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AU Makes Diversity "Clique"
by Manuel Quinones
American Word Staff Writer
  Movies, Making Out and [Race] Mixing: AU's Interracial Couples Avoid the Stares
by Jordan Berg
American Word Staff Writer

It seems like every single American University undergraduate student has complained about it. And no matter how many races and ethnicities coexist within the university's gates, ethnic and racial self-segregation is so commonplace that students often identify it as part of the school's culture.

 

Some would have found the couple's intertwined hands elegant: a very dark-skinned black man and a blond woman walking into Mary Graydon Center on American University's campus, seemingly unaware of the snide remarks and stares.

Fraternities, Sororities Beginning to Bridge the Racial Gap
by Leah Krauss
American Word Staff Writer
   

"[The average white freshman girl] is only going to know about, say, Delta Gamma," said Zeta Phi Beta sister Samantha Thomas, a junior.

 

 


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