Students and faculty at N.C State University are reacting to some controversial messages in the school’s “Free Expression Tunnel”.
A few students lingered in front of the tunnel entrance Thursday morning, after several of them blocked the tunnel Wednesday night protesting the painted racial slurs and explicit pictures found in the tunnel earlier this week.
Chancellor Randy Woodson says the graffiti included racially-charged obscenities and derogatory comments directed toward the gay community.
Students say even though the tunnel is there to share your thoughts, not everything should be expressed.
“The Free Expression Tunnel needs limitations only because people have used this (to write) derogatory terms against students on campus,” said senior Kateria Poe.
School administrators plan to meet with students at 10 a.m. to discuss the controversial messages.
This isn’t the first incident in the Expression Tunnel.
Four students were accused of writing racist death threats, right after President Barack Obama was elected.
