Here is the text of the reports that were made in accordance with the University of Vermont's Response Protocol for Anonymous Bias-Related Incidents:

On Thursday, April 26, 2001, at midnight, Police Services received notification that a bias incident on the basis of ethnicity occurred in Tupper Hall. Tacked on a bulletin board, on the ground floor, near a restroom, was a typed note with the following message: <">Welcome you join. Castrate Asian men. Rape Asian women. Every non-Asian can enjoy this.<"> The note was removed and the matter is under investigation.

On the afternoon of Monday, April 30, 2001, Police Services received notification that a bias incident on the basis of race, occurred in Billings Center. Tacked on a bulletin board, outside the WRUV radio station, was a typed note with the following message: <">Welcome you join. Castrate Asian men. Rape Asian women. Every non-Asian can enjoy this.<"> The note was removed and the matter is under investigation.

The participants in the open forum on 5/3/01 resolved to take action. The steps that were adopted are:

  1. Annie Stevens, Interim Assistant VP for Student Affairs, will attempt to have reports of bias incidents such as these, broadcast via email to the entire campus through the President's Office.
  2. A reward should be offered to anyone giving information leading to the identification of the perpetrator of bias incidents on our campus. Steps have been taken to put this protocol in place. In response to the two bias incidents that were recently committed on campus, an open forum was held yesterday, 5/3/01 in North Lounge, Billings Student Center at 4:00 pm.
  3. A solidarity demonstration will take place on Monday, 5/7/01 from 11:00 am to noon in front of the Bailey/Howe Library.
Please come out on Monday and show your solidarity for all oppressed and threatened groups, and specifically for the Asian students, staff, and faculty who were the targets of the most recent acts of hate on this campus.