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Old 08-28-2002, 12:05 PM
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I don't think a school should pretend it's diverse if it's not. There's no excuse for that. But a lot of state schools do draw mostly from local students ... so their diversity will only reflect the local population. If there aren't a lot of African Americans, or a lot of Jews, or a lot of Basques in the state, there aren't going to be a lot at the school, either, especially at the undergraduate level. I don't see that this is something they should be apologizing for or trying to hide.

Not to say that schools shouldn't strive for more diversity - but according to the 2000 US census, 87.5% of Indiana's population is white. So it would be better if 12.5% of the student body was non-white, rather than 8%, but that still wouldn't exactly be radically diverse, and it probably never will be, as long as Indiana isn't.

Anyway ... trying to decide the "top Greek schools" seems a little futile. If you just measure the percentage of students that are Greek, you would not come up with that list. If you base it on schools where Greek life is practically the only campus life, you'll come up with a totally different list. If you look at schools where there are harmonious Greek-non-Greek relations, that's a different list entirely. Or if you measure where the biggest parties are thrown, that's another different set of results.
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