The bad optics of such a thing were completely lost on the students.

The College Fix reports.

Chancellor vetoes ‘multicultural student government’: violates state law, divides people

Ignore the university’s own policies or you’re a racist

In an unexpected rebuke to race activists at the University of Kansas, Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little is putting the kibosh on a “multicultural student government” (MSG) approved by the Student Senate in March.

The proposed deliberative body, which has already been provisioned $90,000 to get started, could “lead to greater divisiveness” and would run afoul of the university’s codes and state law, Gray-Little said in a Wednesday letter to incoming Student Body President Stephonn Alcorn and Vice President Gabby Naylor.

The Lawrence Journal-World reported that MSG’s interim leaders received copies of Gray-Little’s letter just hours before a scheduled public forum to introduce the body to the university community.

The MSG, which remains an ordinary student club, ignored the chancellor’s rationale for halting the new body in a Change.org petition asking for its funding to be reinstated.

“We are important. We matter,” the petition reads. “We deserve to be part of the decision-making, including but not limited to determining the allocation of resources.”

The co-chair of KU’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Advisory Group also implied that the chancellor, who is black, showed racism by halting the MSG.