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Threatening email puts universities on alert

MARQUETTE, MI--   Northern Michigan University police are on alert, after a threatening email was sent to a faculty member at Michigan Technological University on Monday.  

The email was sent to four different universities.  It read, “I am here to inform you that the next couple of days I will break in to the campus and will kill as many people as I can until the police arrives.”

Because the email was sent to at least four campuses and wasn’t focused on one school, none of the universities shut down. 

Mike Bath is Director of Public Safety and Police Services at NMU.  He says Public Safety takes all threats seriously, but will evaluate the credibility of each one. 

“It’s going to be on a case-by-case basis as to the reaction or what we end up doing here at the university,” he says.  “The threat would be assessed and determined what would be the best course of action to keep everybody as safe as we can.” 

Bath says anyone who gets a threatening email should call Public Safety immediately and talk to someone. Simply forwarding the email could create a situation where it’s overlooked or the recipient is out of the office.    

Northern has several means by which it notifies the campus community in the event of an emergency situation.  They include texting, a fire alarm system, and a computer “barge in” system, which freezes NMU computers on the Northern network with a safety steps message.  

Nicole was born near Detroit but has lived in the U.P. most of her life. She graduated from Marquette Senior High School and attended Michigan State and Northern Michigan Universities, graduating from NMU in 1993 with a degree in English.