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Graduation Segregation
by Benjamin Kepple
Heterodoxy | November 1998
ONE OF THE CHIEF JUSTIFICATIONS FOR "DIVERSITY," according to college administrators, is that it broadens the cultural experience of all undergraduates by throwing different races and ethnicities together and allowing them to assimilate with each other. The hypocrisy of such a viewpoint is shown by the fact that while they talk diversity, these administrators countenance and in some cases create a system of segregation and separation that makes their campuses into a conglomerate of walled-in and isolated communities, which encourages the growth of prejudice and suspicion far more than a single melting pot of multiculturalism. "Students of color," they say, have needs that can be met only by their own kind.
Black students at Tufts, if they so desire, can participate in a separate, three-day orientation program. Conducted after the regular orientation, it is designed for African, Caribbean, and American blacks, allegedly to alleviate concerns they might have about living at Tufts—but actually to bring them together in relationships that will be their primary ones throughout their college years. Walk onto Dartmouth College’s or Cornell University’s campuses and you will find "residential program houses" targeted at minority students. Stanford University goes even further, allowing black, Asian, Hispanic, and American Indian students in regular housing to request a roommate of the own ethnic background.
The system that many colleges have designed resembles an academic version of Jim Crow. A student living in virtually segregated housing can major in ethnic studies programs using books written by authors of color and taught by teachers of color. He broadens his college experience by listening to leftwing speakers of color like Angela Davis or Ivan Van Sertima, an Afrocentric professor of anthropology at Rutgers, who claimed in a 1997 speech at Cornell that blacks were the first to plot the solar system, create irrigation systems, and smelt steel—not to mention the fact that they discovered America before European explorers.
And at the end of their collegiate days, when the time comes to receive their diplomas, these segregated students do not join together to celebrate their accomplishments or worry about their job prospects in common. Nor do they toss their mortarboards into a melting pot and look to the future as one. Instead, they exit college as they began and continued—in isolated and suspicious groups.
A number of schools around the country sponsor "ethnic graduations," as these identity-conscious ceremonies are called. California State Polytechnic University at San Luis Obispo has a small yearly ceremony for its black students. The University of Michigan has a similar celebration for its homosexual students. And Brown University does something arguably worse than holding a segregated graduation ceremony; after commencement, the University’s Third World Center holds an invitation-only champagne reception for graduating minority students and their parents.
But this practice has caught hold with special tenacity in California. The University of California at Santa Barbara sponsors these ceremonies for blacks and Hispanics; the University of California at Santa Cruz sponsors them for blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and American Indians. But the school that sponsors the most ethnic graduations is the University of California at Los Angeles, which helps sponsor an ethnic graduation for blacks, Hispanics, Asians, American Indians, and Filipinos. It also supports a segregated graduation by homosexual students as well.
"The events provide that support that many students from under-represented communities are looking for," says Henry Perez, chairman of the UCLA chapter of Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA), a radical Hispanic activist group whose stated goal is to eventually reclaim political independence for Mexican-Americans in the Southwestern United States.
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