OPINION & EDITORIAL
Whistle-blowing on UW’s Plan 2008 negligence
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by Letters to the Editor
Wednesday, December 8, 2004
We are writing to blow the whistle and sound the alarm. The UW System administration is not showing the initiative needed to complete the goals of Plan 2008, the University of Wisconsin plan for diversity.
For those of you who know what Plan 2008 is, then you are probably thinking, “Well, what’s new?”
The Board of Regents, in their June meeting, passed a resolution shortening the deadline for the unveiling and subsequent implementation of the second phase of the plan. UW System administration decided to ignore this revised due date and instead chose to turn in their reports a month after this deadline.
The Board of Regents did not notice. Or they did not care.
To highlight, if you turned in a midterm exam in mid-December that was actually due in early November, your professor would laugh as he gave you a big fat F. If your professor did not notice such irresponsibility, then he would clearly not be doing his job.
The Board of Regents is charged with the oversight of Plan 2008, and it is becoming increasingly evident that they are turning a blind eye to being accountable to its progress. When you screw up, you fail the class.
What happens when your professor screws up?
Stephanie Biese
Intern
Associated Students of Madison Campus Accessibility Campaign
Emily McWilliams
Chair
Associated Students of Madison
Anonymous (December 8, 2004 @ 1:52pm):
Quite frankly, I thought this diversity issue was ridiculous! The university students, faculty and staff could not be more diverse than they already are. We have people of all ages with different religious beliefs, different political beliefs, different sexual preferences, different ethnic backgrounds, different cultural backgrounds, different family backgrounds, and the list goes on. If that's not enough diversity, we do not truly know what diversity means.
Anonymous (December 8, 2004 @ 2:07pm):
^^^You must be a Christian white male. The UW has dangerously low levels of diversity to a point where companies refuse to hire UW grads because of their lack of cultural understanding and culpability. Just because you saw 2 black people, 4 asians, a latino, and 3 homosexuals standing in line with 400 white people does not make anything diverse.
Anonymous (December 8, 2004 @ 3:02pm):
Please list the companies that refuse to hire. I'm sure their PR and HR departments would have no problem with you telling us because you must have some first-hand knowledge from them that hasn't been shared with the rest of us......
Anonymous (December 8, 2004 @ 5:26pm):
Random point: The most ironic thing, the student government that represents the students is full of all of the underepresented minorities.
Anonymous (December 8, 2004 @ 5:27pm):
Fuck diversity.
Anonymous (December 8, 2004 @ 6:47pm):
"Just because you saw 2 black people, 4 asians, a latino, and 3 homosexuals standing in line with 400 white people does not make anything diverse."
I'm just curious...what does a homosexual look like? Do homosexuals look different in some way from heterosexuals?
Anonymous (December 8, 2004 @ 10:25pm):
ask Rob Deters
