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Torres, along with other prospective students, said she planned to be active in minority student groups at Harvard. She said she planned to join RAZA, the Mexican-American student group next fall...
...piece titled "Telling Secrets at RAZA." In it, he addressed the "bizarre tragedy of former classmate Jose 'Joe' Razo." After some thought about his choice of a title, I was somewhat amused because the "secrets" he speaks of are hidden even to the very members of RAZA, Harvard's Mexican-American student organization...
Although Navarrette is correct that we members of RAZA may not agree with each other at times, I am convinced that RAZA members feel comfortable with each other because of the vital bond that justifies the groups very existence--we share in the Mexican-American experience, from language to idiom to culture to food...
...wrote about an episode that remains, in the history of Mexican-American student life at Harvard, one of failure. And if there is one thing that Harvard students, of any color, don't handle well, it's failure. The story of Joe Razo is first and foremost an embarrassment that the most liberal advocates of affirmative action--as well as the students that have benefitted from the program--would like to forget. Or just...
...small group of Mexican-American students created Harvard-Radcliffe RAZA 20 years ago to serve first and foremost as a support group for students like them. Now, as long as its members refuse to recognize the organization for what it has become, they miss the opportunity to improve it and improve along with it the college experience of the students the group is intended to serve...