Where the Races Relate

MUCH ink has been spilled bemoaning the rancorous state of race relations on our nation’s elite campuses. Yet our colleges have barely considered any new solutions to the problem. Rather than look beyond the cloisters for novel approaches, administrators merely resort to ever greater doses of the hair of the dog that bit them—more affirmative action, more diversity workshops, more victims’ studies—with predictably dire results.

They have not noticed, for example, that while colleges have been exacerbating racial tension among 18-to-24year-old students, the U.S. Army, using radically different techniques, has tremendously reduced racial tension among 18-to-24-year-old soldiers.

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MUCH ink has been spilled bemoaning the rancorous state of race relations on our nation’s elite campuses. Yet our colleges have barely considered any new solutions to the problem. Rather than look beyond the cloisters for novel approaches, administrators merely resort to ever greater doses of the hair of the dog that bit them—more affirmative action, more diversity workshops, more victims’ studies—with predictably dire results.

They have not noticed, for example, that while colleges have been exacerbating racial tension among 18-to-24year-old students, the U.S. Army, using radically different techniques, has tremendously reduced racial tension among 18-to-24-year-old soldiers.