“It makes us think that maybe this isn’t just a stupid prank,” a student at Southern University said.
Despite getting an"all clear," the campus remained closed and classes were not to resume until Tuesday, the university said in a"This isn't the first time," Rayln Wyche, a sophomore at the university, told BuzzFeed News."The university has been threatened before. It's almost like any other day, but it is tragic that someone sends another threat to us."
Wyche said he stayed in listening to music. Most students were not worried about the threat, he said, although it was unnerving to hear that other HBCUs had also faced similar situations on Monday. Jada Nelson, a sophomore at Bethune–Cookman University in Florida, first saw messages about the threat at her school from classmates early Monday morning.," she said. Then she saw news reports that five other HBCUs had been put on lockdown as well."Then I thought,Officials have not said whether the threats were linked, and all six schools that went into a temporary lockdown Monday stated they did not find any suspicious items before reopening their campuses.
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