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.
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.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. …”
Several disgusted students and faculty met with campus administrators last night about the event, which was linked to members of a fraternity.
“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.”
Campus officials say they likely won’t discipline any students associated with the event.
“Because it wasn’t a UCSD-sanctioned event, or run by a student organization, it doesn’t appear 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.”
....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.
“It was not an official Pike event, but the students who posted it on Facebook were members of Pike and other frats,” he wrote....
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