November 30, 2007

Multiple Choices on Diversity Issues

To the Editor:

Robert M. O'Neil misleadingly frames the issue of diversity training at the end of your article on the University of Delaware situation: "If the exposure to views … different from those of other students makes you uncomfortable, that's unfortunate. But that doesn't mean the program is coercive" ("U. of Delaware Abandons Sessions on Diversity," The Chronicle, November 16).

It is not exposure to differing ideas that some people are objecting to; rather, it is