Editor:
The U focuses on diversity as a key element in quality education.
However, though it is true that classes in black history, foreign studies and fine arts do add to the roundness of one’s experience, the school has gone too far in its attempts to diversify the student body.
When delving into issues that address homosexuality and heterosexuality, the university is misappropriating student funds. Sexual preference is not a diversity issue, but a moral issue?a difference of opinions.
In such circumstances state funding and mandatory student fees should not be used to support either side of the issue. This misuse of funds results in misrepresentation.
I am proud of the U. It is a privilege for me to attend, yet my pride comes from the excellence in teachers, availability of resources, and the research this university carries out at the forefront of many academic fields.
If “U Pride” means supporting lifestyles that run contrary to my moral convictions and those of many other students, then perhaps I don’t really have “U Pride.”
I don’t expect the university to put on a Heterosexual Pride Week, and I didn’t expect a Gay Pride Week.
Aaron Guercio
Junior, Biology