Nearly 80 first-year Harvard Law School students found a white sheet of paper with a swastika, profanities and anti-Semitic statements stuffed in their mailboxes yesterday morning.

“I hope you all rot [in] hell with your yamukas [sic],” the flier reads.

Also printed on the flier was the text of an anonymous e-mail that first-year law student F. Michelle Simpson had received.

Simpson, a member of the Black Law Students Association (BLSA), had previously filed a complaint with the administration about a post on a Law School course website by classmate Kiwi A. Camara.

Camara had used the racial slur “nig” in a posted course outline.

The anonymous e-mail, which had also been sent to Camara and a third student, Olufunke Bankole, said people at the Law School should be free to use the word “nigger.”

The flier also predicted the administration would respond to the flier itself, thereby proving Jewish students are a “politically and economically favored group” at Harvard.

The fliers were distributed in the Law School’s Harkness Commons student center, where student mailboxes are easily accessible to passersby.

The “section” (a group of law students who take introductory courses together) who received the flier met yesterday for class with Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson.

Nesson said he gave them the opportunity to propose in writing how the section, the faculty and the administration should deal with the situation.

After the class, Nesson and other faculty members who teach classes for the section met with Dean of the J.D. Program Todd D. Rakoff ’67 and Dean of Students Suzanne Richardson to discuss how to proceed.

The group decided that during Nesson’s class today, the section will spend time talking about the flier and related issues in a discussion moderated by Rakoff.

All the faculty for the section—including Professor of Law Randall L. Kennedy, who recently authored Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word—are scheduled to be present, Nesson said.

According to students, the administration filed a police report yesterday about the flier with the Harvard University Police Department.

The incidents in the section have shocked the Law School campus, which students and faculty say is generally free of overt racism and anti-Semitism.