[Lance Romance]

"My roommate was a Republican from the South and believed in the Confederate flag. It was good to feel like I had someone to go talk to."

Give me a break.

sophomore Julia Martinez Koch, from Newton, the child of one white parent and one Cuban-American. "I don't feel badly that the white people get excluded once in a while."

The program seems to be working very well. Congratulations Holyoke.

[sauropod]

Ain't it wonderful?

[Fzob]

"There's some thought that pre-orientation programs might actually be a force toward rigidifying racial boundaries rather than opening them up,"

Jeez, it only took them 16 years to figure it out. On can only imagine what these "brilliant" liberal minds will figure out in the future.</ sarcasm>

[alnitak]

"Once we as people of color begin to interact with our white sisters, we need to come to that space with a real sense of who we are, in order to really listen and communicate," she told the new students at a Passages meeting last week.

That is a truly bizarre statement. Of course I am sure the speaker would be willing to teach/brainwash the listeners into a more enlightened state....

[FroedrickVonFreepenstein]

"There's some thought that pre-orientation programs might actually be a force toward rigidifying racial boundaries rather than opening them up," said Lee Bowie, dean of Mount Holyoke.

Really, ya think so?

a Latina woman described feeling cut off from her heritage because she doesn't speak Spanish

Enroll in a frickin' Spanish class and stop whining.

My roommate was a Republican from the South and believed in the Confederate flag

What the hell does that mean?

a controversy erupted when the group that put together "African Caribbean Day" would not allow non-African or non-Caribbean groups to perform

How inclusive and tolerant. </sarcasm>

[stainlessbanner]

My roommate was a Republican from the South and believed in the Confederate flag.

You decide.

[Noachian]

No one has questioned why white parents would send their child to a school who is openly biased against them. These elite schools would change their policies fast if white money started to dry up.

Liberal academicians are a hypocritical bunch who rely on the stupidy of white parents to send them children to indoctrinate into liberal causes. Take away the white kids and you take away a large part of the school's budget.

The fault of these openly hostile, racist, programs can be traced back to the parents who send their children to these universities. Any one who knows such white parents
should be asking them why they would put their children in a place where they are treated as second class citizens.

[Moose4]

Next thing you know, they'll start asking for separate minority-only drinking fountains in the student union.

And how does one "believe in the Confederate flag" anyway? Light candles to it? Pray to it?

}:-)4

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

This is a disconnected, rambling article and it comes from a major daily paper, The Boston Globe. For a thumbnail biography on the writer go to this link

(biography of Marcella Bombardieri)

Once you have read the biography, you should be able to predict anything she writes.

[blanknoone]

"My roommate was a Republican from the South and believed in the Confederate flag. Do you not believe that there is this thing called a Confederate flag? Great education.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Was it Shakespeare or some other genius who wrote:

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive."

Regardless, it perfectly describes liberal programs. Some call it unintended consequences but I suspect most are intended.

[archy]

sophomore Julia Martinez Koch, from Newton, the child of one white parent and one Cuban-American. "I don't feel badly that the white people get excluded once in a while."

Title 18, United States Code, U.S. Criminal Code, Section 241; - Conspiracy against rights :

If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or

If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured -

They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.

[Missus]

I went off to college at barely 17, from a tiny, rural mountain town of 1500 people, to a liberal university with a student body of 16,000. "Orientation" was a joke--the only positive thing that helped out was meeting my soon-to-be-best-friend Cesar (from Panama), an ultra-conservative foreign national who had been trying to get all his citizenship paperwork routed correctly since he was fifteen. The lecture I had from him when I neglected to vote just after my 18th birthday ensured I never neglected to again.

My point, though--A student should already "know who they are" before coming to college. That they do not is a failure of their family, and nothing else. Don't speak Spanish? Take a course, dummy! Can't deal with Republicans? Guess the Repub isn't the one with the problem. Funny, as a conservative kid from a predominantly white rural area, I had no problem relating to the "ethnic" students at school--except for that one instance when a friend and I wanted to go catch a movie, and his friends said if he went somewhere with a "white girl", he might as well not come home to North East Portland. I found their racism amusing, but nothing more.

As the poster above said: Education, not therapy.

Regards

[skeeter]

There aren't words strong enough to describe how completely sick I am of the subjects of racism and sexual orientation.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Hernandez is one of hundreds of Mount Holyoke students who have attended "Passages," the college's pre-orientation program to help minority students settle into a college where each might find herself the only person of color in a particular dorm or class.

This is an absolute crock. Not one of the schools mentioned in this article has any dorms with only one "person of color" in residence, and few if any classes with that composition. All these schools, and all similar selective private liberal arts colleges are swarming with affirmative action admits, as well as with East and South Asian students who are anything but affirmative action cases.

[nmh]

""There's some thought that pre-orientation programs might actually be a force toward rigidifying racial boundaries rather than opening them up," said Lee Bowie, dean of Mount Holyoke."

Nothing like racist liberalism. Always looking for a way to divide and conquer all in the name of compassion. They ought to END these racist orientations. By now a person at that age should be able to handle themselves regardless of color. But no. Liberals want to keep that chip on the shoulder alive through racist segregation with maybe a few token whites to target for guilt of things they had nothing to do with or no control of.