The complexities of college life in the '90s is aptly presented in this timely an thought-provoking drama. There is a special emphasis on campus racism in the film, but it also deals with related issues such as sexual preference, political correctness, individuality, peer pressure, and the importance of education. The film offers a series of character sketches with particular focus upon three students, Malik, a black runner on scholarship who has no political preferences, Kristen, a pretty white girl from suburban California whose innocence is brutally stolen, and Remy, the red-neck misfit from Idaho who has difficulty adjusting to a diverse population. Each of these three faces different conflict. Malik must wrestle with running and with Professor Maurice Phipps who seems to pick on him. Kristen is left sexually confused after she is date-raped and subsequently befriended by Taryn, a lesbian who runs the Students of a Non-Sexist Society. It is Remy who faces the greatest conflict after he joins a white supremacist organization which requires that he shoot a black man before he can become a member.