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Katherine Timpf reports for National Review Online on the latest uproar over college students daring to wear sombreros and eat tacos on Tuesday:

A sorority at California State University Fullerton is in serious trouble because it hosted a Taco Tuesday event where students wore “culturally insensitive attire” such as sombreros.

The school’s chapter of Alpha Delta Pi hosted the event on August 19 as part of recruitment. Ninety percent of attendees wore costumes, which also included sarapes and “in some cases, gang costumes,” according to an article in the Daily Titan, the school’s official newspaper.

The sorority claims it never asked people to wear costumes and that some had chosen on their own to do so. CSUF isn’t buying it, though, and has decided to take “serious sanctions” against every single member of the sorority, whether she attended or not. … In addition to being banned from this semester’s recruitment, the sorority also faces a year of probation, through December 31, 2015.

ADPi must also develop and promote a “We’re a Culture, Not a Costume” program, an initiative that began at Ohio State University in 2011 to stop people from promoting racial and cultural stereotypes through Halloween costume choices.

Read the full article.

We here at The College Fix are not surprised by this ridiculous turn of events. Chronicling extreme overreactions by the campus political correctness police over Mexican-themed parties is something of a hobby for us:

Pi Beta Phi sororities’ all-you-can-eat “Pi Phiesta” taco bar fundraisers at their respective campuses to raise money for charity are deemed racist and culturally insensitive;

A sign at UCLA offers students a guide to a “racist-free Cinco de Mayo,” advice that included warning students not to speak their shoddy high school Spanish on the day;

At North Carolina State University, its dining services officials had to apologize for handing out “offensive” chocolate mustaches for dessert on Cinco de Mayo;

A similar kerfuffle also occurred at the University of Maryland after two Latino students were offended when the university’s dining services staff voluntarily wore fake mustaches and sombreros during its Cinco de Mayo dinner;

And at Stanford, more sombrero-wearing dining staff raised angst.

And all this was just in the last year alone.

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