Our Take, A Minority ReportA minority report The University is still working on adding diversity to the student body. Forty-nine years have passed since the official desegregation of the University of Georgia, and the editorial board couldn't be happier about that. Less than 50 years ago people were outraged at the thought of African-American students walking past the Arch, and now we're worried about not having enough minority students. …With stand-up articles like this, outlining the wonderful efforts the University is making to increase diversity you would think that a glance around campus would reveal a miniature rainbow, a plethora of mixed-up people socializing and mingling.
But unfortunately we witness a different scene here at the University.
We see the 'Asian kids' huddled together in conversation on the third floor of the Student Learning Center. Breeze down the steps to the next closest building and you'll find the Tate Center, another student gathering area, but here we encounter the 'Indian kids' hanging out and relaxing near a TV lounge area. Take just a step outside and pass by the walkway where multicultural organizations set up their tables and desperately attempt to garner membership into their minority clubs and Greek organizations- and their you'll see the 'Black kids' conversing and unwinding on the steps at the bus stop.
If I've missed any, it will likely be the 'White kids' or those like myself, who by standardized test principles is simply an 'Other kid'.
This is the picture of diversity here in college.
The problem is quite obvious here. Diversification set out to make us integrate, when in actually all it seems to have done is made us segregate more. All it would really take to fix something like this is for someone to step out of their comfort zone and encounter people that he or she would not usually chose to meet. I'd bet that person would be surprised to see how much someone with a different culture or skin color is really just like themselves.
