Two copies of notebook paper with racist and anti-Semitic Nazi artwork were found on the Sequim High School campus prior to winter break, but SHS administrators have no evidence of what student or students are responsible.

A Sequim High student reportedly found the paper taped to a wall just outside the school library between fifth and sixth periods on Dec. 15, a day before the district’s winter break. A copy of the same artwork was found nearby.

SHS staff reviewed footage from nearby video cameras, but the cameras are focused on entryways, SHS assistant principal Mark Willis said, and not on the hallway. With so many students going in and out, he said, that makes identifying the responsible student impossible.

“We have no evidence about who did it,” Willis said.

Willis said this kind of artwork — featuring a swastika, a derogatory term for African-Americans and other hate-themed messages — would call for suspension and police action.

He said staff had considered bringing up the incident as the school district looks to celebrate the upcoming Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, but that by bringing it up it may give undesired attention.

“It’s a delicate situation,” Willis said. “We’re not ignoring it by any means.”

Willis said staff has not received a report or allegation of an incident toward a student.

He said it was unclear how many students saw the artwork.

Sequim schools superintendent Gary Neal, former principal at West Valley High School in Spokane, said such displays are infrequent and usually found at middle schools.

“It wasn’t anything that made us over-react,” Neal said.

“It was almost like (this is) a fad, not like a statement or threat,” Neal said, but, “it’s treated with the seriousness it deserves.”