Dear EditorAfter reading the article found in the February 3rd issue of The Justice I am quite alarmed. The idea of imposing a "diversity" requirement on in-coming freshman is none other than a horrible and reactionary idea. The Non-Western/Comparative requirement already serves some purpose to the same tune. Implementing such a requirement is simply the first step in creating a series of well-intended but ultimately useless programs in the name of much valuable diversity. It also will see the further waste of funds by the university.

A required diversity course will not be met with enthusiasm by any freshman that might encounter it. Those who are culturally aware and those who are simply indifferent will not at all be affected by the course. Unless, of course, you consider that they will just have one more tedious mandatory course to sit through. As for those who might not be as open to diversity, if anything, such a requirement will elicit a very negative response. The disgusting idealism of this campus is probably failing to realize that such a program will not change people. If anything it will see a heightened sense of tension as students are forced to answer for personal views that will then come under attack by the university.

Students come to Brandeis to gain an education. Part of that education is learning how to interact and coexist amongst peoples of all different backgrounds. Plopping them down in a classroom that orders them on how to think is not only appalling, but also strikingly offensive. It is another prime example of tolerance breading repression, as one-time Brandeis professor Herbert Marcuse wrote. I simply cannot understand how a campus that is supposedly so bent on accepting each and every individual actually aims to change those who are not deemed politically correct.

If people are exhibiting intolerant or offensive behavior, the appropriate disciplinarians should deal them with. But to subject each and every student to a barrage of "think this way" curriculum upon their arrival to Brandeis not only undermines the credibility of the institution, it makes it inherently intolerant and narrow-minded. When are people on this
campus going to see that the "Brandeis Bubble" is so far from reality, or positivity for that matter, that they start actually innovating real solutions for real problems? The last things we need are these redundant shortsighted reactions to issues constantly being blown grotesquely out of proportion.