The College Republicans at Penn State have done nothing but embarrass me since I came to State College three years ago. I come from the South and I consider myself a Republican. However, until I moved to State College, I had never been invited to a Ku Klux Klan meeting, seen random, public threats of racial violence go ignored by an administration or seen the whole of a supposedly mainstream organization like the College Republicans back such a blatantly racist plan ("Caucuses call club's proposal insensitive," March 30).

This begs the obvious question: why? The only explanation I can come up with is that State College is a segregated town. There aren't black sections and white sections or white-only lunch counters; this is a segregation of isolation, and this creates challenges to attaining representation. Without representation, who can apply pressure to the university to change its policies and change the local climate? Internal university pressure is insufficient to bring change.

Another article in the same issue of The Daily Collegian says that State College was recently listed as one of the top 10 places to live in America. I doubt, somehow, that the study looked into the lives of State College's minority population.