Two weeks ago, Princeton University boasted about their Class of 2012 being the most ethnically diverse group of students ever. This week, Harvard decided to one-up their long-time academic rival by electing eight minorities as the senior Class Marshalls.

That’s right – for the first (and probably last) time in 300+ years, minorities are no longer minorities at Harvard. Who would’ve thought that would ever happen? [Hint: No one.]

The historic group of eight includes four Asian-Americans, three black students and one Latino student, and they were elected through a grueling peer-based voting process.

The Harvard Crimson reports:

Among the eight elected marshals were First Marshal Lumumba B. Seegars ’09 and Second Marshal Philip L. Perez ’09.

 

[…] The other six Class Marshals include Kameron A. Collins ’09, Amanda K. Fields ’09, Heidi E. Kim ’09, Christopher C. Lo ’09, Margaret M. Wang ’09, and Joyce Y. Zhang ’09. The eight senior Marshals were chosen from an original pool of 61 candidates in an election organized by the Harvard Alumni Association.

Congratulations to you all!

Hopefully, this is a sign of things to come and not a fluke, but the cynic in us all thinks otherwise...

It’s your move now, Princeton. What will you do to strike back against Harvard? Enroll nothing but minorities for the Class of 2013?