On Friday, May 12, I received a message in the Hillel executive board group chat that was, to say the least, unsettling. It was a screenshot of a two-paragraph email from Hall Director Kaleigh Sosa explaining that “swastika drawings were found” in Stoke Hall.
What was unsettling to me about this message was not just the fact that acts of hate continued to target minorities on campus. What shook me to my core was the hall director’s response, labeling the incident an act of “bias” and “vandalism,” and then closing the email by calling on her residents to be “positive.” More…