Yobbo Alert: Columbia University

Is Columbia University this yobbo? “2 Columbia students face rap in hate scrawl”:

Matthew Brown, 20, and Stephen Searles, 19, were charged with criminal mischief after students fingered them as the hands behind a hate crime in Ruggles Hall, police said.

The duo reportedly used red and blue markers to line a suite hallway with swastikas, homophobic slurs and racial epithets on Friday, students said. Four women live in the suite, including a lesbian and a student involved in an interracial relationship.

“You think intelligent people are coming here, and if they have these opinions, they would keep them private,” said suite resident Cassie Herr.

Brown “had made inappropriate remarks in the past” said 22-year-old Herr, a white Indiana native who is engaged to a black student from Trinidad. She said she debated with Brown about his “conservative views” and what she described as his allegiance to Adolf Hitler. But she never thought the exchanges would lead to vandalism.