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2 Midwest Colleges Reopen After Threats

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 5:31:55 AM
By TARA BURGHART

Instructor Manuel Castulo, makes calls outside Malcolm X College on Chicago's West side Monday, April 14, 2008. The college canceled classes and evacuated the campus during the day after finding a written threat in the men's washroom. St. Xavier University in Chicago has been closed since yesterday April 11, after a similar threat was found. (AP Photo/Stacie Freudenberg)CHICAGO (AP) - Two colleges returned to normal class schedules after a promised doomsday scrawled in graffiti came and went without incident, but one university remained closed Tuesday as administrators weighed the seriousness of the threats.

Administrators told students and nonessential personnel to remain off campus at St. Xavier University, where a message in a bathroom reading "Be prepared to die on 4/14" resulted in empty campuses Monday not only at the Catholic liberal arts college on the city's southwest side, but also at four nearby elementary and high schools.

Unlike officials at St. Xavier, administrators at Malcolm X College, a public school west of downtown, and Michigan's Oakland University decided to resume classes Tuesday.


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