How can anyone consider the UW not to be a diverse campus? It’s substantially more diverse than the state as a whole, and that’s pretty remarkable given that the UW must accept a certain proportion of in-state students.

That’s all fine and dandy that some idealistic, misguided students convinced other ignorant students of their plan to help UW “diversify.” Fortunately, the Regents and something called RULES will rain on your happy liberal parade.

Maybe you could organize a nice little pot-luck or something on Library Mall for us all to sample other cultures and hug and be friends! Just a thought for something that won’t violate a bunch of rules and make no sense at all.

Can’t we ask for our money back. I feel that there are more relavent problems that could be addressed and woul like to see that money, and more money in general, go to helping under priveleged Wisconsinites and people from the rest of the country get an education. This just seems like a misquided attempt to grab publicity and to make these UW students feel better about themselves. I’ll want my money back just on the principle of the matter.

Less people voted for the question than signed to put it on the ballot? Hilarious.

Why should these people get a free ride? These liberals should worry about people in this country who can’t afford college.

“It’s substantially more diverse than the state as a whole”

According to Wikipedia, the state of Wisconsin is about 11.8% non-white (Latino, black, Asian, Native American), while UW-Madison is 12.1% according to the UW. On the other hand, Milwaukee is 56.4% non-white and Madison is 16% non-white (I would suspect that the off-campus figure is higher). The UW figures also include International students, and I would guess that the out of state students are more diverse than the in-state ones.

I didn’t know that we called a campus, which is 88% white, diverse. My bad, maybe people of different races should never interact with eachother and we can continue to promote cultural misunderstandings and zenephobia, both of which run rampant in our society today. Diversity is a good thing, this project is a good thing. I hope for the sake of 6:49 and 8:10 it passes, because you both clearly have something to learn about the problems that still plague our nation.

12:54, it’s 6:49. I’m in a department on campus that is less than one-third white. I’ve made numerous trips abroad and have lived with people of all races and backgrounds. How dare you call me a racist because I point out a demographic fact.

915 … Really? You’ll ask for your money back on principle that you “think” this is a publicity stunt? Come to the meetings, see how much of a publicity stunt it really is. As far as helping under privileged Wisconsinites as well as the American public in general, I’m completely on key with you regarding this subject, create a plan and I will sign on, I won’t snuff it off as a plan to make you feel good about yourself, or a publicity stunt for whatever organization you might be working with? Why? Because the reality that these people (Americans and Iraqis alike) need help should never be addressed as an issue to make ourselves, the privileged look good. It should be done out of compassion and a general want to do something to resolve an issue.

And yes, 9:41, hilarious that people don’t take the time to get involved unless you knock on their door and talk to them, and even then it doesn’t hold through pass the moment in many cases. The apathetic nature of our generation is laughable. I’ll give you that. But all this aside, the project passed and laughing at a low turn out isn’t going to change that fact.

I don’t know if you’ve tuned into the news lately, 10:03, but you might want to start. There’s this thing going on in Iraq that’s often described as a war. With one million civilian lives squandered, and four million individuals displaced in refugee camps - all because of Uncle Sam - oh, well let’s play along and say that five of these four million Iraqi refugees should be welcomed to our campus, if not for the sake of humanitarian effort, for the sake of beginning to ‘rebuild Iraq’ as Uncle Sam talks about in the news.

While there are certainly many students in need in the state of Wisconsin, these students have access to instated social programs designed to cater to their needs. While I recognize that they may be less than perfect, I somehow feel that since their country hasn’t been invaded, one million of their citizens haven’t been killed, and since four million of them are hanging out in poor living conditions in refugee camps, these Iraqi students might be in a little bit more of a dire situation. It’s not like they can go sign up for HeadStart in Iraq, in fact, there’s not much left of an education system in Iraq.

Ignorance is not flattering. Wake up.

Why are people acting as though helping Iraqis must replace or come instead of helping needy Wisconsinites? Do you have a 1 person quota for helping people?