2008 Woodie Awards
Whiteboard swastika vandal identified
Dana Johnson
Issue date: 2/4/08 Section: News
The St. Cloud Police Department reported to SCSU and to the media last Monday morning that they identified an individual who has admitted to drawing a swastika in Stearns Hall.
Last Thursday, an incident update e-mail was sent to all students at SCSU and President Earl Potter spoke that evening at the SGA meeting regarding the identification of the individual.
Police have not released the name of the individual and will not do so until the City Attorney's Office has completed a review and determined whether to proceed with any charges.
"We will not be able to identify that person or talk about the specifics of the disciplining of what we decide to do," said President Potter to the SGA senators. "Rest assured we have the safety of the campus in mind as we execute the actions that we should take."
The police and the university are working together and conducting investigations, but they have not released information as to whether the student acted alone.
President Potter spoke directly to the SGA Thursday night to ask them to take a stand and call on majority students to stand up for what is right. President Potter answered a number of questions from the senators of SGA.
The student who committed the crime was identified through a tip from another student. The student who provided the tip acted on the notices going out to the campus expressing appreciation to the campus community to provide the information. President Potter said he wants SGA to take a leadership role to identify the ones who have committed these crimes.
"This is a learning community and one of the things that's most important to us is that having identified someone who intentionally thought to hurt others through hateful expression that we not react with hate when others are identified," said President Potter on the subject.
Currently the goal of the University is to work through a healing process that takes into consideration the needs of the folks that have been hurt, the needs of the people that have perpetrated the incidents and the needs of all of those that are at the university, and members of the community.
Last Thursday, an incident update e-mail was sent to all students at SCSU and President Earl Potter spoke that evening at the SGA meeting regarding the identification of the individual.
Police have not released the name of the individual and will not do so until the City Attorney's Office has completed a review and determined whether to proceed with any charges.
"We will not be able to identify that person or talk about the specifics of the disciplining of what we decide to do," said President Potter to the SGA senators. "Rest assured we have the safety of the campus in mind as we execute the actions that we should take."
The police and the university are working together and conducting investigations, but they have not released information as to whether the student acted alone.
President Potter spoke directly to the SGA Thursday night to ask them to take a stand and call on majority students to stand up for what is right. President Potter answered a number of questions from the senators of SGA.
The student who committed the crime was identified through a tip from another student. The student who provided the tip acted on the notices going out to the campus expressing appreciation to the campus community to provide the information. President Potter said he wants SGA to take a leadership role to identify the ones who have committed these crimes.
"This is a learning community and one of the things that's most important to us is that having identified someone who intentionally thought to hurt others through hateful expression that we not react with hate when others are identified," said President Potter on the subject.
Currently the goal of the University is to work through a healing process that takes into consideration the needs of the folks that have been hurt, the needs of the people that have perpetrated the incidents and the needs of all of those that are at the university, and members of the community.