diversity
Treasury rejects diversity council, irking backers
Student Union Treasury on Tuesday barely voted down legislation to create the Diversity Affairs Council, leaving the future of the proposal in doubt. The vote was 7-6-1. A two-thirds majority, or 10 votes, was needed to pass the legislation. Earlier that evening, Treasury had gone through the legislation’s articles and approved each one individually. When Treasury voted on the entire legislation, however, it did not pass.
Senate votes to form Diversity Affairs Council
In the midst of many issues affecting campus this year including the Mothers bar incident, Student Union Senate passed legislation to form a Diversity Affairs Council (DAC). Last week in Senate, the new legislation for the creation of the DAC passed with 22 votes in favor, two against and one abstention.
Connect 4 provides support for diversity initiatives
In response to an incident of Anti-Semitism that had occurred against my freshman year roommate and in response to four other events of hate, discrimination and prejudice that had occurred on our campus in the span of a few months, I founded the Student Diversity Initiative early in the fall of 2007. We soon went on to merge with Campus Week of Dialogue, a group that had been around on our campus for over a decade, and collectively we became known as Connect 4.
Large-scale programming embraces diversity in practice
Our University has a diverse student body, but a criticism oft-levied at the makeup of this campus is that its different factions are prone to self-segregation. Though no amount of programming can fully solve this problem, structured collaboration between student groups is a good place to start.
Controversy N’ Coffee
Amid a relaxed atmosphere, Controversy N’ Coffee and WU/FUSED hosted a multicultural panel on the topic of socioeconomic diversity to a group of nearly forty students Thursday evening.
The panel was composed of John Berg, Vice Chancellor of Admissions; Pam Hansen, Associate Vice Chancellor for Alumni & Development Programs; Harvey Fields, Assistant Director of Academic Programs, [...]
Embracing diversity in practice
People at Washington University talk a lot about diversity and how to foster it. I’ve noticed this throughout my stay here. It’s safe to say that most people honestly crave the benefits diversity brings. However, if we truly want this, we need to figure out the difference between shallower multi-culturalism with its overtones of exoticism [...]
Roommates from different backgrounds find common ground
Several studies about roommate over the summer fount that interracial roommates can reduce students’ prejudices and broaden their friend circles.
Greek Life brings alumnus back to speak on diversity, tolerance
Marc Elliot, a 2008 Washington University graduate, will be speaking about tolerance and diversity in a speech at Graham Chapel tonight at 6 p.m.
Administration should reflect diversity
We are seeing something unprecedented on the national stage: women and people of color in real positions of leadership. Whether we agree more with the politics of the right or the left, it is clear that a transformation in the American polity is at hand. Not only are the two national parties touting gender and [...]
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