This campus has been infected with the disease of racism all year. Now, at its peak, the time has come to make a change. A change not only in the administration, but in the students as well. This is a time in which we all need to come together despite race, religion, sexual preference — it doesn't matter.

We are all students of this university, and these acts of hate are crimes against all of us. They threaten the very foundation on which this university was built. How can these students expect to learn in an environment of fear? It was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who said, "Men hate each other because they fear each other, and they fear each other because they don't know each other, and they don't know each other because they're often separated from each other." I believe that this statement gets to the heart of the problem here at Penn State. Look around you.

When you're at a party, how many people around you are of a different race? Look in your classrooms. Where do people sit? Do the students in your class tend to sit by people of their own race? In the HUB, in the commons, look around! We are doing it ourselves. This university will never be truly integrated until we decide to make it so.