It’s always interesting to compare collegiate news coverage with larger news outlets whenever a story breaks out of a campus publication. In the case of today’s news about the apprehension of one suspect in the recent spate of hate graffiti on the George Washington University campus, the differences are pretty tangible.

Both the Examiner and the Washington Post have stories up about the arrest by University Police of an unnamed student for his or her involvement in drawing swastikas and racial slurs on dormitory room doors. But only The Hatchet explains how the student was apprehended and exactly which racial epithet we’re talking about:

The suspect, a GW student whose name is being withheld by the University Police Department, was caught using footage from security cameras placed throughout New Hall. UPD was able to narrow down the time frame for the student’s attacks by watching footage from Friday’s incident in which the words “white power” were written along with a swastika. On Tuesday, the same student wrote “niggers” at the bottom of a poster advertising an event for a black engineering group.

The Post and Examiner refer simply to a racial slur or epithet, without actually naming it. You can make an argument that repeating, in speech or in print, this particular slur only serves to propagate its use, but we think it’s also an undeniably bold journalistic choice on the part of the Hatchet editors to spell out exactly what kind of hate speech we’re talking about here. Check out their full coverage, which includes a helpful a timeline of events.