Racist Incidents at Syracuse University Putting Students, Faculty On Edge

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The Christchurch shooter's anti-Muslim manifesto was Airdropped to students studying in a Syracuse University library on Monday night — but, students say, that's just the latest racist incident on campus

“Perhaps the biggest reason this string of incidents is so scary is because there’s so many unknowns,” says Sam Gelfand, a 22-year-old SU sophomore. “[We] don’t know if it’s one person, several people, if it’s a group, if it’s white supremacists, if it’s a horrible attempt at a joke, if it’s someone trying to get finals cancelled…I could go on and on. We don’t know who, or what, we’re up against.”

Yet SU faculty members and students of color, most of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity, say that the events of the past few weeks are far from isolated incidents. For many students of color on campus, the events of the past few weeks — compounded with what they see as an inadequate response from the administration — feel very much like history repeating itself.on campus “is not a new thing,” says Dr.

 

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