[ellen_rometsch]

Ashley Samelson is a senior at Tufts majoring in political science and Spanish.

AND IS ONE GUTSY BROAD!

[Lancey Howard]

Then every morning, I roll my eyes, shut the Daily and reach for a newspaper from the real world.

That alone shows she is way too smart for a silly place like Tufts.

By the way, my son is now taking his required "race" class at college. After carefully analyzing his choices for fullfilling the "race" class requirement, my son opted for a "race" class on Native Americans, figuring it would be the least unpalatable. Surprise! The "professor" is black (naturally - - these mandatory "race" classes are designed to give employment to people who majored in "African American Studies") and one of the required books for the class was written by that famous "Native American", Ward Churchill.

I kid you not.

[SE Mom]

bookmark, bttt

[Doomonyou]

...and that my days of checking the Caucasian box are over.

When I filled out the 2000 Census, I checked the "Other" box and wrote in AMERICAN.

[Nam Vet]

AND IS ONE GUTSY BROAD

That was a great piece. Wouldn't it be a hoot to see this billboard in Boston?

Nam Vet

[Old Professer]

It's a lot easier to tell off the boss when you're about to quit your job...

[Gvl_M3]

I'm proud of her. She says some things that have needed saying for a long time.

I went to Georgia Tech (Georgia Institute of Technology) in the early 90's. I'm a white male from upper middle class Atlanta.

I had some of the same experiences she describes. I was a little upset that my criteria for getting into school was different than my roommates. He was a nice guy, but had no business being at that school. He ended up dropping out after Freshman year.

Ga. Tech has a very large Greek population (somewhere around 30-40%). It baffled me that there were 3-4 all black fraternities and 2-3 all black sororities. I sure as h#!!! couldn't have started an all white fraternity (not that I wanted to). Also, one of the fraternities branded their pledges. I thought they wanted to get away from slavery. We would have been kicked off campus if we did some of the stuff they did.

Then, there was the society of black engineers, women engineers, maybe even Asian engineers. I always thought that of any profession, engineering would be the best to get past race. You either know your stuff or you don't.

Sorry for the rant. I truly had not seen any racism until I went to college. I was lucky that my parents sent me to a private school, and there was no racial issues there.

College was very eye opening, and a little embittering as this author aptly puts it.