If that isn’t irony, then I don’t know what is.

Andrew Desiderio at The College Fix has the story:

College Denies Report It Forced Students to Take Part in Civil Rights March

School officials at Hood College are denying a report that some students were required to participate in a recent civil rights march that drew an estimated 1,200 people.

The march on Friday, Sept. 26, aimed to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1964, which is the same year the private liberal-arts college enrolled its first black student.

Helena Hammond-DoDoo, a senior at the Frederick, Maryland-based college, told the Frederick News Post that participation by some student groups in the march was mandatory, “whether people were truly interested or not.”

“If we have absent-minded people sitting here not really listening, what have we really done?” she had told the newspaper.

But school officials told The College Fix a different story.

Dave Diehl, executive director for marketing and communications at Hood College, said in an email that the school is “unaware of any students or student groups who were told that participation in the march was mandatory.”