Brave minority student confesses to noose incident, anonymously...

Student apologizes for noose in UC San Diego library

The campus paper publishes an anonymous letter by a minority student who calls the incident 'a mindless act and stupid mistake.'

By Larry Gordon

March 2, 2010

The UC San Diego student reportedly responsible for hanging a noose last week in a campus library issued a public, but anonymous, apology Monday and said she had no racist motivation.

The noose's discovery set off protests at a school that is already tense from recent racially charged episodes and triggered condemnations from UC leaders and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

In a letter published Monday on the front page of the UC San Diego student newspaper, the Guardian, the student wrote that the incident was "a mindless act and stupid mistake" and was not meant to recall the lynching of blacks.