Princeton flooded with anti-Semitic fliers in national hack by white supremacists

Between Thursday night and Friday morning, printers across Princeton University administrative and academic officers were flooded with an anti-Semitic, swastika-ridden flier calling for people to "join us in the struggle for global white supremacy."Princeton appeared to be one of many targets in a coordinated computer hack by a white supremacist organization linked to a website, dailystormer.com, targeting American universities. Similar incidents have been reported at universities across the country, from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois to the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The flier found at UMass appears to be identical to the one at Princeton.The copy of the flier obtained by the University Press Club was found at the Lewis Center for the Arts.The University Office of Communication published a statement on the University homepage earlier this morning noting that "Public Safety investigators are working to determine who sent the single-page flyers and from where they were sent."According to Min Pullan, a media relations specialist in the Office of Communication, told the Press Club that there is reason to believe that the fliers may still be coming in through the university network and that the University needs "to make sure that our printers are secure and that this doesn't continue to happen."Pullan added that while the University has not yet identified the source of the hack, she feels confident that it did not originate within Princeton, citing the similar incidents on other campuses.It is unclear how many fliers were printed and the University is still investigating how many printers were affected by the hack.Michele Minter, Vice Provost for institutional equity and inclusion, released a statement saying, ""Princeton regards any actions making the atmosphere intimidating, threatening or hostile to individuals as serious offenses."The incident comes a week after President Christopher Eisgruber made international headlines asserting the University's commitment to free speech. Following comments from an Indian politician saying that American universities would not tolerate students holding a commemoration for Osama Bin Laden, Eisgruber told the Indian Express that "We would and should tolerate that. It would be very disruptive. People would be very angry about the statement. But we would not discipline somebody for making statements of that nature."Eisgruber added that "at Princeton believe that it is a fundamental advantage for a university to be able to tolerate even offensive kinds of speech and to respond to bad arguments when they are made with more speech rather than with disciplinary actions."