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Almost immediately, the storm of protest began. One officer of the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students Association (BGLSA) equated the blue square with the Nazi swastika as a symbol of violence against gays. Considering the origins of the pink triangle symbol in the Nazi extermination camps, the obvious question is, "Why would AALARM do such a thing...
...were Mike's pals Johnny (whose best friend, he says, is Jewish) and Peter (whose grandfather rescued Holocaust Jews in Holland). I HATE JEWS, scrawled one boy. GO BACK TO YOUR OWN COUNTRY, wrote another. After squirting the house with blue paint, a fourth boy, Tony sprayed a swastika on the car of Saul Shaw, a 79-year-old Jew who lives a few blocks away. Markovitz's temple and a kosher delicatessen were also barraged. That was 1988, but for the next two years the aftermath of these hate crimes continued to roil the complacency of this lily-white...
...almost two years Markovitz couldn't bring himself to clean the profanities from his garage. The rain washed away a top layer of cream, but a legible residue was left behind. "I could have painted it 100 times," he says, staring at a fading swastika. "How could four kids from the neighborhood, whose parents are fairly prominent, do this? I decided I would try to bring some cure to it. Then I'd repaint...
AALARM must clarify the meaning of their blue squares. If the blue squares are symbols of hatred, standing against good will, law, reason and tolerance, why doesn't AALARM just use a swastika? Charles Flatt '92 Co-chair, BGLSA On behalf of the Officers of BGLSA
Maintenance workers painted over a swastika on a Matthews men's room stall door on October 12, said the letter written by Associate Dean W. C. Burris Young '55, the South Yard senior adviser. Another swastika appeared a few days later, according to the letter...