{"id":10158,"date":"2010-11-18T19:13:57","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T19:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=10158"},"modified":"2010-11-18T19:13:57","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T19:13:57","slug":"students-manage-social-lives-amidst-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=10158","title":{"rendered":"Students manage social lives amidst diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/thedartmouth.com\/2010\/11\/11\/news\/race\" target=\"_blank\">Students manage social lives amidst diversity<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thedartmouth.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Dartmouth<br \/>\nDartmouth College<\/a>, Hanover, New Hampshire<br \/>\n2010-11-11<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marina Villeneuve<\/strong>, The Dartmouth Staff<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s Note: This is the second installment in a three-part series investigating race at the College. The experiences and opinions expressed are the views of individual students, and should not be considered representative of wider communities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When Marian Gutierrez \u201913 stepped onto Dartmouth\u2019s campus as a freshman, she said found she herself a member of a student population strikingly different than the one that existed in her hometown of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Los_Angeles\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t as diverse as I thought it would be,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was a bit of a culture shock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The College\u2019s efforts to widen the diversity of the student body have resulted in an undergraduate population increasingly reflective of national demographics \u2014 as of this fall, the undergraduate population is 8 percent African-American, 14 percent Asian-American, 7 percent Latino, 4 percent Native American, 7 percent international and 53 percent white, according to the Office of Institutional Research&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Students of mixed race said their backgrounds allowed them to mediate between different groups on campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing half black and half Mexican has made my life more interesting here \u2014 I feel two ways at same time,\u201d Chris Norman \u201913 said. \u201cThere\u2019s more than one group I can go to and relate with. For me, it\u2019s easier to branch out to the mainstream community being mixed race.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/thedartmouth.com\/2010\/11\/11\/news\/race\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students manage social lives amidst diversity The Dartmouth Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 2010-11-11 Marina Villeneuve, The Dartmouth Staff Editor\u2019s Note: This is the second installment in a three-part series investigating race at the College. The experiences and opinions expressed are the views of individual students, and should not be considered representative of wider communities. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,6,20],"tags":[4452,4451,1385],"class_list":["post-10158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-new-media","category-usa","tag-dartmouth-college","tag-marina-villeneuve","tag-the-dartmouth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}