Princeton Review

#3 Little Race/ Class Interaction

This is from the TNH and these are comments that just made me think wooooooooooooooooooooooow.............

 i am really always lost when white people say they need or they should have a white student union....like omg for what ??? like why in the world would you white people at UNH need/want a white student union.....the whole damn school is white, thats your union right there.......and whats even more crazy is how some white people expect us to co-exist on a campus like this and we do as minortiys, but as soon as the tables turn....they cant do it.....you ask why not go to a BSU meeting and see what it is like ??? and 9 out of 10 it will be like......i dont want to be the only one, they might jugde me, or something crazy. like i really just dont get it, we as the minortys do this school shit everyday and your telling me you cant come to a BSU meeting for one hour !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol people drive me crazy............

"I feel it is necessary for ethnic minorities to have a sense of community and a place where they can talk about like issues that they face as ethnic minorities on campus, but in the same regard they should make an effort to do events that everyone is invited to," Austin Dobson, a senior political science and history major, said.

Dobson is a white student, and like most of the campus majority, was under the false impression that organizations like BSU had race-exclusive events. 

Dobson said he supports organizations and clubs for all students of minority, but the BSU name alone makes a distinction. He said that white students do not have things that appear inclusive to their race, like a White Student Union. 

Shae Callahan is a senior sociology major at UNH. Callahan and all white students are excluded from Connect, a before-school orientation for minority students that provides them comfort with the campus and a new group of friends. Callahan said that a program like Connect sounds like a great opportunity, but at the same time, it places minority students together and allows them to make friends with each other before they meet white students. 

Callahan, like most white students, has never gone to a BSU, Mosaico or one of the other Diversity Support Coalition meetings. As a senior, she said it would now feel forced if she went to a meeting. She feels like they would wonder what her motives would be. She has not been the minority during her four years at UNH, and she said she is oblivious and ignorant to what students of color have to go through every day. However, Callahan realized that maybe the reason why she has never gone to a BSU meeting is because the roles would be reversed.