I just found out that not only are there different standards for the admission and funding of minority students, but there are whole committees devoted to recruiting them, at least at my school, which prides itself in being “the most diverse in the nation”.

This isn’t right; it marginalizes the majority and rests a significant organizational bias on something other than skill (and according to a consequence of the Panidealist principle of universality, recruiting on the basis of anything other than skill reduces the idea-generating power of an organization). That this is not only countenanced but encouraged in a society that ostensibly condemns racism is also rather hypocritical.

There is only one way to be fair: remove all racial information from the admissions process. Blind it and recruit based on merit.

You see, racism isn’t truly gone until the very notion of race is transparent – when light or dark skin is no more a symbol of division than light or dark hair. Discrimination in either direction just serves to delay the time when this transparency will be realized.