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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2075495, member: 199"] Crossover - thanks for a great post. Storrs remains a pretty non-diverse community because while it is a university town it is a rural NE location just far enough from Hartford to have only started to become an acceptable 'bedroom' community for commuters there, and too far from New Haven and the coastal region for commuters. I grew up here in the 60s and still remember when the first two black kids started attending EO Smith HS! And I remember my father and his colleagues on the faculty search committees discussing the difficulties in attracting and then retaining ethnically diverse faculty - the good ones that they did attract would be 'poached' by wealthier universities within a few years as the whole of academia was scrambling to diversify. All that said, the community as a whole has always been a tolerant one and welcoming to diversity in racial, gender, and lifestyle terms, at least from my experience. The diversity has grown, but certainly does not mirror communities that are closer to urban centers. I agree that Eliot's arrival and success at UConn and her enjoyment of the experience was a major step forward for the team, and the TASSK force class confirmed that. She and Tonya as assistants during the early glory years also really helped. And I agree that ignoring race, and/or pretending it is not an ongoing evolution in society is not helpful. I have traveled a lot in Europe and especially in the UK, and while you do not hear about 'race problems' there in the way that the US issues are splashed across front pages daily, my impression is that most of Europe is much more 'racist' than most of the US. And not just race, but ethnicity, religious affiliation, and national origin form strong bases for blatant prejudice. No one talks about it, but it is firmly entrenched in the society and even the language. The Brexit vote unleashed a huge increase in hate crimes across much of the UK. While the US is not close to perfect, at least we continue to expose and discuss these issues. [/QUOTE]

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