Racial threat puts Ohio college on alert, on edge - washingtonpost.com: NELSONVILLE, Ohio -- An attacker could find many places to hide at Hocking College, a campus carved into a forest in the Appalachian foothills. And with the threat of a mass killing looming over black students at the community college, Allen Edwards is steering clear of the trees.
'I don't feel too safe walking by the woods,' said Edwards, a 19-year-old black student from Canton. 'There's woods everywhere. And somebody could be out in them, and I don't know.'
The FBI is investigating a threat scrawled last week on a bathroom wall warning that black students would be killed Feb. 2. It bore the trademarks of just another casual - though chilling - threat of violence on a college campus, but students here aren't taking any chances.
