Columbia Declined To Investigate Swastikas Scrawled Throughout Hamilton Hall Because They Were ‘Written in Chalk and Could Be Erased’: Complaint
In December 2023, months before Columbia University student activists took over Hamilton Hall, a group of them “ran riot” through the campus building and “scrawled obscene graffiti, including swastikas,” a school janitor alleged in a federal discrimination complaint. Columbia did not investigate the ordeal because the swastikas were considered “free speech” and were “written in