Racism at Lehigh?

kikkydee
Sun, 22 Dec 2013 02:40:37 +0000

My son is white and he was invited to attend the Diversity Weekend when he was a prospective student. We think it was based on geographic diversity goals since we live pretty far from Lehigh. My son loved the Diversity Weekend and made many lifelong friends there.

When I picked my son up from school at the end of freshman year I got to meet his gang of friends. There were approx. 10 kids from his dorm floor. who hung out together Three or the fours girls were minority students. Three of the seven guys were minority students. A couple of the kids were from pretty wealthy families and the rest were from pretty ordinary middle class families. They are all business and engineering majors and have done amazingly well in their classes! All the girls joined sororities and I know 5 guys joined fraternities. They have all stayed friends over the years. Whenever I am at Lehigh I go out to lunch or dinner with these kids. Race has never been any kind of issue with my son and his friends. And his formal and informal fraternity pictures show a very average mix of kids from all sorts of minority groups.

I think it would be much better if people posting stuck to giving their own opinions and did not try to represent what the “majority” thinks. Personally, I wouldn’t send my son to a school that didn’t provide a diverse group of students for my son to interact with!