Jennifer "J.J." Wagner Davis, an executive vice president and chief operating officer, and Tim Longo, the associate vice president for safety and security, said in a university-wide email sent this week that "the nature and timing of these events have caused some to speculate they are linked or part of a larger pattern of racially motivated crimes." But the two wrote that there was "no current, visible trend of hate crimes or racially motivated acts." The three events included a noose found wrapped around a statue on campus, a student vandalizing the African American Affairs office building and an "unusual"...