Post Tagged with: "UCSD"

16May
2010

UCSD Muslim Student Responds to David Horowitz Event

Original Post can be found here To the General and Campus Communities: As you are all well aware, I am the one who spoke at the David Horowitz event this past Monday May 10, 2010. Allow me to begin by stating that I do NOT condone murder, I do NOT condone genocide, and I do NOT condone racism under any circumstance whatsoever against Jews or anyone else. These accusations are lies that I refuse to allow David Horowitz and his [...]

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27Feb
2010

Symbolic Violence at UCSD

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I want to spread awareness about a terrible incident at UC San Diego. My cousin, Mustafa Shahryar, who goes to school there called me to tell me that as he was leaving the library, he heard a grown African-American man crying on the phone asking “how can I study if they want to kill me?” My cousin asked him what was wrong and the guy took him to the 7th floor of the main library and hanging from the ceiling [...]

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27Feb
2010

Chancellor Block Responds Regarding the UCSD Incidents

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Chancellor Gene Block of UCLA addressed students in person at an impromptu sit-in regarding the recent events at UC San Diego that were triggered by a racist-themed party called “Compton Cookout”. The sit-in at UCLA occurred in front of the Chancellor’s office in Murphy Hall on Friday afternoon at around 2:30 p.m. “So for those of you that I don’t know, I am Gene Block. I am the Chancellor at UCLA, the new chancellor, and I am here to talk [...]

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