The photos surfaced on social media late Sunday, during the California Polytechnic State University’s multicultural weekend. One showed a Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity member in blackface. Another showed members of the same fraternity dressed as gangster stereotypes, throwing gang signs in front of their San Luis Obispo house.
First came shock. Then, outrage. Hundreds of Cal Poly students crammed into a classroom Monday night for an emergency town hall meeting, sitting on desks and on the floor. Those who couldn’t fit spilled out of the classroom door into the hallway, with some watching a live stream of the meeting just steps from where it was taking place.