Vandals Spray Paint Swastikas On Stanford SAE’s House
11 years ago

Vandals Spray Paint Swastikas On Stanford SAE's House

Since the Stanford undergraduate senate passed a resolution supporting divestment from corporations identified as complicit in human rights abuses in Israel and Palestine, there has been an increase in hostility towards the Jewish community on campus. SAE is the latest to experience the hostility when someone tagged their house with Swastikas in an act of vandalism over the weekend.

From Stanford Daily:

The Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity house was painted with swastikas Saturday night, along with several personal slurs and epithets.

“We discovered a number of offensive symbols and messages spray-painted on the SAE house,” said the president of Stanford’s SAE chapter.

The president did not want to be named so as to prevent association with “such hateful symbolism.”

These are some of the pictures of the house vandalism:

Why was SAE targeted? The president of the fraternity said he didn’t believe that the acts were not directed at any member of SAE. The only recent news I could find on the chapter was that they had lost their housing privileges starting next year for Title IX violations in December, so I’m not sure why someone decided to paint swastikas on the house.

Also, for being Stanford students, you’d think whoever did this would be able to spell the words “fuck” and “you,” but what do I know? While the police still do not have any suspects, they are investigating this as a hate crime.

[via Stanford Daily]

Image via Stanford SAE

  2. fratroblowe

    I am Greek at Stanford, and there is a huge anti-Greek movement going on. GDI’s, the administration, and even some sororities have been trying to get the few decent fraternities kicked off campus. Fraternities have been taking the initiative to host events to promote the awareness of sexual violence on campus and then get called hypocrites by the non-Greeks who refuse to show up. It’s unfortunate, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the Greek system here is gone in 5-10 years. It’s a shame too, SAE was one of the few good fraternities on campus.

    11 years ago at 1:48 pm
  5. Sirbrolax

    “The president of the fraternity said he didn’t believe that the acts were not directed at any member of SAE.” Solid sentence structure.

    11 years ago at 10:22 pm
  6. Master in Commander

    Let’s divest from the only democracy in the Middle East and our only real friend over there who faces genocidal terrorists around its borders. Sounds legitimate. Damn liberals.

    11 years ago at 10:59 pm