Maybe they labeled it:
Tellurian Tacos
Bajoran Burritos
Klingon Quesadias
Romulan Rice
...clearly this is insulting to all the non-terrestrial races.

The response of the average scifi fan: Yum, tacos. Pass the hot sauce.

As a member of sci-fi fandom I am offended by:
1) politicizing ethnic food
2) the ignorance about the essence of fandom as a philosophy of respect for and delight in diversity, the antithesis of racism.

"Beam me up, Scotty. There's no intelligent life down here."

Ok, anybody who thinks it was racist because they DIDN'T serve Chinese food?
There is no right answer in the political correctness Olympics. Someone will always be offended. The Eagles sang it pretty well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H-Y7MAA...

The banana slug might be cute but Angela Davis teaching there sure isn't.

What a bunch of liberal wimps now run our so-called institutions of learning! What could be more fun than a sci-fi gathering with good Mexican food! Isn't it racist to say Mexican food is not good enough for a sci-fi event?
It is time we let people stand up for themselves, If they don't want a certain food, boycott the event. Stop thinking everything is about them and their feelings, and teach them something to help them get a good job. Fire the PC police at the college and say don't like it, help plan the event. PC should stand for pander to collectivism! I grew up in the Southwest, and we all got along fine, everyone said what they thought, and we were friends. Yes, we ate tacos, along with Swedish and Italian - together!

#PUSSYNATION

Obviously, the college staff must be subjected to the Klingon discommendation ceremony. What utter balderdash. Working for a leftist college must immediately lower one's IQ and the drop becomes more dramatic the longer the tenure or the higher the position.

Another fine example of "Political Correctness" run amok in our society. Come on people, we need to reestablish a baseline for the occasional collision between disparate ideological thinking. Aliens and Sci-Fi is a ridiculous connection at best and at worse it undermines the tenants of diversity that our country is founded on. If this keeps up we'll need syntactic specialists to monitor every piece of the written or spoken word to ensure that we have not slighted some ethnic, religious or ideological group. I have several black friends that we invite over on for cookouts. Should I stop serving watermelon as a fruit? We are smarter and better than this and it's time we put a stop to it.

Santa Cruz?? This is the UC campus whose mascot is the banana slug... which should be enough warning to normal people. And someone got up in arms about this (likely someone who has too much time on their hands to think up bonkers stuff like this to make a name for themselves as an activist and potential political type)... and wrote a letter, and they caved to appear like they're "progressive" and "politically correct" and "Fully racially-activist"??

Cesar Chavez, who was somewhat local to there, would be either very very proud, very, very disgusted, or wouldn't give a whit. I would probably say the latter...

Hate saying it, but I really am not surprised. They have, indeed, learned the lessons from their socilaist masters well...

In this article, Dr. Carolyn Golz (who I assume is some high-ranking official at the school) states

'She concludes her letter, writing, “I care about the individuals in our community and I want everyone to feel respected, included, and affirmed.'

Unless, of course, you're white.

The shock was to read the contorted gymnastics being applied to the English language by the school apologist. I say, bear witness here, the implosion of Mexican Culture, and the voices of alarm is it's vanguard. This intelligentsia has 'learned' that morality can be eaten. "Morality" is not an act of thought anymore, and of "racism" connecting race with intelligence, but is all now an act of eating. Eating is now a moral and racism issue, There is moral eating and immoral eating. And this vanguard is here to stop the digestion of Mexican culture and Mexican Morality. 'Mexican food is the soul, body and mind of Mexico so don't eat us you cannibals'. 'We are not aliens but jumpin beans. We are all jumpin beans really'. This particular vanguard is what 'moral cannibals of inferiority' look, speak, and sound like, and what happens when you subvert your mind, reason and philosophy. Your whole "Philosophy of Life" gone ... down the digestive tract. Of course you would be left screaming. But in a sense, they are right, they too bear witness- to the afterglow of what was once Mexican Culture. They know what has taken its place ... "WESTERN CIVILIZATION", but only implicitly, and they hate every moment of it. They find it hard to swallow but swallow they do! All that they once held dear is only but a meal or two, a dish or two, a snack or two. A Philosophy of ingredients. Oh, to have a Philosophy, and to eat it too. But Western Civilization will not be consumed, it sticks in the throat awhile. It will not go down. It sticks in the mind, an idea. It is indestructible, indigestible. Reason Absolute and Western Civilization..

Gakh? ;-b

This political correctness stuff has gone too far. Mexican food is easier to serve buffet style. Prob why they did it !! What's easier than street tacos and fajitas. Prepare in advance and people combine the ingredients the way they want. Maybe the people that complained want silent green instead...

It was “Culinary” insensitivity to serve any ethnic fare exclusively.

There are plenty of potential menus that everyone likes.

My guess is that the planners thought they were being super nice guys by advocating a minority fare.

They didn’t notice the connotation of aliens until some race-baiting, offence seeking jerks glommed on to it.

That PC letter from an actual college "Office of Diversity" was a hoot.
I suppose a satirical story called "Illegal Aliens From Mars" who say "Si, si, we come in peace, muchachos!" would automatically be considered racist by all the pinheads in charge of things these days.
I raised my eyebrows at that part about being inoffensive to "undocumented students."
Isn't the very concept of having an "undocumented student" a bit dangerous in this day and age?
How do you know when an "undocumented student" you know next to nothing about wants to strap C4 to him or herself, give you a hug and whisper ""Buenas noches" and then "Allah Akbar" in your ear.
Kiss your burrito adiois!
Back in the 70s when my youngest little brother was a college student and a member of a science fiction club, he invited me to a science fiction convention that took place in an off-campus hotel that had a big room for such events.
Some medieval club whose king was the best fighter with a dull broadsword was in charge of the food and entertainment. (There were some sword and sorcery fantasy people included at the convention).
Those swords were used more like clubs. While we watched the king beat the hell out of one of his knights, a babe dressed like a lady of the court served me a plate of very typical but dull medieval feast food. It screamed for some seasoning.
I would have loved to have some insensitive for spicy illegal space alien food instead. Beam me up, Senor Scotty!

So now I'm a racist if I eat a burrito while watching a Star Trek re-run???

I've gotta get out of here...

OK. I'll bite (pun intended). What type of food is not racist to serve at a Sci-Fi event?

C'mon, guys and gals... It's US Santa Cruz!

That kind of stupidity is required on campus and Resistance Is Futile!

GOOD!
I used to love Mexican food, especially when I lived in California where there were Mexican restaurants on every other street corner. Some chains, some mom & pop stores (The Best). The spicier the better. But now, it just gives me heartburn. Since I can't enjoy it any longer, I'm upset that other people can. It's unfair! If I can't have it, no one should! Close them all up, and make the owners all apologize, especially to me!

I’ve had the same response talking about speaking Mexican. My Mexican friends from the racetrack say it is different than Spanish. Some people think it’s insulting to say you are speaking Mexican and you should say Spanish as if that were more acceptable. Oh contraire, how insulting is that to Mexicans? “They don’t need no stinking Spanish.” And they don’t need “no stinking college looking out for them.”

Of course they should apologise for nasty disgusting mexican rubbish disguised as something edible.
But not because it's racist. That's almost as disgusting as having to eat the nasty rubbish.

So very sick and tired of all these people who have an ax to grind about nothing! Unhappy in the U.S.? You are always FREE to return to your country of origin!

so when is it proper to serve Mexican food? Or where since We now know Sci Fi fans cannot possibly be eating it because they really like good affordable food.