Racist Displays Persist at Minn. College

by E Wayne Ross on January 29, 2008

Los Angeles Times: Racist Displays Persist at Minn. College

Bisharo Iman hoped college in St. Cloud would be different than attending high school there — no more taunts of “Go back to your country” aimed at her Somali dress, no more being slammed into lockers.

“I did get away from it — for a while,” said Iman, a junior business major at St. Cloud State University.

That was before a frightening six-week stretch in November and December when vandals carved or scrawled more than a dozen swastikas and other racist images on campus walls, elevators and bathroom stalls.