[dropcap size=big]A[/dropcap]nti-Semitic and racist messages, and threats scrawled in black marker in the bathroom of a building at California State University Northridge on Wednesday prompted campus police to boost patrols.
But the university president Thursday described a mass shooting threat as not “credible.” She said classes will not be cancelled and finals will go on. Campus police are still investigating the graffiti found in a bathroom of Sierra Hall and on the walls of several academic buildings.
The graffiti was reported at 4:45 p.m. inside a men’s restroom on the third floor of Sierra Hall. The messages and symbols were written in four or five locations in the bathroom, said CSUN Police Capt. Alfredo Fernandez.
That’s where the school’s psychology department is located. It’s also where many of the school’s ethnic studies classes are located, as well as the college of humanities.
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