Minority students at college moved after receiving threats

Hate Mail Targets Minority Students
Authorities at a Christian university near Chicago moved dozens of Black and Hispanic students to a hotel for their own safety and police stepped up patrols on campus Friday after three people received threatening, racist letters. One parent said the letters were sent to White women dating Black athletes at 3,300-student Trinity International University, but school officials denied there was any connection to interracial dating. Police and school officials would not discuss the threats in detail but said two of the letters were sent on notebook paper through the campus' internal mail system, and professors were being asked to try to identify the handwriting. Because the threats came within days of the anniversaries of the Columbine High School shootings, the Oklahoma City bombing and Adolf Hitler's birthday, the school suggested that all minority students be given the option of staying in a hotel if they did not feel safe in the dorms, the police chief said. [more] and [more]