The leveling of the playing field for those who do not have the advantages necessary to sail through college on their own is a central feature of the mobility pathway. Many students from disadvantaged backgrounds also fail to meet admission guidelines, due to poor academic preparation. Class-based affirmative action is one remedy; however, affirmative action policies, to the extent that they exist, have been mainly based on race (Armstrong and Hamilton, p17). Integration is often treated as assimilation into the dominant current of (privileged) student life. However, on many campuses this would require pulling less privileged students off the mobility pathway and onto the party pathway— defeating the whole purpose. That is also can be seen
