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While much of the Harvard community departs Cambridge for the Thanksgiving holiday this week, Raza will welcome more than 200 Chicano college students to the campus for an annual five-day conference...
...theme originated with an idea to focus on the education of Chicano youth and narrowed to the documentation of Chicano culture and its role in education, said Lilia Fernandez '94, co-chair of Raza's Pachanga committee...
...Raza President Richard Garcia '94 emphasized the need to capture a wide range of Latino voices. "The point is to celebrate documentation, all the experiences, all the varieties of experience that make up the Chicano experience," he said...
...conference began the early 1970s for students to spend Thanks giving together if they couldn't travel home to the Southwest or California, said Xavier A. Gutierrez '95, vice president of Raza...
...mood of his book is one of alienation. Navarrette describes long nights spent in dorm rooms drinking with fellow RAZA students in order to lose himself. He writes about rumors of Harvard students who just couldn't take it and committed suicide. And, especially, he writes about Joe Razo, a fellow Chicano student who committed several armed robberies while enrolled at Harvard. In Navarrette's eyes, Harvard is a tense, intimidating workplace that "needs you far less than you need it." Mexican Americans are not unique in feeling isolated at Harvard...