There are two issues:
- someone (student, person from the St Olaf community, person from the local community) has insulted and threatened minority students on campus this year. This person has not been caught.
- someone fabricated a note that was an insult and a threat, and that note was either meant to be insulting but not a threat, or designed as a joke. OR could have been fabricated to “raise the issue” and force a solution. The extent of the fabrication is not clear (some of it can be read as “whoever wrote it did write it, but didn’t meant it”).The fabricator, whatever their motive, has been found out. They’re likely to suffer some academic and/or legal consequence.