Students emphasized that the defacing was an isolated incident and is not indicative of the attitude of the entire house.
"I just hope this one incident doesn't make Mather House seem like a bigoted house, because it's not," Rupen B. Soutanian '96 said.
Soutanian said that to his knowledge Black students have not had a problem in Mather in the past. Peckham discouraged comparing that case and Saturday's incident. "That was a swastika in an elevator, this was a racial slur written on the door of a tutor. This is a much more personal attack," Peckham said. "Both incidents are dismaying though," Peckham added. For now, House officials say they are taking a wait-and-see attitude. "The tutors will be meeting again in two weeks to discuss the feedback from the students," Peckham said. "We would like the students to have a chance to respond.