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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Thanks for sharing, Justin. I also read somewhere that there
are only about 200 black students on that campus. This is a testament to the
failures of supposedly trying to only focus on social class, instead of
understanding the intersections of race, gender, etc… for denying access
to particular students. To be honest, I think all fraternities & sororities
are unofficially sanctioned by colleges/universities. It is then their
responsibility to reprimand them for their behaviors. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Just my two cents….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Sarah<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Justin Akers Chacón
[mailto:justinakers@cox.net] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 17, 2010 4:57 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> educationforall@lists.aktivix.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Educationforall] Racism at UCSD--another reason to fight
budgetcuts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Open
racism (like this disgusting display at
UCSD against African-Americans) results in part from the way academic
segregationist policies like the dismantling of Affirmative Action and the
on-going budget cuts disproportionately target and exclude
low-income students and students of color. This reinforces and
encourages the corporate, white supremacist culture that pervades
elite institutions. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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margin-left:0in'><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;
font-family:"Times","serif"'>Outrage over UCSD party mocking black culture</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'>By
</span><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'><a
href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/staff/eleanor-yang-su/"><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;color:#0011ED'>Eleanor Yang Su</span></a></span><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'>, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF
WRITER</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><strong><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>Wednesday,
February 17, 2010 at 12:02 a.m.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><strong><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>LA JOLLA ?
A weekend party that involved University of California San Diego students and
mocked Black History Month has drawn the ire of black students and prompted a
condemnation sent to all students and faculty by the chancellor.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><strong><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>An
invitation to the "Compton Cookout" event urged participants to
wear chains, don cheap clothes and speak very loudly, according to wording
circulated by outraged students and verified by campus administrators.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><strong><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>As a guide
for girls attending the event, the invitation read, "For those of you
who are unfamiliar with ghetto chicks ? Ghetto chicks usually have gold
teeth, start fights and drama, and wear cheap clothes." ??</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><strong><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>Several
disgusted students and faculty met with campus administrators last night
about the event, which was linked to members of a fraternity.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><strong><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>"These
are the people I go to school with and knowing that they're mocking my
culture and the history of black people is really offensive," said UCSD
sophomore Elize Diop of Los Angeles. ?I would like to see the fraternity get
reprimanded.'</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><strong><span style='font-family:"Times","serif";color:#990066'>Campus
officials say they likely won't discipline any students associated with the
event.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'>"Because
it wasn't a UCSD-sanctioned event, or run by a student organization, it
doesn't appear</span></strong><strong><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>
that there was a technical violation,? said Jeff Gattas, UCSD?s executive
director of communications and public affairs. 'At this point, we don't have
a reason to penalize them.?</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><strong><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>Marye Anne
Fox, the campus chancellor, learned about the event yesterday morning, Gattas
said, and e-mailed a statement to 29,000 students and 26,000 staff.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><strong><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>"We
were distressed to learn that over the weekend an offensively themed student
party, mocking the commemoration of Black History Month, took place off
campus," her statement read. "We strongly condemn this event and
the blatant disregard of our campus values.?</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><strong><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>She urged
students and staff to attend a teach-in on Feb. 24 "to explore how such
incidents continue to occur today and to discuss the importance of mutual
respect and civility on our campus."</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><strong><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>Some
faculty members said the party is all the more damaging for the university
because of its long struggle in recruiting black students and professors.
Blacks make up less than 2 percent of undergraduates.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><strong><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>"I
think that the extremely small number of black students and faculty we have
and the invisibility of a curriculum focused on the black community and its
history makes it easier for this kind of event to take place," said
Jorge Mariscal, a literature professor. "There?s something about the
climate here that drives black students away."</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><strong><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>The
university publicly identified the party planners only as a group of
students.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><strong><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>But an
e-mail obtained by The San Diego Union-Tribune from Gary Ratcliff, assistant
vice chancellor for student life, linked the event to Pi Kappa Alpha
fraternity.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><strong><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>?It was
not an official Pike event, but the students who posted it on Facebook were
members of Pike and other frats,? he wrote.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><strong><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>Ratcliff
did not return calls.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><strong><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>Members of
the fraternity declined to answer questions, saying that their president
would be releasing a statement, although none was issued by deadline.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><strong><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>Spencer
Washom, a member who graduated in December, said the fraternity is known for
having strong athletics, organizing philanthropic events and being diverse.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><strong><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>?I never
really found someone who wasn?t courteous or respectful of other people,?
Washom said. ?I couldn?t see someone doing anything deliberately racist.?</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'>Eleanor
Yang Su: (619) 293-1840; </span><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'><a
href="mailto:eleanor.su@uniontrib.com"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>eleanor.su@uniontrib.com</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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