I remember going to UMSL to look up programs and classes for going there. My mother dropped me off near the Psychology building because it had a bench and I did not drive.<p>I got some flyers and a course catalog and called my mother on a pay phone.<p>Psychology called a security guard on me because I was sitting on a bench and reading papers. Didn't seem to believe me that I wanted to be a student there. This was in the early 1990s. My mother picked me up but security said someone had panicked in the building because they saw me.<p>I'm white by the way, never had a criminal record or anything. I decided to wait to go back to college later.<p>But yeah, security can be paranoid based on one's looks or people calling and complaining until security does something.
I was at Oxford from 2004-2007. There were two black students in my year (of around 3-4k), one of whom was an Old Etonian and stood as a Conservative candidate at the last election. I can fully believe this.