Arrests made after social media threats at 2 universities

MI 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.

Middleton, 68, has spent 30 years at the university – as an undergraduate, law student, faculty member and, now, administrator.

Users essentially operate the iOS and Android app like a messaging board that’s organized by each user’s location. Instead, they said, it’s facilitating harassment.

Another said: “Some of you are alright. Don’t go to campus tomorrow”, according to the Associated Press. The threats provoked alarm among students. But in others cases, like one at Oklahoma State this past April, it can days, requiring the additional step of reaching out to a cell phone service provider to track down a suspect. The university will have more information later in the morning. Hunter Michael Park, a 19-year-old St Louis resident, was charged with making terroristic threats.

That email was in response to Brigham not cancelling class when his students expressed concern over the Yik Yak threats this week.

The Yik Yak app, lower, left, is seen on an iPhone in Washington, Wednesday, November 11, 2015.

No other information has been released about the suspect, but police presence was increased on the MI campus out of precaution.

But criticism of the school’s administration was only spurred by the incident.

While it’s not clear if it was a student that was arrested, officials believe the threat originated on or near the campus.

“Do Mizzou folks remember how fast the [student center] was cleared when there were bomb threats?”

“At approximately 6:00am on Friday November 13, 2015 the Town of Poughkeepsie Police Department was notified by the Marist College Office of Safety & Security that an online threat was sent out via Twitter against Marist College”. The group has organized protests on campus since October. “Meanwhile the [black culture center] & black students get threatened & …” Interim Chancellor Hank Foley joined students in chanting while arm-in-arm with Missouri Students Association President Payton Head.

Yik Yak was tightly interwoven with the University of Missouri protests.

“I feel like he (Hopkins) is doing what he can”.