'Noose' incident stirs emotion at UD

[jberryhill]

http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/crime/2015/09/23/ud-investigates-makeshift-nooses-near-mitchell-hall/72662954/

After a UD Alert notification went out, he said, "eight different students came forward to say that the objects that were hanging from the tree were there at least as early as the 1st or 8th of September," he said.

Another student provided a picture Tuesday night that was taken of the hanging objects without lanterns on Sept. 16, he said. That student believed the items were left from some kind of student engineering project, Ogden said.

But not long after the UD Alert, Ogden got what he felt was positive proof after "a student came forward and said she took down the paper lantern[s] from the tree." She had seen one lantern hanging from one of the strings and took it "to decorate her room," he said. When she pulled down the paper part of the lantern, the string and a wire from the inside of the lantern stayed on the tree, Ogden said.

"When we put the wire inside the lantern, it fit," Ogden said. "There is no doubt in my mind that the wire that was recovered hanging from the tree branch was the wire that was designed inside the lantern and fits inside the lantern.