Police investigate vandalism on WWU campus

Western Washington University police are investigating vandalism on the campus.

The incidents were reported to campus police on Sunday at 10:57 a.m.

Police said a racial epithet was scrawled on the Wright's Triangle sculpture near the Ross engineering building. Then nine name tags on residents' rooms and a stairwell in Nash Residence Hall  were defaced with racist language, a homophobic slur and threat of sexual violence.

Police also said a poster in front of Arntzen Hall was defaced.

An investigation remains ongoing.

Anyone who sees or hears anything, or has information about the incidents, is asked to call university police at 360-650-3911 or make an anonymous report at 360-650-SAFE(7233).

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