California college students vandalize dorms with swastikas
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.
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.”
The other swastika was drawn on a white board in a common area of another dormitory. The white board was described to police by the student responsible as a “joke board,” said Papazian, adding that this incident remains under investigation and police were confident the two cases are not related.