While the USG should be commended for its efforts in completing the campus-wide race survey, many of the survey's questions were misleading and some truly fundamental points were not addressed at all.
Administrators and USG members were troubled by aspects of the race survey focusing on self-segregation, as 94 percent of respondents believed that "exclusive socializing exists at Princeton." This result, however, has absolutely nothing to do with race, the topic of the survey; often, students group together not based on race but on common interests — varsity or club sports, for example. This sort of socialization does not at all reflect poorly on race relations at Princeton.
The surveyors' overall approach was to ask questions about general, academic and social issues at Princeton, and then to analyze the results by grouping answers based on the race of the respondents. By doing so, they missed an important point: students were not asked how strongly they felt about race as an identifying marker in the first place. There are many of us who are proud of our backgrounds and jokingly play off of racial stereotypes, but who certainly do not define ourselves by our race. It is necessary to understand this distance between most students' primary identities and their racial backgrounds before we can begin to gauge the relevancy of a campus-wide race-based survey. Sandeep Murthy '06
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