October 30, 2012

Get ready for the first annual "Diversity Week" at the University of Wisconsin.

We're told the idea is "to engage students who are not specifically interested in diversity issues to think about the issue on a broader level." So you want to interest people who are not currently interested by having some sort of events... over the course of a week?
Tentatively, the week will feature a sexuality day, multicultural day,  religious diversity day, women’s day and a disability day.

The group also debated how to address “intersectionality” between the different types of diversity.
The student chair of the Diversity Committee "said she hopes the event would probe students’ minds and make them think about how their own identities are 'compiled.'"
"We are trying to say to people that you don’t have to be a minority, you don’t have to be an underrepresented group to be able to feel like you’re diverse or that you have a unique identity... This is really for all students."
I don't think the word "diverse" should apply to an individual. I think you have to say: This set of individuals is diverse. Not: This individual is diverse. Sorry to be pedantic about words. Now, it's interesting that the Diversity Committee has arrived at the idea that it wants specifically to get the attention of the students who do not belong to "underrepresented groups." The students who were not pursued by the University in its effort to increase "diversity" might, it is thought, respond to the idea that they are part of the diversity too. I'm trying to picture Diversity Week events that would convey that message!

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Here's some campus graffiti I photographed the other day:

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AHL said...

Biblical responses. Christians can participate (in a way the libs didn't intend)!

Sexuality day- 1 Corinthians 7:1-9
Multicultural day- Mark 15:15-16
Religious diversity day- Romans 1:16
Women’s day- Proverbs 31:10-31
Disability day- John 5:1-15

LilyBart said...


I'm an Introvert-American. I'd like not to have to be involved in these things. Can you respect MY differences?

Richard Dolan said...

"Sorry to be pedantic about words."

Why sorry? There's not much daylight separating speaking clearly, writing clearly and thinking clearly. Hard to do any of that if you don't pay attention to the details, starting with the meaning of the words chosen to express a thought.

You'd be a huge success as a lawprof if your students learned nothing else in your classes than how to speak, write and think clearly.

Richard Dolan said...

"Sorry to be pedantic about words."

Why sorry? There's not much daylight separating speaking clearly, writing clearly and thinking clearly. Hard to do any of that if you don't pay attention to the details, starting with the meaning of the words chosen to express a thought.

You'd be a huge success as a lawprof if your students learned nothing else in your classes than how to speak, write and think clearly.

Emil Blatz said...

I'm a white person of color. Kinda pinkish, but more bronze down here in Florida (where we wear shorts about 93% of the time.) Hear me roar!

Chip Ahoy said...

Check this out, Checkerouters.

Halloween costume of Banksy's stencil flower thrower.

Banksy stencil flower thrower.

White guys, since this is about race. They want to be seen.

Rusty said...

How are they gonna get the paint off the sidewalk?
Sandblast it?
Chemical etch?
Somebody who works at the university is going to be spending the better part of their day trying to clean that mess up when he/she could be doing something more productive for the school.
Getting some poor schlub to clean up after you is not helping diversity.

X said...

RV said...I noticed that Althouse over-looked this news item about Kyle Wood who claimed those evil liberals beat him

are you just unusually dense for a college professor? Althouse did cover it. remember when she schooled you on quote marks dummy?

X said...

here you go dummy:

http://althouse.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-series-of-shocking-text-messages.html

X said...

do RV's students have to intentionally put the wrong answer on tests to get him to mark it correct since he's wrong about most things?

Rusty said...

X said...
do RV's students have to intentionally put the wrong answer on tests to get him to mark it correct since he's wrong about most things?


I'm sure RV is quite competent in his chosen field. His advice to his students about diversity was good advice.
It's when he strays from his academic cocoon is when he runs into trouble. The world as it is lived by folks not in academia is far different than what he is used to.

Anonymous said...

X: RV said..."I noticed that Althouse over-looked this news item about Kyle Wood who claimed those evil liberals beat him"

are you just unusually dense for a college professor? Althouse did cover it. remember when she schooled you on quote marks dummy?


Maybe he was just typing in a hurry and inadvertently left out a chunk of text. What he really meant to say was "I noticed that Althouse [has] over-looked [the plethora of outrageous 'hate hoax' stunts perpetrated by lefty loons, yet is interested in] this news item about Kyle Wood who claimed those evil liberals beat him."

I'm sure he was just chiding her to keep it balanced, er, "diverse".

Anonymous said...

Diversity is just a codeword for less White people - or no White people. Notice no one is trying to bring diversity to Detroit or Mexico or Japan.

Irv said...

when DIVERSITY becomes PERVERSITY

The typical UNIVERSITY now prides itself on DIVERSITY. But watch out when DIVERSITY becomes PERVERSITY. That's when God will put His CURSE-ITY on the whole world (see Malachi 4:6 - NIV)!
For dessert Google "Separation of Raunch and State" and "Dangerous Radicals of the Religious Right."

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