San Jose, Calif. – Two students at a Northern California
university scrawled swastikas and other hate speech in residence halls, the
campus president said Thursday.
The swastikas were found Tuesday at two separate dormitories that mostly
house first-year students at San Jose State University.
In the first incident, one of the students took name tags from doors,
and post-it notes and formed a swastika on a door in a public area in Washburn
Hall. He allegedly wrote an antisemitic message, and posted a photo of it on
Snapchat.
Next to one of the swastikas was scrawled “Admit One Jew,” President
Mary Papazian said in a statement emailed to all students Thursday. She said
police have identified the student responsible and “determined that this act,
while bias-based, targeted no one in particular and is not by definition a hate
crime.”
