[261] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: Affirmative action
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher D. Beland)
Fri Apr 27 22:54:31 2001
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To: "Victoria K. Anderson" <vkanders@MIT.EDU>
cc: mit-talk@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: The events that comprise the history of the universe.
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 22:53:45 -0400
From: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
What sort of "diversity" is appropriate for this community of
scholars? Perhaps MIT should intentionally select people who have
diverse cultural or intellectual perspectives, rather than people who
don't pick the two most popular boxes on a race self-reporting form.
After all, I think we'd all appreciate diversity of thought more than
how pretty 10-250 when 300 students sit in lecture and show some skin.
9)
The two are obviously strongly correlated, but not 100%, which I think
is one of the reasons that racial discrimination is potentially
unfair.
Beland
Who hopes such a strategy would not homogenize the wonderfully diverse
community he has experienced at MIT
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