 In the course of the scandal, Columbia sued both Gwathmey Siegel and the engineering firm that had worked on the project.In 2006, a homophobic message written on a dry-erase board in East Campus was denounced as a hate crime, the sixth one alleged that year, and prompted the creation of the controversial student group Stop Hate on Columbia's Campus (SHOCC).East Campus was originally clad in red and white tiles, a surfacing architectural critics praised as innovative.