DEPAUL — DePaul University is investigating a set of racist political stickers posted over the weekend in the Student Center, 2250 N. Sheffield Ave.
The university put out a statement to the DePaul community saying that "racist stickers ... had been placed on toilet-paper dispensers in the first floor men's restroom" and were discovered Saturday afternoon.
"The stickers promoted a fringe political group and included racist messages," according to the university statement. They were removed immediately by staff.
An investigation is ongoing, however.
"Racism and acts of intimidation have absolutely no place on our campus," said the statement, signed jointly by Vice President of Student Affairs Gene Zdziarski and Elizabeth Ortiz, vice president in the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity.
The university promised updates as additional information becomes available. In the meantime, the Public Safety Department declined to specify the exact nature of the message on the stickers or the political group being promoted, issuing a statement saying: "We do not want to repeat the wording because to do so would inflict the harm that was intended."
Anyone with additional information is asked to call 773-325-7777 and report it.
A noose was found on campus in May after Black Lives Matter protesters shut down a conservative blogger's speech at DePaul. That blogger, Milo Yiannopoulos, worked for Breitbart, and Breitbart Chairman Stephen Bannon has since become head of the presidential campaign for Republican nominee Donald Trump.
DePaul subsequently banned an appearance by conservative commentator Ben Shapiro this summer, saying it "was not in a position to provide the type of security that would be required."
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