It was reported to university police after it was seen hanging from a tree outside Branner Hall, an undergraduate dorm, and they’re investigating it as a hate crime.

“We heard about it through an email that went out last night and it's a terrible situation, really bad and scary to see that on your own campus,” said Stanford student Uche.

It’s not the first time a noose has been discovered on campus.

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In 2019, a noose was found hanging on a tree outside the place where a diverse group of high school students were staying while attending a summer camp.

And last year, two loose ropes - also believed to be nooses - were found near a walking trail.

“Anytime you see a noose its associated with lynching which is a form of terror identified with Black people,” said professor Ameer Hasan Loggins.

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The Stanford Think Program professor said something has to change, beyond investigating the incident as a hate crime, in order for Black students to feel safe on campus.

“One of the things the university can do about it is establish a Black studies department,” said Hasan Loggins. “Let’s establish systemic changes as opposed to moments of apologies.”

In a statement sent to students and staff, two Stanford vice provosts said in part, “We cannot state strongly enough that a noose is a reprehensible symbol of anti black racism and violence that will not be tolerated on our campus. As a community we must stand united against such conduct and those who perpetrate it.”

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5105667&forum_id=2#44485856)

The noosings will continue until you give me and my associates richly compensated sinecures!!!!

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5105667&forum_id=2#44485875)

https://leftpublishedit.medium.com/colin-kaepernick-is-not-their-nigger-cc4ef14c8418

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5105667&forum_id=2#44485937)

Colin Kaepernick is a person. This seems like an obvious statement. But on countless occasions I see this person being treated like a thing. Colin, the person, has been reduced to an acerbic adjective for his antagonists. His detractors evoke his name with overtones of repugnance and disgust. His name has served as a pejorative metonym to describe the quality of being disregardable, disrespectable, and disposable. His name has served as a synonym for scorn, derision, and damnation. Colin the person is being situated as a euphemism for undesirable Blackness in the United States.

He is un-American.

He is un-employable.

He is un-grateful.

He is un-justified in his anger.

He is un-lovable.

He is un-deserving of fairness.

For them, he is a thing to be dishonored. For them, he is a thing to be detested and destroyed. For them, the thing that he is, is a Nigger.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5105667&forum_id=2#44486456)

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5105667&forum_id=2#44485880)

wait, wut? "believed to be"? a noose is a noose is a noose.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5105667&forum_id=2#44485947)

https://puffycarrot.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/best-garden-hose.jpg

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5105667&forum_id=2#44486092)

The garage pulleys were not nooses and weren't even slip knots. The loops on the arm of the construction machinery were not nooses and weren't even slip knots.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5105667&forum_id=2#44486263)