r for Multicultural Student Life at Winthrop University. She states that, “we need to learn from each othth recognition, respect plays a major role in learning about cultures. It is tough to learn to appreciate and respect something that may be thought as inappropriate or just simply wrong.Isolation of individuals, or giving special rights to minority groups is evident at many universities. Stanford has policies that seem to encourage segregation. The university is a site of various “ethnic theme houses” for different cultural groups. The purpose of these houses is to make students feel comfortable. The president of the university, Donald Kennedy, says that such houses make it easier for some students to adjust to the university setting and make them feel more comfortable (D’Souza 475). To have these houses at an establishment of higher learning may not make sense to many people. Cornell University is much the same as Stanford. It has brochures available that praise integration, but apparently the institution encourages segregation of different groups through policies practiced within the school (D’Souza 475). It would appear to most that integration and acceptance by other groups would be the most effective way to achieve campus-wide acceptance. The typical argument regarding these “ethnic theme houses” is obviously the fact that if houses were erected solely for the larger Caucasian group, headlines would label the university as racist or prejudiced.Perhaps the best example of segregation takes place at the University of Pennsylvania. The institution isolates a specific group of people only to satisfy their needs. The school publishes a black yearbook even though only 6% of the student body is African-American. All other individuals appear together in the regular yearbook even though some of them are also of minority descent (D’Souza 476). Take into consideration if the univ...
