[sugar and spice]

I think that often, the more serious the post is, the more likely it is to be ignored because there isn't necessarily an easy solution and most of us haven't dealt with a similar situation, so any advice we would have wouldn't necessarily be practical.

I don't think it's necessarily true that more serious posts get ignored -- check out the topics on race relations within the Greek community, for example. But the reason these get so many replies is because ALL of us have had some sort of issue relating to race in our lives, so most of us feel that we have something to contribute to the discussion. When there's a topic that poses a question that is unique to an individual campus, it generally gets less replies because most of us don't have much experience with that problem and therefore don't feel qualified to give advice or have any ideas on how to fix it.