Reputation aside, Uni actually does a good job of admitting minority applicants. For the incoming Class of 2013, 36 percent of the Hispanic applicants, 50 percent of the African-American applicants, and 100 percent of the Native American applicants were admitted. The problem is that the number of minority applicants is so small that even those percentages don't make much of a dent. If Uni is serious about diversifying, it will have to find ways to expand the pool of prospective students. The senior editors recently interviewed the dean of admissions at Amherst College, and they came away with a few ideas.

Sophomore Rachel Harmon is one of the organizers of two movie nights and a luncheon celebrating Black History Month. She writes: "When there isn't the promise of free food or missing a class, how many students are actually willing to go to something for the purpose of learning about a culture that isn't necessarily theirs?"

The recent case of an English schoolteacher in Sudan who was arrested for insulting Islam's prophet raises questions about what to do when cultures collide. Katherine Allen looks at the case of the schoolteacher whose students named a teddy bear "Mohammed."