Posted on 03/07/2011 8:04:37 AM PST by JohnRLott
All the recent alarm about the resignations of three minority faculty members (See: “A Troubling Trifecta,” Feb. 18) has inevitably led to calls for special efforts to make certain racial groups feel welcome at Dartmouth. If the College really wants to foster a color-blind environment, however, it would be well advised not to treat minorities as though they need extra attention.
Unfortunately, minorities at Dartmouth are often encouraged to define themselves according to a special, “colored” status. Recent Martin Luther King, Jr. celebrations included a showing of the film “For Colored Girls” and an “Alliance for Children of Color Playdate” whose accompanying picture on Dartmouth’s website shows an all-black group of parents and youngsters. Events like these hardly lead to the kind of positive interracial interactions the College talks about so much. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at thedartmouth.com ...
‘bout time the Ivies got a clue.
The comment below your article was pure passive/aggressive, I get the feeling Ms. Zhang would pull the wings off of flies if she could not spend her time trying to bully people.
Dr. King has been spinning in his grave for a long time now...
Special privileges in admission. Lower test scores needed. Free tuition, room, board, expenses, plus cash. Kid gloves treatment all through college. Promoted without merit. Degrees given for showing up.
All that tells the kids that they are inferior - which is what the liberals really think of them.
BTTT
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