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...student body. Non-athletes don’t spend half their lives at college participating in competitive sports, don’t want to do so, and, for the most part, couldn’t if they tried. Moreover, according to Fitzsimmons, athletes “bring socioeconomic diversity??—a nice way to say that they tend to come from poorer backgrounds than their non-recruited classmates...
...speech to his native Lebanon, he called his country “the crossword of the Middle East,” and a potential bridge between troubled Middle Eastern countries. Its diverse, internal communities, he said, made it a positive example for establishing “harmony amidst diversity?...
What is troubling about arguments like these is that racial diversity is automatically and easily equated with intellectual diversity??a one stop panacea against a nightmarish campus where everyone looks, thinks and dresses alike. If a racially diverse class guarantees a broad range of experiences and viewpoints, is race then an umbrella term for socio-economic disparities, religious differences and political polarities? The assumption that race itself is a sufficient standard of diversity at times reinforces the barriers such diversity is meant to dismantle: instead of highlighting the mutuality of experience that can be fostered through dialogue...
...dozen rallied outside of Austin Hall beforehand, calling for greater diversity??in the student body, ranks of the faculty and perhaps in the form of the new dean...
...writes humorously about how she threw away the huge piles of mail that Harvard sent her the summer before her first year, annoyed that they were not housing information. She found out later that she trashed the required “Reflections on Diversity?? reading for the annual freshmen week discussion...