Word: swastikas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...earliest reported incident occurred in October when Jose M. Padilla '97 found a swastika taped to the door of his Eliot House suite. The attack followed an Oct. 15 editorial column in The Crimson by Joshua A. Kaufman '98, in which he criticized the September issue of Peninsula magazine, a conservative student publication...
...next morning, Padilla, one of those mentioned by name in Kaufman's column, found the hand-drawn swastika on the door...
Undergraduate Council member Steven Mitby challenged this norm and the result is telling. The day after Mitby spoke against a bill urging the University to add "transgendered" to its non-discrimination policy, he found a threatening note complete with a hand-written swastika taped to his dorm room door...
Padilla decries what he saw as a lack of administrative response when found the swastika...
Liberal students' tolerance often ends at ideology, says Simons, who called the swastika letters "absolutely inappropriate...