@bodangles You might want to re-read the article. The proposal is to outlaw single rooms and make random roommate assignments mandatory for all students.
Unfortunately, more colleges are allowing freshmen to choose their own roommates. And, unsurprisingly, almost everyone who does that selects someone of the same race. Many schools are also offering single rooms to freshmen, who happily seize the opportunity — if they can afford it — to avoid the “hassle” of living with someone else.
So I’ve got a simple proposal: Instead of expending yet more resources on multicultural programming, let’s generate multicultural roommate pairings. All freshmen roommates should be randomly assigned, as in the past. And we should bar or discourage freshmen from taking single rooms, so that they’re forced to live with another person.