{
  "id": "2025-02-28-rollins-college-ward-hall-race-intimidation",
  "slug": "rollins-college-ward-hall-race-intimidation-2025-02-28",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Rollins College",
    "shortName": "Rollins",
    "state": "FL",
    "type": "private-liberal-arts",
    "alertSystemName": "R-Alert",
    "enrollment": 3000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2025-02-28",
    "type": "other",
    "cleryCategory": "timely-warning",
    "resolution": "under-investigation",
    "headline": "Racial epithet on a residence-hall door whiteboard",
    "headlinePublic": "Racial epithet on a residence-hall door whiteboard",
    "summary": "Rollins Campus Safety [issued a timely notification after a racial epithet was written on a whiteboard on a Ward Hall residential door](https://www.rollins.edu/about-rollins/clery-compliance/timely-notifications/), classified as a race-based hate crime of intimidation.",
    "outcome": "Investigation with on-campus partners. No suspect named."
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "channel": "email",
      "verbatimText": "Timely Notification\nHate Crime – In the form of Intimidation based on Race\nMarch 3, 2025\n\nOn February 28, 2025, Campus Safety received a report from Bias Education and Support Services (BESS) regarding a bias-motivated incident in Ward Hall. An unknown individual(s) wrote a racial epithet on a whiteboard attached to a residential door. Due to the targeted nature of the message and its’ intent to intimidate, this incident has been classified as a race-based hate crime. Campus Safety is actively investigating in collaboration with on-campus partners to identify those responsible and ensure appropriate accountability.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "confidence": "high",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.rollins.edu/about-rollins/clery-compliance/timely-notifications/",
      "sourceDescription": "Rollins Clery timely-notifications (Hate Crime Intimidation, March 3, 2025)",
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        "Distinct incident from 2025-02-21-rollins-college-elizabeth-hall-hate-crime-vandalism: different date, hall, and bias (race intimidation in Ward Hall vs sexual-orientation vandalism in Elizabeth Hall)."
      ],
      "characterCount": 622
    }
  ],
  "context": "Rollins posts Clery timely notifications on [rollins.edu/about-rollins/clery-compliance/timely-notifications](https://www.rollins.edu/about-rollins/clery-compliance/timely-notifications/).",
  "keyFindings": [
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  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Rollins Clery timely-notifications (Hate Crime Intimidation, March 3, 2025)",
      "url": "https://www.rollins.edu/about-rollins/clery-compliance/timely-notifications/",
      "type": "official-archive",
      "accessDate": "2026-08-24",
      "archiveUrl": null,
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  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "private-liberal-arts",
    "florida",
    "rollins",
    "timely-warning",
    "hate-crime"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-08-24",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-08-24",
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}