When ISU President Gregory Geoffroy took office, one of his main ideals — one that has never left his sight — was diversity. He wanted Iowa State to give the same attention to diversity as his former employer, the University of Maryland.

Geoffroy has attempted to meet his goal with discussions, studies and other initiatives. It’s doubtful that some of the remaining diversity issues on campus are really anything the administration can fix right away.

A multicultural center, which Geoffroy and campus activists see as a vital need, has been spreading around campus for a few years now, and it seems the idea might become reality soon.

In discussions of a multicultural center, it’s come up that there are several cultural centers across campus; a multicultural center would bring these centers together.

There’s one major problem — no one knows where they are. The rooms, supposedly somewhere in Helser Hall, were either torn down or moved without notice.

No one seems to know if these rooms were used, where they are or why we can’t find them.

The ignorance about these centers is giving the worst impression to current and prospective students.

Why go to a campus that offers an office just for minorities, but lost the place that would help you and others of your ethnicity?

The problem is the university’s assertion that these centers for certain ethnicities are there to help — but then they don’t exist, or maybe they moved. No one knows. That paints a picture of a university that doesn’t care and never will.

A letter written to the Daily by Kay Souvatrat, the co-president of the Asian Pacific American Awareness Coalition, states that the Asian-American Cultural Center does still exist; it just moved.

Wait a second.

Why didn’t anyone know this? It cannot be expected that an Asian-American student can walk in if no one knows where the center is.

It can’t be expected that an uninvolved Asian-American student will feel welcome if no one knows the center exists or where it has moved to.

On top of that, Centro Latino moved across the hall without any administrator’s knowledge, and, apparently, isn’t even being used much.

The university is acting like a stunned parent with a missing child. Instead of looking for the child and making sure it never gets lost again, they’re busy being confounded and upset.

If a multicultural center is built on this campus, let’s hope no one ever loses the room number.