TEXAS STATE’S PRESIDENT CONDEMNS RACIST FLYERS
University president condemns ‘despicable acts’ and says police are investigating.
Texas State University officials said white supremacist flyers had been posted on some of the buildings on campus and that university police were investigating.
University President Denise Trauth issued a statement Friday, condemning the flyers and telling students that “there is no place for hate at our university.”
“I have made it clear that these are despicable acts and that whoever is responsible for posting these flyers does not reflect the true spirit of Texas State,” Trauth said. “We are a diverse and inclusive university community and we reject those who seek to divide us and the messages that they promote.”
Trauth said similar flyers “have been documented at roughly 150 university and college campuses in more than 30 states over the past year.” “In virtually each case, the acts are believed to have been carried out by individuals outside of those university communities,” she said.
In March, a batch of anti-Semitic posters sporting swastikas and calls for white men to join in the “struggle for global white supremacy” were found at Texas State.
Two months earlier, Texas State officials dealt with a cluster of racist posters, including three prints from American Vanguard, a white nationalist group, with the headlines: “For a white America” and “We have a right to exist.”