Diverse Community on SLU's Campus

For my paper I mad a survey, partially bases of Nathan's book "My Freshman Year". The book is an ethnographic research about what it is like to be a part of the college community, especially for freshman. Rebekah Nathan went back to school as a freshman, although she was a professor at the school, to research this topic. I took this idea and applied it to SLU. One of the things she put into a survey she asked students was if they though they had a diverse group of friends. She then asked them to list their close friends. I did this (along with other questions) because I wanted to see if what she found would be the same on SLU"s campus too. So what do you think she found?

Well most people answered that they in fact did have a diverse group of friends... however, when asked to list their close friend they only listed students of their own race. I though there was no way this would be the case. It was. Are any of you surprised? When I conducted my survey I got about the same answers. Some people listed diverse friends while majority said they had a diverse group but when it came down to it they didn't. I wrote my entire paper about why I think this is the case, along with other issues. I'm interested to see what you guys think about this?