Greeks struggle with diversity

[Kevin]

I think that racially, we are slowly being integrated, but there are challenges to this.

I've told the story here several times. I had a friend who I had a class with for several years. He happened to be black. I thought he was a pretty good fit to my house, so I tried to figure out what he was all about. When I suggested to him that he go through rush, he told me that his roommate (a member of a D9 fraternity) and many of his friends would disassociate with him. He'd discussed that with them already and it would be a pretty serious affront I guess.

I never really raised the issue after that.

But it does tell me that there are diversity issues and people with that have problems with racial diversity on both sides of the tracks so to speak.

That was about 3 years ago. I look at today's class of Freshmen going through rush and I can say that they are without a doubt the most racially diverse group I've seen -- probably about 1:5 were not white. I think it's finally becoming less and less an issue at my alma mater, and I like that.