A university contractor has been fired after a noose was found in a North Carolina A&T facility. The incident was first reported Tuesday.
A staff member found the noose hanging in the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, a facility shared by the University of North Carolina Greensboro.
NC A&T Chancellor Harold Martin, Sr., sent out a memo to students and staff this week explaining that Greensboro and university police quickly discovered who was responsible for the symbol: an unidentified university contractor.
The contractor confessed to hanging the noose as a joke, and was terminated later in the day. Martin says the person will not be allowed to work for NC A&T, UNCG, or Gateway University Research Park again.
The chancellor says he's deeply disturbed by the incident, and that such actions have no place at the university or in society.
He also thanked the police departments involved for getting to the bottom of the matter quickly.