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Racial tensions continue to rise on the campus of UC San Diego after a noose was found hanging from a bookshelf of one of the school\u2019s main libraries on Thursday. A female student came forward and claimed responsibility for the act that prompted demonstrations the following day, culminating in a student takeover of the Chancellor’s office for several hours. The latest incident follows the notorious so-called \u201cCompton Cookout\u201d party hosted by numerous fraternities a few weeks ago that mocked Black History Month. A Facebook invitation encouraged party-goers to dress up and behave in accordance with offensive stereotypes. Women, for example, were urged to show up as \u2018ghetto chicks\u2019 which to the organizers of the off-campus party entailed wearing gold teeth and cheap clothes while starting fights. Upon the news of the \u201cCompton Cookout,\u201d backlash was immediate. UCSD\u2019s Black Student Union drew attention to the lack of African-American enrollment on campus and called for improvements of conditions for minority students. Calls for disciplinary actions to be taken against those involved in the party were met with promises of an investigation. But temperaments were once more inflamed following the initial uproar after a student run TV show defended the racist party on air and used the N-word to describe its detractors. A racial state of emergency was called on campus and administrators were presented with a list of thirty-two demands including the creation of a safe space on campus for its African-American students. <\/p>\n
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