Hate Crime Being Investigated at the UA––Haven't You Heard?

Colleagues,

I take to this forum once again to bring to your attention a very serious incident that occured in a UA dorm over the weekend.  Haven't heard about it?  Really?  You don't say?

What is important about this incident is that it has NOT been given any coverage whatsoever, except for a very brief story ran by the local nightly news.

http://www.kvoa.com/news/hate-crime-being-investigated-at-ua/

This incident, which the story reports is being investigated as a hate crime, involves the drawing of a confederate flag and the words "Southern Pride" on the entry door of a female, African-American undergrad's dorm room.  Though she has filed a police-report, and working with University officials to relocate her to another residence hall, Dorm officials cannot guarantee that this will not happen again.

Needless to say, this is a terrible thing to have happen to anybody, let alone a young female undergraduate who also indicates she is the only African-American resident in the building.  The latter, in and of itself, testifies to the UA's serious and embarassing issues with diversity on campus; the former––the racially-motivated incident itself––speaks to a sense of entitlement, felt by some students, to vocalize (or in this case write and draw on someone's door) their view that the University is already too diverse for their liking.  One might wonder if the latter students actually came to the UA after looking at the University's diversity stats and felt it would be a good fit?  In either case, this is shameful situation, but further, and once again, the University's silence over it is even worse.

The UA website and the Daily Wildcat have yet to mention one word about this incident (I have been checking).  Has the story been buried?   Where are our student reporters?  Have they been told to stay away from it?  Has it been deemed not significant enough of a story?  Like the previous chalking incidents from last year, institutional silence and silencing is both something to pay attention to, and something that speaks very very clearly.