Last week, Emory University students were shaken to their very core when someone wrote “TRUMP” on the ground in chalk. After much wailing, the school is now struggling to prove to the world that is not afraid of chalk—though it will be an uphill battle.

Emory University's Alpha Epsilon Pi brothers found swastikas spray-painted on their house during the last hours of Yom Kippur this weekend. It's not clear who was responsible for the anti-Semitic vandalism, but some students on Facebook have suggested other students may be to blame.

Writing in the winter issue of Emory Magazine, President James Wagner rhapsodizes about the need for compromise in a politically turbulent society. He points out that the constitution was in itself a compromise. Another example he cites, is the Three-Fifths Compromise, which legally represented slaves as less than a person. He writes: