>Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 2:18 PM
>To: pec-list at pantheon.yale.edu
>Subject: Compilation of Attacks in Past 36 hours
>
>The following is a list, possibly incomplete, of violent events that
>have occurred on the Yale campus in the past 36 hours. Please
>circulate widely.
>
>1) Wednesday morning - Publishing of an article on Katherine Lo, whose
>suite was entered by three men armed with a 2x4 after she displayed an
>American flag upside-down outside her dorm room window. They attempted
>to enter her room, which was locked, and left the following note: "I
>love kicking the Muslims ass bitches ass! They should all die with
>Mohammad. We as Americans should destroy them and launch so many
>missiles their mothers don't produce healthy offspring. Fuck Iraqi
>Saddam following fucks. I hate you, GO AMERICA."
>
>2) Wednesday evening - A group of undergraduates participated in a
>silent, non-violent vigil-type action in the University's dining halls
>to mourn the loss of Iraqi civilians in the current conflict. Raphael
>Soifer, a participant, was followed out of Davenport and spit on by a
>husky white male.
>
>3) Wednesday evening - Multiple anonymous, racist and threatening
>posts made on the YDN online forum in response to the article on
>Katherine Lo. The YDN online forum was shut down later that evening.
>
>4) Wednesday 9:45PM-10:15PM - Perhaps in response to signed posts on
>the YDN online forum regarding life attending Yale and racism from an
>African-American student, the following note was left on the door of
>the Afro-American Cultural Center: "I hope you protesters and your
>children are killed in the next terrorist attack. Signed Fuck You."
>
>5) Wednesday night/Thursday morning - Undergraduates decided to fly
>American flags upside-down outside their windows as a sign of dissent,
>distress, and solidarity with Katherine Lo. Undergraduate Laura Hess'
>name appeared in the YDN as helping to coordinate this action. Her
>suite was illegally entered and the flag reversed to hang right-side-
>up.
>
>6) Thursday morning - Undergraduates put up an art installation,
>permitted by the President's Office, on Cross Campus. The work
>included 22 American flags representing the 22 failed US attempts of
>military intervention in the name of democracy. One flag, in the
>center, was hung upside-down. A group of husky white males confronted
>the activists involved, demanding to see the permit. After being shown
>the permit, the group proceded to rip down the flags anyway,
>destroying the group's property.
>
>7)Thursday morning - Between 11:30 AM and 12:30 PM, the flag hung
>upside-down outside the window of undergraduate Julia Gonzales was
>ripped down and stolen.
>
>This may only be a partial list. If you know of more incidents that
>have not been reported, please add them to this compilation.