{"id":2039,"date":"2021-05-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/blogtest\/may-15-2021-seeking-tips-on-friday-hate-vandalism\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:14:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:14:02","slug":"may-15-2021-seeking-tips-on-friday-hate-vandalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/may-15-2021-seeking-tips-on-friday-hate-vandalism\/","title":{"rendered":"MAY 15, 2021: Seeking tips on Friday hate vandalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>To the University community,<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\">MTSU Police continues to review evidence from Friday from those who defaced one of our bus stops in the Rutherford Boulevard parking lot with threatening and disgusting racial hate speech.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\">Meanwhile, we are asking anyone with information about this matter to call\u00a0<\/span>MTSU Police\u00a0at (615) 898-2424. It is answered 24 hours a day, seven days a week.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\">I have also directed police to increase patrols of our parking lots and other areas of campus.\u00a0\u00a0And we will be reaching out to our colleagues in area law enforcement to help us identify and hold\u00a0<\/span>those\u00a0responsible for these contemptible acts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\">Sincerely,<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\">Sidney A. McPhee<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\">President<br \/><\/span><a href=\"mailto:Sidney.McPhee@mtsu.edu\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\"><span style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\">Sidney.McPhee@mtsu.edu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the University community, MTSU Police continues to review evidence from Friday from those who defaced one of our bus stops in the Rutherford Boulevard parking lot with threatening and disgusting racial hate speech. Meanwhile, we are asking anyone with information about this matter to call\u00a0MTSU Police\u00a0at (615) 898-2424. It is answered 24 hours a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3133,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions\/3133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}