Members of the Gye'Nyame Curriculum Committee agree that one course in the curriculum dealing with diversity will neither serve the diversity efforts of students of Penn State, Penn State as a whole, nor the larger community.

However, a class dealing with diverse issues will serve as a step in the right direction. In order to do so, this class would work in conjunction with a diversity integrated curriculum, in conjunction with diversity training for professors/deans/administration, in conjunction with diversity components included in the First Year Testing, Advising and Counseling Program, in conjunction with assessments of faculty attitudes on diversity issues at Penn State and in conjunction with the opportunity for students to participate in semesters of public scholarship,

It is important to note that true diversity requires that a mandatory class not remain mutually exclusive from an integrated curriculum, nor from the aforementioned practices.

Our committee's decision to advocate a mandatory class, although certainly not limited in content to racism and sexism but perhaps limited in title, does less to cloud the definition of diversity and more to introduce students to a critical and analytical approach to various issues.

I invite anyone interested to join us at 4 p.m. every Friday in 16 Robeson Center.