Beer pong “boring for blacks”?

Student Christopher Rubinate sends in this excerpt from the Nov. 26 Daily Dartmouth:

Director of the Center for Women and Gender Giovanna Munafro cited differences in culture as a factor contributing to this perception [that Greek houses are not diverse].

Some students of color may find it very difficult to present themselves to people who on the surface seem very different, Munafo said, suggesting that the social values and practices in many Greek houses — including heavy drinking — are not part of the “life experience” of many minority students.

Karim Marshall ’03, president of the historically black Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, agreed, saying that “pong is boring” for many blacks, and that the idea of drinking in order to get really drunk “is foreign to me.”

Mr. Marshall, apparently, has never been forced to attend a College-sponsored diversity seminar.