It is imperative that the Penn State police force be representative of the student body ("Police too important to play politics," March 3).

Ideally, we would want to believe that "the law is enforced equally without regard to race, creed, nationality or sexual orientation."

However, when we live in a society where college-aged African-American men continue to "fit the description," then something needs to be done.

It goes without saying that Penn State is predominately white, where a majority of its students don't have any or very little interaction with people of color.

That being said, how do we expect these individuals to be less prejudice of people they know little or nothing about?

If tuition-paying students of color continuously feel intimidated in an environment that is not conducive to learning, how do you expect these students to achieve academic greatness without equal representation of the law? Granted, this is not the only answer, but definitely a step in the right direction.