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The University of Wisconsin-Madison will hold a "Town Hall on Anti-Semitism" next week in response to an incident last month in which large paper swastikas and a picture of Adolf Hitler were taped to the door of a Jewish student's room in Sellery Hall, according to university officials.

The incident, which occurred Jan. 26, was quietly handled internally through University Housing and the Division of Student Life. Only students who live in the Sellery residence hall initially were told about it and offered support services.

One student who took responsibility was disciplined, though "a small number of people" were involved, UW-Madison Dean of Students Lori Berquam confirmed during a hastily called news conference Thursday.

News of the incident went viral Wednesday night after a student posted a photo of the dormitory door with the swastikas and Hitler face on Facebook. The student said she was upset that students campuswide hadn't been told about it, and that the university wasn't using it as an opportunity to educate students about why taping hate symbols on a Jewish student's door isn't a harmless "prank."

"You do not expect to wake up and see this," Greg Steinberger, executive director of the University of Wisconsin Hillel Foundation for Jewish student life, said during the news conference. But he said he thought the university had responded appropriately.

The student whose door was covered with swastikas also wrote about it on Facebook, calling it an "insensitive joke/prank gone wrong by two people who had no idea what they were doing," according to WISC-TV in Madison.

The victim wrote that he believed anti-Semitism should be addressed. However, he also didn't want to "demonize two guys that I have gotten to know well and who were not cognizant of how anti-Semitic their actions were."

He concluded that the students were punished "and have learned a great deal since."

University officials notified Steinberger of the Hillel Foundation within hours of the incident being reported so that the group for Jewish students could provide support to anyone who needed it.

When a bias incident occurs, the university's first priority is to respond immediately to the community most directly affected, said an email university officials sent campuswide Thursday afternoon.

The campuswide "Town Hall on Anti-Semitism" was set for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Gordon Dining & Event Center "as we discuss actions that will continue to address intolerance and hate," according to Thursday's campuswide email.