Oberlin: FBI to investigate bias incidents

OBERLIN, March 7, 2013 (AP): Oberlin College says the FBI has agreed to investigate possible bias incidents at the historically liberal college.

Spokesman Scott Wargo says the college approached the FBI with ``significant concerns'' about the incidents, which began the first week of February. He says the FBI notified Oberlin on Thursday that it would begin investigating.

Classes were canceled Monday after a report of someone wearing what looked like a Ku Klux Klan-type hooded robe on campus.

A police report has also detailed the defacement of Black History Month posters with the N-word, a ``whites only'' sign written above a water fountain, a swastika drawn on a science center window and a student knocked to the ground by a person making a derogatory comment about ethnicity. Two students are being investigated for possible involvement in the graffiti.

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