Rising Trend in Racially Charged Incidents on UC Campuses

It appears that the racially motivated incident that occured just 10 days ago here at the UA (story linked below) is not an isolated incident, but in line with the many other instances of racially charged cases in the UC system.  Below an AP story of how a series of "incidents" targeting minorities that have occurred at UC San Diego, Davis, and Santa Cruz are compounding into a larger social issue on University campuses.

http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=YYivF7Gx

Once again, our own peer institutions lead the way by showing us that one does not have to fall for the either/or that we see here at the UA.  They too are suffering devastating tuition hikes, the likes of which, one might add, the UA has never seen.  And yet, our peers (institutions and students alike) consider these racially motivated events a top priority, and make it national news in the process.  The UA and other local media outlets, on the other hand, have effectively buried the UA's own relationship to this string of cases in favor of mobilizing around the absurdedly contingent notion of "as free as possible."  Should we at all be surprised that in Arizona, fiscal issues continue to predominate over issues of diversity and tolerance at the University?