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After his arrest for committing a series of armed robberies, Jose Luis Razo told reporters that no one at Harvard understood him. Razo's attorney plans to defend his client by arguing that the sophomore football player robbed from the rich to prove that he was still "a homeboy." The media loves the story: a latter day Robin Hood psychologically torn between attending the bastion of northeastern elitism, Harvard, and proving to his friends that he was true to his Hispanic roots...
However, people at Harvard may be all too willing to write off Razo as an isolated case. Officials are already quick to point out that Razo's alleged crime spree began before he entered Harvard and continued while the Kirkland House resident was on vacation. What a clever way to wash our collective hands of the whole matter...
...Razo was arrested in early July on charges that he had committed seven armed robberies over the last two years in the Los Angeles area. The arrest after the former Kirkland resident walked into the police department in his native La Habra, California and confessed to committing the robberies. He has since pleaded not guilty to those charges...
Several major newspapers, including the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, wrote feature-length stories about the Razo case. They portrayed Razo as a troubled youth torn between his Hispanic roots and an insensitive University environment...
...yesterday downplayed suggestions by themedia that the Razo case is indicative of a largerproblem among minority students at Harvard...