Racially Charged Messages Regarding Obama Left on School Computer

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Hate Crime at URI?Racially Charged Messages Regarding Obama Left on School Computer

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Story Created: Oct 23, 2008 at 1:42 PM EST

Story Updated: Oct 23, 2008 at 1:42 PM EST

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. - The University of Rhode Island has asked campus police to investigate what it says were degrading and insensitive messages left on a public computer about the race and ethnicity of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
     
The school did not reveal what the messages said or exactly where or how they were found. But Donald DeHayes, URI's provost and vice president for academic affairs, said in an e-mail to the school community Wednesday that the messages could rise to the level of a hate crime. He called the behavior despicable.

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