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UW Bans Man Identified as Sam Polyak After Nazi Salutes Disrupt Psych 210 Lecture

UW says the nonstudent, identified as Sam Polyak, is barred from campus, with criminal charges under review.

Overview

  • Videos from the roughly 400-student Psych 210 human sexuality class in Kane Hall show an intruder giving apparent Nazi salutes and shouting slurs before students forced him out to a campus quad.
  • Students surrounded the man until campus security detained him, with the incident captured from multiple angles including a point-of-view clip posted on TikTok.
  • A student told KING 5 the man first entered the lecture, left, then returned about 40 minutes later and resumed using slurs and taunts.
  • Professor Nicole McNichols is seen leading the confrontation and flipping the intruder off in the videos, and she has declined media interviews, according to local reporting.
  • KING 5 reporting cited in coverage says Polyak described himself as a neo-Nazi and claimed he entered to “troll,” as clips spread from a Class of 2029 Snapchat story to Reddit, TikTok and X.