Jesuit High School investigates series of racial incidents on campus [View All]

Source: The Oreganian

Jesuit High School is investigating a threatening note including racist epithets left in a student's locker, one of three racial incidents that occurred on campus in a four-day period last week.

That student, an African American girl, also received a threatening note at home on Sunday, the school said in a letter sent to parents Monday.

The note was the third incident in four days with racial overtones. On Sept. 29, three teens, unaffiliated with Jesuit, came onto campus and acted in a "threatening, aggressive manner" toward some students, asking where to find the Obama posters, the school said. And on Sept. 30, someone scrawled the first three letters of a racist epithet on a poster about a McCain/Obama Electoral College Brownbag, apparently directed at Obama.

The episodes at Jesuit follow a highly publicized Sept. 23 incident at George Fox University in Newberg, in which workers found a cardboard cutout of Obama hanging from a tree with an "Act 6 rejects" sign attached. Act 6 refers to a program designed to increase the diversity of the student body at the mostly white Christian college. In that case, the four students responsible confessesd and were suspended.

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