‘] T] his act attacks foundational principles embedded in our mission statement,’ president says
Activists on Monday spray painted anti-Trump information on a gate at Norwich University, a military school in Vermont.
The information included “MAGA = New Fascist Party”,” Enlistee Serve De-enlist Fascism Today”,” End White Supremacy”, and” Truth is on the part of the subjugated”, MyNBC5 reported.
University officials are uncertain whether the people involved are part of the Norwich area, according to the university’s paper, The Guidon.
” This morning, we discovered graffiti defacing the Class of 1959 Bridge”, school President John Broadmeadow wrote an email sent to students and faculty.
” This work attacks fundamental principles embedded in our mission statement, not only because someone chose to hide behind the unnamed destruction of university home,” he wrote.
He also urged the group to “participate in creative speech, never kill home”.
We want to motivate you to speak out with courage and not conceal behind secrecy. And we ask each of us to accept other people’s opinions without igniting our own, the senator wrote.
In an internet to Commanders and Command Sergeant Majors, Colonel William Passalacqua wrote,” However, there is no cameras at the gate or flow images from the passenger lot.”
If someone witnessed any dark paint being washed off in a residence hall or camp sink, he wrote,” A extended shot, please ask your chain of command.”
One scholar told MyNBC5 he is “both glad and saddened” by the event.
” I’m glad that this group of students is upset about the federal government’s actions.” And I’m disappointed that they have to move out and do this, said junior Alex Dees.
History Professor Rowland Brucken told The Guidon graffiti has historically “been the pen ( or spray can ) of young people who feel threatened, marginalized, or forgotten”.
” It is a scream of morality, which can also be seen as misdirected, insulting, and destructive”, he said.
Vandalism or property damage will result in fines ranging from a suspension to termination, according to school guidelines.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators at Cornell University covered the monument of its foundation president Andrew Dickson White in brilliant red ink, according to The College Fix, in a different theft this month.
The statue was entirely hidden behind a large black tent in photos taken by a Cornell inside and provided to The Fix to conceal the painting, which resembled heart and contained the words “occupation = death” and “divest from dying”
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