Well, at least they can be at Stevenson College, a residential college at UC Santa Cruz. A top administrator there recently apologized to students after they were served Mexican food at an “intergalactic”-themed campus event (a student get-together that featured pictures of spaceships and aliens):

We would never want to make a connection between individuals of Latino heritage or undocumented students and “aliens” and I am so sorry that our College Night appeared to do exactly that…[this] incident demonstrated a cultural insensitivity on the part of the program planners and, though it was an unintentional mistake, I recognize that this incident caused harm within our community and negatively impacted students.

According to Campus Reform, all events programming staff at the college will now be required to complete “cultural competency training.”