A robocall containing white supremacist language received by some Drake University students Monday night originated from the same group that made calls to promote white nationalist messages in the wake of a former University of Iowa student's killing, Drake officials said Monday.

An alert was sent to Drake students and employees Monday evening and a tweet was posted to the Drake Public Safety Twitter account warning of an apparent robocall being made "with white supremacist speech."

"We are actively working to stop it," the alert said.

Drake President Marty Martin communicated with the Drake community about the calls in a message sent late Monday evening. In it, he wrote, "Tonight, our campus community has been subjected to robocalls from a white supremacist group called The Road to Power. Automated calls to campus phone lines have conveyed offensive, disturbing, and hateful recorded messages."

The Road to Power is the same group that claimed responsibility for phone calls from a Brooklyn, Iowa, phone number that used slain University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts' death to promote white nationalist messages back in August.

The group's white nationalist podcast has been linked to Scott Rhodes, also known as Scott Platek, a resident of Sandpoint, Idaho. Rhodes has also been linked to other robocall campaigns in Oregon, California and Charlottesville and Alexandria, Virginia. In many of the cases, including the call originating from Brooklyn, the calls use the local area code and prefix followed by a four-digit number associated with neo-nazi rhetoric.

Lynn Hicks, a spokesman for the Iowa Attorney General’s Office, said in August the calls about Tibbetts were repulsive but may not have been illegal.

“I’ve listened to it. It’s awful. It’s repulsive,” Hicks said at the time. “We’re looking into it, but it’s not the typical robocall we get complaints about because it’s non-commercial and, right now, we don’t have enough information to determine if it’s illegal.”

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In his message Monday, Martin said the calls were not made from a Drake-managed phone number, but from another number that closely resembles Drake phone numbers.

Spoofing, the process of changing a call's ID, isn’t always illegal, Hicks said in August, which can come down to how someone obtained a phone number.

Hicks recommended signing up for the Do Not Call registry and downloading mobile apps that block robocalls.

“Treat this like any other robocall,” Hicks said. “Ignore it. Hang up.”

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Drake's director of communications, Jarad Bernstein, told the Des Moines Register the university is investigating what happened and how it happened as "it is specific to phone lines on the Drake campus."

Drake's IT services and the Department of Public Safety are working to understand how the "attack" happened, and to gather information to assist law enforcement in their investigation, Martin wrote in his message.

"We condemn this vicious and heartless attack in the strongest possible terms," Martin said.

The alert comes less than a week after a racist note was slipped under a student's dorm door. That note read: "We’ve decided that we no longer want [you] on our campus. Which means you need to leave or else.”

Update on 11/30: Drake University officials: Four of the five racist notes found on campus were hoaxes

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