Moscow police say University of Idaho postal services were used to mail Ku Klux Klan propaganda to at least one other university.
A pamphlet entitled "The Illegal Immigration Problem," evidently produced by the Ku Klux Klan, was sent to the forestry department at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville using a UI envelope and postage meter, said John Roys, UI liaison for the Moscow Police."If it's someone's idea of a joke, it's a sick one," Roys said Tuesday.
The pamphlet contains photographs of robed KKK members burning crosses and urges whites to join groups to "protect the rights of the white majority." It was returned to the office of UI President Elisabeth Zinser office by the Knoxville recipient, Roys said. Zinser turned the pamphlet over to police, he said.
The pamphlet is about 10 years old and says, "We cannot stand idly by and see the land of our white forefathers become a cesspool of coffee-with-cream colored people. . . . White People of the World Unite!"
The original envelope was marked with an official UI logo and was sent through the UI mail, Roys said. From all appearances, the pamphlet looked like it had been sent by the university, Roys said.
Carol Grupp, UI director of human resources and risk management, said the misuse of the university's mailing system and reputation is of more concern than what message was sent.
The school would pursue any misuse of mailing privileges, no matter what kind of material was mailed, Grupp said. She knows of no other such cases of inappropriate mailing in the past.