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Racist graffiti reported in Day Hall

Elizabeth Billman | Asst. Photo Editor

Day Hall has been the site of five reported incidents of racist graffiti since early November.

Racist graffiti targeting black and Asian people was reported in Syracuse University’s Day Hall on Tuesday, according to the Department of Public Safety.

The graffiti was found on the back of a vending machine, according to a DPS bias incident report issued Tuesday. It is unclear on which floor the vandalism occurred. 

Day Hall has been the site of five reported incidents of racist graffiti since early November. A total of 23 racist, anti- Semitic and bias-related incidents have occurred at or near SU since Nov. 7.

Day Hall’s fourth and sixth floor were vandalized with racist graffiti targeting black and Asian people between Nov. 7 and Nov. 8. The N-word was written on a ceiling light, garbage cans and at least one mirror in the residence hall’s sixth-floor bathroom. Additional graffiti targeting black and Asian people was found on Day Hall’s third, fifth and sixth floors between Nov. 14 and Nov. 21.

The Day Hall vandalism sparked the black student-led movement #NotAgainSU. The movement held a sit-in at the Barnes Center at The Arch for eight days in protest of the racist incidents.







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