UCONN Starts Black Only Living Space [VIDEO] Recently a controversial decision by the University of Connecticut is sparking a heated debate about segregation. The question on the table is: is it okay for a school to launch a program only for black males? The schools main campus in Storrs recently launched a program to combat low graduation rates for black males. 40 black male undergraduates will live together in on-campus housing, in an effort to let the men draw on their common experiences and encourage each other to make it to graduation. Critics, of course, are not enamored with the idea of black-only housing. Forget about this nonsense and just treat students without regard to skin color, President and General Counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity Roger Clegg told reporters. If there are students of color who are at risk or who could use some access to special programs, thats fine, but schools shouldnt be using race as a proxy for whos at risk and whos going to have a hard time as a student. There are lots of African-American students who come from advantaged backgrounds, Clegg continued. And lots of non-African-American students who come from disadvantage backgrounds. The Scholastic House of Leaders who are African American Researchers and Scholars was initially proposed to be similar to other learning communities as the school that live as a group. If they wanted to go to an all-black institution, there are plenty of historically black colleges that still exist, Niger Innis, the national spokesperson for the Congress of Racial Equality, told reporters. But if they want to go to an institution that is racially diverse and integrated, then racial diversity and integration is part of it. To have a university-sanctioned segregation or separation is, to me, a bit troubling. What do you think? Would an all-white learning group ever be allowed on campus? Are you tired of these double standards? 