Word: raza
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Members of Raza, the Mexican-American student group, and La O, the Puerto Rican student group, had requested a meeting with Knowles last week...
...President Efrain Cortes '94 said he wasupset that Knowles seemed to classify thestudents' requests as an issue of race relations,not of faculty hiring. Raza President LiliaFernandez '95 said she was "kind of disappointed"by Knowles' answer...
...interview yesterday, Knowles said hewants to talk to Raza and La O members...
...Knowles doesn't meet with Latino students who want to discuss the need for greater Latino curriculum and faculty representation, it's pretty clear that members of La O and Raza will start responding in ways that go beyond mere organizational meetings...
...argument's sake, let's say Knowles' refusal to meet with Raza President Lilia Fernandez '95 and La O President Efrain Cortes '94 last week isn't totally incomprehensible. Let's grant that Knowles is a busy man who had already filled his schedule with important meetings for the week. And let's take Knowles at his word when he says he wanted the students to meet with some one in University Hall as soon as possible rather than wait for a far-off meeting with him. Fine...