You can look and see a visual picture where there's a wide variety of human beings. We want to walk the talk. We want to be that picture in our hearts. It's about who we want to be, not what we want to look like. Several students at Middlebury say there's a lot of work to be done, as the student body is often self-segregated.
Kids tend to hang out with what they know.
N.Y. DellaPepa is not a Posse student, but she participated in the annual Posse-led retreat at Middlebury last March. The weekend of workshops and activities drew about 70 students, faculty and staff to consider the issue of stereotypes. I got to meet kids from all over the world and make friends. While DellaPepa and most of the Posse participants seem upbeat about the program's influence, not everyone is so sanguine. From one year, I don't see a big difference.