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...difficulties that lie ahead still loom large, given past obstacles, leaders at Harvard say. La O, Harvard's Puerto Rican students' association, and Raza, the University's Mexican-American organization, announced they have been negotiating with Harvard for more than a year to provide courses on Hispanic studies. According to La O leader Wendell C. Ocasio '90, La O even presented Harvard officials with the name of a professor at Puerto Rico University who could teach such a course...
Hilda M. Alexander '90, president of theMexican-American group Raza, said the drive wasthe first she had seen for recruiting minoritystudents into plays and heralded it as a positivedevelopment. And Jeffrey C. Yang '89, editor ofEastwind, a campus Asian magazine, called theeffort "long overdue...
...order to get the things that we want we [minorities] definitely have to work together," says Carlos R. Perez, Jr. '91, a member of the steering committee of the Chicano group Raza. And Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association President Robert L. Henry '90 says, "We all have a position in an interdependent society and our common future is inextricably intertwined...
...Raza and the Puerto Rican student group La O are working with University administrators for the appointment of visiting professors in ethnic studies, leaders...
Fast participant Carlos Perez '91, a residentof Los Angeles and a Raza member, said that he was"unfamiliar" with the day-to-day lives of migrantworkers but that he was drawn to the fast becauseof his heritage...