Oregon: Two Reed College Library Bathrooms Vandalized With Racist, Homophobic, and Anti-Semitic Graffiti
From KGW:
Two bathrooms at the Reed College library were covered in hateful graffiti Saturday night.
The walls were spray-painted with a swastika, profanities and one person wrote, “The white man is back in power.”
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From The Oregonian:
Reed has had problems with graffiti in the past, but [Kevin] Myers [director of communications] said that the damage Saturday was the first since last week’s election. The graffiti was immediately covered up with butcher paper, and maintenance crews painted over it late Saturday night.
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Statement From Reed University
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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