Ideally, a university campus should be a sanction for diversity. Different ideas, lifestyles and backgrounds should be encouraged and embraced, not repressed and pushed away. The college years should be a time to explore one’s uniqueness and find one’s true self.
“Can’t we all just get along?”
Yes, I know this phrase has been over-used and has lost any serious value since the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Yet, it was this phrase alone that kept running through my head time and time again after watching John Singleton’s thought-provoking film “Higher Learning.”