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SGA condemns swastikas in Piano Row stairwell

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Photo: Madison Murillo
SGA at a Fall 2019 Joint Session meeting.

The Student Government Association, in a statement released Thursday morning, condemned antisemitic graffiti found in the stairwells of Piano Row this week.

SGA says it hopes the administration will not allow for these “deplorable actions” to disrupt the Emerson community’s commitment to equity.

“But this action doesn’t lead to debate; it is not a prank, it is not a joke, it is a vile corruption that has no place on our campus,” SGA wrote.

The “disheartening” action of “malevolent hatred” is out of place in Emerson’s residence halls, which are a “home and safe place for students,” according to the statement.

In a community-wide email sent out late Wednesday afternoon, Emerson College President M. Lee Pelton said he is consulting a handful of senior administrators about the best way to “engage our community in our strongest denunciation of this hateful act.”

This isn’t the first time the college has dealt with racially offensive vandalism in or around college property. Seven posters promoting the white nationalist group American Vanguard were found littered around campus in 2016. The fliers called for white men to “take a stand” and “take your country back.”

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Jacob Seitz, Staff Writer
Jacob Seitz is originally from Central Ohio and resides in Cambridge. He is currently a staff writer at The Beacon, having previously served as Assistant Express Editor. He was previously Assistant Editor of The Record, the student newspaper at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH. He has covered The Women’s March, The Straight Pride Parade, and has reported on the Massachusetts State House for the Beacon. He led The Beacon’s coverage of Emerson College’s acquisition of Marlboro College, and has been published in The Brattleboro Commons in Brattleboro, Vt.

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