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...

Glad to hear I'm not 'the average scifi fan.'

Would something that has "no natural ingredients" be acceptable? (grin)

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

Replicated food.

Where was the Romulan ale and the Klingon blood wine?

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

at this college campus

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...

excellent point

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