Racial Slurs, and the 15 Days That Shook Syracuse

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- The racist graffiti was discovered one night this month on the sixth floor of a freshman dormitory at Syracuse University -- an anti-black slur and the words "Little China Town" scrawled crudely in marker. The next day, similar messages were found on a fourth-floor bulletin board.Although the campus had already experienced widely publicized racist incidents this year, university officials responded to the new ones mostly by being quiet and holding a private gathering with stude