With reservation, YCC backs plan for diversity reps.
The Yale College Council on Nov. 14 voiced support for a Coalition for Campus Unity proposal that would formalize the creation of student diversity coordinators in all 12 residential colleges but declined to become directly involved in the proposal’s implementation, YCC officials told the News this week.
Although the Council’s president said she fears some students would view the proposal as “reactionary,” CCU members decided Wednesday night to continue collaborating with the YCC in the effort to promote awareness of diversity in residential colleges, said Shruti Gupta ’08, who...
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By (Anonymous)
5:22p.m. on December 31, 2007
New Yale motto:
Pokemon - gotta collect em all!
There is nothing wrong with diversity. However, there is nothing inherently "good" about diversity either. Diversity is a value neutral thing: many opinions, many representatives of those opinions. For instance, these coordinators will not be seeking out the viewpoints of murderers, Nazis, bigots of various kinds, etc. The challenge to the diversity question is not to canonize diversity in itself, but to recognize that by hearing many voices, we might be able to discover what is good, true and just. This requires something more than a value-neutral equating of all opinions. It requires distinguishing between right ideas and wrong ideas (ie: advocates of systematic murder of innocent people). Here is where the real challenge lies in a culture which tends toward an intellectual relativism.