University Of Maryland Police Investigating Two Incidents Of "Bias And Hate"

Police at the University of Maryland, College Park are investigating "two incidents of bias and hate," President Wallace Loh said in a Wednesday e-mail to the campus. Loh said an elevator in an academic building was vandalized with anti-Semitic messages and that a campus facilities supervisor found a noose hanging in a space that was being renovated. A spokesman for the campus police said investigators believe the incidents, one discovered Saturday and the other Monday, are unconnected. But police have no suspects. Loh wrote that on-campus incidents of bias and hate have decreased from 33 in 2003 to five in 2011 but added that "even one incident is too many."