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University of Canterbury
Theme: Car Costume Party
Date: 2014
The Energy Society of the University of Canterbury held a car costume, where members decorated cars and wore costumes that offended Ebola victims, victims of violence in Gaza, as well as victims of the Taliban.
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University of Florida
Theme: Blackface
Date: 2012
Beta Theta Pi threw a “rock stars and rappers” party, where attendees came wearing blackface.
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Hautes Études de Montréal
Theme: Jamaican Blackface
Date: 2011
Students in Montréal donned blackface and colors of the Jamaican flag in“honor” of Usain Bolt while shouting “smoke more weed” and championing a monkey mascot.
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U.C. San Diego
Theme: “Compton Cookout”
Date: 2010
Students were prompted to protest conditions for black students at U.C. San Diego after a racist “Compton Cookout” party was thrown during Black History Month.
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Tarleton State University
Theme: MLK, Jr. Day
Date: 2007
If you thought ASU's MLK party was the first time any university had ever thrown a racially insensitve theme party, citing MLK as “inspiration” for a theme, then you might not have known that students at Tarleton did the same thing in 2007.
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University of Delaware
Theme: Cinco de Mayo
Date: 2007
Phi Sigma Pi's Cinco de Mayo party caused members of a Latino student organization at UD to demand that party attendees be expelled.
