A few months later, in October, it was the turn of Michigan State University to have a noose sighting. There a student claimed to have come out of her dorm room and been confronted by a hanging noose. Condemnations for this hate incident came swiftly from everyone on campus from fellow students all the way up to the university’s president. Their condemnations and commiserations continued until it transpired that the “noose” was one half of a pair of shoelaces that had been lost and hung up by the person who found them so that they could be reclaimed by their owner.28
