UCSD: KKK mask found near Dr Seuss statue, Geisel Library

[Nikki Stone1]

Source: Ricardo Dominguez, Associate Professor UCSD (email)

UCSD: KKK mask found near Dr Seuss statue, Geisel Library
The mask was found late last night and is in the custody of the Police.

No link yet.

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Not sure what this is. Will add details as they come in. I assume they mean hood, not mask?

[FSogol]

1. I didn't know the tea party was in the area. n/t

[Nikki Stone1]

2. I just got this forwarded to me from my friend and there's no police report yet

I'm still trying to find out the details.

My friend was involved in the demonstrations and in the storming of the Chancellor's office.

[Juneboarder]

21. Apparently you've not been to San Diego...

We are Blue patriots in a land of Red down here.

[mike_c]

3. what on EARTH is going on at UCSD?

If it weren't for the suspension of the young woman who came forward and admitted that she left a noose in the library, albeit just as a piece of rope she and friends were playing with (she claims no racial motive at all, just a misunderstanding)-- if it were not for that event, and the guy who claimed he was just trying to be outrageous, I'd question whether or not this is all the work of someone trying to stir up racial tension intentionally.

College students acting out and being immature? Say it's not so! :rofl:

[Nikki Stone1]

4. I don't know.

It's all very upsetting.

[EFerrari]

5. Amy reported that UCSD has the smallest number of black students

of any UC campus.

[Nikki Stone1]

6. That's true. And the campus has not dealt well with this.

I have a friend who is involved with all this, and he tells me that everyone on campus is upset.

[EFerrari]

7. When I was a grad student instructor at Cal/English

we used to conspire to retain our *black student* in any way we could.

How can any campus have fewer black students than that?

Everything is being resegregated or it seems that way, anyway.

[Nikki Stone1]

8. I know. It seems like we're going backwards. Prop 209 started the ball rolling.

And it's become acceptable among the younger students to be racist again.

[Juneboarder]

22. My high school

was in Encinitas, three towns up from La Jolla where UCSD is located. My entire school, at graduation year, had a total of 3 black kids. It was so weird to me, especially since I transferred from Los Angeles, where half the school was shipped in from South Central just so they could have a chance at a decent education. Night and day...

[Nikki Stone1]

26. There really is an Orange Curtain

Encinitas is on the coast, right?

[Juneboarder]

27. Yes...

My high school was probably 1 mile from the breaking waves. Oh how I miss that...

[thereismore]

9. Somebody just stirring the pot and enjoying the theater, imo. nt

[Nikki Stone1]

10. I wonder who.

And what the point is.

[ucsdstudent5]

11. um, no.

first off, how does anyone know this was done by a student? the UCSD campus is easily accessible to the general public, and there were TONS of non students on campus today (and the past few weeks) including many older people shouting how we're all going to hell because we're racists. this could EASILY have been done by anyone who hasnt been living under a rock in san diego for the past few weeks. so STOP ASSUMING EVERYONE AT UCSD IS RACIST.

2nd, i am a 4th year student at UCSD and i have NEVER felt judged due to my race, nor have i ever encountered harsh racism (that is outsides the lines of FREE SPEECH, if anyone can remember what that is). i am not oh so upset over all this because it has been so badly blown out of proportion it is borderline hilarious. the compton cookout---not that big of a deal. yes, not politically correct but in no way shape or form was it at all connected to any type of violence. they themed their party "compton", then took steps to recreate that theme. if you have a hawaiian party, isnt the whole point that everyone come in grass skirts and put flowers in their hair? is that racist? no, its just the way things are. white trash parties happen all the time without anyone even flinching.

if noose girl had hung the noose without all this happening, it wouldnt be anything. no one would feel upset or unsafe but NOOOO. everyone INSISTED on turning a stupid party into something so much worse than it ever actually was, and now "violence" is involved (although, for the record, please note there have not been any actually violent events). if everyone had just let it go, none of this would happen. but no, everyone got all mad because their feelings were hurt. well guess what: feelings being hurt isnt an amendment to the constitution. FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS.

im not a racist, and yes, i dont really want to offend all minority groups by throwing compton cookouts all the time. but look what happened all because of a stupid party? do you REALLY think someone is going to come after you with a noose? according to the compton cookout, the worst they wouldve done is put in some grills and mock you. OH NOOOOO! this is all an issue of being politically correct. there are still schools in many southern states that openly practice segregation (segregated school dances, for example) and blatant acts of racism. and yet, slow news day, we all focus on some irresponsible college kids party. go deal with these REAL issues people, PLEASE!

