Naturally, in doctoring the photographs in the first place, the universities were only trying to assuage the students' hypersensitivity to any appalling lacks of racial sensitivity they perceive. In both instances, the universities defended themselves along the lines that their intent in altering the photos was simply to reflect the diversity of the student body. If universities decide to showcase their artificially diverse student bodies by altering photographs to depict artificially diverse groups of students,however, and the students find out, they'll protest those, too. The one that students can see, of course. The symbol, not the substance.
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