Man ejected from library returns with slurs

The employee, who asked that his name be withheld for his safety, said fellow employees told him that Marko Szabolcs Molnar, 18, had visited the library several times since the Feb. 4 incident and had been asking for him.

When the support systems analyst saw Molnar waiting outside his office in the Main Library Tuesday morning, he said, he thought Molnar had come to apologize for the $120 in damage he had caused to a library computer's software, or to offer to do community service.

The employee said he had to ask Molnar to repeat what he was saying because he could not understand his foreign-sounding accent.

"He told me he was a white superior male with Nazi in his family and that I should not have done what I did," the employee said.

After Molnar repeated his statement four times, the employee and three of his colleagues told Molnar to leave.

During a telephone interview Tuesday night, Molnar said he did confront the employee at the Main Library and that he meant what he said and was not sorry.

Molnar said he is from Hungary and that his cousins are all neo-Nazi skinheads.

When asked if he was a skinhead, Molnar said, "Kind of. It's more like a family thing."

University police talked to the employee later Tuesday morning after he told them he was concerned about the incident. Police told the man that Molnar would be arrested on criminal trespassing charges if he was seen in either library, police reports stated.

"We couldn't believe it," the employee said. "I think this was a threat. He had to do some work to find me."

According to police reports, an officer talked to Molnar's father later that day, who said he would talk to his son and then call police.

University police Cmdr. Brian Seastone said that an incident like this is not classified as a hate crime unless there is a victim of a specific crime based on race or gender, or a specific crime is directed toward someone based on his race or gender.

No campus crimes were classified as hate crimes in 1996 or 1995, according to university police statistics. Information for 1997 was not available.

"There are other issues," Seastone said. "You can call me a bunch of names, there's nothing that is illegal. That's First Amendment stuff."