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3/3 Update: Student banned from campus for allegedly posting threats
Issue date: 3/3/09 Section: News
Updated 3/3 at 11:45 p.m.
Robert Walker has been identified as the student who allegedly posted threats against Eastern on his Facebook page.
Lt. John Hatfill of the University Police Department confirmed that Walker is the student and that he is no longer on campus.
An e-mail sent out Tuesday night by President Bill Perry stated that the student was banned from campus and has returned to his hometown near Chicago.
Tuesday's e-mail was an update to faculty, staff and students from a previous e-mail Perry sent Monday night in regards to the alleged threat.
Perry said the student said the Facebook postings were not serious and a joke.
"Regardless, the campus ban with respect to the student remains in place, and the university administration, including the University Police Department, continues to monitor the situation," Perry said in the e-mail.
Walker, a freshman family and consumer sciences major, said the status in question was "in five days things are going down."
The status was posted Thursday and Walker said it was in reference to his birthday party that was supposed to happen at the bowling alley Tuesday night.
Walker said someone who had seen his status told the Student Standards Board.
"Basically, it was a misunderstanding," he said.
Walker said he was asked to leave and that he left Saturday.
"I left on my own free will," he said.
Hatfill said the situation is under control.
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Robert Walker has been identified as the student who allegedly posted threats against Eastern on his Facebook page.
Lt. John Hatfill of the University Police Department confirmed that Walker is the student and that he is no longer on campus.
An e-mail sent out Tuesday night by President Bill Perry stated that the student was banned from campus and has returned to his hometown near Chicago.
Tuesday's e-mail was an update to faculty, staff and students from a previous e-mail Perry sent Monday night in regards to the alleged threat.
Perry said the student said the Facebook postings were not serious and a joke.
"Regardless, the campus ban with respect to the student remains in place, and the university administration, including the University Police Department, continues to monitor the situation," Perry said in the e-mail.
Walker, a freshman family and consumer sciences major, said the status in question was "in five days things are going down."
The status was posted Thursday and Walker said it was in reference to his birthday party that was supposed to happen at the bowling alley Tuesday night.
Walker said someone who had seen his status told the Student Standards Board.
"Basically, it was a misunderstanding," he said.
Walker said he was asked to leave and that he left Saturday.
"I left on my own free will," he said.
Hatfill said the situation is under control.
Check Dennews.com for later updates
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posted 3/03/09 @ 6:56 AM CST
We need more information, Eastern. Has the student "returned to his hometown" of his free will or because he has been expelled? Has he been banned from campus? And how do we know he hasn't come back if we don't know who he is?
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