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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7803228Protesters take over UCSD chancellor's office
They are outraged over latest episode, a noose hanging at the library
BY STEVE SCHMIDT, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 26, 2010 AT 8:34 A.M., UPDATED FEBRUARY 26, 2010 AT 2:23 P.M.
NELVIN C. CEPEDA
UCSD Chancellor Marye Anne Fox addressed students and read from a prepared statement concerning the investigation on a noose that was discovered hanging in the Geisel Library.
Students are protesting atop desks and countertops throughout Fox's suite, except for her own sanctum. They are chanting, "Real pain, real change." Some are playing drums.
Fox has twice addressed students today, once outside the library where a noose was found last night and once in a eucalyptus grove outside her office. Students remain upset with the pace of the administration's response to their demand for action over ongoing racial strife.
"You can't imagine how pained we are, we are heartsick," Vice Chancellor Penny Rue told the students on a bullhorn.
Campus police are questioning a student who admitted she hung the noose on the seventh floor of the university library, on the west side of aisle three, which faces the windows.
"This is truly a dark day in the history of this university," Fox told students gathered earlier along Library Walk. "It's abhorrent and untenable."....
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