[ucsdstudent5]

12. oh, and what?!?

oh, and who brought all the other minorities into this? suddenly asians are saying how persecuted they are and latinos and chicanos and pacific islanders....WHAT?!?! no one said anything about you! i've read articles where homosexual students say they are scared, and i understand why they might be scared in any situation where they felt their sexuality was being questioned or judged, but that was never an issue brought up in this whole thing! no one said anything about homosexuals! and yes the noose was ambiguous and ominous, but it was never directed at anyone. yes, it has ties in history to certain things/races, but we cant just go around persecuting everyone who decides to hang some rope from a light and say they were threatening EVERYONE. can white people say they felt threatened too? can witches?! (aka the salem witch trials) this is just getting out of hand.

[cornermouse]

15. Do you want french fries with that?

[Juneboarder]

23. LOL... the question should be...

would you like some CHEESE with that WHINE? What nonsense they posted, sheesh! I'm commenting to them now, but wanted to add to your question :)

[laughingliberal]

18. Stakes and torches would tend to frighten witches more than ropes

Nooses, OTOH, do have some deep cultural ties to the oppression of African Americans in this country. It's been in my lifetime that lynchings were still practiced in the South from where I came. FYI-burning crosses don't go over well, either.

[Juneboarder]

25. Please see the attached link

http://www.thekoala.org/

This group used to be funded by UCSD until they got reprimanded. Look through their website at what racist comments, photos and links they advertise. This group should have been stopped in their tracks before they got their first round of funding; yet UCSD funded this group for at least a year, if not longer.

This group offered insults at any race other than white. This is one reason why all minority groups are in an up-roar. Another, more blatant, reason would be that racism, even in the smallest, most obscure form, is racism. Racism cannot be tolerated in our society. Can you not understand why minorities would not stand up for themselves? I would...

[Nikki Stone1]

29. And this article too:

http://www.colorlines.com/article.php?ID=248

The Rise of the Ghetto-Fabulous Party
By C. Richard. King and David Leonard
Sept/Oct 2007

In January, students at Clemson University in South Carolina and a number of other institutions of higher learning opted to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day with what were called “ghetto-fabulous” parties at which white students dressed in blackface, drank 40s, wore fake teeth grills, flashed gang signs and, in some cases, padded their posteriors to conform to their stereotypes of the Black female body. A month later, white students at Santa Clara University in California threw a “Latino-themed” party, where young women feigned pregnancy, the young men played at being cholo and everyone reveled in the symbols and spectacle they associate with Mexican Americans.

Although not a new phenomenon, it seems that over the last year “ghetto,” “gangsta,” “south of the border” and “taco and tequila” parties have become college chic and cool. Parties at more than a dozen colleges and universities received national coverage in the past year, with countless others going unnoticed save for the pictures posted to sundry websites. It is tempting to interpret such events as clichéd racist expressions. They are, after all, contemporary minstrel theaters that allow middle- and upper-class white Americans to cross moral and social boundaries by racial crossdressing. But such easy explanations keep us from fully appreciating the circumstances on today’s college campus that make minstrel parties pleasing and powerful for so many....

More at the link. Read it if you have the time.

[Juneboarder]

30. What an interesting article...

Another thing I have never thought about... the corporatization of the universities. I thought they were untouchable considering the majority of teachers and workers are quite liberal. How sad of a situation we are in. Hopefully my generation, I'm 30, can get our stuff together and make some quick, decisive, monumental changes.

[Nikki Stone1]

31. The corporatization has been going on since the post WWII period, but it

is now the norm, especially in science and tech departments. Essentially, the university is a state subsidized R & D department for corporations and the military industrial complex.

[Juneboarder]

32. I'm glad I just enrolled in college.

I almost want to drop my class to not support this corporatization. Oh the madness!

[Nikki Stone1]

33. Get what you can out of it and don't put the profs on a pedestal

Most of them are on the corporate or MIC dole. They lost their purity a long time ago.

[Nikki Stone1]

14. So, ucsdstudent5, which college do you belong to at UCSD?

And do they know you don't know how to punctuate properly? UCSD is quite competitive.

[laughingliberal]

16. :crickets: nt

[laughingliberal]

17. :crickets: nt

[freddie mertz]

20. Or at least it USED to be competitive!

I have my doubts about this one, I just gotta say.

[freddie mertz]

19. Righty-O. Racism is so, like, five minutes ago.

No noose to be seen here.

Move along!

