News Break: Fraternity Mocks Black History Month With “Compton Cookout”
Officials at UC San Diego are condemning a ghetto-themed party organized by fraternity students to mock Black History Month.
A Facebook posting advertising Monday’s ‘Compton Cookout’ invited people to a condominium complex off-campus.
The invitation urged all participants to wear chains, rapper-style urban clothing by makers such as FUBU and speak very loudly.
Female participants were encouraged to be “ghetto chicks” with 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 was organized by members of several UCSD fraternities, according to an e-mail from Gary Ratcliff, assistant vice chancellor for student life.
UCSD Chancellor Marye Anne Fox called the party, “offensive” and a “blatant disregard of our campus values.”
“We reject acts of discrimination … and we will confront and appropriately respond to such acts,” Fox said.
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