The College Fix

Three swastikas were found just outside a Yale University dorm over the weekend – and just a month ago similar graffiti was found inside a different dorm on campus.

“I am saddened to report that three swastikas were chalked on the sidewalk outside of Durfee Hall on the Old Campus Sunday night, October 12th. Attempts were made to remove these troubling images, but some faint impressions remain,” Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway wrote in an email to the campus community on Monday night, reports Truth Revolt.

“I condemn this shameful defacement, perpetrated anonymously under cover of night,” Holloway added. “The swastika, appropriated by the Nazis in the last century as an emblem of anti-Semitism, is particularly offensive and disrespectful toward the Jewish members of our community, but, in truth, it insults us all.”

The Yale Daily News reports that “Sunday’s incident comes just over a month after several swastikas were discovered drawn on white boards inside of Vanderbilt Hall,” another dormitory.

Late Monday and into the early Tuesday hours, some students responded by making a makeshift vigil to stand against the symbols:

In an effort to display student support for Yale’s Jewish community, the three students — Javier Cienfuegos ’15, William Genova ’15 and Sebastian Medina-Tayac ’16, a former staff reporter for the News — started drawing a chalk mural reiterating Holloway’s admonition of hate outside of Durfee Hall.

By 12:30 a.m. Tuesday morning, a group of 15 students had collected outside Durfee. They were passing out chalk to passers-by, inviting them to draw hearts and peace signs under the statement “There is no hate in this house,” a direct quote from Holloway’s email.

A number of different campus groups, ranging from Students Unite Now to the Yale Track and Field Team, affixed their names to the mural.

Read the full article.

RELATED: Jewish college students under assault at campuses across America

Like The College Fix on Facebook / Follow us on Twitter