[Juneboarder]

24. Why are you being so defensive?

It is as if you were the one to instigate all of this madness. If not, then you would be compassionate towards those of a color other than white. I am white, myself, and find this to be quite attrocious. I thought acts of this nature were surely done by white supremecist biggots and not by educated folks on a college campus.

The issue of racism IS real, and something we MUST deal with every day. College kids that think it is fun to poke and prod at another race should not be considered college kids. I sure hope you aren't using my government funded money to fund your education and act in this silly manner.

It is better to be the bigger person and see past your peers and recognize that people have been hurt. Abuse does not always show itself in the form of bruises, scars and blood. Treat others as you would like to be treated and the world will run much smoother.

[Nikki Stone1]

AP: "a KKK-style hood was found on campus "

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100303/ap_on_re_us/us_black_history_mock_party

By CHRISTINA HOAG, Associated Press – Tue Mar 2, 9:47 pm ET

LOS ANGELES – A firestorm over racially and ethnically charged incidents at several University of California campuses spread Tuesday as UC San Diego announced a KKK-style hood was found on campus and students in Los Angeles and Irvine demonstrated against intolerance.

"What kind of campus promotes an environment that allows people to think it's acceptable to target people for their ethnicity, gender or sexuality?" said Corey Matthews, one of about 200 mostly minority UCLA students who held a lunchtime rally. "It's something about the tone of the environment that allows this."

At UC Irvine, about 250 people gathered for a "student solidarity speakout" to condemn the recent spate of racist incidents at UC San Diego that targeted black students and another incident last month at UC Davis, which targeted a Jewish student with a swastika carved on her door, said Marya Bangee, an event organizer.

The protests came on the same day UC San Diego announced the discovery of a white pillowcase fashioned into a KKK-style hood — the third racist incident around the campus in as many weeks — and a day after UC Santa Cruz officials found an image of a noose scribbled on the inside of a bathroom door.

Officials found the hood, which bore a hand-drawn circle and cross, on a statue of children's book author Theodor Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, outside the main campus library late Monday. A rose had been inserted between the statue's fingers.
Detectives were analyzing the pillowcase for fingerprints and DNA evidence, a university statement said.
UC San Diego Chancellor Marye Anne Fox vowed to punish the culprits to the fullest extent of the law. "We will not tolerate these despicable actions," she said in the statement.

The hood came on the heels two other UC San Diego incidents: a February off-campus, student-organized "Compton Cookout" party that mocked Black History Month with ghetto stereotypes; and a noose found hanging from a library bookshelf last week.

UC San Diego campus police said they had completed their investigation into the noose incident and turned their results over to the city attorney on Tuesday for possible hate crime charges.
One of the students responsible for the noose apologized to the university community in an anonymous letter published Monday in the campus newspaper. She said the noose was formed while she and friends were playing around with a piece of rope and had no meaning as a lynching symbol.

The student said she is not black, but is a minority.

The incident also is under investigation by law enforcement agencies, campus spokeswoman Judy Piercey said.
Although UCLA students said no racial incidents had occurred recently on their campus, in 2007, a fraternity held a "Tijuana Sunrise" party that mocked Mexican-Americans with stereotyped images, they said.

The incidents are disturbing and most likely the work of "outliers" using offensive and outrageous behavior to gain notoriety, said Brian Levin, director of California State University's Center for Study of Hate and Extremism in San Bernardino.

He said surveys show young people are less prejudiced than ever, but "these things touch a nerve, and these folks know it."

UCLA demonstrators called on administrators to institute a required ethnic studies course that would teach students about other cultures.

"It would be a very strong and powerful statement for diversity," said Kent Wong, a speaker at the rally and director of UCLA's Center for Labor Research and Education.

At UC San Diego, officials were already moving to create a more tolerant environment after meeting with black student leaders, Piercey said.

Initiatives include recruiting more minority faculty, instituting a mentoring program, creating an African American Resource Center, and ensuring funding for the diversity office, Piercey said.

[Nikki Stone1]

13. Dupe deleted.

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[Nikki Stone1]

28. Is it true that Jews were not allowed to by real estate in San Diego until the mid 1960s?

Just checking something I heard.

[slackmaster]

34. Not true, but they were "red-lined" out of La Jolla until about 1962

Roger Revelle, Herbert York, and some other key UC people had a talk with the Board of Realtors, explaining to them that they were trying to build a world-class university in La Jolla; and that would be very difficult if Jews weren't permitted to live in the area.

Before that, prospective home buyers who were Jewish were systematically encouraged to move to Del Cerro or the College (around 54th and University) area.