'Bigotry in our midst': 4 Syracuse students suspended after racist incidents

Four Syracuse University students have been suspended in the wake of approximately a dozen racially charged incidents reported recently at the school.

The"immediate issue," the chancellor said in an address to the university's Senate,"is the bigotry in our midst." The student, according to the notice,"reported being verbally harassed by a large group of individuals who reportedly were yelling the 'N-word' as she walked by. There was no physical altercation."

In another on-campus incident, a swastika was found drawn into the snow, Matt Malinowski, a Syracuse Police spokesperson, told ABC News.The most recent incident happened on Monday. There were reports of students in the school's Bird Library receiving a white supremacist document via AirDrop -- an iPhone app for transferring files."To date, there have been 12 cases of racist and anti-Semitic graffiti found on or adjacent to our campus.

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