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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (15891)	9/8/2001 9:41:06 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 59480

You're right. I misread it the first time.

To: Lane3 who wrote (15891)	9/9/2001 12:22:12 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

Laz, I think that diversity has always been a factor in admissions. Always as of starting when? I don't seem to recall Harvard University worrying much about diversification in its early days. Nor William and Mary. Certainly racial and religious diversity weren't of much interest to colleges in the 19th century, and not I think in that much of the 20th. When I was applying to college, I don't think my college even asked about race. Maybe they did, but there certainly wasn't any significant attempt to diversify the campus racially -- I frankly don't recall more than one or two black students in the college, though there may well have been more that I didn't notice. But it wasn't something of much concern. Even our college civil rights committee was more concerned with overcoming overt racial discrimination -- restaurants, theaters, hotels, and the like that specifically excluded blacks -- than in worrying about more diversity in an institution that did admit black students when qualified ones applied, but that didn't worry about its racial composition. So I don't think it's correct to say that diversity has "always" been a factor in admissions. How recent a concern do you think this is?