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...people just say, `I should have gone to Stanford or UCLA,'" says Lilia Fernandez '95, the president of Raza, Harvard's Mexican-American student group...
Adrian E. Castro '96, whose background is Peruvian, says that people often tend to assume that "Hispanic" means "Mexican" or "Mexican-American," rather than perceiving that many Spanish speaking groups are included under that term...
Overall, the number of Hispanic applicants increased by one student but the number of Mexican-American and Puerto Rican applicants declined sharply...
...only reasonable basis that The Crimson might have for confusing the accomplishments of Olmos and Smits is the fact that both actors are Mexican-American. In essence, The Crimson says that because the actors share a common ancestry, their individual accomplishments are indistinguishable...
Through this error, you have told the entire Mexican-American community that we are essentially the same, that one person's achievements can be attributed to another person without much thought. Of course, the editors will claim that this was not the case, but by not catching this mistake, you are proclaiming this attitude to all of Harvard...