Those of you with empty lives or long memories will recall that I posted a number of items last spring about an alleged race-based assault on Daisy Lundy, then a candidate for student council president at the University of Virginia. (Rather than link them all here, let me instead direct anyone who wants to mine this archive to the search box to the right. Simply type in “Lundy” and hit return to find more than you will want to know.) Despite having been penalized previously for a number of campaign violations, she was elected when her opponent withdrew from the race as a gesture toward interracial harmony.
Despite a large reward for information leading to the arrest of the alleged assailant (the University now says it doesn’t know how large the reward is), there has been little visible progress on the case, and skepticism about Ms. Lundy’s charges seems to be widespread. There are rumors of imminent developments, however, so continue to watch this space.
Meanwhile, the Cavalier Daily reports today that a new student council program “seeks diversity, mixing.”
Second-year College student Matt Mariner approached Student Council last spring with a new idea for diversity programming called “The Mix,” in hopes of bringing the University community closer together. Council will vote this Tuesday, Sept. 9, on whether to appoint Mariner to a cabinet-level position which would oversee the program.
Under his program, existing clubs and organizations can register for “The Mix” online. By doing so, they would volunteer to participate in joint programming with other selected organizations.
Groups then will be matched for either fundraising or community service projects with a subsequent social event to strengthen the new connection between the “mixed” groups.
“I hope to give a lot of different people exposure to different events, activities and people that they normally wouldn’t have the opportunity to experience,” Mariner said.
Council President Daisy Lundy said Council was excited about the idea from the beginning.
The article, however, reported that the proposal “received mixed reactions from Council members.” One member said more study was needed, and
College Rep. David Reid expressed concern for needlessly adding to the “bureaucracy” of Council when “The Mix” could be incorporated into Council’s Ethnic and Racial Affairs Committee.
What I think is interesting, and revealing, about this proposal, however, is what it says about the state of “diversity” on one of the nation’s most “diversity”-conscious campuses. Obviously, what “The Mix” is trying to fix is the pervasive racial and ethnic separateness that exists. Dean of Students Penny Rue admitted as much when she observed that the proposal “is trying to provide venues for students to work together in a way in which they usually divide.”
But if students are so divided by race and ethnicity that it takes official action to bring about a “mix,” where is the “diversity” on which the University bases its justification for providing racial preferences?
As a UVA graduate (2000) I can attest to the fact that there is a great deal of de facto segregation at the school. However, from my experience, the segregation was, for the most part, between black and white students. Asian, hispanic, and foreign students mixed quite a bit, at least with the white community. I’m unsure about the extent of their contact with the black community. Fraternity life is a big part of the school and black students largely stuck to the black frats.
At the school for a few years, there was something known as the BBS aka the Black Bus Stop. As well, a large portion of one of the dining halls was largely black. The black students who did mix with the white students seemed imo to have more white friends than black friends. Indeed, there seemed to be more mixing in the schools like engineering where a great deal of group academic work and cooperation between students is needed to pass.
I believe the attack was staged by Miss Lundy in order to win election to the student council presidency. Facing that campaign violation vote sanction, Lundy likely knew a loss was certain if nothing were to occur.
No one ever saw her attacker. Her friend happened to be the first one on the scene. All of the supposedly threatening phone calls she received during the campaign (how hot and heavy could a student gov’t election be folks) were done via the campus network, making them untraceable. A skeptic could suggest that she had a friend call her room, say nothing and she would then ‘react’ to a supposedly vulgar message.
UVA has had five black males student gov’t presidents during the 1990’s, it isn’t as if Lundy were really breaking entirely new ground. However, she did manage to paralyze the administration with her report and also compel her opponent to drop out of the race in a sign of ‘solidarity’. Meanwhile liberal college administrators have NEVER questioned the events of that night, instead baa-ing like sheep and assuming that a racist culture must have been out to get Daisy Lundy.
Surprising to see that the FBI, having been able to round up the likes of Mohammed and Malvo (the snipers in the DC area), were absolutely at a loss to find Daisy’s attacker (the bushy haired man with a backpack).
Or did he really exist in the first place?