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OSU Grad Student Faces Felony Hate Crimes Charges For Putting Racist Bumper Stickers on Strangers’ Cars

February 02, 2018 / PSU-AAUP

Willamette Week
By Katie Shepherd
February 1, 2018

Andrew Oswalt, the Oregon State University graduate student who sparked outrage for voicing his racist views in the student paper, has been indicted on two felony hate crime charges and two misdemeanor charges for vandalizing strangers cars with stickers printed with a racist slur.

Oswalt faced two counts of intimidation in the first degree and two counts of criminal mischief at his arraignment in Benton County Circuit Court Tuesday, as first reported by OSU's Daily Barometer.

Read the full article at the Willamette Week website here.