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Originally posted by Iconoclastic
If your above premise is true, then does this fit for any organization?
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The short answer is "yes." You have probably never tried but I'm sure that you could join the homosexual organization on campus, even though I am assuming you are not in fact a homosexual. You could probably join the organization for students of color or the woman's organization (I am assuming for the sake of argument that you are a guy and white... although I don't know if you ever actually said either way). At my college the Baptist student center was open to me even though I wasn't Baptist and I could go to Hillel events even though I wasn't Jewish. Just because these groups have "labels" does not mean that they are "exclusive" (meaning they prohibit students from joining because they are not a member of a race, sex, religion or sexual orientation). The ones which choose to be exclusive don't get funding. For example, on my campus, Chabad refused to allow non-jews to participate in activities and they were therefore prohibited from receiving school funds.
I am not a UNC student, so I don't know how UNC does it but many schools don't fund or recognize exclusive organizations. Some schools recognize them but don't fund them. Others fund them but only allow them to use the funds for functions or programs open to the entire student body, not for internal group functions.
The point is the university has the right to say "we don't want to condone exclusion of students from student organizations based on sexual orientation." Furthermore, your assertion that your right to exclude is in itself a form of "diversity" is silly. While the first amendment protects your right to exclude people from associating with you, it does not establish exclusivity as a right entitled to assistance by universities. The law says we cannot force you to associate with people you don't want to but the state and the university has no affirmative duty to aid you in doing so.