First, I want to ask, what exactly are white southern male republican honkys supposed to call black people these days? The last time I checked, any mention of the word "colored", in any derivitave, was a political correctness offense, punishable by public character assisination. Are we going the other way now? In ten years will it be "Students of Negro?" "Students of color" should at least have the decency to stop changing the definition of how they describe themselves. Perhaps this continual redefinement of physical appearance is essential in the core perpetuation of perceived social insensitivities. I say, pick one description and live with it. Case Closed.

Now for the article. It never ceases to amaze me how far these liberal learning institutions are willing to go in the name of political correctness. Any self-respecting Republican instructor would have said "Shake the interviewer's hand and make eye contact. Evaluation of these essential interview skills is required for your grade and is not subject to reversal." In college I was assigned an essay on sealife conservation. (English Class) We were supposed to write this essay in the perspective of a "creature of the sea." If I had said, in my culture we hunt down baby seals for their pelts, kill whales for their blubber and oil, catch flipper to make tuna sandwiches, tear off coral to sell it at beachside resorts, and basically we don't give a flip about your view of the environment , thus I should not have to write your essay based upon cultural differences. Do you think that the instructor would have called my dissidence a "blimish"? No way. I would have been slapped with more lables than the U.N. has meaningless resolutions. Anyways, I flunked the essay. The instructor said it was due to run on scentences. You think? I think it was because I wrote the essay in the perspective of a whale that wanted to beach itself and how the whales dementia was due to the humans inability to hunt whales to extention. Thus preventing the whale from having to live through a twisted and painful end of it's existenence. Better a relatively quick death from a harpoon where he dies from loss of blood as opposed to roasting on a beach. In higher education you are given an assignment and you complete that assignment, within the designated guidelines directed by the instructor.

The School of Education at the University of Oregon is in a full-blown “multicultural crisis” because a speaker at a career guidance workshop suggested that people interviewing for jobs make direct eye contact and use firm handshakes when meeting with their prospective employers, reports the Daily Emerald.

During the Career Beginnings conference in February, a student of color suggested that her culture does not encourage such interactions. The speaker then launched into an explanation that failure to follow his advice might lead a “blemish effect” that can harm the interviewee’s chances. The student of color interpreted that to mean that her culture was “a blemish” and was distraught.

The incident has prompted students of color to demand diversity training for the entire staff, a five-year plan to address issues of cultural sensitivity and new procedures for handling complaints from distraught students.