Regarding 'Achieving diversity is a complex challenge' (Emily Stolzenberg, Sept. 27):
Emily Stolzenberg's column almost makes a powerful point. She rightly points out the arbitrariness of the current emphasis on "diversity" in college admissions, dismissing the policy as one that rewards "accidents of birth." Her story of a friend stretching a point to apply as a Hispanic and being actively recruited by Columbia is a case in point.
Yet despite having started out so strongly, Stolzenberg's column ends on a whimper. Rather than finishing her argument she ends with a rhetorical question that is left unanswered: "Does the system of preferences currently practiced — especially its focus on ethnicity — actually achieve that end?" In fact, her column suggests an answer, and a good one — that the current system's privileging of supposed "diversity" over merit is unfair and wrong.
Has the political climate that gives rise to colleges' mania for superficial diversity also inhibited Stolzenberg from expressing, or perhaps even following, her thoughts to their logical conclusion? Carlos Ramos-Mrosovsky '04
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