The Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity at Stanford was defaced Saturday night with spray-painted swastikas and anti-Semitic epithets.
The vandalism will be labeled a hate crime, and Stanford President John Hennessy said the incident will be fully investigated.
“We discovered a number of offensive symbols and messages spray-painted on the SAE house,” said the president of Stanford’s SAE chapter.
The president did not want to be named so as to prevent association with “such hateful symbolism.”
“We have no reason to believe that this was targeted toward any particular student in SAE,” he said.
“I am deeply troubled by the act of vandalism, including symbols of hate, that has marred our campus,” University President John Hennessy said in a statement to The Daily. “The University will not tolerate hate crimes and this incident will be fully investigated, both by campus police and by the University under our Acts of Intolerance Protocol. This level of incivility has no place at Stanford.”
“I ask everyone in the University community to stand together against intolerance and hate, and to affirm our commitment to a campus community where discourse is civil, where we value differences and where every individual is respected,” Hennessy said.
Liana Kadisha, president of the Stanford Israel Association, wondered if the furor over the divestment movement had something to do with the graffiti.
“I don’t want to speculate to the cause of the vandalism, but after divestment, there has been a rise in hostility towards Jewish communities,” she said.
Speaking of which, The Daily notes that the vandalism comes three weeks after Molly Horwitz’s ordeal with the college’s Students of Color Coalition.
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