Minority students at college moved after receiving threats
Friday, April 22, 2005 at 03:00PM
TheSpook
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]
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