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LA JOLLA, Calif.—
A party thrown by UC San Diego fraternity students mocking Black History Month has school administrators up in arms.UC San Diego administrators are condemning a weekend ghetto-themed party thrown off-campus by fraternity students to mock Black History Month, but they aren't likely to discipline anyone, it was reported Wednesday.
The so-called Compton Cookout event urged all participants to wear chains, don cheap clothes and speak very loudly, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported. Female participants were encouraged to be ``ghetto chicks.''
The invitation read, ``For those of you who are unfamiliar with ghetto chicks -- Ghetto chicks usually have gold teeth, start fights and drama, and wear cheap clothes ...,'' the Union-Tribune reported.
Jeff Gattas, the UCSD executive director of communications and public affairs, told the Union-Tribune that because the event wasn't sanctioned by the university or run by a student organization, university officials don't have a reason to penalize party hosts.
Campus chancellor Marye Anne Fox learned about the party Tuesday and reacted by e-mailing a statement to the university's student body and staff, according to the newspaper, which reported less than 2 percent of UCSD's undergraduates are black.
``We were distressed to learn that over the weekend an offensively themed student party, mocking the commemoration of Black History Month, took place off campus,'' her statement read. ``We strongly condemn this event and the blatant disregard of our campus values.''
The university publicly identified the party planners only as a group of students but in an e-mail obtained by the Union-Tribune from Gary Ratcliff, assistant vice chancellor for student life, the event was linked to Pi Kappa Alpha.
``It was not an official Pike event, but the students who posted it on
Facebook were members of Pike and other frats,'' he wrote, the newspaper reported.
