GRAND FORKS (AP) - University of North Dakota officials are investigating reports of racial slurs and swastikas that led one student to move out of his dorm.

A Jewish student said he moved out last week after being harassed and seeing a swastika drawn on the stairwell of his dorm floor.

The Grand Forks Herald said the student reported he was taunted for months with anti-Semitic slurs and stereotypes. He said someone used ice cream to write his name and the words "is a Jew" on the steel doors of a nearby elevator.

The Herald said it agreed not to identify the student because he said he feared being singled out on campus. He said UND Residence Services staff members told his father the graffiti was a personal dispute because the student had socialized with the students he believes were responsible, and that he had made self-mocking references to Jewish stereotypes. The student denied making such comments.

He said that on the night of April 11, other students shot at his door with a pellet gun, and one of them followed him out of his dorm room and shouted obscenities and slurs at him. He said he moved out of his dorm to a fraternity house.

"They already used the most terrible symbol and the most terrible words. It was obviously escalating," he told the Herald. "I felt terrified to leave my room because what are they going to do to me next?"

UND police and Associate Dean of Students Cara Goodin said the investigation is continuing. UND President Charles Kupchella said hate incidents are "mindless and abhorrent" and violate UND standards.

Campus police are investigating two other hate crime reports that are not believed to be related, Campus Police Chief Duane Czapiewski said. One involved racial slurs, not directed at Jewish people, found written in an elevator, and the other involved two swastikas drawn in a dorm.