Undergraduate Student Government President Matt Roan was opening mail in his office on Thursday when he came across a mysterious envelope.

It was addressed to "Student Gov. President, Pennsylvania St. University," had a return address from West Virginia and was postmarked in Texas.

Inside the envelope, Roan found several pieces of anti-black and anti-Jewish hate literature.

Roan took the letter to the Office of Student Affairs, who reported it to Penn State Police Services.

Assistant Police Supervisor Mark Allen said the police do not know if the latest envelope is related to the racist threats that were mailed to three black Penn State students and a trustee in October.

Unlike the threatening letters earlier in the semester, this latest envelope makes no mention of anything specific to Penn State. This one also doesn't make any specific threats.

As with the threats, police are working with postal inspectors to try to figure out who sent the envelope, Allen said.

Allen said there's no evidence yet of any similar messages surfacing at other universities.

But Roan said the contents of the envelope seem as if they were mass-produced.

The envelope contained five or six pieces of paper of various sizes, all with messages printed in different styles of type.

The pages support a hodgepodge of conspiracy theories that attack Jewish, black and gay people.

"Adolph Hitler and Robert E. Lee were the most morally pure figures in the last two centuries," reads part of one message.

One enclosure was a folded brochure trying to show evidence that the Holocaust never happened. It was attributed to a "historical revisionism" group in California.

Other pages in the envelope try to explain that black and gay people are inferior beings.

Roan said the messages were a reason for concern, but he didn't take their content seriously.

"It seems like a very shoddy attempt to spread ignorant views," Roan said. "It has zero impact on me or anyone else in this office."

Although he considered throwing the envelope in the trash, Roan said it was important to report it to the university.

"If we threw it away, it would be like saying there is no problem," he said.

The batch of racist letters in October — on top of other scattered acts of hatred around campus this semester — brought attention to hate issues in the Penn State community.

The Penn State administration announced a reward of $5,000 for information leading police to the person who sent the threats.

Allen said yesterday that he knew of no new developments in the October hate mail case.