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To: Road Walker who wrote (431142)	10/29/2008 4:50:46 PM
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More Holloween fun I guess Obama effigy found on U. of Kentucky campus 10/29/2008 3:39:00 PM Associated Press/AP Online By JEFFREY McMURRAY LEXINGTON, Ky. - University of Kentucky authorities were investigating Wednesday who hanged an effigy of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama from a tree on campus. College spokesman Carl Nathe said the effigy was found Wednesday morning. Police immediately took it down. A faculty member said he saw the effigy with a noose around its neck, hanging from a high tree branch. University President Lee Todd said he planned to apologize to the Obama family on behalf of the school and that he is "personally offended and deeply embarrassed by this disgusting episode." Federal authorities have been notified, Todd said. He said the effigy violates the university's code of ethics and won't be tolerated. "I am outraged because we work very hard, every day, to build bridges across the divides," Todd said. "Diversity and inclusion are among our most precious core values. Episodes like this serve only to erode our confidence in and respect for one another." Mike Lynch, a faculty member who works in a building near where the effigy was found, said he saw it around 8:40 a.m. He described it as life-sized with a Barack Obama Halloween mask, a suit jacket and sweat pants. "This, as far as I'm concerned, says nothing - absolutely nothing - representative of this university or this community," he said.

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