Stephen, every state-funded university has had a mandatory “affirmative action officer” for at least the past twenty-five years. In addition, many schools also require each academic department to have one as well, who must write an annual report to the Chief Commissar. When I was on the faculty of George Mason University in the 1980s our economics departmental representative was Walter Williams, a fact that OUTRAGED the university Commissar. I can recall one report that Walter wrote saying, “This year we tried to hire a tall, statuesque blond from UCLA, but the university was too cheap to give us enough salary money to enable us to compete for her services.”
It’s been my experience that the university offices of these affirmative action commissars, which are now called Multicultural or Diversity officers, are invariably populated only by people of a single race. They also tolerate no diversity of opinion of any kind, whatsoever.
11:59 am on February 11, 2005
