In the same week that students at the University of California San Diego found a noose hanging in their campus library, two acts of bias-related vandalism were perpetrated at the system’s Davis campus five hundred miles north.
On Friday, university officials revealed that a two-inch swastika had been carved in the dorm-room door of a Jewish student earlier in the week. That same night, the door of the campus Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Resource Center was defaced with spray-painted anti-gay words and slogans.
The LGBT Resource Center will be holding a town hall meeting to discuss the incident on Monday at 5:30 pm.
studentactivism.net 
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February 28, 2010 at 4:54 pm
annonymous
Whose interests does it serve to have these multiple incidents of homophobia, racism, and anti-semitism across several campuses in advance of this week’s manifestations? Does it not effectively distract and divide our communities? Not saying there should not be a response, because there absolutely needs to be one, but this does seem to me like the correlate of the pulling of the fire alarms all over campus on the late morning of Nov.20th.
February 28, 2010 at 5:13 pm
annonymous
Already, the UC admin and UCOP is working to conflate the racist, homophobic, and anti-semitic acts with the peaceful civil disobedience of student protesters, writing in a recent letter to the campus community that they “condemn[s] all acts of racism, intolerance, and incivility,” of “recent events at a few of our campuses,” without specification.
February 28, 2010 at 6:53 pm
anteater
In the UC, protest = noose = occupation/riot. Letter from UCI Chancellor Michael Drake to students:
Dear Students,
On February 17th, as many of you have read, I wrote about the manner in which we discuss and debate our differences, our values and how we use those values to guide our decision-making. An unfortunate series of recent events requires that I revisit and reinforce this message.
During recent days, several events on the UCSD campus have opened painful wounds. As I stated in my commencement address last June, we are all particularly offended (and astonished) when campus groups behave in ways that are harmful to other members of our community. On our own campus, we have unfortunately seen an increase in inflammatory rhetoric and actions, rather than an increase in problem solving efforts. At Berkeley, just last night, we witnessed a regrettably destructive and violent confrontation. The list goes on.
This is a stressful time for all of us in the University of California family. And it is at just these times that we must remember and rededicate ourselves to our values and guiding principles, particularly respect, integrity and empathy, to light the way forward from the distressing events of the recent past.
I have joined my colleagues in a statement reaffirming our commitment to promote and defend the principles and values of the University of California. Fortunately, as I stated, the overwhelming majority of us are fully aligned in our efforts to continue to advance as a campus and as a community, and that is just what we shall do.
February 28, 2010 at 10:20 pm
Matt
Honestly, all these town hall meetings seem to do is piss off students. The only people it makes feel better are the people who organized the meeting.
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