Word: salivar
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There has been a lot of undue controversy regarding the Statistics 100 project that Mark Veblen and I undertook last spring. Our endeavor was gravely misrepresented in Juan E. Garcia and Edgar Salivar's guest commentary titled "The March of La Raza" (Opinion, October 21, 1996), and in an article by Devi Sengupta, a co-president of the Minority Student Alliance in the Harvard Independent (October 3 1996). It is not surprising that both commentaries completely missed the point of our project since neither of the authors asked for a copy of the our report. One would think that...
...finally responding to the criticisms of our report? Garcia and Salivar's commentary was quite disturbing to me. They state in their Opinion piece that our project "disregarded Latinos; this adds to our invisibility on campus." The Latino community includes people of different colors and religions. It is because of this that I believed it was not proper to include Latinos as a category. I find it exclusive on the part of the authors to assume that it is possible to determine who is Latino based on a picture. According to the stereotype, Latinos in this country have a relatively...
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