A figure dressed in a KKK robe seen near Oberlin College's Afrikan Heritage House, a dorm that promotes multicultural awareness on Monday morning forced classes to be cancelled for the day, according to Time.

Instead of going to class, the 2,900 undergraduate students at the Ohio liberal arts college attended  a "Day of Solidarity," featuring events like the school's Africana Studies Department's "teach-in."

"We hope today will allow the entire community-students, faculty, and staff-to make a strong statement about the values that we cherish here at Oberlin: inclusion, respect for others, and a strong and abiding faith in the worth of every individual," Oberlin College President Marvin Krislov wrote in a joint statement with the school's three other deans.

Oberlin College claims to be the first American college to "adopt a policy to admit students of color (1835) and the first to grant bachelor's degrees to women (1841) in a coeducational program," on the school website.

On Friday, Oberlin's college's newspaper The Oberlin Review published a list of hate crimes at the college for the month of February.

In addition to graffiti containing swastikas, homophobic smears and racial slurs a "Whites Only" sign was discovered hanging above a water fountain.

Monday evening, Oberlin alumni and creator of the HBO series "Girls," took to Twitter to reassure the students at her alma mater.

"Hey Obies, remember the beautiful, inclusive and downright revolutionary history of the place you call home. Protect each other," Dunham wrote.