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...months later, student criticism is an easy and constant refrain. Even his staunchest defenders would be hard-pressed to deny that Summers, earnest as he may be, just comes off badly. This gives his critics an excuse to say that he isn’t engaging them. Luis Hernandez said, “He was saying, ‘I do not need to engage in dialogue on this.’” The ubiquitous Benjamin L. McKean ’02 of the Progressive Student Labor Movement told a reporter that Summers doesn’t live...
Students who have met with Summers in more formal situations to discuss matters of policy, like Latino studies and undergraduate education, criticize his demeanor. Latino studies advocate Luis S. Hernandez, a graduate student at the Divinity School who co-chairs Concilio Latino, told a Crimson reporter, “He wouldn’t make eye contact-that’s disrespectful.” The other student in that same meeting, Maribel Hernandez ’04, the president of RAZA (not related to Luis), described how Summers had his feet on a table as he toyed with...
University President Lawrence H. Summers has responded to growing student demand for both Latino and ethnic studies departments with what appears to be clear ideological opposition. According to Maribel Hernandez ’04, president of RAZA, Summers dismissed the prospective departments as no more than programs that could promote individuals studying their own ethnicity. When Latino studies advocates pointed out to Summers that the department they were demanding is no different from the Afro-American studies department in that respect, Summers allegedly referred to that department as an outermost case that perhaps warranted a separate department...
...Going to the faculty would have been the next step anyway, but it is nice to know that he is reinforcing what we are doing,” Hernandez said...
...Provost understands that our efforts are not about receiving privileges [for Latino students] but instead about achieving high quality teaching and research at this university,” said Luis S. Hernandez, a Divinity School student and co-chair of Concilio Latino...