Swastikas scrawled at U.C. campuses
(jta) | Two University of California campuses recently were vandalized with Nazi graffiti. A U.C. Irvine residence hall was spray-painted with swastikas in October, and a similar act of vandalism occurred in a UCLA residence hall bathroom Nov. 2, according to CampusJ.com. Campus police have no suspects at either school.
On both campuses, discussions of the vandalism led to revelations of other anti-Jewish activity. At UCLA, students cited other incidents of swastika graffiti. At U.C. Irvine, Jewish students were invited to a meeting with the chancellor and vice chancellor, where several said they had been subject to physical and verbal intimidation.
While the UCLA administration has not responded to the situation, U.C. Irvine officials have said the vandalism there was not anti-Semitic and that there would be no effort to curtail hate speech. “One person’s hate speech is another person’s education,” Vice Chancellor Manuel Gomez said.
Nazi speech played at school
(ap) | Part of a speech by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels was played over the public address system before a high school soccer game in North Carolina, prompting an apology by the home team’s principal.
Robert Carpenter, the principal of Forestview High School, said neither he nor his team’s coach knew about the speech before the 90-second German-language excerpt was played during pre-game warmups Saturday, Nov. 4, according to a letter he sent Monday, Nov. 6 to visiting Charlotte Catholic High School.
Carpenter said in the letter that the team had adopted the slogan “On to victory,” and that a German exchange student who plays on the team had taught other students how to say the phrase in German.
“Some of our more zealous students sought to capture this slogan in German and to play it on the PA,” Carpenter wrote.
School officials said two players had downloaded the speech off the Internet, and no adult heard it before it was played at the field, the Charlotte Observer reported Wednesday, Nov. 8.
CopyrightJ, the Jewish news weekly of Northern California