Swastika found at Rice University -- third vandalism case in a month
A bright swastika chalked below a scrawled “TRUMP” vandalized Rice University’s founder’s statue this weekend.
The chalk graffiti was found this weekend on the William Marsh Rice statue in the heart of the academic quad. University officials were quick to condemn the vandalism, the third act Rice has experienced in the last month.
“I have had it with this behavior,” undergraduate dean John Hutchinson said in a Facebook post Saturday night. “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."
University President David Leebron echoed Hutchinson’s statement. “We won’t tolerate such behavior, and it will be punished.”
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