After an African-American student at the University of Iowa's School of Dentistry was arrested for e-mailing bomb threats filled of racial invective against other blacks as part of a hoaxed hate crime, Ann Rhodes, the university's vice president for university relations, called a press conference and joked that she had assumed the threats had come from "a white guy between the ages of 25 and 55 because they're the root of most evil." This led to three civil rights complaints by the end of the day.

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