The recent string of hate graffiti on campus has continued with anti-Semitic messages that surfaced on the back of two street signs in front of the Freshman Dean's Office over the weekend.

One of the messages read "Jews own the media" while another sign featured the word "TRUTH" with an arrow pointing to a swastika. A small swastika was also found on a sign at the intersection of Quincy Street and Harvard Street next to Lamont Library.

The University responded with an immediate condemnation of the incident.

"The graffiti is deplorable, and of course we are sorry that it has appeared," wrote Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 in an e-mail message. "We are concerned both for the group of individuals against whom these messages are targeted, and for the lack of understanding or enlightenment of the individual who put them up."

Since the graffiti was found on street signs, which are technically Cambridge city property, the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) will not be investigating the matter. The incident has been reported to the Cambridge Police Department (CPD).

"We have a graffiti task force that will go and take pictures at the scene and keep a file on it," said CPD spokesperson Frank D. Pasquarello.

Even though the graffiti was found near a high-traffic student area near the first-year Union dorms on Prescott Street, Lewis doubted that Harvard students were involved in the incident.

"Prescott Street is a very public road," Lewis wrote. "At this point we have no reason to believe that the graffiti was either written by or targeted against Harvard students."