Noose in the Library

A noose was found hanging at the Geisel Library around 10 p.m. Thursday, according to campus police. Offi cers con firmed after noon Friday that one person was in custody in connection with the act which is considered a crime - hanging a noose with intent to terrorize. The student contacted the UC San Diego police department and admitted to hanging the noose, according to an afternoon news release.

The noose was found hanging on the west side of aisle 3, which faces the windows, according to a UCSD campus police report. The aisle is located in the southwest corner of the seventh floor of the library (Wayland & Stickney, 2010).
The woman who confessed to hanging a noose in a University of California-San Diego library issued today an apology in the The Guardian, the school's student paper.

I found a small piece of rope on the ground earlier in the day [Tuesday, Feb. 23]. While I was hanging out with my friends a bit later, we tried jump-roping with it and making it into a lasso. My friend then took the rope and tied it into a noose. I innocently marveled at his ability to tie a noose, without thinking of any of its connotations or the current racial climate at UCSD ... Three days later, on Friday morning, I found out that the noose had been found and construed as another racist act on campus. I felt so ashamed and embarrassed, and the first thing I did was call the campus police and confess. I was hoping to clarify that this was not an act of racism before the incident got a full reaction from the campus (Finnegan, 2010).

• February 25, 2010

• image

• No linguistic content; Not applicable

Online exhibit

• Tell Us How UC It Project website

Wayland, M. and Stickney, R. (2010, February 26). Campus protests break out after noose is found. NBC News. Retrieved from http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Noose-Found-Inside-UCSDs-Geisel-Library---85479767.html
Finnegan, Leah. (2010, May 1). UCSD Noose-Hanger Apologizes, Students Protest In Sacramento. Huffington Post. Retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/01/ucsd-noose-hanger-apologi_n_481105.html

Image: Wu, Angela. (2016, February 26). Noose found at Geisel Library. [digital image]. San Diego Entertainer Magazine. Retrieved from http://www.sdentertainer.com/news/noose-ucsd-geisel-library/

• Huffington Post
• NBC News
• San Diego Entertainer Magazine

Under copyright (US)

Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.

Constraint(s) on Use: This work is protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Use of this work beyond that allowed by "fair use" requires written permission of the UC Regents. Responsibility for obtaining permissions and any use and distribution of this work rests exclusively with the user and not the UC San Diego Library. Inquiries can be made to the UC San Diego Library program having custody of the work.

UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact)

2023-07-11