The Strange Recurring Case of the Collegiate Noose Panic

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Students walk past Princeton University’s Nassau Hall in Princeton, N.J.

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‘Princeton vehemently deplores this appalling act of hate — the University has zero-tolerance for racist and harmful actions such as this,” announced a spokesman for the prestigious Ivy League university late last month.

To what did he refer? In June, a noose was found by a contractor on a campus construction site, triggering Princeton’s denunciation of whoever had set it up. A couple weeks later, a rally was held where campus leaders and local activists spoke out against what has been construed as an attempt at intimidating minority students, faculty, and staff.

Isaac Schorr

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Isaac Schorr is an editor at Mediaite and a 2023–2024 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow at the Fund for American Studies.

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