<p>My friend told me that Penn State and Boston University were the most rascist universities. Are they?</p>
<p>We could tell you that they are or they aren’t…but making a judgment on a school w/o firsthand knowledge about racism is rather prejudicial in and of itself. If you ask a white as opposed to a latino, they’ll probably have different views of how racist a school may be. As a general rool of thumb, the most diverse, metropolitan and coastal schools will have less racism… so the DEEP south and the middle-of-nowhere Midwest schools will carry more stereotypes than a school like NYU or UCLA.</p>
<p>What school are you going to?</p>
<p>U Michigan…it’s quite diverse, international, liberal, and its close to Detroit so racism isn’t a problem. I’m from FL though and I visited a lot of schools. Some of the public universities in the south may have some racist attitudes floating around, but I’ve never heard of racism causing any serious problems like threats or any violence. One of my best friends goes to UGA and I made a comment that the almost the whole school is white…but the few minority students that go there get treated just as well as everybody else. I’m not aware of any schools where minorities might feel THREATENED to go and attend. Does anybody else?</p>
<p>Penn State is not racist. Your friend might have heard about email threats to the leadership of the Black Caucus (a student group on campus) – though everyone fails to mention that the emails did not originate from campus and were in no way related to any Penn State students, faculty, or staff.</p>
<p>thanx for the info kcs149</p>
<p>How in the world could you think BU is racist?</p>
<p>i don’t know… my friend told me… but i still applied</p>
<p>Ole Miss maybe or Alabama…</p>
<p>I think it’s safe to say that although some colleges may have a reputation for being more racist than others, you’ll be able to find a niche and make friends no matter where you go. College is all about what you make of it! Nearly every campus has minority student unions and lots of opportunities for bonding between black, latino, asian, and white students. It’s also fairly safe to say that no matter where you go you will encouter the occassional racist or less open-minded person. Like someone above me said, more urban colleges are nearly always more progressive, and more rural ones are more set in their ways. But I don’t think you should let fears of racism make the decision for you–go to the school that appears to you most and you will find your place, regardless of ethnicity.</p>
<p>The key thing to remember is that there are racist people everywhere. I’m sure even in the supposedly most “enlightened” of universities, you’ll find racist people. You could go to Harvard and find bigoted people whom you thought would be more educated than that. It’s an unhappy fact of life.</p>
<p>Anyway, I read a nonfiction book about sororities recently; it was called “Pledged.” University of Alabama is singled out for a few pages when the author delves into the issue of race and sororities. There are extremely few if any black students that are accepted into U of Ala. Greek houses. In fact, overt racism among certain Greek houses and even the administration of the school was clearly apparent. Because of this, very few blacks choose to even participate in the rush process. </p>
<p>There was one example described in which a smart, very wealthy girl from a prominent black family in Alabama attempted to join a sorority. She was denied, while white girls less affluent and less charming than her were accepted with open arms. The next year, she tried again. She was denied again. Not one sorority would accept her. An older alumni of one of the U of Ala. sororities is quoted as saying, “We can’t just let any n***er in.” And this was a wealthy, affluent, educated girl they were talking about. She just happened to be black.</p>
<p>I’m not saying that U of Ala. is a racist school-- no school is completely racist or completely not-biased. That sorority incident I read about popped into my head immediately though, when your question was brought up.</p>
<p>Racial incidents happen against Asian, Indian and Hispanic students as well, not just black ones. And racist problems happen everywhere-- not just the South as some might think. Tufts, Princeton, Duke, USC and U of Chicago recently had some racial problems towards Asian, Latino and Indian/Arab students; those five schools listed are considered prominent and well-respected to boot.</p>
<p>You can’t escape racism, unfortunately.</p>
<p>Bob Jones University. They actually used to have a ban on interracial dating, but were threatened with loss of tax exempt status. So now, in order for students of two different races to date, they must first obtain the permission of their parents. The parents must send a letter to the dean of men or women telling the school that the relationship has their blessing before the school will allow it.</p>
<p>Having spent my entire ninth grade at a Mississippi boarding school, I will tell you that the University of Mississippi also known as Ole Miss is one of the most racist schools I have encountered. Besides its mascot being the Rebels (i.e Confederate) there were racial slurs in the stadium of all places. You get funny looks and I heard that African Americans are always being reported as suspicious people when it turns out that they are students. I never saw any of the races, except white together. And lets not forget that it had to get an executive order for a black guy to go there only 40 years ago. There not even subliminal with it.</p>
<p>At BU most of the people i talked to disliked asains.</p>
<p>Please tell us who and how many people you talked to, because I think that’s a rather strong thing to say–especially considering BU has a reasonably large Asian population.</p>
<p>I’d say there are very few racist universities, if any.</p>
<p>UofMiami
is
racist</p>
<p>Many schools have conservative values, but not as many have discrimatory student bodies. Some exceptions are Vanderbilt and Alabama.</p>
<p>I’ll throw in another vote for BJU.</p>
<p>“Tufts, Princeton, Duke, USC and U of Chicago recently had some racial problems towards Asian, Latino and Indian/Arab students; those five schools listed are considered prominent and well-respected to boot.”</p>
<p>yea i remember hearing about the princeton case. was it the one that was targeted towards asians? </p>
<p>i also believe USC (university of southern california… not south carolina here) frat houses were charged with being “racist” … more like segregationist though, because the admins believed the frat houses were all white and not enough minority. the frat houses subsequently tried to recruit more minorities to pledge, but most of them felt uncomfortable and ultimately depledged.</p>