Student accused of writing threat that closed university

A 19-year-old student was charged Friday with scrawling a doomsday message in a dorm bathroom that closed St. Xavier University for several days last month, officials said.

Katherine W. Loberg of St. Paul, Minn., was charged with one count of criminal defacement of property and one count of disorderly conduct, both felonies, said Chicago police spokeswoman JoAnn Taylor.

Loberg was due in bond court Saturday. Taylor did not know if Loberg had an attorney and there was no telephone listing for a Katherine W. Loberg in St. Paul or Chicago.

Loberg has been placed on immediate administrative suspension and is barred from campus, said St. Xavier spokesman Joe Moore.

The Roman Catholic liberal arts school of 5,700 students closed its campuses in Chicago and suburban Orland Park for four days, starting April 11, after the discovery of graffiti in a restroom at Regina Hall that read "be prepared to die on 4/14."

In the next few days, similar graffiti sparked the closure of two other Chicago-area colleges, a Michigan college and an entire suburban Chicago school district.