A student admitted to hanging a noose in the library at the University of California-San Diego has been suspended. The act is being investigated as a possible hate crime "with intent to terrorize," said campus spokesman Rex Graham.
The noose was found hanging from a light fixture on the seventh floor of the Geisel Library. Hanging a noose to terrorize is considered a hate crime and punishable up to a year in jail. This is the latest of a series of incidents on the campus over the last two weeks. The first was an off-campus party, called the "Compton Cookout" which urged people to dress "ghetto" and offered food such as watermelon and chicken and malt liquor to drink.Students wearing red handkerchiefs over their faces stood in front of Chancellor Marye Anne Fox's office chanting "Real pain, real change." Hundreds of students rallied and denounced the noose as an example of intolerance on a campus where less than 2 percent of students are black. In a news conference on Friday, Fox said
