GLASSBORO, NJ — The man seen on camera writing a racist slur on a Black Rowan University freshman student's door will not face bias charges because he did not know the student or her race, officials said.

The freshman discovered the words "I hate (racial slur)" on her dorm door that morning, with the slur written on the door whiteboard and on a piece of paper that family members say was a decoration.

That student has been afraid to leave her Holly Pointe Commons dorm room, her sister said. And, the incident has opened up conversation between Rowan administrators and Black students, some of whom say this graffiti is part of a long history of disrespect they've experienced at the South Jersey college.

Officials charged Alston Willis, 19, with harassment in connection to the case, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Willis told police he identified as African-American, the report said.

Willis, 20-year-old Danny D'Agostino of Deptford, and 18-year-old Dominic Hull of Mullica Hill entered the dorm before 4 a.m. on September 11 according to the Inquirer and the university. D'Agostino and Hull got trespassing warnings from the university, the Inquirer reported.

The Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office will not upgrade the charges, said vice president for university relations Joe Cardona. The state Attorney General's office also investigated the case.

"It would be bias if they knew who the person was in the room and it was deliberately targeted at that person," Cardona told Patch. "It was apparent that they had no idea who lived in there. It was a whiteboard, and an opportunity for them to cause some mischief."

Some Rowan students let the three men into the dorm but did not know them, Cardona said, adding that confidentiality and privacy laws keep the university from identifying those students or any consquences they might face.

"We have it all on film," Cardona added.

The Rowan chapter of the NAACP and the Black Student Union held a town hall recently to discuss other instances of racism and bias they've experienced on campus. About 10 percent of students there are Black.

Rowan's Black Student Union vice-president, Michael Nash, said he was struck by another community member's statement that she had "no hope for change" at the university in an interview with Rowan student publication The Whit.

“How can we motivate and bring life into the students that feel as though they may not have a voice?” Nash is quoted as saying .

Cardona said the university's diversity, equity, and inclusion staff are organizing with students to figure out any next steps.

"Those conversations, you have to have those," Cardona said. "And then you build from there."

Anyone in the Rowan University community who need to report discrimination, harassment and retaliation may visit the school's Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion’s reporting website, call the division at 856-256-5830 or call the school's 24-hour alert line at 855-431-9967.

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