Word: razo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
Only a handful of this year's seniors remember Razo and his arrest for armed robbery in California. Of course, Navarrette points out that Razo was convicted last year, but the last year Razo spent at Harvard was 1986-87. I would venture to say that the issue is no longer hot off the press...
...after having written about the case of Razo before, why address it now with an audience that no longer remembers him? That is something that I'm afraid remains sheltered in Navarrette's mind. What is more important to the leadership of RAZA are the insinuations made about the group...
Hispanics must give the group a chance, and the fact that this year's seniors hardly knew of the existence of Razo during the 1986-87 academic year seems to point to the possibility that Razo never did that. Navarrette has attended two of RAZA's weekly dinners. After all of his talk about intolerance, one would have to question exactly who is being intolerant of whom...
Navarrette seems driven to continue beating a dead horse. He could very well write a book about the Razo incident; I am sure he will. But he will reach a time--perhaps by the age of 60 or 65--when everyone will be exasperated with hearing his story. We hope that by then he will have given up writing fiction. Fidel A. Ovalle '92 Member, RAZA Steering Committee