Graffiti – including a racist message directed at Indian students – has been found scrawled throughout the men’s bathroom on the first floor of the Rollins building, according to according to Security and Safety reports filed on Sept. 24 and Sept. 30.

“Why so many Indians at this school? Terrorist f–kas!” was one of the messages.

The other messages were mostly profane. One message scrawled on a toilet seat said “s–t here.” Another said “The f—–g eye sees you and all evil,” and was accompanied by a picture of a pyramid.

The graffiti, in ballpoint pen and magic marker, was scrawled or scratched throughout the men’s room, on stalls, walls and doors.

Christopher Lloyd, head of Security and Safety, said that while all graffiti is taken seriously, “threats toward individuals are taken more seriously.”

Lloyd said new students were likely to blame. “Incoming freshmen have a maturation process to go through,” he said.

Staffers at the Physical Plant, who did not want to be identified individually, said that in the past, racist or profane graffiti had been ordered removed immediately.

A Centurion reporter first saw the message about Indian students on Sept. 30. That message was still up on Oct. 1. It is unknown exactly when it was written, but Lloyd said he had not heard about this particular piece of graffiti.

On Oct. 2 a Physical Plant staffer told the Centurion the graffiti had been removed. A check revealed that the graffiti had been smeared so that it was illegible, but not entirely removed.

Matt Cipriano, director of Student Life whose office is near the bathroom, said “It’s offensive; it’s immature; you would hope that everyone that comes to Bucks would be an adult…. It’s a reflection on the school.”

Physical Plant staffers said they are not optimistic that the graffiti will stop.

“It happens every year,” one staffer said. “We’ve even been threatened for cleaning it by the people who put it up.”

Physical Plant employees said that one year they put paper on bathroom walls only to find it torn down and the wall graffitied again. They also said they are worried attention from the Centurion would encourage more graffiti.

Steve Pianka, a psychology major, said he was sorry to see the graffiti go.

“I was like f–k, man. Freedom of speech,” Pianka said.

Pianka said that while the hurtful items like the remark about Indian students should be painted over, the rest should stay. “On the overall, I just see it as art,” he said.

“Their attempt to clean it up is not working,” said Pianka.

Lloyd said Security and Safety is working with Student Life to offer educational programming on campus crime. While he admits this kind of program is “difficult on a campus like this” – it is easier at a residential school – he plans to use fliers and the campus television to promote crime prevention.