blog 29

 I read the article titled Diversity or Discrimination by Beth Carter.  She argues that Stressing diversity might actually make a college campus less diverse and that the majority groups such as caucasions shouldn’t be left out of diversity programs and such.  Racial intolerance is a prevalent problem on many college campuses. Colleges and universities try to alleviate problems of racism and discrimination by setting up special living communities which allow people of a certain nationality or culture to live together. Creating these living areas may seem like a great idea, yet it is causing more division between races. Having like groups of people isolate themselves by living in a house or dorm eliminates their diversity. Neither the people who live in these secluded communities nor the rest of the campus’s residential population get the full experience of cultural diversity at Ohio State. The university is a unique school because of its many groups, clubs, religions, races and hobbies, but when people start cutting themselves off from others, the diversity disappears. Obviously a living community of just one race is not diverse. While it is reassuring to have security in living with people who share the same background, everyone needs to branch out and face diversity head on.  As a recipient of a minority scholarship for being Appalachian I understand how campuses set up programs to lure more minority groups to the school in hopes of diversity.