NIU officials are investigating every possible angle surrounding the racially derogatory materials sent to NIU students this week, but have little information to go on.

NIU Legal Counsel George Shur said an undetermined number of students received the one-page flyer denouncing blacks, Jews and homosexuals in the past week.

“We have no reason to believe this was done locally at NIU,” Shur said. “Unfortunately, people crawl out from underneath their rocks once in a while and this is one of those times,” he said.

The flyers encouraged recipients to join the “Crusade Against Corruption,” a Marietta Ga.-based political group advocating racial separation and preservance of the white race.

Shur said NIU is investigating if the mailings were random or deliberately sent to students. If the mailings were random, little legal action is possible because the U.S. Constitution guarantees the freedom of speech under the First Amendment, he said.

If the mailings were deliberate, legal action might be taken under the charge of individual harassment, Shur said. It is undetermined how many students, and of what heritage, received the flyer, he said.

J.B. Stoner, the Crusade’s founder, said in a telephone interview from Georgia Wednesday the flyers are not specifically sent to minorities because minorities would not be allowed to join the organization. The organization requires a $20 initiation fee after a background check, he said.

Shur encourages everyone that has received the materials to bring them to the legal counsel’s office, Room 305, Lowden Hall, to aid in the investigation.

Similar materials sent to NIU students last week were forwarded to the postal inspector in River Grove, Ill., along with copies of the recent mailings. The postal inspector has the authority to initiate an investigation at their discretion.