My first concern was already written on this blog – that despite an up or down vote by the Senate, the recommendations (which are subjectively concluded from the data collected) already have a tacit seal of approval from GUSA. Although it seems to too late to rectify that issue.

But the Senate, as said multiple times last night, ought to consider each proposal very carefully – to do both justice to the time the commission put into the work and to the importance of the topic before us.

My personal opinion is that diversity is something that needs to be fostered and strived towards in an open and voluntary way. I feel the various suggestions the final report presents seem to mandate diversity (in particular the racial quotas in living spaces). That is both impractical and undercuts the mission in my view.

But I find many of the other suggestions very easy to implement to and very beneficial to the student body if they are (such as programming and education around freshman orientation).

No one in the Senate opposes diversity. We just see different ways of arriving there.