Sergio J. Campos '00
Flung into the spotlight after a fellow student group leader took a leave of absence, he became a central voice in "The Great Grape Debate."
Sergio J. Campos '00 only became chair of the Latino Political Committee, the political wing of RAZA, the Latino/ Mexican-American student organization, after the former chair took a semester away from Harvard. Timing, though, is everything.
"You could feel it in the air that something was about to happen," Campos says.
It was then--the fall of 1997--when Harvard Dining Services began considering removing its long-standing ban on grapes in the dining halls, provoking strong reactions from students on both sides of the issue.
Campos and RAZA were at the forefront of the anti-grape coalition, charging that grape workers in California, many of them Mexican immigrants, suffered under unfair working conditions.
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