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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wisky is all white. [/quote]
Oh, of course this old DCUM favorite trope has to come up. So predictable.  :roll: There are people from every state and all over the world at Wisconsin. There are people from every kind of background there is. [/quote]

Except black people.  And it’s ok to acknowledge that.  Some applicants may want to know.  [/quote]
There are black students there, so you are wrong. Not a lot, but it is a state school in a state that is not very black. They do try very hard to recruit black students, and I am not sure what they are supposed to do beyond this. This country is only 12% black, so there will not be large numbers of black students at every single college and university in this gigantic country. What percentage of black students was your college BTW? [/quote]

NP you're very defensive about this. I went to UW and the culture shock was huge coming from Wilson. At the time 4% of student body of 40,000 were people of color. I had a really hard time there before eventually finding my social circle junior year. For some people this matters in their decision making process, for others not so much. But it's not criticism to point out the lack of diversity.[/quote]
When people say that there is a “lack of diversity,” though, it gives an inaccurate and myopic picture of UW-Madison. There are many types of “diversity,” it does not just mean lots of black people, as the media would have us believe. UW-Madison has students from all 50 states, 30 countries, big cities, small towns, different religions, backgrounds and life experiences, and you make it sound like they are just one gigantic monolith. Should they recruit more minority students? Yes, and they are doing that. But to argue that it is some vanilla place where everyone is the same and there is no “diversity” is ridiculous and paints a false picture. [/quote]

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