With all the negative talk about racism, here is an article I thought DU might enjoy

Curious college choice pays off for Grandview High School grad
By DONALD BRADLEY
The Kansas City Star

Josh Packwood got bounced around as a kid.

He had to move in with friends after his family was evicted. His father couldn’t speak or walk because of a motorcycle-train accident. His mother struggled. The family broke up.

But Packwood still had his choice of colleges when he graduated from Grandview High School in 2004. The Ivy League liked his academic excellence and SAT scores. Columbia University was one of several schools to offer him a scholarship.

Packwood had always wanted to live in New York, but instead of Columbia, he decided on Morehouse College in Atlanta.

A curious choice, considering Packwood is white.

On Sunday, though, Packwood will graduate as the 2008 valedictorian, the first white student to do so in the 141-year history of Morehouse, which has never counted more than a handful of white students among its enrollment of roughly 3,000.

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