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Message: [QUOTE="HooperScooper, post: 3853422, member: 10"] I'm sure stuff like this doesn't help recruiting to a mostly white Jesuit school. [I]A few days into this semester, first-year students who live on Boston College’s multicultural floor, all women and primarily Black students, with[B] [/B]someLatinas, awoke in the early morning hours to loud banging on their doors, hallway[B] [/B]trash cans overturned, and litter everywhere. Three days later, in early February, the women said, two white male students strolled down their hallway singing about the “colored girls.” The incidents[B] [/B]point to an exhausting pattern, according to Black students, who say they feel targeted, harassed, and unprotected by school administrators at the Jesuit college. The defacing of a Black Lives Matter poster in 2017, the racist graffiti scrawled on furniture, walls, and a bathroom in 2018, and threatening comments made to Black students during the recent presidential election have piled up, students said. Black students account for just 4 percent of the undergraduate population at the private college, and these incidents, they said, have left them feeling even more isolated and unwelcomed.[/I] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/02/15/metro/trashing-bc-multicultural-floor-revives-long-standing-concerns-about-racism-campus/?s_campaign=bdc:globewell:trending&s_campaign=bdc:globewell:trending[/URL] [/QUOTE]