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Threatening graffiti leads to Campus closure at Oakland Univ.
Issue date: 4/17/08
Threats found in the form of graffiti last weekend in three restrooms at Michigan's Oakland University led the school to cancel classes, sports and other activities for two days.
The University's police chief told the Detroit Free Press that the messages intimated attacks on the campus on "4/14." He went on to say that the threats did not target a specific person and that officials believe the same person is responsible for all three messages.
Classes and activities were cancelled for Sunday and Monday, and students living on-campus were encouraged to go home. Oakland is a public university of 18,000 students in Rochester, Mich.
Similar threatening messages were found twice this month at Chicago's St. Xavier University. These threats also contained the date April 14.
In response to the threats school officials closed the University "indefinitely," according to the school's Web site. All students were told to leave its campuses in Chicago and nearby Orland Park, Ill. by noon last Saturday, April 12.
On Tuesday University President Judith Dwyer announced that St. Xavier campuses will reopen this week, as an investigation into the threats determined that the campus is safe for students, faculty and staff.
St. Xavier, a Catholic university with an enrollment of 5,700 students, is less than 100 miles from Northern Illinois University, where a gunman opened fire in a lecture hall on Feb. 14, killing five people and wounding 18 others.
The University's police chief told the Detroit Free Press that the messages intimated attacks on the campus on "4/14." He went on to say that the threats did not target a specific person and that officials believe the same person is responsible for all three messages.
Classes and activities were cancelled for Sunday and Monday, and students living on-campus were encouraged to go home. Oakland is a public university of 18,000 students in Rochester, Mich.
Similar threatening messages were found twice this month at Chicago's St. Xavier University. These threats also contained the date April 14.
In response to the threats school officials closed the University "indefinitely," according to the school's Web site. All students were told to leave its campuses in Chicago and nearby Orland Park, Ill. by noon last Saturday, April 12.
On Tuesday University President Judith Dwyer announced that St. Xavier campuses will reopen this week, as an investigation into the threats determined that the campus is safe for students, faculty and staff.
St. Xavier, a Catholic university with an enrollment of 5,700 students, is less than 100 miles from Northern Illinois University, where a gunman opened fire in a lecture hall on Feb. 14, killing five people and wounding 18 others.
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