A protest was held on February 24th at UC Santa Cruz in response to racially themed parties held at UCs San Diego and Santa Barbara, and in response to the state of diversity at UCSC, where Black student enrollment is 2.6%. Photos

On February 26th, crowds of students stormed and occupied the office of the UC San Diego chancellor for six hours after a noose was found hanging from a bookcase in the main library. The noose was only the the latest in a string of racist incidents. Protests were initially sparked by an off-campus party called "Compton Cookout" that mocked Black History Month and denigrated African American women. UCSD has the smallest percentage of African American students in the nine-campus UC system. The Black Student Union at UCSD declared the campus climate for racial minorities to be in a "state of emergency."

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