NDSU Jumps in Bed with the University of Delaware

I know I published a positive article on the Living Learning Program for the summer issue of our school newspaper, but now I feel that it was a big mistake. I just found the pamphlet that we got at one of RHA meetings outlining the diversity plan for Res-Life for next year, and if you connect that with the living learning program you get a very UD-like program.

The plan itself is just huge, with five pages and five years worth of new diversity items. Most are harmless, but there are a lot that infringe of rights and freedoms of students and RA’s, like mandatory diversity training for RA’s, and an addition to the curriculum part of the living learning program.

Another part of the new diversity program for Res-Life is a comprehensive plan to add and make programs that teach about diversity and racial issues, just the ones at UD. The stated goal is that the students exhibit certain attitudes and beliefs as a measure of success.

So even though the curriculum program is supposedly optional, the programs success depends on all the students participating and adopting the ideology of Res-Life. This is borderline illegal, since the residence halls have no right to try and tell us how to think and believe.

If this plan goes through, free speech on campus will disappear in the residence halls, replaced with diversity ideology and a comprehensive program to indoctrinate students in what NDSU want them to think and believe. Next year, combating this will be my crusade as RHA president and editor of the Spectrum’s Opinion section.