<p>Mini’s point is well taken, but I think it always easier to discuss issues of class than it is to discuss issues of race - - especially on an elite college campus. The students from families of modest income (59% finaid and 25% Pells) are obviously upwardly mobile and a not insignif number of the affluent students probab have working-class, poor or immigrant grand/parents. Thus, there is at least some understanding of the “other” and the status as “other” may be viewed as transitional. </p>
<p>This is not true of race or gender, making those discussions prickly and intractable.</p>