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A spiritual barometer of humanity’s progress
As Editor of the international newspaper The Christian Science Monitor, I sometimes feel I would like to illustrate Monitor stories like a comic book. Every once in a while, a sentence in the Monitor hits me so hard it seems to need a good “KAPOW!”
That happened most recently when I was reading a cover story in the weekly print Monitor. The article is about Louisiana State University’s efforts to embrace diversity—a topic that, like so many today, can be fraught with partisan overtones. Can diversity happen if it is not prioritized? And if prioritized, can it be done fairly? Many lawsuits say no, arguing that admissions need to be colorblind. Yet without efforts to increase diversity, certain communities tend to remain chronically underrepresented.
I was treading these rather tangled mental paths when that “KAPOW!” sentence came out of the blue and knocked me cold. State flagship universities, the author wrote, are “barometers of progress.”
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