Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 2:30 p.m.

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Adamo: College safe for interracial coupling

Published Friday, October 3, 2008

In last week’s opinion piece “An interracial failure” (9/25), Claire Gordon laments what she observes as a dearth of interracial relationships at Yale. Gordon writes, “The rarity of interracial dating at Yale, and across America, is unsurprising. As a country and college, we are extremely self-segregated.”

While in certain areas of the U.S., Gordon’s impressions may be justified. But at Yale, as well as at many other liberal-arts colleges in America, students are free to become part of mixed relationships. College isn’t just about self-enrichment, acquiring skills for future...

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