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Fuller said, that the Uni versity admin istration uses the term “di versity” to deal with specific issues and in dividuals, in stead of ap proaching it as a far-reaching concept. Besides that, Fuller added, the time for the University to be on the same page as the rest of the world has long passed. Diversity, she said, is “not some thing to be discussed anymore, it’s something that exists and now it’s about preparing for the reality of the world and the University of Oregon is about 25 years behind in that reality.” Fuller, whose most recent work in this field was at the University of Florida, started at the MCC in mid-July. Mark Tracy, assistant dean for diversity programs, and Chicora Martin, director of the Les bian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Educational and Support Services, also arrived at the University with in the past two months and the trio’s perception of the administra •tion’s dedication to multicultural ism is not a positive one. However, they are not shying away from the challenge of slaying the past. “It’s not going to be a one-step, one-shop solution,” Tracy said. “It’s not like you can go to the store and pick out the black problem, buy it and then it will be solved. It’s not like we can go get a black professor, a black administrator and a black coach and then, now we’re diverse and the black situa tion is dealt with.” Tracy, who came to Oregon from Ohio in mid-July, also stressed that addressing the idea of privilege at the University is crucial to tackling and solving these problems. He said that administrators and the majority culture tend to want convenient definitions when confronted with discussions about diversity. “Breaking down those majority privileges is not going to be a fun and easy experience,” he said. “It’s going to be a somewhat painful ex perience, because we’re going to have to step back and say ‘Why do I need to change?’” University President Dave Frohn mayer acknowledged that there is a lot of work to do on diversity, but he said there has been decades of work directed at changing the campus cli mate and the next step is to broad en the base of people working on achieving that goal. “Students are growing up in a more diverse world than any other experience in American history,” Frohnmayer said. “Although Ore gon has been relatively homoge neous ethnically and culturally, that is changing very rapidly and we need to be ahead of that.” Part of that diverse world is the multi-dynamic aspect of students, said Martin, who left Florida State University in mid-August to take the LGBTESS position. She wants to look at cross-sections within the different minority groups on cam pus, so that a student who may be, say black and gay, won’t feel com partmentalized into one group or the other when seeking resources on campus. Any steps taken in creating that “multi-dynamic” student have to go beyond just accepting and dis cussing diversity, she said. “It means promoting programs and encouraging students and fac ulty and staff to celebrate what makes us different, but inherently that binds together, because we are a unique community,” Martin said. Part of being able to celebrate di versity, however, means having enough of a diverse population to join in the party, not always an easy feat to pull off, especially at this University, Fuller said. The ad ministration does not put forth the resources, either monetarily or in terms of people, she said, to recruit students to the University and then keep them here. The University’s philosophy on recruiting minorities is that any ad ministrator can handle the task, Fuller said. It’s not that simple in her opinion, however. “Yes, in a Kumbaya world, then yes, everybody can recruit, but that’s not where we are right now,” Fuller said. “We need people — plural — to focus on minorities. Plus, they’re only focusing on Ore gon students. There is no money for attracting minorities from out side of Oregon. “These are basic concepts, basic ideas that the University of Oregon has been talking about for years and years and years and years, but they’re not taking any action and they’re not putting any money be hind the mouth.” Vice President for Public Affairs and Development Duncan McDon ald said that the University has just about tripled the number of schol arships available to all students over the past five or six years. But, using federal monies toward in creasing diversity on campuses has to be handled delicately, because of a few recent court rulings on race-based scholarships in certain states, with Georgia being one of the most recent ones. “The difficulty is always saying ‘here is a scholarship for one spe cific group,’” he said. “You’re flirt ing with danger.” McDonald said that several scholarships from U-Lane-O Credit Union — more than two dozen University students received the $4,000 gifts last fall — went to mi nority students. In addition, Mc Donald said that another way the University helps minority students is to match their particular needs with potential financial donors. He said that although the Uni versity does work to increase di versity on campus, those actions may not always be enough. “It’s a consistent goal and a per sistent need,” he said. But just having a more diverse population on campus isn’t the panacea either, Martin said. 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