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...exact proposal--put forth this fall by representatives of LaO (the Puerto Rican students' association), Raza (the Mexican-American students' assoication), and the Asian American Association--asks the College to implement Latino and Asian-American studies courses in traditional departments like English and sociology. Ethnic Studies proponents hope for the eventual establishment of an American studies or American cultures department. These activists complain that they cannot count on the availability of Asian and Latino American Studies courses unless Harvard hired permanent Asian and Latino American Studies professors, who could in turn conduct their research only with the support...
...front of Derek Bok's office chanted, "What do we want? Afro-American faculty. When do we want it? Now!" Three weeks later, 70 students marched to the Harvard-Yale football game in protest. Almost exactly two years later, in October of 1992, The Crimson reported that representatives of Raza, La O, and AAA were "mobilizing to pressure" the University and were considering "such methods" as were employed for Afro-American Studies as "a possibility if administrators fail to listen to their requests." Well, what happened to the protest? Did we miss it? No, the fact is that a protest...
Leaders of both Raza and La O say they are addressing the gap by making their organizations more inclusive...
...Raza, for instance, recently changed its constitution, adding the position of social chair so that the president could concentrate more on policy goals...
Among those goals has been a recent push by Raza and La O to add Latino faculty and ethnic studies courses to Harvard's curriculum...