Universities all over the country, including the UA, are trying to create diverse campuses.

In fact, University of Idaho has been trying so hard to attract a diverse student body that it doctored a picture from its university Web site that had all white students. Officials cut and pasted minority students' faces over the faces of some of the white students.

Clearly, diversity has become a selling point among universities. University of Arizona's dialogue on race is absolutely necessary to combat the very problems that UI's mishap proves.

Friday the UA held a lunch discussion titled "It's Time to Talk." About 700 people attended the event, including representatives from the African American Student Affairs and the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Center, Asian Pacific American Student Affairs, Chicano/Hispano Student Affairs, and the Hillel Foundation participated in the event. New York Times editors who had studied race at the national level were invited to speak to the audience.

Instead of tackling the issue at its core through dialogue as did the UA, UI felt the need to contrive it's campus' level of diversity. Clearly they were attempting to attract minorities in order to eventually create a diverse student body and to raise the mere eight percent of minorities its student body boasts. Universities think it is so important to attract minority students that they feel compelled to contrive the level of diversity that their campus actually has.