Hate crime at Rice unacceptable
(02/15/17 2:00pm)
On Friday Feb. 3 I was walking back home with my friends when I came across Willy’s Statue with a swastika and the word “Trump” scrawled along its back. I stood there in shock and disbelief. How had this message made it to Rice? Of all the places in the world, Rice is supposed to be above discrimination, bereft of hatred toward any group of people. Not once have I experienced any form of anti-Semitism on this campus. But on that night, looking at Willy’s Statue, I realized that all of a sudden hate and ignorance towards my heritage, race and religion had arrived in my home of three and a half years.