room was stribled in the dorm room. and he was referred to as 3/5. and the university official officials have apologized for what happened but they haven t said what if anything could have been done differently. take a look. stunning to me that it would be able to continue for a period of time without somebody saying this just isn t right, it just doesn t make sense. whether that s a student in the room, whether it s a student down the hall. reporter: now, the student in this case, the alleged victim, tried to stay below the radar. but when his parents came to visit him in the dorm room, they saw the ugly stuff on the walls and they alerted housing officials who then alerted police. this is how some of the people on campus are talking about it.
in california, three white students have been temporarily taken out, sent away, from their university, san jose state, for allegedly harassing an african-american roommate. details of what they did were bad enough to be labelled a hate crime and also landed one of the students who was suspended in the county jail. the school administrator says he s absolutely stumped as to why no one spoke up sooner. stunning to me that it would be able to continue for a period of time without somebody saying this just isn t right. it just doesn t make sense. whether that s a student in the room, whether it s a student down the hall. i want to get straight out to cnn s dan simon in san jose who has been following this. when i heard of the details, i thought it couldn t be true. pictures of hitler, the n word