HOW CHIC, HOW DARLING – AT 9:54 A.M. ET:  Brown University, one of the Ivies, is showing just how trendy it can be.  But adults might have some questions.  From Reuters: 

BOSTON (Reuters) - Brown University has unveiled a $100 million plan aimed at boosting diversity on its Rhode Island campus over the next 10 years, including doubling the number of faculty members from minority and other underrepresented populations.

The plan is spelled out in a 19-page document that Brown President Christina Paxson posted on the Ivy League university's website earlier this week.

"Creating a just and inclusive campus community is key to Brown's ambitions as a university," Paxson. "Legacies of structural racism and discrimination in our society and on our campus undermine our goals of being a diverse, inclusive and academically excellent community."

The move follows a suspected assault earlier this month of a student visiting Brown for a Latino Ivy League conference by a university security officer.

It comes amid a wave of protests on U.S. college and university campuses including Yale University, the University of Missouri and Princeton University, over race issues.

The tumult is building on the Black Lives Matter movement that was sparked last year by the police killings of unarmed black men in U.S. cities including Ferguson, Missouri, Cleveland and Baltimore.

COMMENT:  Some questions:  What does "diversity" mean?  Who's included?  Who's not included?  Why is it that "diversity" only seems to apply to groups popular on the political left?  Are pro-life Catholic women included in "diversity"?  If not, why not?  Why are high-achieving groups never included, groups like Asian-Americans, who seem to need higher scores and grades than others to be admitted to some colleges?

Will colleges, under the codeword "diversity," have quota systems, restricting the number of white men and women, Asians, Jews, students with skills not considered "trendy"?   Will different standards be applied to different groups?

Oh, and why does diversity never seem to include diversity of opinion?

And what successful group in history ever demanded to be taught only by members of that group?  

Keep your eyes open.  And demand answers.

November 23,  2015