by its bad out there
Tuesday, Mar. 02, 2010 at 6:47 AM
Even the governator noticed
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Saturday he is deeply troubled by recent acts of bigotry at three University of California campuses.
Schwarzenegger's statement comes after a string of incidents this month on the campuses in Davis, Irvine and San Diego.
Students at the San Diego campus took over the chancellor's office Friday to protest the hanging of a noose in the library. The noose was discovered less than two weeks after an off-campus party mocking Black History Month where students urged people to dress as ghetto stereotypes and promised there would be chicken, watermelon and malt liquor.
A Jewish student last week found a swastika carved into her dorm room door at the Davis campus.
And earlier this month, 11 students were arrested for interrupting a talk by Israel's ambassador, Michael Oren, at the Irvine campus. The Zionist Organization of America, based in New York, has accused UC Irvine's chancellor of failing to condemn anti-Semitic speech and has asked potential students and donors to boycott the campus.
"I am deeply troubled by the horrific incidents that recently took place on various campuses of the University of California system," Schwarzenegger said in the statement. "There is no excuse for this kind of behavior in our system of higher education or anywhere else and it will not be tolerated."