Also claim fraternity’s name is racist.
Via Campus Reform:
The Phi Gamma Delta fraternity the University of California – Irvine (UCI) has been accused of racism against Pacific Islanders for hosting a fundraiser where students wore grass skirts and coconut bras.
UCI spokesperson Cathy Lawhon told Campus Reform that the charity event has prompted the school to have a “series of ongoing discussions and fraternity leaders” about cultural sensitivity.
“The administration and student affairs is using it as an opportunity to show to fraternities what cultural appropriation is and how they might be more sensitive, to be able to have their week of philanthropy that ends in a social event without offending others,” Cathy Lawhon, a spokesperson for UCI, said in an interview with Campus Reform on Wednesday.
Also involved in the talks are groups of students who said they found the event “offensive,” Lawhon said. […]
The petition also demands that the group change its nickname, Fiji, — which comes from the phonetic pronunciation of the group’s first letter “Phi” and the “G” from the last letter, Gamma — because it is racist.