A swastika is drawn in chalk on the base of the founders statue at Rice University in Houston.
The word “TRUMP” accompanies the swastika on the 2,000-pound William Marsh Rice statue, located in the heart of the academic quad of the campus, the Houston Chronicle reports. The vandalism reportedly occurs on Friday night, according to the university.
It is the third act of racist vandalism on the campus this month.
“I have had it with this behavior,” undergraduate dean John Hutchinson says in a statement released by the university that is also posted on Facebook. “The use of the swastika clearly reveals that whoever did this is either ignorant of the history of true evil associated with this emblem of hate or is genuinely motivated by blind hatred.”
If a student is discovered to have drawn the graffiti, he or she faces expulsion from the university, Hutchinson reportedly says.
— JTA
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