TEMPE, AZ - A student recruiter at Arizona State University (ASU) is seeking help to identify two female professors who harassed and injured her at the Tempe campus on Friday, September 29.

Emily Mitchell was helping conservative ASU students recruit for a new student group, the Caucasian American Men of ASU (CAMASU). The two female faculty members approached her recruitment table.

Emily, a field representative for the Leadership Institute's Campus Leadership Program, offered both women informational flyers about the group but the women refused to look at the materials.

The two women accused Emily of having "a racist agenda," and called her "a sexist."

When Emily asked if she could record the conversation for educational purposes, the two women agreed. But when Emily began recording, one of the women got aggressive and tried to wrestle the camera from Emily.

"She argued with me and then tried to steal my camera," Emily said of one of the women. "She then took her thumb and attempted to press the lens back into the camera body, trying to break it."

"In the physical struggle to keep my camera, she dug her nails so hard into my hand that her fingernails broke the skin and drew blood," Emily said. "I somehow managed to physically pry her fingers out of my skin and off my camera."

The camera was turned off and slightly damaged during the altercation.

It took some time for Emily to turn the camera back on.

She asked the women for their names, but they refused. After several attempts to get their names to no avail, they did tell Emily that they taught in the ASU College of Fine Arts.

Emily is unable to file charges until she can identify her assailants. She plans to file a police report with the campus police this afternoon.

She is asking for anyone who can identify the two women to come forward with their names. Emily can be reached at CLP@leadershipinstitute.org.

"This is completely unacceptable behavior from faculty members and they shouldn't get away with this," said Mark C. Smith, the advisor for the CAMASU group and a 1993 alumnus of ASU. "Emily is completely within her rights to pursue legal action."

Emily went to the College of Fine Arts and spoke with Dean Kwang-Wu Kim.

Dean Kim said he did not recognize the pictures of the two faculty members, but was appalled at their behavior.

"ASU's own diversity policy defines discriminatory harassment as 'touching a person in a manner that a reasonable person would view as hostile, offensive, or intimidating,' and includes 'damaging, defacing, or destroying' someone's personal property," said former congressman Steve Stockman, director of the Campus Leadership Program.

"These professors physically and verbally assaulted Emily just because she disagreed with them, and then they were too cowardly to identify themselves," Stockman said. "I think they're the ones who need a lesson in tolerance and diversity."

"Unlike some ASU student groups on the left, which I understand do focus on students based on their ethnicity and gender, CAMASU welcomes new members regardless of their race or sex," Stockman said.