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发帖数: 40861 | 1 UPDATE: In an email to students Thursday afternoon, Vice Chancellor for
Operations Gary Ward, Interim Vice Chancellor for Inclusion, Diversity and
Equity Chuck Henson and Interim Chancellor Hank Foley released a statement
regarding the incident:
“Last night, a vandal spray-painted over a portion of the MU Gaines-Oldham
Black Culture Center (GOBCC) building’s sign,” they wrote. “No students
or staff were present in the building at the time. Police and security
officers were focused on protecting the students, who marched from the GOBCC
to the Student Center earlier in the evening. MU Police Department
investigators are reviewing video surveillance from the area as part of the
investigation.
This act is not acceptable. Police will be present at GOBCC while also
supporting and protecting our students wherever they gather.”
Just two days after the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center received a phone
call threat, the center’s sign was vandalized on Nov. 12. The word “black
” on the sign was blocked out with what appeared to be black spray paint.
The vandalism was found around 1 a.m. MU Police Department arrived at the
center shortly after.
Freshman Isaac Jahns, who lives in Hatch Residence Hall, said he heard a
conversation that may have been related while walking home from a dining
hall with friends.
“We were walking back from Rollins Late Night and as we turned the corner,
we heard someone yell, ‘Black motherfuckers, you’re not welcome here,’”
Jahns said. “I looked back, and there was a girl (by the GOBCC) with a red
jacket on and she booked it. She was sprinting. So we booked it too, went
back (to Hatch) and I tried calling MUPD twice … We were like, ‘It’s
gotta be the same guy. It has to be.’”
Jahns said he did not see the male suspect and that he thought the female,
whom he believed the insults were directed to, was black.
“I tried calling MUPD and they would not pick up their phones,” Jahns said.
The incident occurred just before 1 a.m. At the time, he hadn’t seen the
vandalism on the sign, but he came back to the BCC after seeing on Twitter
that the sign had been vandalized.
The Legion of Black Collegians published a statement via Twitter at 1:37 a.m.
This wasn’t the first time the BCC was vandalized. In 2010, two students
scattered cotton balls on the center’s lawn. While no cameras were
installed on the building at that time, they have since been installed,
according to a 2012 Columbia Tribune article.
Several students posted about the vandalism on social media. |
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