In a message sent to Princeton on Wednesday, Rutgers president Robert Barchi called the vandalism childish and said Rutgers would be "deeply embarrassed and diminished" if the graffiti was the work of its students.
PRINCETON -- The vandalism on Princeton University's campus, including expletives directed at Pennsylvania State University, was captured on camera Tuesday before the university was able to clean it up.
The photos, posted by college news website thetab.com, show the school's tiger statue covered in graffiti and its revolutionary war cannon painted red, a possible nod to the century-old dispute between Rutgers and Princeton students over the cannon's ownership. Tuesday was Rutgers' 249th birthday celebration.
In a message sent to Princeton on Wednesday, Rutgers president Robert Barchi called the vandalism childish and said Rutgers would be "deeply embarrassed and diminished" if the graffiti was the work of its students.
Princeton's Revolutionary War cannon, the subject of a century-old dispute with Rutgers, was painted red earlier this week. (Mary Sauve | thetab.com) Adam Clark may be reached at adam_clark@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on twitter at @realAdamClark. Find NJ.com on Facebook.
