"Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said the recent “horrific incidents” that have caused racial unrest at the University of California San Diego must stop.
“The acts of racism and intolerance that we have witnessed are completely unacceptable,” Schwarzenegger said in a statement released yesterday. “There is no excuse for this kind of behavior in our system of higher education or anywhere else and it will not be tolerated.”
Three recent episodes with racial overtones involving UCSD students have led many black students and others to say they now fear for their safety on campus.
The turmoil was sparked by an off-campus party Feb. 15, dubbed the “Compton Cookout,” that mocked Black History Month, and further stoked by a show on a student-run TV station that supported the party and called blacks ungrateful, using a racial slur. Then a noose was discovered Thursday night hanging in the UCSD"
“The acts of racism and intolerance that we have witnessed are completely unacceptable,” Schwarzenegger said in a statement released yesterday. “There is no excuse for this kind of behavior in our system of higher education or anywhere else and it will not be tolerated.”
Three recent episodes with racial overtones involving UCSD students have led many black students and others to say they now fear for their safety on campus.
The turmoil was sparked by an off-campus party Feb. 15, dubbed the “Compton Cookout,” that mocked Black History Month, and further stoked by a show on a student-run TV station that supported the party and called blacks ungrateful, using a racial slur. Then a noose was discovered Thursday night hanging in the UCSD"