The hate campaign has poisoned race relations in a place where black students have long felt isolated and unwelcome. Wolf now wears a bulletproof vest and is escorted by bodyguards provided by the university. But she and others say the administration has failed to act against a climate of racial intolerance.
On April 21 demonstrators disrupted a football scrimmage; a few days later, some 300 activists began a “camp-in” at a student center. The protests ended when PSU president Graham Spanier responded with a plan that includes more funding for African-American studies and a push to hire more minority faculty. But that will do nothing to stop the hate mail and the death threats. On that front, the FBI is investigating but has made no arrests.
