BSU Update March 6, 2010
March 6, 2010
To all our supporters:
First, let us express a sincere thank you to all of those who have had our back over the last two weeks. Together, we are working to transform UCSD into the kind of public university it was intended to be—accessible and welcoming to students from all communities; a resource for our people and all the people of California.
General Body Meeting Monday 6:30pm @ Cross Cultural Center
The purpose of this GBM is to update and recruit students for this years yield programs:
1. Phone-banking
2. Overnight Program Thursday, April 8-Saturday, April 10, 2010 *
3. Black Family Day Friday, April 9, 2010
To learn more about how you can contribute to BSU's first year of student initiated yield programs email UCSDBlackStudentUnion@gmail.com
*Saturday is UC San Diego's Freshmen Admit Day
Coalition Meeting will begin at 7:30pm
The problem is not (just) the party. The problem is the party line. An open letter to the UC San Diego community
Dear us,
First and foremost, we should all commend the Black Student Union and its many allies across the spectrum of student organizations (including fraternities/sororities), for the dignity with which you have faced the recent onslaught of racist provocations. You are turning personal insult into a push for structural changes that are sorely needed at our university. You fight not only for the benefit of African-American students, but for all our common good. You are continuing a tradition of UC San Diego student activism dating at least as far back as 1968. You honor us. I hope our university will honor you back.
That said, I’m not writing to condemn the PIKE party. I’m writing to condemn the university’s party line.
Timeline of Activism at UC San Diego [1960's- present]
Experience a gallery of photos displaying the rich history of activism at UC San Diego.
http://picasaweb.google.com/calendarioclah/ActivistHistoryOfUCSanDiego#
UCSD ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON INCREASING YIELD REPORT Mar2007
Download and read the 2007 Yield Advisory Committee Report and compare the recommendations stated by Administration to the recommendations presented by the Black Student Union. Anything look familiar?
http://diversity.ucsd.edu/pdf/FINALREVISED_YieldAdvisoryCommitteeReport3...
BSU Report: Do UC Us?
Report from the UCSD Black Student Union:
Do UC Us? Campaign to Increase Numbers of African American Students at the University of California - San Diego.
Ethnic Studies Faculty and Student Response to UCSD Campus Crisis Precipitated by the Event Dubbed the “Compton Cookout”
As faculty and graduate students in the Ethnic Studies Department at UC-San Diego, we unequivocally condemn the February 15th off-campus party, dubbed the “Compton Cookout,” as an example of racist, classist and misogynist stereotyping that degrades Black people through disparaging representations of so-called “African American culture.” Like similar events thrown on college and university campuses across the United States, this “theme party” in one quick, broad stroke reduced the complex lived experience of a heterogeneous racialized community to a caricatured depiction of cultural deviancy.
