Chalk scrawled across Syracuse University buildings, sidewalks and the Pan Am 103 Remembrance Wall prompted complaints to the Department of Public Safety Monday. After a brief investigation, DPS found that the drawings were not graffiti, but were done by students in a SU art class, said DPS Chief Tony Callisto.

Students were told by a professor to take chalk and express themselves on something that was meaningful to them, Callisto said. No charges will be pressed, and the chalk was washed off the Remembrance Wall in front of Hall of Languages by 11:30 a.m.

The students and professor were instructed to keep chalk off of university buildings and memorials, Callisto said.

The students were part of ART 101: First Year Colloquium in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. Joanna Spitzner, the professor of ART 101, did not immediately return phone calls to her home Tuesday night.

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