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Emory punishes students for swastika incident, but FBI still investigating

Emory University has punished the students who spray-painted swastikas on the walls of the historically Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi on Oct. 5, the Emory Wheel reported.

Those students “have received sanctions appropriate to their respective levels of involvement and culpability,” Dean of Campus Life Ajay Nair wrote in a statement.

The FBI, however, is still investigating the incident. Nair said the school can’t release “more-specific information” under its policies.

The anti-Semitic graffiti was sprayed on the fraternity just hours after Yom Kippur ended, the Wheel previously reported. Another fraternity, Kappa House, was tagged with swastikas the following day. Nair’s statement didn’t mention Kappa House.

The school also said it couldn’t find out who was allegedly yelling ethnic and racial slurs during an Oct. 21 intramural football game between Alpha Epsilon Pi and “another team,” according to the Wheel.

The only documented slur at that game was a student yelling “go back to India” at the opposing team.

The school has engineered a followup game between the two teams “in which they will comingle the teams so that formerly opposing players become teammates in the new game,” Nair said. “Clearly, our community is responding with empathy and creativity to the aforementioned acts of bias.”

Read the Wheel story.

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