COLUMN: MU touts campus diversity, but seeing isn't believing

Tuesday, September 7, 2010 | 12:01 a.m. CDT; updated 7:25 p.m. CDT, Sunday, September 26, 2010

COLUMBIA — At a time in our country when a considerable number of Americans are vehemently opposed to a Muslim center being built around the corner from ground zero or when a rural middle school in *Mississippi will only, until recently, allow a white student to hold the class president position on alternating years, it is not difficult for one to question what exactly is diversity.

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