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Re: Segregated housing at UD

Author:
Jennifer Davis

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Date Posted: 05:37:26 05/02/02 Thu
In reply to: Latoya Griffith 's message, "Segregated housing at UD" on 22:41:42 05/01/02 Wed

Being that the housing assignments just came out, one of my black friends on campus and myself were discussing our assignments for next year. When I told her that I was living on South Central Campus she said, "Why are you living there? 'South Central Campus' is so far away." I replied "How is 'South Central Campus' far? It is close to all of my classes, the library and the Engineering departments." She said that it may be close to classes but that its far from EVERYONE ELSE. I could have sworn that we are all mainly here for an education. Being socially active is a must because we are social creatures, so that is not (should not be) a main focus of going to a University. We do need to integrate other parts of campus. The reason black people gravitate towards Laird campus is because that is what they are told. That is also where many black events are held which is completely unfair. There are other areas of this campus that are not just as nice as living on Laird campus, and for some are less distractive. It also bad that many black people do not know of any other dorms with the exception of West and Laird Campus. They have fallen victim to the modernized segregation that society has created.

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Re: Segregated housing at UD

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Tywanda Howie
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Date Posted: 06:38:21 05/02/02 Thu

The reason that many minorities live on Laird Campus is by choice. Laird Campus is mostly upper classmen housing, therefore a majority of the people who live here have selected on their own. Many minorities chose to do so because of the scarce population on minorities on this campus and the desire to be close to familiarity and likeliness. As for freshman year, and the abundance of minorities on West Campus, that is a result of the housing selection process designed by UD. Even though faculty and boards claim that everything is random, it does not add up that a handle full of minorities live between south and east campus, while the majority our housed on west. My freshman year 13 blacks lived on my one floor, although this may be above the norm, only 1 black resided on south campus last year. apparently something is going on. additionally there was, atleast when i applied for housing as a freshman, an option to select if you feel comfortable living around certain people etc... so even though it seems that minorites are segregated and cluster to a certain area, it may very well be that majorities choose to live amongst their own as well. if it is the fact that minorities did want to segregate themselves, wouldnt they opt to live in MLK housing in Ray Street?

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