Rachel Spivak's story ("Students Question Diversity Initiatives," Dec. 8.) was the most infuriating article I have ever read. The main argument is that ethnic diversity requirements being pushed by PSU administration are not trickling down to social life on campus and this is a big problem.

But the tone is one of "if you don't feel guilty you are white or ashamed for not having friends of another ethnicity or race then you are racist and in the wrong." There is the absurd comment from a student that all he notices are football players sitting with football players and Asians sitting with Asians and all these cliques.

What is wrong that football players sit with football players at the HUB? They have a common bond; they play football on the same team! I have walked through the HUB many a time and I don't even notice this anyway, because I don't have race on my mind all the time -- in fact, I never do.

I don't see a bunch of Asians sitting at a table together and see a problem. I see a bunch of kids sitting together talking with one another. I have black friends. However, I didn't become friends with them by being made to feel guilty that I didn't have any friends of a different race or ethnicity or by being forced to learn about "black culture."

Finally, it is wrong to force students to take courses on "other cultures." It is WRONG. If people want to learn about other cultures they can and should, but forcing them to do so is not fair. How do you get people to appreciate or celebrate a culture by forcing them to take classes on it?

And don't give me that rant that minorities are forced to take American history courses -- we live in the United States of America! We are all Americans, whether you like it or not.

If I am forced to take an African-American culture course, then it is only fair that students be forced to take Irish-American courses as well, as I am 100 percent Irish. It is the same idea.