Photo by Doug Oakley.

About 200 black students at UC Berkeley stood in silent protest for over two hours at Sather Gate on campus today in reaction to racial incidents at UC San Diego last week, according to a report by Bay Area News Group tonight.

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Update: In the comments, reader s z underwood points to coverage in UC San Diego’s Guardian student newspaper which includes what appears to be an apology from one of the students involved in the alleged racist incidents at the campus. Read it here.

Tracey Taylor is co-founder of Berkeleyside and co-founder and editorial director of Cityside, the nonprofit parent to Berkeleyside and The Oaklandside. Before launching Berkeleyside, Tracey wrote for...