Suspect arrested on threat to black Michigan Tech students

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Source: Detroit Free Press

Police arrested someone suspected of posting a threat to black students through social media at Michigan Technological University, the school announced this morning via Twitter.

The threat, the contents of which haven't been revealed, was made through Yik Yak, an app used to make anonymous posts that are sorted by location. The app recently gained attention when it was used to make threats to black students after protests at the University of Missouri.

Michigan Tech, a university with about 7,000 students on the western side of the Upper Peninsula, sent a campus-wide notification of the threat on Thursday. It increased police presence and made counseling services available for a two-hour window on Thursday night, according to a campus news release. The tweet today indicates the suspect was arrested late Thursday night and is being held at Houghton County Jail.

“It's important to remember that we are a community and will not tolerate threats to any member of our family,” said Michigan Tech President Glenn Mroz in a statement Thursday “It's time we watch out for one another.”

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Read more: http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2015/11/13/michigan-tech-threat-arrest/75704816/

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1. Michigan Tech is a pretty good school.

However, it is in Houghton, MI, way up-back-North, as the Scandinavians say. Of course, the major sport there is ice hockey, and many Alums found their way to the NHL.

But, more importantly, it is an excellent engineering school. However, being on the Keweenaw peninsula, which juts into Lake Superior from Michigan's Northern peninsula, winter semester is not for the faint of heart. Or maybe just hockey players and geeks.

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2. But, the bar is called "The Library" which always sounded so good to the folks.

"He can't answer the phone. He's at The Library."

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3. I drank a bottle of Dickens last night.

And then there's the problem that almost all the MTU students are male. It gets gnarly in Houghton in the depths of winter.

Of course, there's always Suomi College, AKA Findlandia University, which supplies many coeds.

There has always been a kind of social alliance between those schools. Plus, what is one going to do in the midst of far northern Michigan winter? I mean other than hockey.

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4. Both my Dad and my grandfather graduated from Michigan Tech

My grandfather when it was the Michigan College of Mines and my Dad when it was Michigan College of Mining and Technology. My Dad's parents were both born in Escanaba, also in the Upper Peninsula so the winters weren't so bad for Granddad. But Dad grew up in Central Florida, then spend WWII in the Pacific and going to Houghton after that was tough, especially for Mom who was from Alabama and who also spent the end of the war in Hawaii!

Among Dad's photos of the winter of 1946-47 are pictures of the rooming house where they lived (in an unheated attic apartment) with two story long icicles hanging from the eaves!

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5. Unheated? In Keweenaw winter?

I don't believe that.

Cannot be true. It gets fucking cold in Houghton in winter. No heat == you freeze to death.

However, I regularly have such icicles on my home here in rural western Michigan. And yup, they are awesome.

However, it is a good story.

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6. Whoops - meant uninsulated attic

So not really heated when you think about it! The attic was mostly heated by what rose from the lower floors, according to Mom. Of course, she hated the cold and never voluntarily went anywhere it could snow during winter ever again. She was very happy when Dad brought her home to Florida!

One of Mom's stories was about food storage. Dad told her to put their meat and other perishables on the window sill to keep them cold. Great free storage until the window froze shut and Mom couldn't retrieve food to make dinner!

Here are Dad's pictures of their winter in Houghton - or actually they lived in Hancock and Dad commuted to the college: http://www.woodswell.com/family/albums/ohw_albums/1946_Hancock_Houghton_Michigan/index.html The baby was my oldest sister - the rest of us were born in Florida. I like the snow sculptures - they're kind of neat.

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7. Wow! Thanks. Fantastic pics. nt

[Judi Lynn]

8. Student charged with threats against Michigan Tech black students

Student charged with threats against Michigan Tech black students
Reuters
By Ben Klayman
2 hours ago

DETROIT (Reuters) - A male student has been charged with disturbing the peace by making threats through the social media messaging app Yik Yak against black students at Michigan Technological University, officials said on Friday.

The suspect, who has not been identified, was released on bond on Friday. He is scheduled to appear for an arraignment hearing at Houghton County District Court on Monday, university spokeswoman Jennifer Donovan said. Houghton is in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, near Lake Superior.

The school has given the student, who was arrested on Thursday night, an interim suspension and banned him from campus while the incident is investigated.

"I want to reiterate that we take these sorts of threats with the utmost seriousness," said Michigan Tech President Glenn Mroz in a statement.

More:
http://news.yahoo.com/student-charged-threats-against-michigan-tech-black-students-001744889.html