University of California mulls asking incoming students their sexual orientation
Their hearts may be in the right place, but I don't like the ideaI like demographics and statistical breakdowns as much as the next nerd, but even if it is optional, there's an expectation to answer (and to do so honestly). It has no bearing on anything, and what's to stop a homophobic admissions counselor from discriminating
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If it wouldn't be ok for someone to get a scholarship because they're heterosexual, they shouldn't because their not heterosexual. But even if there are scholarships out there exclusively for non-heterosexual students, they'd have to apply and compete for those. An entrance survey wouldn't have any effect on that.
And just because their numbers are low (and they will always be low...we are a minority, even if no one really knows our true proportion of the population), that doesn't mean that a survey - or the information gleaned from it - will in any way enable the university to "make efforts to make sure their needs are met and they aren't discriminated against." They have those means in place, and I don't think most non-heterosexual students feel discriminated against at a public university, much less one in California.
I don't need to tell a university that I'm gay to feel included and visible. In fact, I think it's insulting and somewhat denigrating to think that something like an entrance survey would make a student feel included and visible. Give me a break.
There is NO good reason for this. It absolutely has to do with politically correct administrators - who have too much time on their hands - trying to think of other ways to claim that they value diversity and make themselves feel better, ignoring potential negatives. Which leads me back to my first sentence.
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