Not long ago, a threat scrawled on a bathroom wall probably wouldn’t have provoked the panic that spread like wildfire across Eastern Kentucky University last week.
But the graffiti vowing to "kill all by 10-8-15" surfaced just days after a mass shooting at Umpqua Community College,in rural Oregon, left 10 people dead.
Similar threats have cropped up on campuses nationwide, some of them undoubtedly copycat crimes by troubled people craving attention. Few people last week were ready to assume they were hoaxes.
"After Oregon, everyone was on edge," said Eastern Kentucky’s president, Michael T. Benson.
Read more at The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/After-Killings-in-Oregon/233721