Controversial Banners at Price Center

Identity Evropa, a white supremacist “alt-right” group, hung two controversial banners from the roof of Price Center last week. This is not the first time the group has posted signs, stickers, or vandalized property on campus...The two banners hung from the roof of the Price Center and Bookstore on Oct. 2. One of the signs read, “No Amnesty! End DACA!” and the other read, “Carry on, Citizen, THERE IS NO BANNER HERE.” Both banners violated UCSD’s campus posting policies and were removed once they were seen by campus faculty.

...the response from Rogers [Interim Director of the Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination Carol Rogers] was “the first amendment protects some speech that we may find offensive.”

“We had already been planning to make this Eat S— Nazi banner so that we could fly it on a kite, but when the incident happened, we kicked it into high gear to finish making the banner that day in order to respond,” UCSD Alumni William Johnson said. “I was hoping that the current students would be inspired to act on this, like we acted against racism and the Compton Cookout.”

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Pichinte, K. (2017, October 16). White Supremacist Group Hangs Controversial Banners from Price Center. The UCSD Guardian. Retrieved from http://ucsdguardian.org/2017/10/16/white-supremacist-group-hangs-controversial-banners-from-price-center/

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