A few weeks after the anniversary of Kristallnacht, Diamondback reporter Ben Block writes about the University of Maryland’s own night of shattered glass:

When rocks sailed through 14 windows in Calvert Hall after the homecoming dance in November 1931, students shielding themselves from falling shards of glass knew the act wasn’t mindless vandalism. The rocks came out of hate.
Calvert Hall housed the majority of Jewish students on the campus that year, and as those students were forced to move into the attics of sympathetic fraternities, a Diamondback editorial called the incident “a rather disgusting display of narrow-minded bigotry.”
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Irv Jacobs, who graduated from the university in 1942, said bigotry toward Jews was evident even in the little things, such as when he once escorted a female cast member home from a theater club rehearsal.
“You don’t have to come to the door,” Jacobs recalled the woman saying as they reached her house. The woman was Christian, Jacobs said, and was probably too embarrassed to be seen with a Jew.
“It was difficult in the sense that we were second-class citizens,” Jacobs said. “Those wounds are hard to heal, but you have to get over it or else it becomes an infection in your body, and it destroys you.”

Read the other article for other reminiscences from alumni, who talk about their struggle for acceptance.