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Navarrette charges in the book that Harvard does not treat Mexican-American students as well as it should. And he says that RAZA promotes an "Us and Them" attitude, and does not help many Chicano students...
Navarrette's story has attracted national attention, garnering a review in yesterday's New York Times Book Review, and some RAZA members said his tale of disappointment and discrimination could discourage high school students from applying here...
...RAZA president Richard Garcia '95 said "the book is the big thing we are discussing right...
Chris M. Sotomayor '96, RAZA's representativeto the Harvard Foundation for InterculturalAffairs and Race Relations Academic AffairsCommittee, said the book is not damaging. "The oneproblem I have is that Navarrette seems tointernalize his problems, he keeps wondering if hegot in because of his race. No one gets in becauseof their race; they only accept us when they areconfident that we can do the work," Sotomayorsaid...
Sotomayor said other members of RAZA may feeldifferently. The club has been discussing whethermembers should buy the book, he said, because theymay not want to contribute to Navarrettesroyalties...