EXCAVATED THROUGH THE REST OF
THE WEEK.
SMART DISAPPEARED TWO DECADES
AGO.
SOME CALL IT SEGREGATED,
BLACK ONLY HOUSING.
AT CAL STATE THEY HAVE DORMS
FOR STUDENTS WHO WANT TO BE
SEPARATED.
TONIGHT WE HAVE LEARNED ABOUT
SIMILAR HOUSING PROGRAMS IN UC
DAVIS.
OUR REPORTER JOINS US WITH MORE
ON THE CAMPUS CONTROVERSY.
THE STUDENTS WHO CHOOSE TO
LIVE HERE AT THE AFRICAN-
AMERICAN COMPLEX SAY THAT THIS
IS THE PLACE THEY FEEL
CONNECTED AND SAFE, BUT AS WE
SEE THESE HOUSING OPTIONS
APPEAR THROUGHOUT THE STATE AND
THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, THE
QUESTION IS, IS THIS
SEGREGATION?
WE SHOULD SUPPORT DIFFERENT
COMMUNITIES WANTING TO LIVE
TOGETHER BUT THERE SHOULD NOT
BE SPECIFIC WHITE, BLACK, OR
ASIAN DORMITORIES.
Reporter: NEWS WAS
SPREADING QUICKLY AND
GENERATING CRITICISM.
WHAT IS NEXT?
HISPANIC ONLY?
ASIAN ONLY?
WHITE ONLY?
Reporter: FROM TIM DONNELLY
WHO SPOKE TO US VIA SKYPE AND
STUDENTS MAKING NATIONAL
HEADLINES, SETTING ASIDE 20
SPOTS IN THE DORM COMPLEX FOR
AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS.
IT IS PUTTING US FORWARD IF
ANYTHING.
Reporter: CINDY IS THE
PRESIDENT OF THE BLACK UNION -
- BLACK STUDENT UNION.
AND ROUGHLY 75 STUDENTS ARE
ACCOMMODATED HERE EACH YEAR AND
SHE SAYS IT IS A POSITIVE
OPPORTUNITY.
THIS IS A SAFE SPACE.
AND YOU SEE SO MANY PEOPLE WHO
LOOK LIKE YOU AND ARE GOING
THROUGH THE SAME THING YOU ARE
GOING THROUGH.
Reporter: UNIVERSITY
OFFICIALS SAY THEY DO NOT SHUT
ANYONE OUT.
WE HAVE ANOTHER INSTANCE WHO
WANT TO LEARN FROM OTHER
STUDENTS.
IF THEY ARE ALL FOR IT,
EVERYONE SHOULD BE.
FOR SOME, THE IDEA OF
HOUSING FOR ONE GROUP SETS US
BACK DECADES AND RUNS COUNTER
TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.
SEGREGATING SOCIETY THROUGH
TAXPAYER DOLLARS IS OFFENSIVE
TO EVERYONE.
A SPOKESPERSON SAYS THEY DO
ALLOW OTHERS TO APPLY FOR THE
HOUSING AND THEY ALSO ASKED UC
DAVIS IF THEY HAVE SEEN THIS BE
SUCCESSFUL.
THEY SAID THEY HAVE, GRADUATION
RATES HAVE GONE UP, AS LONG AS
THE SEA - - AS LONG AS THEY SEE
UPWARD TREND THEY WILL CONTINUE
THIS PROGRAM.
IN THE 1970s THERE WAS A
HUGE EFFORT TO GET RID OF
