Last updated: 29/11/07
Jewish student admits drawing dorm-room swastikas

A Jewish student who complained about swastikas appearing on her dormitory door admitted to drawing some of them herself.

Sarah Marshak, a freshman at George Washington University, was caught on film by a hidden video camera set up by university police, during the sixth incident of a swastika being drawn on her door.

Marshak who could face criminal charges, said to university paper the Hatchet: “I wasn’t looking to create this, sort of, insanity. I wasn’t looking to become a media darling. I was just looking for acknowledgment from the university that someone drew a swastika on the door.”

Nine incidents of swastikas being painted took place during a two-week period, and Marshak admitted to drawing three of them.

Another student was caught and charged with drawing swastikas and racial slurs in another dormitory, he has since been banned from campus.

by Lucy Tant