The tweet today indicates the suspect was arrested late Thursday night and is being held at Houghton County Jail.
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The university’s department of public safety and police services immediately investigated the incident, and sent an e-mail alert to all students, faculty and staff.
Marist, a small liberal-arts college on the banks of the Hudson River in upstate NY, has a notice on its Web site Friday morning: “College is closed and classes have been cancelled until further notice”.
Information about the student and what his or her post on Yik Yak said will not be released until after the arraignment, university spokeswoman Jennifer Donovan told Daily Mail Online.
At the University of Missouri on Tuesday, threats made through Yik Yak spurred a security scare that led to many students fleeing the college grounds before police arrested Hunter Park, 19, a student at the University of Missouri’s Rolla campus.
MI Tech, which sits near Lake Superior in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, is a state university with an enrollment of about 7,000 students. Police are in communication with Yik Yak to try to find out the person behind the message.
School officials at MI Tech have worked in conjunction with the Center for Diversity and Inclusion, which is offering counseling services. “It’s time we watch out for one another”.
MI Technological University (www.mtu.edu) is a leading public research university developing new technologies and preparing students to create the future for a prosperous and sustainable world.
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Ithaca College officials said they have contacted representatives from the messaging app Yik Yak to try to identify who made physical threats against people at the campus.
