Rankings Irrelevant

The Black Enterprise rankings are not worth our notice, nor is our numerical placement worthy of the staff's concern. The entire survey, including the social rating that the staff focuses on, was seriously flawed. Those determining the rating need not have attended Harvard nor even have set foot on the campus. To assign their opinion a grain of salt is generous.

Further, there was a direct relationship between a school's percentage of black students and its social rating. We should not kowtow to the notion that minorities can only feel comfortable in each other's company. While randomization is problematic on many levels, the demise of self-segregation should be lauded, not lamented.

Finally, the staff's suggestion that a generic student center will make minorities feel more comfortable is patently absurd. Office space has no such curative power.