But there's a whole lot more than just student theater at stake with Spectrum. Theater for theater's sake is a good enough reason for me, but Spectrum Theater has a much more important mission. These are people who actually want to create productions that will better the University as a whole by tackling tough issues that we all confront. The University's race relations present one of the greatest challenges in our community. There's no doubt that we have a race problem at U.Va.
Tensions occasionally run high between certain ethnic groups.
Many people here at the University just can't get along with each other. I don't like to settle for being a defeatist, but you can't just proclaim that racism will end. We've legislated the issue as far as it will go. We've simply run out of official channels for promoting racial unity. The only course now is to change individuals.