Swastikas Deface College Classrooms : Vandalism: Profanity, references to KKK also marked on walls at Cal State Northridge.

Vandals using green crayons scrawled swastikas and the word Jews , references to the Ku Klux Klan, profanity and the name Adolf Hitler on chalkboards and walls in two classrooms and a stairwell at Cal State Northridge over the weekend, campus officials said Monday.

The classrooms and stairwell are on the second floor of Sierra Hall South, a building used by the business school, said Kaine Thompson, a spokeswoman for the university. CSUN workers were able to scrub off the words and symbols Monday. There was no other damage.

Officials were not certain when the vandalism occurred because the rooms are often left open during the weekend for student use, Thompson said.

“We can only assume that the classrooms were unlocked and that’s how they gained access to them,” she said.

An investigation is being conducted by university police. Officers have not determined if the incident is linked to vandalism last weekend at Valley Torah High School in North Hollywood or whether CSUN will refer the case to the Los Angeles Police Department, which is investigating the Valley Torah attack, Thompson said.

Steve Freeman, professor and chairman of the department of business law, said the vandalism “looked very much to me like what was at Valley Torah High over the weekend, the same kind of thing.” He had seen the damage at Valley Torah on television and in newspapers.

CSUN campus Rabbi Jerrold Goldstein, who is director of Hillel, the Jewish Student Center on campus, said students were “quite shocked and disgusted.”

Last September a sukkah, a booth set up during a week of Jewish celebration, was defaced “in a similar fashion,” he said.

Similar statements were used then and, as on Monday, words were misspelled, which Goldstein said raised doubts that the vandals were college students.

Goldstein said the school had worked to foster tolerance.

“The incident which occurred in September brought forth an avalanche of support for Jews and tolerance in general and I fully expect that will happen again,” Goldstein said.