A hard-edged protest at America’s top Catholic university has some conservative students fearing for their safety and wondering why the administration has remained silent. The week of September 19, a board appeared on campus at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, with a series of articles, mostly from the Irish Rover, a conservative student publication. The articles all defended the Catholic viewpoint on sexual morality and LGBT issues – something whoever posted the board clearly objected to. Some students interpreted the poster as a threat. “Most shockingly, the sign’s message was painted in blood red, and the names of the articles’ writers were all circled in blood-red paint, drawing hostile attention to individual members of the Notre Dame community,” said an article in the Irish Rover on September 26. “Among the names circled in red paint were those of current students, faculty and alumni of the university.” The Rover has filed harassment reports with the Notre Dame Police Department and the university. The Observer, another student newspaper, published a poem by a student named Audrey Lindemann, titled “There’s queer blood on homophobic hands”. Included was a video (posted to Vimeo) of the student reading an extended version of the poem while someone else smashed the aforementioned sign to pieces with a crowbar. Lindemann’s poem reads, in part: