By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer
Princeton University’s Center for Jewish Life and three other buildings on campus were targeted this week for racist, anti-Semitic and anti-immigrant fliers, with campus police investigating it as a bias crime., The university said a caller to campus police reported around midnight Thursday seeing a person dressed in a ski mask and dark clothing taping a flier on the door of a building. The fliers were found at Stanhope, Murray Dodge and East Pyne halls and the Center for Jewish Life, said Vice Provost Michele Minter in a Thursday email to the university community., Minter said the fliers had the URL and phone number of a white nationalist organization, although the University would not disclose the name of the group. She said the they are similar to fliers found recently at other colleges., Thursday was the birthday of Adolf Hitler, with the white nationalist group, Vanguard America, taking to Twitter that day with a message targeting Princeton Jewish students and others and featuring a drawing of Hitler wearing a birthday party hat., Minter said the University Department of Public Safety is investigating., “Princeton is committed to protecting and promoting free expression, but it regards actions that are threatening or harassing based on identity as serious offenses,” Minter wrote. “Princeton attaches great importance to mutual respect, and we deplore expressions of hatred directed against any individual or group.”
