Two PAW read­ers were crit­i­cal of the Pan-African, Latino and LGBT grad­u­a­tion cer­e­monies (Sep­tem­ber 19, 2012 “Spe­cial grad­u­a­tion cer­e­monies). Both ques­tioned whether sep­a­rate cer­e­monies defeat the inte­gra­tion goal that a diverse cam­pus is sup­posed to achieve. Are the spe­cial cer­e­monies jus­ti­fied? Do the spe­cial cer­e­monies rein­force group stereo­types and fos­ter sep­a­ratism? By allow­ing spe­cial cer­e­monies, is Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity pan­der­ing to polit­i­cal cor­rect­ness?  How you answer these criticisms?

The let­ters can be viewed here: http://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2012/09/19/sections/letters/9577/index.xml?
and
http://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2012/09/19/sections/letters/6478/index.xml?