The USG voted to create a committee to discuss the implications and respond to the results of the campus-wide survey on race at its meeting Sunday night.
USG vice president Jesse Creed '07 said at the meeting that the committee would "separate the problems raised by and then approach the solutions to" the issues brought up by the Survey on Race and Campus Life, which was released Monday.
"The point of the committee is to have a tangible outcome of the discussion so there'd be continuing discussion," Creed said in an interview. "It will be coming up with goals and developing plans to implement these goals."
The committee, which is yet to be named, will be made up of roughly 10 USG members.
At its meeting, the USG discussed the best way of implementing possible solutions to the issues raised by the survey.
"How do we get people to talk more about this?" said USG president Leslie-Bernard Joseph '06, who sent out a campus-wide email Thursday titled "Are you talking about it?"
"The point of the email was for it to be controversial so people at least started thinking about it," Joseph said.
Several members agreed that the USG should provide a broad response as an institution.
"[We should] convene a meeting of leaders of minority groups on campus and then make policy recommendations in a big public announcement," said USG Undergraduate Life Chair Tom Brown '07.
The USG also discussed longterm solutions aimed at making the campus less segregated.
These goals included possibly forming a Central Harassment Office, where students could formally complain about harassment issues on campus.
The survey showed that 70 percent of students on campus do not know where they can lodge a harassment complaint.
The USG also discussed the possibility of reviving "Sustained Dialogue" and "Dialogue at Princeton," two groups that aim to promoting dialogue among various ethnic and racial groups on campus.
Another topic of the meeting was making the eating clubs more inclusive for students from a variety of backgrounds. Suggestions included creating a University-sponsored eating club and pushing to make financial aid from the Dining Services transferrable to the eating clubs.
Some raised the possibility of creating more alternative social options.
"I think the trick is designing events that brings people together from different backgrounds without specifically saying that they're meant to bring people together," Brown said.
The USG also focused on creating an awareness of diversity issues on campus by renewing discussion on why Princeton doesn't have a cultural studies requirement and making suggestions for strengthening the diversity component of orientation week.
The newly-formed committee will review the suggestions and decide which, if any, will be possible.
The race survey highlighted issues such as self-segregation, a lack of social alternatives to the Street and racial and ethnic "homogeneity" among the student body at the University.
Results were presented at the Feb. 14 meeting of the Council on the Princeton University Community.
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