Tien said this interview had left her feeling ambivalent toward the College. She pointed to several important issues which concern this idea. The first was the issue of conflict versus conflict resolution, or that as a community, Wellesley does not welcome conflict. The second issue concerned the visibility of color. Her third issue concerned the primacy of Caucasian privileges, and the fourth was the notion that heterogeneity is conceived as a problem.
Students are afraid of expressing viewpoints for the fear of being attacked.
People from different cultural backgrounds fear ostracization when they diverge from the prevailing opinion. You have to be either insensitive or brave to state a different viewpoint. But it is not effective to avoid conflict, to pretend it's not there. After the final discussion groups were held, the participants convened to lunch at the Sports Center in order to discuss further the ideas and thoughts generated by the panelists. I thought it was very valuable and heard some creative and important insights.