One potential reason to select a diverse set would be to point to a few who may be forced to accept by their state governments as examples to paint the refusers in a negative light.
That's a great question.
I wonder, shouldn't Oral Roberts University, Brigham Young University and other, similar institutions be required to be less biased in their ways too?
If not, why not?
I first realized this decades ago when I ran into someone socially who started on about how evil the red cross was. I'm like wtf? Then did some research and discovered some fringe belief originating in the Vietnam war. There are thousands of oddball grievances like this.
CNN published articles pushing the narrative that the 50 so called security experts believed Hunter's laptop was fake. It turned out to be true.
CNN also famously had the two reporters standing in the same parking lot pretending to be in different geographic locations. Viewers called out their bullshit when the noticed the exact same traffic driving through the backgrounds of both reporters.
It didn't.
See also, whataboutism