Any decent administration should have expelled all the involved students, and one of them should never be a Cornell trustee. The student should have left Cornell forever. New York State has objected to minority dorms like Ujamaa and nothing has been done about it. You write that in attempts to adhere to state regulations, President Rawlings tried to divest the racial residences of freshmen. For this he was rewarded by diatribes.
Diversity depends on integration.
Separate dormitories do not produce integration. John Hooley '38, MD '42 Merritt Island, Florida Diversity at Cornell is cosmetic, limited to race, color, and ethnicity, and does not include intellectual diversity. My belief is that one of the best ways to diffuse tensions on campus is to welcome more diversity. And such censorship will also make our claim to being a liberal institution sound increasingly hollow. Over 85 percent of the Cornell faculty is of the liberal persuasion.