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Monday, November 21, 2005

Diversity Conundrum II:
Local Yokels

Diversity Conundrum I, you recall, was plaintively expressed by the Cornell University student representing her engineering organization at a campus diversity fair. The student reporter covering the event notes that

There was an incredible amount of diversity even within the groups [that had booths at Cornell‘s recent Diversity Fair], such as the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers. It is not necessary to be either Hispanic or an engineer to join. “Our name deters people,” lamented Kathya Chiluiza ’05, a member of this networking group.


Diversity Conundrum II appears in the recent column of a fierce defender of all proposed diversity initiatives at the University of Washington, as he exhibits his ability to embrace fellow students of all walks of life:

Locally, yokel Ed Swan made headlines this past week when he claimed to be discriminated against by the Washington State University's College of Education for his "socially conservative" beliefs.

As the WSU College of Education places a particular focus on a teacher's ability to recognize and embrace diversity, and compassionately teach students of all walks of life, Swan's beliefs that "diversity is perversity" (found to be scribbled inside a book of his) as well as his own slights at diversity training and education, caused the College to threaten dismissal from the program.

Swan fired back with support from a so-called "educational freedom" group and the school backed off.
Posted at: 11/21/2005 01:35:00 PM