Black Schools Go White

Yet despite the politically correct curriculum, one of the most jarring sights at Lincoln is its de facto segregation. It has even spawned the saying "White by day, black by night." That's because most white students drive home when their classes end. There's even an unofficial white student union on the fourth floor of the Martin Luther King campus building. The dorms, fraternities, sororities and other social activities are dominated by blacks. "It's really sad," says Tanya Servick, a 19-year-old communications major who is African American. Josh Cleveland, 19, a creative-writing major from St. Louis, says he commutes because he feels that whites like him aren't welcome in the dorms. "There were some white students who lived here a few years back that got run out," he says. "I didn't want to go through the same thing." (Administrators say they haven't heard of any such incident.) Being in the minority took a while for Kimberly McCullough, 18, a white student on a tennis scholarship, to get used to. She is one of four whites out of 300 students in the women's dorm. "Until I made some friends, it was kind of weird at first," she says. "But then it was no big deal."

In the end, it wasn't a big deal for Elizabeth Johnson either. After all, she was used to being in the minority.