WASHINGTON, D.C. – Officials at The American University launched a full-scale investigation into an allegedly racist incident that involved a white student throwing a banana at a black student in Anderson dormitory.

A black female student at the dorm reported the incident involved a white male student tossing a banana through her door around 1:30 a.m. on Sept. 8, and a second female black student reported a rotten banana left outside of her door the same night, The Washington Post reports.

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“The reports have sparked outrage on campus and prompted a call from the Black Student Alliance … to suspend the students who were involved,” according to the news site. “A protest is scheduled at the university for Monday.”

The AmericanU BSA elaborated about the incidents in a prepared statement posted to Twitter.

“On American University’s campus, one young Black woman, for no apparent reason, had a rotten banana thrown at her, while in her own dorm room,” the statement read. “Another Black woman, on the same floor, had boxes and a rotten banana placed in front of her dorm door and penises drown on her white board.

“These Black women were harassed and assaulted by a group of White males, who have no known affiliation with Greek Life, in the residence halls of Letts & Anderson,” it continued. “Last year, the same residents halls had students writing ‘nigger’ on Black students dorm doors.”

The statement contends that while the university professes an environment of “Diversity & Inclusion,” administrators don’t take allegedly racist incidents seriously enough.

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“We, the Executive Board of the Black Student Alliance, will not continue to let these acts of hate to be swept under the rug,” the statement read. “The American University administration and students need to step up to the cause. The cause of insuring that racially charged acts of hate like these will no longer be handled with impunity.”

The American University officials, meanwhile, used the incident to plug their new President’s Council on Diversity and Inclusion as evidence of their “firm commitment to broadening diversity and understanding,” the Post reports.

“We understand that members of our community feel hurt by an incident that happened in a residence hall and separate allegations of racially biased behavior,” a university statement read.

Students, of course, are raging over the banana debacle.

They posted flyers on campus with messages like “Harassment, assault, and abuse #TheRealAU” and “First week at #TheRealAU may include having rotten bananas thrown at you.”

“PoC are what make this University function,” student “SM” posted to Twitter. “From the dining hall to the dormitories, this University is dependent upon them.”

“AU wouldn’t let FOX on campus to interview @AU_BSA about violence against black bodies, but would allow Milo Yiannopoulos on campus to speak,” journalism student Ryan Shepard posted.

Others vented in the media.

“In the real world, this would be a hate crime and an assault,” BSA president Ma’at Sargeant told the Post. “This kind of thing has been happening at AU for years. Last year, people wrote the n-word on black students’ doors and put up Trump stickers on the doors of Hispanic students. This is not just a one-time thing.”

Student body president Devontae Torriente, who is black, also condemned the banana incident, but acknowledged that an undercurrent of racial animosity in the country isn’t helping matters.

“It’s completely unacceptable that this happened,” he said. “I think it does fit into a larger pattern of students of color, specifically black students, feeling unsafe and excluded from the campus community.”

“It’s hard to tackle solving a problem on our campus when it’s such a pervasive national issue, as well,” Torriente said. “We can’t solve the nation’s problem here at AU. But I think the school is headed in the right direction in figuring out what those next steps need to be.”