Letters to the Editor
Diversity editorial shows ignorance
The poorly written critique of campus diversity efforts offered by the Arizona Summer Wildcat editorial board is, I think, ample demonstration that we are not educating our students as well as we might like. The article is rife with errors, inconsistencies, empty rhetoric and logical fallacies. Any newspaper that prides itself on journalistic excellence should be embarrassed to publish such shoddy work. There were, in fact, three studies done at UA that reflect the extremely hostile climate for virtually every group on campus except straight, white males. These are serious, respectable studies that sampled a statistically significant percentage of the campus community. The Grace and Millennium studies are widely mentioned, so Iād like to take just a moment to discuss the results of the Campus Climate Assessment undertaken by the Presidentās Council on Diversity. The assessment contains some extremely disturbing figures.
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