A hate crime investigation was launched at Stanford University after swastikas were found painted on the building of a campus fraternity house, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
The swastikas and a pentagram were found Sunday morning outside the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, Casa Italiana among other residential buildings on campus.
According to the campus paper the Stanford Review, the president of SAE was the one who first discovered the Nazi symbols and immediately called police and informed school officials.
"I am deeply troubled by the act of vandalism, including symbols of hate, that has marred our campus," John Hennessy, president of the California-based university, said according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
"The university will not tolerate hate crimes," Hennesy said, adding that the university and police are looking into the incident.
The vandalism- not the first of its kind at Stanford- comes at a time the campus Jewish community is facing criticism after the university's student senate ruled in favor of divesting from companies suspected of having a hand in human rights violations in Israel and Palestine.
"The display of this loaded symbol of the Holocaust cast a shadow over our university community," Rabbi Serena Eisenberg told the newspaper. "We appreciate the university's investigation of this incident in the wake of recent campus discord. Hate crimes have no place on a college campus or anywhere."
