<p>^^ vig180, have you heard of the new pillowcase/mask incident? :</p>
<p>Wowie,
You definitely have a point and I understand what you mean by being scared of being judged because of who you are. As a first year student (and “minority” female if it makes a difference), I have never had a problem with issues of race or unfair judgment until these events, which have hurt me and some of my friends by their nature. For this reason I feel that you should still give UCSD a chance. There are professors who’ve been here for 20 years or so who have not experienced anything like this in the past. It is very unfortunate that there are a few individuals on campus intent on making this a hostile and unwelcoming environment. I am hoping that this is an aberration rather than something reflecting UCSD’s true character.</p>
<p>It’s unfortunate that you view the university this way. I see this is as very small percentage of the school population acting stupid and a much larger percent of the students of all color standing up against what happened. I’m not so mad at the Compton Cookout people as I am the people who followed it up like with the noose hanging. I am completely outraged by this. And I must add, this was ONE person. The noose hanging person’s views do not reflect the campus’s as a whole at all. I think tensions though will wear off soon enough and people will return to normal. If despite what I said you still feel the way you do, I understand, but I just wanted you to know that there’s a lot of people on this campus who are disgusted by what happened and want the campus to be a more inviting place.</p>
<p>^
Exactly, it’s just a select amount of ■■■■■■ who did this.</p>
<p>We have great professors here who attack this act of injustice through emails to students in their classes, canceling lectures and urging students to take part in protests, this campus is not a campus that hates.</p>
<p>Yes, but it isn’t so much the isolated incidents, but the fact that it keeps continuing. I understand the small number of students participating in this does not represent the entire UCSD population, but stop criticizing me for being offended for what students are doing at your school.</p>
<p>Excuse me for finding it extremely racist for someone to hang a noose and to have a KKK-like mask draped on Dr. Seuss statue on his birthday. I do not feel this is appropriate in any form of higher education. Like I said before, the Compton cookout, I could somehow see someone trying to create some type of satiric reference that just wasn’t funny, but rather racist. If the incidents stopped there, I wouldn’t be so turned off by UCSD. It’s the fact that it keeps continuing that is really bothering me. </p>
<p>Sure, maybe the media is putting a slanted twist on the story, but I’m not going to apologize for expressing my views. I’m not saying UCSD is completely off my college radar, but it has definitely lost some huge points.</p>
<p>At UC Davis, someone carved a swastika into the door of a Jewish girl’s room. At UC Santa Cruz, someone drew a noose with “lynching” scrawled next to it on the inside of a bathroom door. At UC Riverside, a gay couple was jumped on-campus while they were walking together and holding hands. I’ve heard that at another UC there were cotton balls scattered around the black cultural center (although I can’t find an article about it, only about the same thing happening at the University of Missouri).</p>
<p>All of this within the past week.</p>
<p>These racist/homophobic acts are not exclusive to UCSD. You have to realize that these incidents are being done by terrible, ignorant people who are trying to gain notoriety by capitalizing on the initial controversy of the Compton Cookout party. Their actions in no way reflect the viewpoints of most of the student population.</p>
<p>And I’m not trying to excuse their actions, as ignorance in no way justifies what they’ve done. I just don’t want you, or anyone else reading about these incidents, to completely dismiss UCSD (or any of the aforementioned colleges, for that matter) just because of the ****ty decisions of a few people who just happen to attend this school.</p>
<p>When did I ask you to justify poor decisions? When did I ask any of that?</p>
<p>I clearly was stating how I felt and somehow I’m not allowed to feel that way? Excuse me, I am not the only person who has this mindset and I know many others who feel the same way. So if you’d rather not here how people are viewing your school then don’t read it. I’m not sure why I’m getting attacked for giving my point of view. I have said countless times that my viewpoint may not hold merit speaking these students are a small sampling, but regardless I still feel upset and turned off by UCSD.</p>
<p>Why is that such a problem to understand? I am not asking you to reassure me about UCSD. I’m not asking you to justify their decisions. I’m not asking any of that. I clearly was stating how I PERSONALLY reacted to the UCSD incidents. Many others foster the same thoughts as I do. Whether you feel it’s justified or not, you have no place in telling me how I should or should not feel.</p>
<p>This is perfect illustration of the actual problem. The media decides its a slow-news day and blows stuff out of proportion. Everyone thinks that we’re having KKK marches down Library Walk and the prestige of the school suffers.</p>
<p>No one is blaming you for feeling like there is a major problem at UCSD right now. But quite honestly, the vast majority of the campus is just moving right along without pause. There are racists and imbeciles at every college, they’re just smelling media coverage and coming out of the woodwork to get their expulsion papers.</p>
<p>If you care enough to consider UCSD strongly, you would look beneath what you’re being told by the media (looking to the BSU for breaking news) and see that there is no such unrest. There is no widespread institutional racism and no deep race conflict. If you still feel that we’re some pillar of the KKK, than as mapthesoul says, its your privilege to choose between colleges and decide not to come here. Just don’t throw away an academic opportunity you feel strongly about because some newsroom decided a frat party being offensive was newsworthy.</p>
<p>The idiots are getting all the media attention while the rest of the school (you know… almost 30,000 people?) is watching as our school’s reputation goes to hell.</p>
<p>Not only that, but you guys do realize that a sizable amount of students from other colleges have been around the campus, too, right? Who’s to definitively conclude that anything that has occurred (and pending apprehension of suspect[s]) or will occur was done by a UCSD student?</p>