Apr 4, 2008 8:10 am US/Eastern
Hate Message Fires Up Temple Students
PHILADELPHIA (CBS 3) ―
Students who live in one off-campus housing complex near Temple University received a newsletter Thursday morning that stirred quite a controversy.
"It wasn't great to see it. It was upsetting reading it," Temple student Jill Horn said.
The controversial line on the newsletter's back page reads: "Extinct are the Jews."
Like hundreds of Temple students who live at University Village Apartment complex, Sophomore Jill Horn got a copy of the April edition of
The Village Insider slipped under her door.
"Then, I see 'Extinct are the Jews' and me being Jewish, I just don't feel comfortable having that slipped under my door in the morning," Horn said.
The newsletter offended many at the apartment complex.
The altered printed version of Jean Rogers' "April Fools Poem" written in 2002 had an inserted line that read: "Extinct are the Jews." That line is not in the original poem.
"What I want to know is how no one read that before they sent it to every person in the building," Horn said.
The off-campus apartment complex responsible for delivering the newsletter sent a memorandum out hours later that read in part:
"It has come to our attention that the recently distributed community newsletter contained a disgusting, vile, hateful and offensive statement …The general management of University Village was not aware of this language, and we sincerely apologize to everyone who viewed the piece …The responsible parties will be terminated."
A manager at the complex said one person has already been fired. Temple University is not at all affiliated with the housing complex or the newsletter.
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