Public Safety and Borough Police are currently investigating the vandalism of a student's dorm room door and a shattered basement window, both of which occurred Monday night in Dod Hall.
Public Safety filed a report of a possible hate crime Tuesday morning regarding the vandalism. A swastika had been drawn during the night on a whiteboard outside a senior male's room on the first floor of Dod.
Donald Reichling, associate director of Public Safety, said the swastika was written with a dry eraser pen.
Lt. Duncan Harrison of Public Safety said they are taking this matter "very seriously." Public Safety pays special attention to hate crimes, which are characterized as bias incidents, Reichling said.
Public Safety is working with Borough Police to find the perpetrator.
"We will do a full scale investigation in attempts to identify who did it," Harrison said.
Reichling said Public Safety is in the process of canvassing Dod and interviewing more people. They have already spoken to the victim of the vandalism and a few people on the hall.
Public Safety planned to perform a follow-up investigation Tuesday night.
"Our investigators are very tenacious," Reichling said.
Public Safety is also looking into another incident at Dod Hall in which the glass of a door window was smashed in the basement Monday night.
Janice Chik '05, a resident of the first floor, said she heard the sound of broken glass and a loud commotion coming from the basement around 12 or 1 a.m.
"Someone kicked out the glass of a door downstairs in the basement. I think it was linked [to the vandalism]," she said.
Public Safety is currently treating the two events as unrelated incidents.
"We're investigating the incidents separately unless we find some connection," Harrison said.
Public Safety considers the broken window criminal mischief, as opposed to a biased incident.
Harrison said preliminary reports indicate there were many people in Dod watching Monday Night Football at the time the broken glass was reported.
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