To the Editor:
I find these three items incongruous; I wonder if anyone else would:
1) From The Dartmouth, May 14: "[Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Karl] Furstenberg said that as 'we are approaching 40 percent non-whites on campus' it 'represents real progress.'"
2) From the U.S. Census Bureau:
White persons, percent, 2000: 75.1 percent
Black or African American persons, percent, 2000: 12.3 percent
American Indian and Alaska Native persons, percent, 2000: 0.9 percent
Asian persons, percent, 2000: 3.6 percent
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, percent, 2000: 0.1 percent
Persons reporting some other race, percent, 2000: 5.5 percent
Persons reporting two or more races, percent, 2000: 2.4 percent
Persons of Hispanic or Latino origin, percent, 2000: 12.5 percent
White persons, not of Hispanic/Latino origin, percent, 2000: 69.1 percent
3) "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. August 28, 1963
