Hate-Crime Hoaxes Unsettle Campuses

At 5 institutions, students staged incidents in which they claimed to be victims of bigotry

The news rocked the citizens of the small college town of St. Cloud, Minn.: Just two weeks after a gay student in Wyoming had been murdered, one of their own -- a lesbian at St. Cloud State University -- apparently had also become a victim of a hate crime.

Jennifer Prissel, a senior, told police officers in

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