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Summers’ response—a letter addressed to RAZA President Maribel Hernandez ’04 and Luis S. Hernandez, a Divinity School student who co-chairs Concilio Latino—comes after the two students presented him with a petition at his office hours last week calling for the creation of a Latino studies department. The petition had over 100 signatures...
Under the leadership of groups such as Concilio Latino and the Ethnic Studies Coalition, students have been pushing in recent weeks for more academic offerings in areas such as Latino studies, Native American Studies and Asian American Studies. These groups cast their efforts to expand Harvard’s academic offerings as a long-overdue measure in a nation increasingly composed of people who do not trace their families back to Europe...
Summers said during his office hours that he is unwilling to actively discuss the future of Latino studies at Harvard, according to a statement issued yesterday by Luis S. Hernandez, a graduate student at the Divinity School who co-chairs Concilio Latino, and Maribel Hernandez ’04, president of RAZA...
...group of students, many of whom are affiliated with RAZA, Fuerza Latina and Concilio Latino, said they plan to present a letter formally requesting the creation of the department to University President Lawrence H. Summers at his office hours next Tuesday. They said they will ask for Summers to respond to their letter by March...
RAZA, Fuerza Latina and Concilio Latino, an umbrella organization for Latino student groups at Harvard’s various schools, threatened to withdraw from yesterday’s rally after Monday’s controversy. But after tensions cooled, they agreed to rejoin the protest...