WESTWOOD : 300 at UCLA Protest Fraternity Songbook
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More than 300 UCLA students, faculty and community members staged a candlelight march through Fraternity Row near the campus Friday night to protest a fraternity songbook they described as obscene, sexist, racist and homophobic. The protesters marched to the Theta Xi house to demand that the university stop all funding for fraternities and start a Chicano studies program.
The fraternity’s 1991 songbook, which included crude lyrics about a Mexican woman, prompted protest signs reading, “Die Sexist Pigs,” “Stop UCLA frat hate crimes” and “KKK at UCLA.”
Earlier in the day, the group marched to UCLA’s administration building to deliver a protest petition and demanded a meeting with the chancellor.
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