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...March 8 edition of The Crimson, Ruben Navarrette '89-'90 wrote an opinion piece titled "Telling Secrets at RAZA." In it, he addressed the "bizarre tragedy of former classmate Jose 'Joe' Razo." After some thought about his choice of a title, I was somewhat amused because the "secrets" he speaks of are hidden even to the very members of RAZA, Harvard's Mexican-American student organization...
After the piece is reprinted in a national magazine, a former RAZA member submits an angry letter to the editor charging that I "misrepresented" Razo's experience with other Chicano students on campus. I am told, by the few brave enough to confront me with their anger, that much of RAZA feels "violated," even betrayed, by the revealing of how they treat one another...
...Razo case highlights the schizophernic nature of ethnic student groups. Promising warmth and acceptance for its members, such a group simultaneously represents the best and the worst that a people have to offer. At its best, it is a compassionate group of people that facilitates a gentle transition from one world to another. At its worst, it is an array of competitive and frightened individuals consumed with their own perceived self-importance and paralyzed by petty personal differences...
...wrote about an episode that remains, in the history of Mexican-American student life at Harvard, one of failure. And if there is one thing that Harvard students, of any color, don't handle well, it's failure. The story of Joe Razo is first and foremost an embarrassment that the most liberal advocates of affirmative action--as well as the students that have benefitted from the program--would like to forget. Or just...
...minority students at elite schools are often overprotective of their experience. For fear of saying the wrong thing, they say nothing at all. These are private matters, I am told, not to be discussed with strangers. To the meek who hold their image so dear, the story of Joe Razo--though compelling--is a messy tar-baby that is best left untouched. Still, I touch...