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...Santini says that aside from looking for mentors, it can be difficult for women who do achieve leadership positions to interact with a largely male administration...
...think that tends to quiet women a little," says Santini. "I know that I've been intimidated by the all-male presence in a room. There's a lack of connection...
...When it comes to having intellectual, high-level conversations, women seem to be assumed to be less versed in these things than men," says Marina C. Santini'98, co-managing editor of Perspective. "I think I've spent a certain amount of time trying to prove myself because there were all these men and they were all brilliant and they weren't necessarily going to ask my opinion when it came to something intellectual or the computer or the layout of the magazine or something like that...
...maybe members of La O dropped out because political activity wasn't really what they wanted was just to chill with people who shared their interests in food, music and culture. "Working together," as Santini says, does not necessarily come through establishing further divisions in hopes of being the Young Lords of the 1990s...
Working together does not mean having a bitter attitude towards those students who prefer not to get involved in the political debates and battles of their countries. Perhaps if Santini's agenda was not provoked by a readiness to "combat" and teaching "the man not to mess with us" but instead with an eagerness and a willingness to hear what other Puerto Ricans on campus are feeling, or what they have on their agendas than maybe we could be more "prepared to make history...