University Of California Will Change Racial Harassment Charges After Justice Department Demand

SAN DIEGO -- The University of California, San Diego, has agreed to overhaul practices for handling complaints of racial harassment after a series of campus incidents that targeted blacks two years ago.

The U.S. Departments of Justice and Education said Friday that the school has created an Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination. It agreed to expand training for students and staff and revise policies and procedures to ensure they are consistent with federal law.

The federal government demanded changes after nooses and a Ku Klux Klan-style hood were found on campus in 2010 and students at an off-campus party dressed in costumes that mocked Black History Month.

CORRECTION: A headline for this article elsewhere on the site incorrectly stated that these events took place at San Diego State. We regret the error.

Comments

[Blackorpheus]

01:23 PM on 04/17/2012

San Diego State, cited in the headline, and the University of California San Diego are different universities.

[gmarmet]

12:38 AM on 04/17/2012

This is all fine and good, BUT your headline sending me to this web article was: San Diego State changes its racist policies. San Diego State University happens to be my alma mater, or at least, San Diego State College, its predecessor. SDSU is not UC San Diego, which this article talks about. Please keep these schools separate. They are not the same.

[brinash]

09:54 AM on 04/17/2012

Couldn't have put it better--happens quite a bit. I went to the same school as you but graduated in 1972--one of the two years when it was "California State University at San Diego" after it was San Diego State College and before it was San Diego State University. UCSD wasn't even in existence when I started high school in San Diego. This would be like confusing TCU or the Univeristy of Texas with UTEP.

[Omeezee]

12:08 PM on 04/17/2012

Exactly

[1 Voice of Reason]

09:31 PM on 04/16/2012

The protesters did as they should. They went against evil with good.

[bg3]

01:09 PM on 04/16/2012

Wow. Now that it comes out a minority hung the noose and a black fraternity member suggested the theme of the OFF CAMPUS party. this story has lost lots of steam. Another chnce to play the victim and miss class with protests and fake outrage, lost again

remind you of an incident in Florida? you know like waiting till all the facts come out first?

[thebearclaw007]

04:31 PM on 04/16/2012

If you're suggesting that racism is dead in the US, you've missed the boat, to say it nicely.

[bg3]

04:35 PM on 04/16/2012

Evwr heard about the boy who cried wolf?

[harvardme]

10:56 PM on 04/16/2012

@thebearclaw007 Thank you, I agree with you to the fullest.

[Omeezee]

12:10 PM on 04/17/2012

I live in San Diego and my friend is a Professor @ UCSD and there were incidents on campus that were not done by black students. A noose left in library shows a white female leaving it. Racism is alive in well in San Diego.

[bg3]

12:22 PM on 04/17/2012

The article said it was left accidentally by a minority student

Is there black racism as well ?

[BEWAREFALSEGODS]

11:58 AM on 04/16/2012

Moan and groan, blah, blah, blah most minority students are bitching about something to deflect their failure to pass most of these dumbed down college courses...

[bg3]

12:43 PM on 04/16/2012

This is why they plant things to begin with. any excuse

[thebearclaw007]

04:34 PM on 04/16/2012

I find that too many whites are incapable of placing themselves in the shoes of a minority living in the US. That's why they make statements like yours. Once they've learned to be more human and humane, I'm sure comments like yours will cease and the actions needed to cure this country of this racist disease will cease as well.

[bg3]

05:48 PM on 04/16/2012

Fine if they had grown up in the 60s I'd give them some slack. Bit this crying racism at the drop of a hat all in order to push an agenda for hiring more minority teachers is getting old. The world is tough. Get used to it and quit crying wolf all the time. Save it for when there really is a wolf

[1 Voice of Reason]

08:12 AM on 04/16/2012

When God prospers a group of people or just one person evil jealously will always reveal itself.

[bg3]

11:25 PM on 04/15/2012

Ok for all the Igs who said it didnt exist and the one goofer who said the police knew it was a group of whites. deal with this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcGSWdsPS8E

[bg3]

09:00 PM on 04/15/2012

they need a new sherrif in town

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmg1aY6_AJI

[ActaNonVerbaNow]

06:24 PM on 04/15/2012

The caption says the Chancellor hears the Black Student Union's demand. The video shows the Chancellor (sorry if this seems rude) looking like a zombie caught between being bored, disgusted, and confused. I must admit I lol'd. As for the idiots putting around nooses and stuff like that, they need to go.

[bg3]

08:49 PM on 04/15/2012

it was an accident

[bg3]

05:18 PM on 04/15/2012

That poor woman has a look of, never having to deal with this sort

[trebutts]

03:15 PM on 04/15/2012

This is the "College" section; would it hurt HuffPost to do a little research and proof reading?

[trebutts]

02:59 PM on 04/15/2012

San Diego State is not University of California, San Diego.

[thebearclaw007]

04:41 PM on 04/16/2012

LOL. I guess they didn't go to college, and btw college only teaches students to relinquish their spiritual virtues in favor of man's crooked education. That's what college is all about.

Fanned for being the most comical.

[doctorw2]

02:42 PM on 04/15/2012

how long must things like this go on? this country has way too many other problems and serious political enemies to be always hung up about race.

[cyndeewi]

07:41 PM on 04/15/2012

I agree..but can they give blacks a break and pick on somebody else.

[bg3]

08:50 PM on 04/15/2012

pick on? It was a minority student who left the noose. So THEY is the same

[harvardme]

11:01 PM on 04/16/2012

@cyndeewi I agree!

[BIG MAMA CORNBREAD]

02:26 PM on 04/15/2012

So sad

[BIG MAMA CORNBREAD]

02:26 PM on 04/15/2012

.....old review of classless uneducated crime shame no room for emotional healing growth maturity sanity.