A couple of days after I submitted my last column to my editors at The Phoenix, I found out that I got one of my facts a bit wrong. I wrote, based on something a friend told me but I neglected to verify, that Wadham had painted over the swastika I found in the bathroom — this turned out not to be true. Mea culpa on the failure of fact-checking.
But in a way, this is even more shocking. The person who told me that Wadham had painted over the swastika told me that he had spoken with the president of the Wadham Middle Common Room, who ostensibly has the job of dealing with incidents like this. After more than three weeks, he still has failed to do anything about it. I’m not sure whether dealing with bathroom graffiti just ranks low on the list of Wadham priorities, or if it just slipped the MCR president’s mind, but either way, it’s kind of appalling that the student leadership of a college can be so neglectful towards major issues of student welfare.
In any event, here are some pictures of the worst of the graffiti, not all of which is Jew/Israel related. The colors look a bit off because I tried to make the text more readable.
