Racist threats rattle students, faculty at university Three months after he and other faculty members received threatening emails, the chairman of Wake Forest University's sociology department is awaiting word from the school on how it will address those threatsJoseph Soares, chairman of the department of sociology at Wake Forest University, sits in his office on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Skip Foreman)Joseph Soares, chairman of the department of sociology at Wake Forest University, sits in his office on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020. When they resumed, Wake Forest police officers were stationed outside classrooms and the building itself. “We've never been a department of locked or closed doors.”The police presence among black sociology students left some wary. Days later, photographs of former Wake Forest students posing with the Confederate flag came to light.

Source: ABC News January 25, 2020 15:22 UTC