Gulfstream

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/02/magazine/02WWLN.html “But diversity, or rather, affirmative- action- as- diversity, is not good for all. In addition to the longstanding problem of disadvantaging some in order to advantage others, the diversity rationale also insultingly assumes that black students bring a black ‘point of view,’ Asians an Asian one and so on, thus reifying the very barriers of race and ethnicity that affirmative action is meant to erase. And why should racial and ethnic ‘points of view’ outweigh those forged by class or culture? Why, as a professor recently suggested to me, shouldn’t the presence of the R.O.T.C. on campus be seen as a means to ensure representation of a ‘military’ point of view otherwise absent from elite universities?” 04:19