A Colgate University student who posted a note that was perceived as a threat to shoot students on the campus was forced to pay about $5,000 in fines to help cover the costs of the police response to the incident, according to an article in The Post-Standard.
In March the student, George So, posted a note to a Web site called Juicy Campus, musing that if “someone put the effort into writing a big long serious suicide note informing all readers that he would kill over 100 kids, they could shut down the school. Nice.” After another student noticed the posting and alerted authorities, campus officials responded by sending a warning to all students to be on alert. Police arrested Mr. So after tracing the origins of the Web posting.
Mr. So, who is now a senior at Colgate and is reportedly spending this semester in Spain on study abroad, pleaded guilty this month to charges of disorderly conduct. He paid $4,952 in fines to police and to a volunteer ambulance corps, and wrote a letter of apology.
The student was investigated by college officials through the student judicial process but was not suspended or expelled, Mr. So’s lawyer told The Post-Standard. —Jeffrey R. Young
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