Duke students, staff and faculty are looking for answers after a noose was reportedly found hanging from a tree on campus early Wednesday morning.

According to the Duke Chronicle, the noose was removed from the Bryan Center Plaza before 3 am, but pictures of it continue to circulate on social media.

In an email to students, Vice President of Student Affairs Larry Moneta described his “disgust and anger” and vowed “the Duke community will provide all the support necessary to help us all get through this. In time, each of these cowardly acts of bias and hatred will strengthen our resolve to love and support each other.”

This comes less than a week after a black student at Duke said she was taunted by a group of white male students yelling a racist chant. The derogatory song was reportedly the same chant sung by members of the University of Oklahoma chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity in a viral video released earlier this month.

Campus police are investigating the latest incident.