having Spanish-speakers from Fuerza and RAZA help phone-bank was “particularly helpful in talking with Latino, especially Spanish-speaking voters, letting them know they are citizens and do have the right to vote...
Issues pertinent to Latino voters, such as immigration rights, are often overlooked because many Latinos in the U.S. are not citizens, said Fuerza and RAZA member Emily A. Burnor ’08, who participated in the phone-banking initiative...
...really great opportunity for all of us to come together and have a great tailgate,” said Christina L. Anderson ’08, president of Fuerza Latina. Anderson is the “tailgate coordinator” of a coalition comprising various Latino organizations that have shared tailgate space in the past. The groups will roast a pig at the tailgate, continuing their tradition of years past...
...explain the disparity in performance between races.“In general, black students are more likely than white students to come from educational backgrounds that will not adequately prepare them for the challenges of college,” Bok and Bowen write. Latino students’ organization Fuerza Latina president Christina L. Anderson ’08 agrees that minority students may struggle in an environment that is more academically competitive than their educational backgrounds have been. But she says she still stands behind affirmative action. “It aims to give everyone equal footing...