SAN DIEGO – The chancellor of the University of California, San Diego, is condemning a ghetto-themed party organized by fraternity students to mock Black History Month, but officials say no one is likely to be disciplined.
The weekend “Compton Cookout” held off-campus was offensive and a “blatant disregard of our campus values,” Marye Anne Fox said in a statement e-mailed this week to staff and 29,000 students.
“We reject acts of discrimination … and we will confront and appropriately respond to such acts,” Fox said.
A Facebook posting advertising the party invited people to a condominium complex off-campus “in hopes of showing respect” during Black History Month, according to a copy posted on the Web site for San Diego TV station 10 News.
The posting offered a dress code heavy on T-shirts, rapper-style urban clothing by makers such as FUBU, and gold chains. Women were urged to go as “ghetto chicks,” described in the invitation as having gold teeth, cheap clothes, and “short, nappy hair.”
The invitation said the party would serve watermelon, chicken, malt liquor, cheap beer and a purple sugar-water concoction called “dat Purple Drank.”
The party theme disgusted some students on campus, where Blacks comprise less than 2 percent of the undergraduate class.
