Thursday, October 10, 2013

How to Succeed at Diversity Without Really Trying

Context: my college has a daily paper for which anyone can write articles, be they so inclined. I wrote a response to a letter written in yesterday. I wasn't sure how it would go over, so I put my mailbox number instead of my name. My response was the front-page feature today. At lunch, I was told by several people that the article was really good. They did this without any prompting. Better, when I went in search of a knife, I saw some guy read the front page, pass it to his neighbor, and specifically point at the thing I wrote. I'm feeling pretty great, basically. Here's the piece.