Robinson Explains Veto of Latino Center

CSULB administration did not use the HSI grant to make a Latino student center because this would isolate the Latino students, Doug Robinson, vice president of student services, explained Monday.

All the recruitment, financial aid and academic advising for Latino students would have been done in the center, which would separate the students from the rest of the college population and violate Proposition 209.

“We know separate but equal does not work in America,” Robinson said. “We’ve gone through that.”