Letter to the Editor: Intellectual diversity important

It is disheartening to me that so many would so casually dismiss the DCU's observations of political diversity among faculty at Duke.

At an institution as respected and highly ranked as Duke, where intellectual growth is encouraged, I submit that intellectual diversity, as represented by things like political affiliation, is at least as important as racial diversity. I chuckle at the irony that the liberals, who always scream for equality and diversity, are against promoting diversity and equality of this form. Sort of hypocritical, isn't it?

 Joe Volpe

Grad '10