Word: raza
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ruben Navarrette, Jr. '89-90 is a member of RAZA, and served on its Steering Committee...
Last August, I wrote a 1000 word editorial in the Los Angeles Times in which I explored the bizarre tragedy of former classmate Jose "Joe" Razo '89, who last year was convicted of armed robbery in California. The article was blunt in its criticism of RAZA members for shunning Razo because of the embarrassment that his confrontational homeboy attire--khaki pants and bandanna around his head--caused them...
...girlfriend runs into one of my former classmates, now a law student there; in the ensuing argument, he claims that his own experiences with Harvard Chicanos were positive ones and that he was "deeply offended" by my assertions. A group of friends and I walk into a weekly RAZA dinner gathering, and a tableful of members quietly walk out in unison. I pass by an old friend in the Square; she spots me and turns away...
After the piece is reprinted in a national magazine, a former RAZA member submits an angry letter to the editor charging that I "misrepresented" Razo's experience with other Chicano students on campus. I am told, by the few brave enough to confront me with their anger, that much of RAZA feels "violated," even betrayed, by the revealing of how they treat one another...
...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...