Students at Middle Tennessee State University have gotten the much more sinister version of a snow day, a threat day. Today school administrators announced that they were cancelling classes today and tomorrow after receiving a threat, which they deemed “credible.”

The Associated Press reports:

Middle Tennessee State University officials canceled classes Thursday and Friday, saying they had received a credible threat.

 

University President Sidney McPhee sent an e-mail to all faculty, staff and students at the university in Murfreesboro, closing the campus at noon on Thursday.

 

MTSU spokeswoman Lisa Rollins said an e-mail through Yahoo.com was sent Wednesday to an administrator on the business faculty, threatening the entire student community with bodily harm.

 

Rollins said the e-mail did not say how people would be harmed. She said concern was heightened by the setting of three small fires on campus recently.

You’ve got to wonder if all the person making threats wants is attention. Why announce an impending attack otherwise?

Our thoughts remain with the students at MTSU.