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SRU president working with school leaders, students after racial incident on campus

SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. — The president of Slippery Rock University is reaching out to students to talk about a racial incident on campus.

A Black History Month poster was found defaced with words of racism and hate.

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"You put 10,000 people together and someone is going to do something that makes him comfortable it’s just a matter of when," university president William Behre said.

Behre is holding a meeting Monday with the focus on how to make the university a more welcoming and safe space for all of its students.

"I think what we need to do is help our students the tools to engage in thoughtful Conversation if you look at the defacing of the poster it wasn’t just simply I’m going to say something nasty and racial it was a poor attempt at engaging in dialogue," he said.

Police are still trying to identify who defaced the poster.

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