This is just weird...
A 19-year-old African-American student at Trinity International University has been charged with sending racially inflammatory hate mail to her classmates, prompting last week's evacuation of minority students from the north suburban school.
Alicia Hardin of Chicago was charged with disorderly conduct and committing a hate crime for allegedly writing threatening letters to other African-American students.
The letters were written in an attempt to convince her parents to let her withdraw from Trinity, Lake County Assistant State's Atty. Matthew Chancey said. Hardin lived on the Bannockburn campus, was unhappy there and wanted to transfer to Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss., he said.
"By writing these notes, we believe she wanted to have her mother believe (Trinity) was an unsafe environment," Chancey said.
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