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Chris Strudwick-Turner, vice president of the Los Angeles Urban League, also urged a tough response.
"If campus climate is important, a message needs to be sent that this is not acceptable," she said.
In Sacramento, Assemblyman Isadore Hall III (D-Compton) said leaders of the Legislature's black, Latino, Asian Pacific Islander, gay and women's caucuses would gather outside the Capitol on Thursday to condemn the party.
History professor Danny Widener, who directs the university's African American studies program, said he was outraged but not surprised by the party. He said African American students comprise less than 2% of undergraduates at UC San Diego, which he described as inhospitable to them.
"The campus climate is one in which you are constantly regarded as a statistical anomaly at best," he said.
"The campus climate is one in which you are constantly regarded as a statistical anomaly at best," he said.
Widener also criticized [UC San Diego Chancellor Marye Anne] Fox's response as "tepid" and urged strong action against the party organizers, including expulsion if they are found to have used UC computers or facilities to send the invitation.
Chris Strudwick-Turner, vice president of the Los Angeles Urban League, also urged a tough response.
"If campus climate is important, a message needs to be sent that this is not acceptable," she said.
In Sacramento, Assemblyman Isadore Hall III (D-Compton) said leaders of the Legislature's black, Latino, Asian Pacific Islander, gay and women's caucuses would gather outside the Capitol on Thursday to condemn the party.
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