University students sick of diversity
Posted on 18. Mar, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Race
DICKINSON, N.D.—The snack bar at Dickinson State University, in one of the least diverse states in the country, is a melting pot. International students from Armenia to Zimbabwe speak their native languages as they contemplate such American fare as fried chicken warmed under a heat lamp.For about a decade, the southwestern North Dakota school has been trolling globally to boost enrollment, and the number of international students has helped Dickinson State set an enrollment record of 2,462 students last fall.
But some Dickinson State students say the record hasn’t come easy, and complain about diversity overload.
“Diversity is a good idea in theory, but right now it’s not working out,” said Jami Arnold, a sixth-year senior and former Dickinson State student body president.
Arnold is one of about a dozen students publicly criticizing the university’s Global Awareness Initiative, which recruits international students and faculty and makes scholarships available to qualified students.
“Honestly, at first it was really cool,” Arnold said. “But it’s kind of like too much of a good thing. Now we’re overwhelmed with diversity.”
A survey of 700 colleges and universities last year found that 60 percent are working to recruit international students to boost enrollment, said Peggy Blumenthal, executive vice president of the New York-based Institute of International Education.
About 583,000 international students were enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities last year, up 3 percent from the previous school year, she said. Students from other countries contributed more than $14 billion to the U.S. economy last year, through tuition and other expenses, Blumenthal said.
In 2000, Dickinson State had 20 international students from six countries. Last fall, the school reported 396 international students from 31 countries.
Most of the students critical of the influx of international students are from the Dickinson area. They say language barriers have slowed the pace of classes. They have alleged international students are cheating in class by speaking in their native languages during tests, and some have gone so far as to raise hygiene issues.
“We’re not on some big witch hunt and we’re not saying every international student should go away,” said Travis Booke, a fifth-year senior. “There has got to be a better way of introducing them instead of just dumping them here—diversity is not dumping 150 Chinese students on campus in just one or two semesters.”
International students do their best to win over the unwelcoming. Silvia Vigier is the sole student from France on campus. She came to the university last year on a volleyball scholarship.
“I see it as a great opportunity for them,” she said of Dickinson State students who are critical of the international effort. “You can learn so much from different cultures. But right now, they’re not seeing that.”
To help change their perspective, Vigier is part of a program in which she shares information about her country and speaks French to local students learning the language at their schools.
Nicole Moore, a Dickinson State freshman from Rawlins, Wyo., said she has learned from the international students.
“They are so disciplined—international students are here to learn,” she said. “A lot of us take education for granted—they don’t.”
Moore had rarely met anyone who wasn’t white or from Wyoming until she attended classes at Dickinson State.
“I had been to a Chinese restaurant but I never interacted with anyone outside the United States or minorities—I’d only seen them on TV,” she said. MORE>>>
This seems innocent, but I am myself from North Dakota and until just 20 years ago, this state was so white, the damn place practically glowed at night. Now as usual, the jews and liberals are pumping as many muds as possible into predominantly white areas to further dilute us. It is not for “diversity” is a continuing plan of extermination, only very subtle. Tell me why here in Fargo I see crowds of fucking SOMALIANS at bus stops and the mall? IN NORTH DAKOTA??!!
colleges and universities receive TAX money..They also have many INVESTMENTS around the globe….An MBA in Angola is well qualified to manage a McDonalds or a WALMART store in his TRIBAL village….The local Bank of America in his BURG requires practical GYP skills in gibberish thin air moola !!!
william, I know what you mean, i moved to South Dakota about 2 years ago, expecting their to be like no muds at all, but they are actually all over. It sucks big ones, i mean my mom moved us up here to get away from them and the voilence that they bring, but now every where you turn it seems like you are surrounded by them. We boots need us a strong leader so that we can be competely united and get on with the RACE WAR. I have waited long enough.
oh this is bullshit, are those damn kikes really that evil they have to fill all the white area’s on the planet with blacks and immigrant’s ? they’re ….Evil.
Welcome to the wonderful world of “DIVERSHITY”white man.BY Big JOO edict-not one of your homelands shall be uncontaminated by mud races.So Sayeth Big JOO.p.s.-you must suffer this with-out complaint white-man!Lets all sing “Koombaya” together!
You got them Somalians in N.D., too? Good luck, there are a few thousand north of the border in Canada and they are fuckin 3rd world pigs!