Wow. A picture is worth a thousand words, isn’t it?
To answer your question, @derp125, D’s friend’s parents were worried about racial discrimination. It saddens me that this might be the case.
Having lived in regions of the world where whites were most definitely the minority, I sympathize with how exhausting it can be to constantly live outside one’s “comfort zone”, so to speak. I can imagine this is how it must feel for so many minorities living on a white, Greek dominated campus.
On a positive note, it seems Zappos has his finger on the pulse. The last thing Vanderbilt should want is to return to its old reputation as a “white, rich, Southern” school, like it was in my day.