Racist Graffiti Targets Asian Students At Emerson College

BOSTON (AP) — Emerson College in Boston is investigating racist graffiti directed at Asian students that was found in a dormitory, administrators said.

Employees at the Little Building, an Emerson dorm, found derogatory words written on multiple doors on Friday, according to an email sent by Emerson's president, Lee Pelton, on Sunday. He did not specify what words were written.

Pelton said the graffiti is the second report of offensive language being directed at Asian students in that dorm.

Four swastikas were found drawn in stairwells in another dormitory on Tuesday.

The students directly affected in the Little Building have been offered support, Pelton said. Other students in the residence hall are also receiving guidance on community standards and bias.

"Such cowardly acts will not change who we are," Pelton wrote in the email. "Emerson will remain a welcoming place for all, not only in theory but in practice, and we will rise above these incidents, which seek to instill fear, disrupt our community, and challenge our values."