"The University of California, San Diego has halted funding for student media after a TV segment ridiculed black students outraged by a party mocking Black History Month," reports the Associated Press. "The head of the school's student government froze funding for print media outlets last week after one, The Koala, ran a student TV episode calling black students ungrateful and using a derogatory term for blacks. He also pulled the student-run television station off the air. Tensions were running high before the TV program aired Thursday. Only about 2 percent of the school's 29,000 students are black, a historically low number that the Black Student Union highlighted last week when it presented a series of demands to administrators that aim to improve the racial climate." READ MORE
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
University halts funding after student TV show mocks blacks
"The University of California, San Diego has halted funding for student media after a TV segment ridiculed black students outraged by a party mocking Black History Month," reports the Associated Press. "The head of the school's student government froze funding for print media outlets last week after one, The Koala, ran a student TV episode calling black students ungrateful and using a derogatory term for blacks. He also pulled the student-run television station off the air. Tensions were running high before the TV program aired Thursday. Only about 2 percent of the school's 29,000 students are black, a historically low number that the Black Student Union highlighted last week when it presented a series of demands to administrators that aim to improve the racial climate." READ MORE
