Ulca student asian rant

In an apology letter sent to the Daily Bruin, the campus newspaper, Alexandra Wallace wrote that the video has led to "the harassment of my family, the publishing of my personal information, death threats and being ostracized from an entire community. Wallace sent the letter on the same day the university announced it would not be taking any disciplinary action against her. In her three-minute video, Wallace lashes out at Asian students, using a fake Asian accent to chastise students who use their cell phones in the library. In the video, she also laments that large numbers of Asian people, whom she described as relatives of students, descend on the university area on weekends. You will always see old Asian people running around this apartment complex every weekend,'' she says. They don't teach their kids to fend for themselves.

But since she posted the three-minute video to YouTube, Ms. Wallace, a third-year political science student at U. Wallace, some too profane to print. In the video, Ms. Wallace complains about Asian students in the school library using their cellphones to call family members after the tsunami in Japan.

Wallace later told professor Phil Gussin that she had been advised by police officials to reschedule her finals after her exam schedule was made public. The video was originally uploaded by Wallace on Friday, but was soon taken down. It was reposted Sunday and has since gone viral, garnering over one million YouTube views and prompting countless spoofs, remixes and response.

In a statement to the campus newspaper, The Daily Bruin, the student, Alexandra Wallace, said on Friday that she had chosen to stop attending classes at U. University officials said they would not discipline Ms. Wallace because her video was an exercise of free speech.