Roots Of Racial Unrest At UC San Diego

It began, as so many racial flare-ups on campus do, with a prank that some called malicious, others insensitive. Students there held an off-campus “Compton Cookout” Feb. 15 to mock Black History Month, with guests invited to don gold teeth in the style of rappers from the Los Angeles suburb of Compton, eat watermelon, and dress in baggy athletic wear. The San Diego campus, set on a bluff along the Pacific Ocean, has long struggled with attracting what the university calls “underrepresented minorities.” Black students make up fewer than 2 percent of undergraduates. Read more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/27/education/27sandiego.html?partner=rss&emc=rss