Daniel Funke

University of Georgia

After another incident of racism on a college campus following the election of Donald Trump last week, a Texas university addressed it head-on.

Southern Methodist University (SMU) students and faculty condemned Wednesday the circulation of fliers titled "Why white women shouldn't date black men" on its campus in Dallas, the Dallas Morning News reports. The university said the fliers were found Sunday night.

As of Thursday afternoon, it was still unclear who had distributed the fliers on campus, which the News reports were found in a dorm and in the Dedman Life Sciences Building. The material features phrases like "He's much more likely to abuse you" and "He's much more likely to have STDs."

In a letter sent to the SMU community, President R. Gerald Turner said the fliers — which are credited to the alt-right — were an intolerable act of racism.

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"Anyone committed to living a life of denigrating others in some misguided effort to elevate themselves should find another place to live," he said in the letter.

President Turner also said in the letter that the distribution of the fliers comes "in addition to isolated instances of uncivil, racist, and sexist comments made in hateful, arrogant, and hurtful tones."

The incident at SMU comes amid a nationwide uptick in hate crimes targeting minorities and other marginalized groups in the wake of last week's election result.

In an incident similar to SMU, racially charged fliers and chalkings appeared at the University of Michigan earlier this week — just days after black students at the University of Pennsylvania were invited to a racist group thread depicting lynchings and racial slurs.

At SMU, a group of about 50 students and faculty members met Wednesday night to discuss the incident and address the importance of inclusivity on campus, according to the News.

Students also countered the racist fliers by printing and distributing their own promoting diversity, SMU's student newspaper the Daily Campus reports.

Many people took to social media to voice their opposition to the fliers.

Daniel Funke is a student at University of Georgia and a USA TODAY College lead digital producer.

This story originally appeared on the USA TODAY College blog, a news source produced for college students by student journalists. The blog closed in September of 2017.