News' View: Ethnic counseling a flawed but worthy program
Next year’s freshman will not have ethnic counselors. The program has had problems, but its elimination was not the answer.
Later this week, juniors in all 12 colleges will apply to be freshman counselors. The position they seek to fill is one of the oldest elements of Yale’s residential college systems, as well as one of Yale’s first advisory positions, and it is undergoing a change next year that we do not support.
Next year’s class of freshmen will be the first in decades to enter Yale without ethnic counselors. Instead, freshman counselors will receive the training once given to ethnic counselors, and will be expected to perform the same duties. This change has come after years of griping about the...
I hope you've had an ethnic counselor, because otherwise your opinion is condescending in theory and useless in practice.
All this talk about "post-racial" America is, of course, nonsense. The country as as explicitly racial as it has ever been -- perhaps more so.
ethnic counselors are condescending in theory and useless in practice.