A branch of Emory University’s Student Government Association appears to have vandalized both the Washington University campus and their own campus late Saturday night, and attempted to pass off the attack on Emory as the work of Washington University students.
At Emory, flyers scattered on campus read, “Die Emory Die! Go Wash. U.,” said Geoff Pallay, editor in chief of The Emory Wheel, the university’s student newspaper. Pallay said toilet paper was strewn across trees and dorms.
Here, the underpass between the main campus and South 40 was painted blue and yellow, Emory’s school colors, covering up advertisements by University student groups. The phrases “Wash. U. girls are ugly – Emory University” and “Emory owns U, George Washington is dead” were spray-painted on the underpass.
The incident came two days after The Emory Wheel published an op-ed piece encouraging Emory students to start a “war” with students here. Written by Emory Student Government Association (SGA) Representative Jacob Silverman “on behalf of the SGA Department of War’s Ministry of Propaganda,” the op-ed called upon Emory students “to crush the hubristic Washington University students, to defeat them in sports and academics and research and rhetoric, and wherever they may choose to challenge us.”
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