For the third time in eight days, authorities are investigating the use of racial slurs or symbols near Syracuse University.

A swastika was found drawn into snow on the 100 block of Comstock Avenue at 4:35 p.m. on Thursday.

The investigation into the swastika was first reported by The Daily Orange, the school’s independent student newspaper.

The incident follows a week in which racist graffiti against blacks and Asian people was found in a residence hall at the university and in a bathroom at the university’s physics building.

“These acts are vile and appalling, and they will not be tolerated,” Syracuse mayor Ben Walsh said in a statement on Thursday. “The Syracuse Police Department is actively investigating this most recent incident, and they are also involved in the prior cases. We will keep working to find the people responsible.”

The racist graffiti at Day Hall was found a week ago and were reported Monday. Gov. Andrew Cuomo later the same day directed the New York State Police Hate Crimes Task Force and the state Division of Human Rights to investigate.

Earlier on Thursday, SU announced it had been alerted to the graffiti in the physics building’s bathroom.

Syracuse students started a sit-in at the university’s newly opened Barnes Center at Archbold Gymnasium to protest the university’s response to the graffiti found in Day Hall last week.