The spectacle of MIT administrators beating their chests in anguish because of the paucity of underrepresented minorities here is becoming a regular feature for the Tech. Your February 8th article on minority graduate student enrollment has some prize quotes. Beautiful sentiment, but unfortunately the most commonly sought Ph.D. is in education. Apparently not, Colbert returns to claim.
Society is at fault.
Someone who was prepared for a career in science or engineering but didn't end up here would be more likely to be found in law, medical, or business school. Perhaps instead of trying to fix all of society's problems, we should look a little more closely at the actual experience of an MIT graduate student. We could use the new funds to raise stipends.