Why Isn't Oberlin College the Laughing Stock of the Country?

Apparently you can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but you can fool all of the Oberlin College student body all of the time. We now know that OC's bout with racism was all a hoax. What is not known is how long the college's administration and Board of Trustees knew it was a hoax and let it continue one assumes enjoying the pangs of bigotry. What is striking and hysterically amusing is the credulity displayed by the student body and faculty. The hoax was perpetrated by two students, Dylan Bleier, a member of Obama’s Organizing for Action group and Matthew Alden. Bleier told police the pair posted inflammatory signs and a Nazi flag around campus to “joke” and “troll” their peers. Juvenile yes, mean spirited no. Probably the hoax would not have reached its climax if it were not for this air head  eye witness of the Klan activity. She should be given a special award for her display of paranoia. Would you listen to this ditz. .."Saw someone in what appeared to be KKK paraphernalia... something that's real". The Klansman was later identified as a coed wrapped in a blanket but no doubt this lady really put the hoax over the top.

Was Sasquatch there too? That's right he had an Aryan Brotherhood meeting that evening it it would right on his way. This isn't fear. It's phobia. This fear of Nazis and Klansmen is akin to New Yorkers' fear of rodents and about every other animal except cats and dogs.
Personally I'm inclined to cut the hoaxers some slack. When I was in high school three friends burnt a cross on a playground. I didn't find out about it for maybe a year afterwards and they couldn't tell the story with a straight face. It seemed like such a boyish thing to do, to upset the adults in the community who took everything including themselves quite seriously.
I had another friend, probably in his mid thirties at the time, who cut some huge feet out of plywood and fitted them with straps so he could attach them to his feet. After dark he would float down river to the edge of town then don his plywood feet and track through the mud and sand and then wade out to his boat and be gone. Soon everyone in Western Kentucky knew Sasquatch was alive and well and living in Spotsville, Kentucky.
Why would anyone of ripe years believe the Ku Klux Klan would want to organize on a liberal college campus? Doesn't everyone know by now that the American Nazi Party died with the death of George Lincoln Rockwell in 1967? Of course if he were to be reincarnated he would choose Oberlin College as his home. None of this makes sense and only a person with a penchant for the nonsensical would fall for such an inane hoax. I think the whole campus enjoyed the hoax. It may not have been racism but it was the next best thing.