After reading the editorial entitled “Has Prairie View lost its HBCU status?…Diversity may be the downfall of the university,” I couldn’t help but get a little upset. Yes, it is important for Prairie View to maintain its Historically Black College and University status in order to keep providing African-Americans with a quality education to be successful in the world. We should not sell ourselves short of what we, and so many before us, have gained from attendinga historically black university.
One of the great things to me, personally, was that when I was a freshman, it was my first time to be in the midst of other people who looked like me and were trying to do something with their lives.
I came from a small, predominantly white high school where most of my black peers weren’t even thinking about college. I count it as a blessing that I had the privilege of being accepted at Prairie View and that I amsurrounded by my beautiful black brothers and sisters who are getting an education to better themselves.
But, I do not believe that the firsteight students who walked on these grounds are turning in their graves because of an increasing rate of diversification. If anything, they are turning in their graves because of all the violence and mischief occurring on campus.
I am sickened by the things that we have allowed to go on. Young men are getting assaulted and young ladies can’t even go back to their dorms from a night of studying alone for fear of being attacked.
Too many times I will go to class, and observe a group of students sitting around outside, just to come back hours later and see them in the
same spot. Don’t they ever have class?
Then, these same people complain when work needs to be done because someone won’t let them cheat on their exams. It is shocking to know how many professional cheaters we have here at Prairie View. Another problem is the way we disrespect our campus grounds. There is trash everywhere, people walking on the grass when there is clearly a pathway right next to the grass,people who do not know the meaning of behavior in a library and the cliques between various groups who like to fight constantly.
My great-grandparents met here when Prairie Viewstill had a dirt roadfor University Drive. They met here and married after my great-grandmother graduated.I am glad that mygrandfather never had a chance tocome back here to Prairie View and see his alma mater being treated the way it is.
The enemy is loose on our campus,on the prowl like a ravenous lion,and is devouring constantly.Withthe large number ofsupposedly professedChristians atPV, why are we allowing these types of things to occur? Shouldn’t we be taking up our cross daily and putting on our armor (as described in Ephesians 6) tocause the enemy to flee from our beautiful campus? The disrespectful attitudes, crime, and blatant disregard for what Prairie View truly stands for is what is causing the downfall of our campus, not thediversity of our student body. I do not think that we, and the alumni, shouldworry about the “minorities” here at our campus, when itis clear from where the true destruction is coming.