FULLERTON Calif.
Several nooses were found at a tolerance rally at California State University, Fullerton, marking the latest incident in which the racially charged symbol was discovered on U.S. college campuses.
The nooses were found on Nov. 7 attached to a T-shirt display denouncing intolerance. In response, hundreds of students and faculty held an anti-hate protest this week.
School police said they are not investigating the incident as a crime but a “somewhat offensive” act.
“It’s a freedom of speech area, and it wasn’t directed toward any particular group,” said police Lt. Fred Molina. “But we want to find who’s doing this and why.”
Other nooses have appeared at several universities over the past year.
A makeshift noose made from the string of a sweatshirt hood was found this month in the Purdue University library. Earlier this year, a noose was placed on the office door of a black professor at Columbia University, and a noose was found in a tree at Indiana State University.
At Central Michigan University, four nooses were found in a classroom on Monday.
