FRAMINGHAM, Mass. – Police are investigating an apparent hate crime at Framingham State University after someone carved a swastika into the door of a student’s car.

Campus police are requesting help to identify the person responsible for etching a swastika into the driver’s side door of a vehicle parked along Salem End Road between 10:15 a.m. and 2 p.m. Thursday, Metro West Daily News reports.

The anti-Semitic vandalism came one day before the start of the Jewish holiday of Passover, Patch.com reports.

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The incident is the third alleged hate crime on campus since September, when a racial slur and obscene image were found on a dorm board during Hispanic Heritage Month. In December, another swastika was found carved into a student’s dorm room door, according to Metro West.

“As previously communicated, our goal is to address and resolve incidents of bias that impede our progress toward a welcoming and inclusive campus community,” Framingham State University chief diversity and inclusion officer Sean Huddleston wrote in an email to students Friday.

“As such, incidents such as these simply cannot be tolerated on our campus,” he wrote.

Patch.com reports the university had a security camera in the parking lot where the most recent vandalism occurred, but it either wasn’t working or was removed because of construction.

Meanwhile, students are criticizing school officials for not doing more to curb the apparent racism at Framingham.

“In each of (the) cases, students claimed the university administration’s response was either non-existent or insufficient, resulting n may students on campus not even knowing about them,” Metro Daily reports.

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“Dan Magazu, a spokesman for Framingham State, said at the time that the university had investigated the incidents and was still looking into a few of them, including the swastika found at Horace Mann Hall. In the September incident, the school identified three non-students as the culprits, all of whom are banned from campus.”

Magazu also condemned the most recent hate crime.

“Obviously, it’s a really unfortunate incident,” he said. “The university has no tolerance for hate speech of any kind.”

It’s been a similar story with anti-Semitic vandalism at Northeastern University, about 25 miles east of Framingham.

Twice in the last four months university officials found swastikas scrawled on campus, most recently on a white board in a common area of the university’s International Village dorm, The Boston Globe reports.

In November, vandals also drew swastikas on fliers advertising a lecture by an Israeli military official, according to the news site.

In a statement in late March, Northeastern president Joseph E. Aoun wrote “I condemn this hateful act of anti-Semitism in the strongest possible terms.

“These actions are completely antithetical to the values of our university and all that we stand for,” he wrote.