Students Rally, Paint Over Nazi Graffiti
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SAN DIEGO — About 200 outraged San Diego State University students and faculty Thursday rallied against and then painted over swastikas that vandals put on a wall in the middle of campus.
Students and administrators said they felt revulsion and anger when they discovered red-and-white Nazi emblems defacing amateur artworks on minority themes that had been painted on a temporary construction wall.
“We’re going to show that we’re here and we’re here to stay,” Lupe Salgado, a member of a Chicano student organization, said during the rally. “This should not be happening at an institution of higher education.”
The crude swastikas appeared on a portrait of Malcolm X, two depictions of the African continent, a Mexican flag, a message from “Asians for Higher Education,” and a symbol for lesbians.
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